Kiss Between My Lines by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Published: 2008-07-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Jordi: Love Is Rarely Attainable

Jordi dreams that she’s Throbbing. There’s no one in the dream but herself and some nameless, faceless Threader on the other side of a sea of ether, but the attraction radiating between them drenches her brain cells in light. Each pulsation heightens her sensual pleasure, drawing her nerves together like the delicate strings of a cat’s cradle. Though she’s never clearly aware of the fact that another flesh-and-blood human is orchestrating her Throb, she never loses consciousness of her partner either. Her lover could be male or female, animal or mineral; it really doesn’t matter when she’s climbing to the heights of nirvana.

Before she can reach that peak, Jordi’s dream takes a detour into reality, and she’s suddenly sitting up in bed, surrounded by her co-developers. One of the drawbacks of having such intensive neural connections with Tuan, Caryn, Fleek, and Bob is that they tend to pop up in her mind at any waking (or non-waking, as the case may be) moment, armed with opinions or objections.

‘You’re not really “coming” if the genitals aren’t involved, Jordi,’ complains the dream version of Caryn. A triathlete with a degree in neurobiology who works as an auto mechanic in her spare time, Caryn is the most pragmatic of the bunch, and the most deeply engaged in meat-life. ‘If there’s really any kind of orgasm taking place, we haven’t been able to establish a direct link to Throbbing.’

Bob, horny net geek extraordinaire, rolls his eyes. ‘Come on, Caryn. I had my first cyberorgasm in 1989, and it was from a scorching hot email that turned out to have been written by some geek. No, I couldn’t establish a direct link between my orgasm and the text on the screen, but if you’re such a hardcore materialist, you should stick to running marathons and fixing radiators.’

‘They’re both smoking crack, Jordi,’ Fleek interjects. ‘What we’re trying to achieve here is neither material nor immaterial. It’s a mystical union of minds with resonance in the flesh. Caryn wants LIRA to be another dating site. Cumshot Bob wants to infect it with the immanence of porn. This is sooo far from the vision we had in the beginning, Jordi.’

‘OK, guys, time out.’ Tuan pats the air with his hands in a simmer-down gesture. ‘This is Jordi’s experience. If she says she’s having an orgasm, who are we to say she’s not? Our goal is to create the experience. How the Threader defines that experience is up to her. Or him. Or it, or them, or whatever.’

Jordi sits up, clutching her pillow. ‘Would you all just stop it? I’m not having an orgasm. I’m not even Throbbing anymore, thanks to you guys.’

‘I thought you wanted us here. You called us,’ Fleek points out. His sensitive philosopher’s eyes are reproachful.

‘Did I?’ Jordi sighs. ‘I guess I did.’

‘We just wanted to help,’ says Caryn. ‘I’ve been feeling weird since yesterday.’

‘Me too. Withdrawals, big time,’ says Tuan. ‘I can’t hold down food, and I have a headache as big as the Ritz.

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