ita, I love the power of that drabble. You really make me feel that tension between the mother/daughter. I love this line: "I'm walking her through it, as a good modern daughter should. Oh, but it's hard. She's arch, and she's tangential, and she's stubborn. And she knows me."

These were both delicious. And Kristin delivered porn immediately! Praising the goddess of instant gratification, whose name is apparently Kristin.

ita, I wanted to say how much I loved "She's arch, and she's tangential, and she's stubborn," but Kristin beat me to. Worth repeating, though. And the ending was perfect.

t dies laughing

If I wasn't so in love with my current tag, I would so ask to tag "the goddess of instant gratification".

Though I have to say, I think I more delivered anti-porn. I decided to go way fictional and have fun playing the other side.

I think I more delivered anti-porn

I guess my mind just went to where the cucumbers and bananas were leading... Oh, dear. Loved it either way.

Really, truly in bed now.

Oh, I *knew* where ita's was going! And I love Kristin's.

Someone said porn?

Summer Game

"Tell me what this is."

She adjusts her senses, those she can actually use; the blindfold is soft, blocking out all but stray darts of diffused light.

"Strawberry."

"Very good." He lets her nibble a bit. "What's this, then?"

Hot, heady, the stuff summer is made of. "Peach," she says dreamily, and licks juice from the overripe globe.

"Right," he says," one more to go."

Vagrant, sweet, tantalising, the scent dances away from her memory banks. "Um - canteloupe?"

"Bad girl. Try again."

"Honeydew!"

"Honeydew it is," he says, and moves the fruit out of reach, to kiss her instead.

wow, did this come out smutty...
Watermelon

There is something almost indecent about the first watermelon of the season. It is only a little darker than her tongue and vaguely reminiscent of other places she doesn’t think of at the kitchen table. She swears every time that she will be neat, but the juice gets out of hand every time. It’s the heat. It does that sometimes. Or at least, it’s hard to complain about getting wet. She takes a big bite. And, yet she remembers from biology, that this lovely pink flesh is not the point...it’s there to keep the vine alive. Something seems wrong about that.

Oh, my.

You know, Gayle Brandeis wrote a wonderful book called "Fruitflesh". All about women's erotica. Seems a nice bit of synchronicity.

I immediately thought of The Botany of Desire when I saw the drabble topic.

The unsophisticated Stringy mangoes were the province of the children.

They grow plentiful on large, not easily climbable trees. We pick them by flinging stones and avoid their unsurprisingly fibrous meat by pounding them unpeeled until their flesh is soft pulp, and suck the sunny sweetness through a small hole bitten in the tip. It's neat and efficient, well designed for mango eating competitions of the season. Eat and toss, eat and toss, racing each other and hiccoughing and laughing in the grass.

Time enough to steal a Bombay, East Indian or Julie from our parents when we were done.

My father had first right of refusal to everything from the Bombay tree. I realize in retrospect the symmetry -- it's a firm, neat mango, with a subtle and refined taste.

The tree is gone now, for practical reasons. Back then we could pick its fruit standing on the roof, and take it downstairs. A careful slice around its equator, a deft twist and the seed popped out, leaving you with two mango cups, lacking only ice cream.

He's a pragmatic man, only lately come to sentimentality. I wonder if he can miss the tree as much as I do.