Gutbucket Quest by Piers Anthony & Ron Leming

Author:Piers Anthony & Ron Leming [Anthony, Piers & Leming, Ron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Human freedom depends not only on the destruction and restructuring of the economic system, but on the restructuring of the mind. New modes of poetic action, new networks of analogy, new possibilities of expression all help formulate the nature of the super session of reality, the transformation of everyday life as it encumbers us today, the unfolding and eventual triumph of the marvelous.

—Paul Garon, Blues and the Poetic Spirit

My baby gets unruly, thinks she can stop a train, Hold up her head, stop the lightning and the rain.

—Johnny Shines, “Black Panther”

(unreleased version)

Nadine’s apartment was a surprise to Slim. It was neat and clean and attractive, filled with books and plants and wonderfully odd things that caught the attention no matter where one looked. One entire wall was taken up with a fancy stereo cabinet and a large-screen TV. The rooms smelled healthy and alive as Nadine hurried around, watering the neglected plants. As she watered, Slim was happy to see several wolf spiders crawl out from their hiding places, as if in greeting. When one jumped on her, she reacted only by inducing it to crawl onto her fingers and putting it back on the wall.

“This is where you live, huh?” What a lousy line for such a neat lady, Slim thought.

“Yes,” Nadine replied. “I’ve lived here since I was eighteen. In fact,” she said, “I own the building.”

“Really? That’s neat.”

“Sounds good, doesn’t it? Not so good, though, when you have to take care of it, too. But it is mine, free and clear. I only have to pay rent once a year when the taxes are due.”

“Are you a mean, vicious landlord?” Slim asked, smiling.

“You bet,” she said. “Why, if my tenants don’t pay their rent within six months or so, out they go.” She put the water pitcher she’d been using down, the job done. “Actually, I know all the people here. I only rent to musicians and their families. I’ve sung with most of them at one time or another. Good folks. They fall on hard times now and then, but we all help each other out, and they know I’ll carry them until they get back up.”

“What happens if we don’t get the Gutbucket back?”

“We’ll all be poor, then, I guess. And we’ll lose the music. I don’t want to talk about it, okay? You want to take a shower?”

“With you?” Slim asked.

She arched a brow. “You have a problem with that?”

“Let’s go.”

They undressed in the small bathroom, bumping butts and elbows, enjoying each moment of it. He didn’t think he would ever get over the wonder of her naked body. The champagne-glass-sized breasts, the large nipples that stood out so high and proud, the small bulge her belly made that was just right to lay his head on, the way her ribs and hips stood out, the protruding hipbones that were so much fun to hang on to and wrap his hand around, the fine, curly hair between her legs, her small, kissable ass. Though he knew nobody was perfect, really perfect, for him, she was.

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