|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- THE MILDRED CORK--CUP 14--"THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY OF COMEWHERE" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  The Mildred Cork  ||  -------> (Cup SRmc014, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = "So Mildred, uh, what was it that... that tied me up on that smokestack?" "You were tied? I didn't know. I guess it makes sense. I DID see a strange creature lurking around near the smokestack, but I didn't get a good look at it." "Huh..." Mildred got up, went back into her bedroom, and began dressing. I was really starting to get into being in her. "So Mildred," I said, "what's the deal with you, anyway?" "In what sense, Walter?" "I mean, you seem to be human, but I don't know--somehow different..." She laughed a little. "All I know of myself is from memory, which may or may not be accurate. In any case, whoever created me, gave me a set of memories to explain my origins. I can recount these for you, though as I said, they might not be true." "Shoot." "Very well. As I understand it, I am a magical construct--I was designed and created by an enormously powerful magician, who was named Shownamgappen. She was a pure hermaphrodite--half-man, half-woman--with full genitalia of both sexes. In the magickal bloodlines, such an occurrence is extremely rare, and such individuals possessed rare and deep powers. I use the pronoun 'she' for the sake of ease. "In any event, Shownamgappen experimented with impregnating herself, a wildly forbidden practice. But instead of conceiving, a massive creative force built up within her, and she was able to manipulate the magicks of construct with a mastery that left all other great magicians far, far behind. "She was commissioned by the President of the Confederacy of Comewhere to make companions for his meek, sickly grandsons. They were pathetic young men, without direction or courage. They shied away from women as they shied away from everything. "Shownamgappen interviewed each of the young men--over 50 in all, and spent years creating for each of them a beautiful mate to help them become men. "The President expected that the constructs would last a year or two, and then dissipate. That life expectancy was far beyond the constructs of most magicians, but Shownamgappen was no ordinary magician. "But after a few years, the constructed women were not dissipating, but rather, growing stronger, more full of personality, and more real. And the boys were irretrievably dependent on these wonderful creatures. Instead of turning them into men, the constructs served to freeze the boys in childhood." "But President Yeplojome took it all in stride. He was more interested in his own personal glory than the failed lives of his descendants. "Word of the marvelous constructed women spread far and wide throughout the Confederacy, and demand for Shownamgappen's work became frenzied--far more than she could ever build, even in a magician's extended lifetime. "So, with Yeplojome as her 'exclusive agent' she set about developing a method to mass-produce her beauties, in both male and female models. More than anything, it was the prospect of a tireless, ageless sex slave that drove the demand on that enormous world. She sidestepped the moral issues by creating the constructs so that they would deeply enjoy giving their master pleasure, no matter what. "After years of research, Shownamgappen finally developed a method of creating a cork-like substance, in which the design and means to build a certain construct was built in. All one need do is touch a tiny piece of this material, place it in a large body of water, and a day later they would have their prize. "As it happened, Shownamgappen had to re-impregnate herself every time her creative powers began to wane. At first she could go years without doing it. Then it began to get more and more frequent. "Each time she did this, there was a more and more pronounced effect. Eventually, the energy she was generating attracted all manor of unknowable entities--gods, faeries, hoijials, and the like. "She was losing her mind, or maybe gaining a new one. In this state, she was taken advantage of by President Yeplojome. Up until then, she had tailored her creations along the lines of conventional sexuality. The President pressed her for more exotic varieties, but she refused. Now that she was growing increasingly spaced-out, however, she acquiesced and gave in to the king. "The result was a series of corks that catered to every known perversion. Homosexual, pedophiliac, sado-masochistic, fetishist, and beyond." "Whoah." I said. -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----