Machete Girl Issue 8.4 Cyberpunk Short Stories

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“No kidding? Anyone new these days?”
my head and harshly blew it back out
Foot in mouth. Who was I
again. My mind didn’t even want to go
power. And with everyone all sex-
fooling? I knew where these questions
there. I hated thinking about that.
crazed egomaniacs everywhere, well...
were going. You’re a piece of shit, ass-
They want to be like real humans, and
hole.
All those memories con-
now they are. It’s just a natural conse-
She sat beside me. This time,
stantly flooding my mind, stinging me
quence. And honestly, the engineers
a little closer than last, facing me with
constantly like a million little piranhas.
are fucking idiots for not realizing this
her hand propping up the side of her
The thought of that question oddly had
would happen.”
head, her hair interlacing her fingers.
that feel of drowning to it. The disap-
I could see my own hands in her hair,
pointment and despair. The endless
I was stunned. “You’re a ge-
gripping at her scalp, pulling her body
searching. Sometimes I wondered
nius.” She always was, too. I am a fairly
towards me with each thrust...
what I was searching for.
smart guy, but Leslie always seemed
light years ahead of me. She under-
“Nope, no one new,” she said
I wanted to lie to her and tell her about
stood people and the world better than
after a pause. Damn it, she was even
Nivena, or maybe Danica. Those were
anyone else I’ve ever known. I just
smiling at me a little. Was she, really?
probably the closest. They were great
know numbers and laws of physics.
Please god no, how am I ever going to
lays. And they were cool too. But even
work through this? “You?” She started
after just a few months, the novelty
She shrugged her right
speaking in a sultry-sounding voice.
of their squirting and dirty talk talents
shoulder. “Not as genius as the droids.”
But again, could be my imagination.
wore off. But the way her eyes scanned
An awkward silence accompanied the
me for a thread of dishonesty informed
sudden knowing in the air - that I was
Gah, damn it, Jack. Why the
me that was a bad idea. “Not really,” I
there because I was running away
fuck does it always have to happen this
admitted.
from potential apocalypse. I scratched
way? The biggest reason it’s tough to
at a spot on the rim of my coffee mug,
let go of the illness is because some-
Her gaze shifted to my hair,
but it was only paint. “Do you think it’s
how, it seems to give you this power
my ears, my lips. “I always thought you
safe here?” I asked.
over pussy. When you give in to the
were cute,” she smirked.
illness, you become a pussy magnet.
“Hard to say.” She stood up
It flocks to you, and getting amazing
That was it. My body lost it
and headed toward the stove to push
women to suck your dick and want all
and I grabbed her face and pulled her
around the wood inside, and there it
the rest of you to themselves is effort-
lips towards me and she practically
was again.
less. Why would anyone in their right
sucked my tongue right out of my
mind resist this?
mouth. “Yowza!” I yelped, my mouth
Jesus, look at that tight ass...
still entwined with hers. I had never
Come on, Jack, not Leslie!
“Not seeing anyone at the
said yowza before. This woman was
She was like a sister back in the day.
moment,” I informed her.
hardcore. It was clear she hadn’t gotten
Still the x-ray vision clicked on and my
any in a long time. It had only been two
mind’s eye saw her in a lacy black bra
“Has anyone special come through
days for me. I grabbed her hair just as
and panties with back seam stock-
your life? Someone you’ll forever com-
I imagined earlier and tried pushing
ings... Argh.... Hearing her moans in my
pare everyone to?” Her eyes were sym-
her downward, but no effort was even
ears...
pathetic like she wanted to get to know
required. She was already headed that
MACHETE GIRL ISSUE 8.4
Get a hold of yourself, Jack!
“So, whatever happened between you
and Felix?”
“That guy? We split when he
graduated. We always planned it that
way anyway. We still talk. He has two
kids now.”
a different side of me I never showed
anyone back then. Leslie liked to get
into everyone’s deep dark secrets but
bit the heads off of anyone who tried to
get into hers.
It was a question no one had
ever asked me before. The thought of it
made me breathe in what seemed an
direction.
Who’d ever thought I’d be here at Leslie’s
cabin in the woods, getting a world
class blow job from her, ten years
down the road? Jeez, she had a mouth
like a vacuum cleaner, god damn! Girl
must be hungry as fuck!
infinite amount of air before I dropped