Date:         Sat, 1 Feb 1997 08:47:08 -0800
Subject:      SUB: Valentine's Day Contest: "Immaculate Sex": Short Story

Sorry, the contest is closed to further entries. Watch
http://web.mit.edu/mbarker/www/val97/val.html for the winners.

Please reserve all critiques on contest entries until after Valentine's
Day!
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Immaculate Sex
        The marriage of two virgins was a wonderful event.  They each
had their dreams of how the wedding night would be.  When the moment
finally came complete happiness would unfold.
        The moment did come.  Their pulses seemed to race from the
excitement of the day, but this was not the cause of such pressure.  The
woman and man trembled with fear.  They sat on the huge bed,
hand-in-hand, with perspiration soaking into their wedding day garments.
 The woman faced her man and asked, "What do we do now?"
        The man crumpled before her.  The pressure bore into him,
inflaming his weakness.  His eyes glazed over and he shook his head
without a clue.
        Seeing the sharpness of despair in her man, the woman wept also.
 Then she set her strong arms around the man and began to rock with him.
 The motion began with the deep struggle in them both.  Each person was
unsure of where this powerfully uniting act was going to take them.  The
innocence was dying by the moment.  Self-fulfillment beckoned like a
river cresting to its levees.  They could not help wondering whether the
river would be held.  The woman whispered in the man's ear, "God will
help us.  God will guide us.  All three of us, alone tonight."  The
rocking found it's foundation.



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"Yesterday they said today was tomorrow, but today
they know better."
                  --Poul Anderson, _The Visitor_

Michelle
winebird@inreach.com