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by
Ursa Dax
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May 26 - May 27, 2025
“Sweet pee,” I echoed in confused confirmation. “As in urine?” That could not possibly be correct.
She was right. I did not give out compliments often. To anyone. And yet I had dozens, hundreds of them lined up and waiting for her. I could tell her how lovely she looked right now, with her skin so soft and clean and her hair all loose and wet. I could tell her how much I admired her competence, her generosity, her spirit. I could tell her how her gentleness made me think of strength when in anyone else I would scoff at it and call it weakness. I could tell her how cursedly good she smelled. That I’d seen the bottoms of her tiny feet tonight and that I liked them just as much as the rest of
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“Have you ever felt that way before?” I asked him. “The first time you meet somebody new, and you suddenly just feel like, ‘yes, I know you. You’re somebody special.’ You just feel like you were meant to meet? And that everything’s about to change?” Garrek’s throat contracted on a swallow. When he answered, his voice sounded oddly thick. “Yes,” he rasped. “Only once.” I wondered who it was. I didn’t ask.
Old-Earth humans actually went out on the treacherous oceans in those vessels, putting so much faith in the wood and the wind and themselves that they were willing to risk their lives. Just to see what was out there.”
All I could think about were all those little ships in bottles, just like the real ships people had sent out on the sea, sink or swim. Live or die. You’d have to be so brave to do something like that. And I guess I wanted to think that I could be brave, too. I wanted to reach for happiness with both hands.
“She told me that I could have her shit in a bottle.” “Ship in a bottle, Killian,” I groaned.
“The tips of your… Blast, I forget the human word. Your… teats…” I have clitohorses, nip-holes, and teats now.