Dark Matter (Modern Erotic Classics) by Michael Perkins

Author:Michael Perkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472105547
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

XVIII

The Castro Street Fair

Laura Aurora’s positive nature recognised no obstacles to the daily realisation of her destiny. Nor was she conscious of the oppressive weight of humanity when it reached critical mass, as it does every year at the Castro Street Fair. She liked crowds, in fact, and as far as she was concerned, the best place to be in a Halloween crowd was at its centre. She located this as just beneath the ornate overhanging marquee of the stately movie palace, the Castro Street Theatre. That was where she had arranged to meet Baron.

But she and Robin were now three blocks from the Castro marquee, on a side street, and there were thousands of people in masquerade between them and the centre of things. Walls of noise and flesh. Beer-drinking werewolves and heavy metal hell.

Robin, who didn’t at all relish the idea of being pressed up against — squeezed through — so many distorted and even disturbed strangers, had dressed down in basic survivalist black: leather vest, t-shirt, jeans, boots. But she wore a white cat mask with long whiskers.

Laura had worn one of her basic costumes too, but it wasn’t self-effacing black she chose. A white garterbelt and sheer stockings drew attention to her legs, her best feature; tight red satin panties revealed the bulge of her pubic mound, and emphasised the beauty of her ass. A black leather corslet strained to cover her breasts. Her mask was home made, from a life-sized photo of her face.

Robin regarded her new friend with proper awe.

“You are fearless, aren’t you?”

“I still get scared, but not so much anymore. Mostly I’m scared of wasting time. So I do what I want. I suppose someday it’ll catch up with me, but meantime, I will have had some fun.”

“I wish I could look at it that way.”

“I look at it one day at a time — and it works.”

“Was it your grandmother?”

“Oh yes. But my father, too. My mother was scared of her shadow. She let me down. I decided I liked men better. Poor bastards don’t know what hit them when I come along.”

She smiled at men passing near them, her eyes challenging them. “This is fun,” she said. “Wild women on the loose — and a big party!”

“I don’t know. Not my kind of fun, I guess.”

“I love it. The noise, the lights, the spectacle. The idea of all these different people gathering to celebrate a pagan holiday. It brings out the exhibitionist in me.”

“From what I’ve seen, it doesn’t take much,” Robin jibed.

“Well, why should I hide my real self from people? If you feel good about what you’ve got, show it off! You won’t have it that long, anyway.”

They turned to avoid a pack of costumed devils pushing their way through the growing crowd. There were sirens sounding and giant lights thrown up at the sky. The roar of 10,000 throats.

“How are we going to get through this?”

“I don’t know. But I know Baron is waiting for us on the other side of this wall of people, so we’re going to have to go through it.

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