|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- IRREGULAR SHIRT--CUP 19--"SORRY YOU HAD TO ERASE YOUR MEMORY" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  Irregular Shirt  ||  -------> (Cup SRis019, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Janice smiled and looked down, and they were silent for a time. Finally, Janice spoke. "God, I wonder what lesbians--y'know--what do they--DO to each other?" "I don't know, but you can be sure they're doing oral sex on each other." "Yuck." "I know. I mean, with a guy, it's like... the thing is THERE--like a popsicle or something--" Yonder said and Janice laughed, "--but a woman--I mean, it's like this hole you have to DIG INTO! I mean, it's so gross. You have to admire the guys that do it." "Or the girls." They laughed. "Or the girls, right." Yonder said. "I wish a guy would do it to me." Janice said after a pause. "No one ever did?" "Well--one guy did it a little--I think--but I don't think he was doing it right. I wish some guy would just--y'know--get INTO it." "A sexual athlete." "Yeah." There was another silence. "So what's all this with your 'mystery man'?" Yonder asked. "Oh..." Janice said in a distracted manner, as if thinking deeply, "It's just this guy I met over in Abdebacle Bay. He used to go to Thatterine--maybe you heard of him--Fratcher Leedoms?" "Uh--no." "Well yeah, he uh--he published this cool supernatural newspaper called 'Stuporconductor' a few years ago. I think you saw--" "--yeah--" "--y'know--some of the issues of it I have." "Uh-huh." "So I met him... y'know it was so weird--meeting him like that, cuz I was going... y'know... to this occult supply store, and--" "--you and that occult." Yonder said. "I know, I know." Janice said. "A nice girl like me isn't supposed to be interested in stuff like that." "Not so much that." Yonder said. "I just think that most of it is a rip-off. I had my little stint. No offense, but there are a lot of young people out there who WANT to believe in something, and there are a lot of bad people out there ready, willing, and able to play on that." "I know..." Janice said in a longing way, "it's just--I KNOW there's something else going on out there--I can--I can FEEL IT all around me. And... and today... in Abdebacle Bay... something definitely happened..." "Oh yeah?" "Uh-huh. Only thing is... I can't remember." "What?" "I can't remember." "You don't remember what happened within the past few hours?" Yonder said in an exaggerated manner. "Well--it's just that this guy--Fratcher--drove me home. And it's like--I remember meeting him, and heading to this store, but then--it's hazy. I remember... being in his car, and driving over the Calermut Bridge. I woke up--in the car--I must have been asleep. And he was playing his music so loud that I didn't say anything..." Yonder stared wide-eyed at Janice. "And--and the rest of the way I kind of drifted in and out of sleep--and when we finally got back to school--I told him where to drop me off, and he said..." Janice stopped, and wore a frightened expression. "What?" Yonder asked softly. "He said--'Sorry you had to erase your memory.'" -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----