Flash Fiction Friday: Fighting Back

(Source image: "Forbidden Embrace" by Igor Vasiliadis) 

He watched the two women through the window.  The older one opened her mouth to the other, receiving her eager, probing tongue.  Her hand moved along the younger woman’s thigh, pulling her head closer to her own.  Some men might have seen such a sight and felt aroused, but he felt only anger and bitter contempt.  Today, they would get what was coming to them.

Inside, while luxuriating in the feel and taste of each other’s bodies, they savored the calm of the morning.  Nothing could ruin this moment for them.

Then, all at once, he kicked the door open.  “This ends here!” he shouted in his most intimidating, threatening voice.

“Hopeless is back,” Sylvia said.

Joelle corrected her:  “Useless.”  Sylvia resumed sucking Joelle’s nipple.

Bill froze.  He hadn’t really given his plan much thought.

“Don’t just stand there, Useless,” Joelle ordered.  “Make yourself useful for a change.”

He sighed.  Nothing ever changed.  “Yes, Mistress.” (155/160)

-Jack

Behind the Scenes

The decision to make this week's Flash Fiction Friday a follow-up to last week's story was a last-minute choice brought about by my inability to come up with something original and interesting based on this prompt photo.  I conceived the idea and wrote the story late on Thursday night; having earlier viewed the prompt photo I wasn't immediately grabbed, and despite my intention to complete the story early, I waited until the last minute.

My first thought was that the photo closely resembled the one presented by Ram the Sunlover last week.  I was afraid of rehashing the same themes as I did in Cooling Off, and decided that an entirely new approach was required.  After spending a few moments brainstorming, I decided to simply revisit Sylvia and Joelle shortly after Bill's cold swim.  I realize that no real similarity, physical or otherwise, exists between the two photos' respective couples, but I had to overlook this minor detail.

Including the required word, "...hopeless..." in the manner that I did may have been a stretch, but given Joelle's pet name for Bill, I couldn't resist.

Deleted Scenes

I came up with a couple half-baked ideas before settling on a follow-up to last week's story.  Among them was a story that featured a twist wherein one of the two individuals pictured was physically male.  It would have climaxed with the line, "You won't be needing that strap-on."  Ultimately there wasn't any real substance to this story, and I moved on.

Also, before I decided that the two women would be the same characters as in Cooling Off, I referred to them by the names Jane and Sarah.

Soundtrack

Jill suggested "Kiss the Girl", as performed by Samuel E. Wright in Disney's The Little Mermaid, which has a calypso sound suitable for the story's tropical setting; and Boy George's "The Crying Game", from the eponymous 1992 film, for the abandoned idea mentioned in the previous section.  However, I'd go with either "The Payback", by James Brown, or "Female of the Species" by Space.

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