Message-ID: <34962asstr$1012180212@assm.asstr-mirror.org> Return-Path: From: "empath :{)" X-Original-Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Jan 2002 10:04:10.0673 (UTC) FILETIME=[F737BA10:01C1A719] X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 06:34:10 -0330 Subject: {ASSM} {ASSD} "A Ghost's Story" [Empath] (MF rom magic) [1/5] Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:10:12 -0500 Path: assm.asstr-mirror.org!not-for-mail Approved: Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation X-Story-Submission: X-Moderator-ID: newsman, dennyw Warnings: Splitting your attention between driving and ANYTHING else (especially -AHEM- :) is dangerous. Smoking rots your lungs and makes you stink - and cannabis is no better than tobacco in this respect, Captain Herbal-Life. Alcohol lets your inner asshole out. And reading these sorts of stories too much makes you go blind. {What? OH, *that* type of warning - right.} Don't read/download this if you're not able to vote; it's not worth the trouble you could get into. And attempting to use the stories I post here to make money of your own is a) illegal, and b) ludicrous - if I thought I could get anything for this stuff, do you think I'd post it here for FREE?:) {Happy now? Good.} Here's a story that Dancer asked me to write. Details in the attachment. Best wishes, and happy reading, Empath Do not automatically reply to this message/post without editing the address (spam-blockers; wonderful things:) My correct email: Eee-Em-Pea-Ay-Tea-Aitch-Six-Nine at hotmail dot com. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com <1st attachment, "ghost1.txt" begin> {ASSD} "A Ghost's Story" [Empath] (MF rom magic) [1/5] Author's Notes: I imagine this would be considered a collaboration. Dancer was speaking with me just earlier today, and commented that she wanted to write a supernatural story - she likes reading them so much. She could never manage to finish it, however, because it'd wig her out so much - she had goose-bumps for days after writing "Mirror, Mirror." So she asked me to write one. I readily agreed; I was petering out of ideas - finishing up the pair of stories I had in the works, but no fresh material. We then proceeded to brainstorm some ideas about the typical 'ghost story' of a woman moving into this big, old house that is supposed to be haunted. "For cheap rent like this, I'll put up with a horde of ghosts!" As we talked things over, the conceptualising that'd usually take me hours or a day or two, took only minutes with Dancer's help. The story evolved through several mutations, but has coalesced into something quite interesting. I won't go into the details beyond what I said above; discovering the story is the fun... :{) Enjoy, and look forward to the day when she and I are together long enough to work through a story like this to completion! :{D ============= "A Ghost's Story" Copyright 2001...er 200*2* (dang changeover:) by empath Alone. I was so alone. I had the house, but empty it was of little consolation. I never should have driven off that last couple. But they wanted to change too much; take too much from me... It'd been innumerable days since the last people left; it may even have been a different season, but I never went near a window anymore - the outside world was a cruel tease to me. But then this countless time came to an end. I heard the creak of a door - the porch held voices. I moved downstairs and listened as the front door was unlocked and opened. I watched as two women entered. "Now I'm warning you, Ms. Hoover - once you pay the deposit and first month's rent, you're in. We won't refund it even if you leave the next day." That was that bitch - the woman who brought these trespassers into my home. She called herself some kind of rental agent or something. I loathed her, and I could swear she felt it the moment she crossed the threshold - MY threshold. "Yes, yes, Mrs. Baker. You've told me repeatedly that the deposit and advance is non-refundable. I'm prepared to accept that. I'd drop twice what you're asking for a huge, gorgeous place like this: five bedrooms, two baths. A true antique mini- mansion? And with a ghost to boot?" This must have been the new interloper; I sighed grimly - not all of these people were easy to hate...until they wanted to hurt my house; my creation. But 'Ms. Hoover' was different; I could see that as soon as she entered the foyer. She fell silent and looked upon my house with awe. Not avarice like some people - thinking of 'potential.' There'd been a couple of groups that came into the house talking of conversions, renovations and other drastic changes; I got rid of them quickly enough. No, this was love - Ms. Hoover had fallen in love with my house upon sight. "Where's that lease?" "But we haven't looked at anything yet!" Baker almost didn't want to make the sale - not much of a seller. But maybe she felt guilty about bringing people to be terrorised by me - good. She should feel guilty for interfering with my...well, it's not a life anymore, but you know what I mean. "The plumbing leaks, huh?" Hoover was standing in the middle of the foyer looking up to the balcony and spinning around slightly as she took in my architectural genius. I liked her immediately, and began to revise my opinion of Mrs. Baker if she could bring a woman as appreciative of my home to see it. "Yes." "Copper pipes?" "Uh-huh," Baker replied, looking around nervously and keeping close to the door. My new houseguest looked at her with a smile and a shrug. "Can't be patched, but it can be replaced and fixed, in time." Hoover walked over to a heating vent and held her hand over it at waist height. "Furnace works." "Ah, yes - propane burner with hot air; we get a man to come out to clean and service the old thing twice a year." Old! That newfangled furnace was a wise purchase of mine; it worked just as good now as it did when I had it installed. 'Young Wentworth,' as I thought of the furnaceman, was one of the few people I tolerated in my house. He first came in sixty years ago, a pimply teenager apprentice. Apparently he had gone on to take over the company in his day, and only made calls to my 'darling old twenty-six' as he called the furnace. "Lights work fine, in here at least." Hoover flicked the switch by the door and lit the fixtures on the foyer's walls. "Yes, but the wiring is old - you may find some rooms won't work." "All I need is the kitchen, one bedroom, one bathroom, this foyer and maybe a 'living room.'" "I suppose - you're sure about this?" Baker was rummaging around in a bag of hers. "Almost positive. You just haven't introduced me to the ghost yet." Ms. Hoover looked to be a sceptic. [Fine,] I said in a voice only heard by myself, [I enjoy turning sceptics into believers.] Baker looked up with some papers and a pen in her hand, her face a mask of barely concealed fear. "Consider yourself lucky - ohshit!" I burst out laughing, unheard by the two women. I had taken a few moments to get myself 'riled up,' and with the exceptional amount of emotion coursing through my...okay, I don't have veins an0ymore, but you know what I'm trying to get at. With the contrived thought that Ms. Hoover intended on knocking down my glorious 'mini-mansion' as she called it, I was able to run up and body-check the front door closed. It didn't slam, unfortunately, but it had the effect I was looking for. Ms. Hoover started at the noise, and began to look around uneasily. But Mrs. Baker wigged out; she staggered back to a wall, holding her bag in front of herself protectively and pleading to be left alone. I was lying on the floor next to the women, having bounced off the door. It was a good thing, because I probably wouldn't have been able to stand while laughing so much. The younger woman walked over to her real estate agent. "Mrs. Baker - calm down. It's okay, it was just a draft pulling the door shut." Hoover didn't look like she believed it; she must have been putting on a brave front for the older woman's benefit. "Nonono - it's the ghost! Oh, Sue - please don't do this; you're a nice young woman - I can't let you stay here!" "Mrs. Baker! All this talk of ghosts has got you imagining things; it was a warm draft created by the furnace - didn't you hear the thump of it turning on?" "I-I-I...Sue don't stay here." "Listen to me. All the other people who lived here; did any of them die?" "Uh...no." Of course not! I'm not a murderer! "Any get hurt - sent to hospital?" Baker had to think. "Not that I remember." Actually, there was one guy who cut himself when I startled him - I think he did need a few stitches. And the pregnant woman whom I scared into early labour. I felt bad about both of those incidents; I didn't want to hurt anyone, just protect my house. Hoover smiled. "Well, there you go; you've got nothing to worry about - at most I'll get the scare of my life. And I've always liked scary movies." Mrs. Baker had calmed down a lot. "You're sure?" Her client nodded solemnly. "Okay then," Baker said with a deep sigh, and picked up the papers and pen. "Here's the lease. And when you sign, you will owe us four hundred dollars regardless of how long you stay." Ms. Hoover signed the contract, handed the pen and papers back, and grabbed her purse. "Here you go; my admission fee to the 'haunted house!'" She passed over a short stack of bills. Mrs. Baker looked at the young woman, still concerned. "Good luck, Sue." They walked back to the front door and let Mrs. Baker out. When she closed the door, Sue Hoover looked nervously into the house, her facade beginning to weaken now that she had no one to be brave for. "Hello? Mr. Ghost? Or...Mrs. Ghost, sorry! Hello, are you there?" I didn't respond for two reasons; firstly, I knew better than to satisfy someone's curiosity - it made them less scared to KNOW there was a ghost than to wonder about it. Also I was still worn out from closing the door; I couldn't manifest myself if I wanted to. "Look I'm sorry about that earlier, but poor Mrs. Baker didn't deserve that. She needed to calm down." Sue hugged herself nervously. "Hello? I know you're in this house. I'm sorry for...intruding. I promise to change this beautiful house as little as possible." That caught my attention - she did seem to appreciate the splendour earlier. "But I NEED this house; the rent is so cheap, and I don't have a lot of money right now; it'll only be for a couple of months, then I'll leave you in peace. I promise to...not interfere with your home as much as I can." I was impressed, and had second thoughts about doing the usual "scare 'em out" routine. "So do we have a deal? Hello?" [Maybe...we'll have to see, Sue.] She shook her head, and stepped back out to get her bags. * * * Sue kept her side of the bargain. She dusted out the few rooms she needed to live in, kept the furniture the same, and apologised profusely when she had to change the bedclothes in one of the spare bedrooms. At first I was unconvinced, and kept up my little campaign of 'doubt' - moving something that was right next to her hand while she wasn't looking, making the stairs creak, spinning the thermostat so the furnace would ignite with a 'thump.' Just little things you'd be hard pressed to say were definitely paranormal, but left you wondering... That came to an end about the third evening Sue was living in the house. She curled up on a couch in my sitting room and pulled the 'antique' phone onto her lap. She dialled a rather long number and waited. She muttered "Damn voice-mail," whatever that was, and waited even longer, then suddenly started talking. "David Morris, box 355." I was still wondering what kind of code she was speaking when Sue started talking again. "Hi honey, it's me. I hate this; I know you're busy around the clock, but I still miss you and wish I could hear your voice." She hugged herself fondly. "Anyway, I've moved into the place - it's fabulous. A veritable mansion - there's a balcony in the atrium or foyer or whatever. There's plenty of bedrooms, the plumbing isn't original," and I grunted unheard at the recollection of those workmen tramping around some time ago replacing the lead pipes with copper. I mean, how were we to know the stuff was POISONOUS? Anyway, Sue had carried on extolling my home's virtues, making me puff up with pride. "You're just going to love it! I've got the cable being installed tomorrow, so you can reach me here at anytime in the day." She repeated the number for this 'David.' "Anyway, I'll understand if you don't get this message in time to call me. I miss you so much, but I know your job's important, and it'll only be for another month or two. Love you, David, hope to see you soon, and hear you sooner." Then she kissed the phone with a loud smack and hung up. I smiled at the affection Sue was showing for this man but that faded as she put the phone away and sighed sadly. Tears began to form in her eyes. She looked up at the room and called out, "I suppose you know just what it's like to be alone, don't you? Heck, you've probably had it worse than I ever will - years, even decades with no one. I'm sorry for you, whoever you are. I hope you don't feel like I do right now." Then she curled her head down and sobbed a little. I felt so sorry for her, too. I'd had plenty of time to get used to solitude - it still bored me to tears - if I had any - but at least the pain of...of...her... Oh, what was her name? She was...my - she had been...important to me. I cast around in a panic; forgetting had come as a relief to me at first. But now it frustrated me; this was my life I was forgetting! She was the reason I built this house; how COULD I forget her? I dashed silently out of the room, down the hall, and into the dining room. There was the portrait of us; she sitting, me standing behind her, her hand coming up to hold mine. Mr. Bradley Fletcher and...augh - Mrs. Fletcher?!? [NOOOO - it's not fair!] I screamed unheeded. I now felt all the anguish of being separated from my...my...wife? And worse yet, I had the panic and chaos of amnesia combined with this. [Don't do this to me; either let me forget or let me remember!] I sagged to my knees in front of the picture, phantom tears streaming from my eyes. I cried out in agony and struck out- -and scared even myself when my fists pounded against the wall with a resounding 'THUMP.' Of course! High emotion makes me materialise...sort of. My thoughts were broken by another scare for this old ghost - our portrait slipped off its hook and came crashing down right in front of me. I yelped and staggered back, knocking over a chair. A gasp came from the doorway. Sue was standing there - my manifestation probably attracted her, and she was staring right at the chair lying on its back. "You're here, aren't you?" I shrugged; agreeing wouldn't make any difference since she couldn't hear me. "Why this room?" she asked as she made her way over to the fallen picture. "Ohhhh, I see. This was you and your...spouse?" I gritted my spectral teeth in frustration - she knew as much as I could remember. "Which one were you? No matter, you were a beautiful couple together - I'm sorry you can't be together now." She hung the picture again, and I almost missed her last whispered comment. "And I hope David and I have as much love as what your painter captured in this portrait." I smiled at her, and wished I could pat her shoulder in sympathy. "Anyway, since I've gone and made everyone in this house feel so sad, would you mind if I just took a quick bath and went to bed?" She smiled at the room in general, and walked out without waiting for my assent - not that I could ever communicate it to her properly. I know it's not proper for a man to watch a strange woman while she took a bath, but I didn't look on myself as a Peeping Tom so much as a sentinel or guardian. Sue is quite attractive in a meek way; her long chestnut hair is thick and wavy, the thin glasses add something to her face. The face itself has a delightful heart shape, with full lips and arresting green eyes; that's another thing the glasses help with - they keep you from noticing her eyes too much and getting stuck staring into them. Her body is small and a little stocky, with quite a full bust, though. Her skin is pale, smooth and unblemished, like rich cream. I stayed in the doorway of the bathroom as she disrobed and stepped into the tub. I felt a momentary pang of jealousy as she eased her body into the hot water within the porcelain tub that *I* had searched for, bought and installed, but the pang disappeared with the relaxed sigh Sue made as she sank into the sudsy warmth. I sighed in vicarious contentment as she just soaked in the tub for a few moments. Then a part of me I'd thought long dead and buried noted her crinkled nipples. As she commenced to bathe, I took a moment to examine myself. Usually I...well, I didn't really think about my appearance - I wasn't quite *clothed*, but certainly not naked. But I was now; part of me wanted to be exposed to scrutiny and was...aroused. I blushed at my appearance, a smoky, translucent form standing near the door of the bathroom, obviously excited about something. I rushed out of the bathroom in embarrassment, barely noting that my shoulder moved the door as it passed through. Once I was out of sight, I calmed down and looked over the rest of myself. I was present - material; my whitish aura was due to dust falling in the air and landing on my...vital spirit, I guess. I could support dust! This had happened but once or twice before in the years and years of my afterlife, and each time had been a time of high emotion - apparently this was one such time. But the emotion was one I hardly expected to feel again... Suddenly, I found myself back in the dining room, standing in front of our picture; me and...my wife. I deduced that from the gold band on her left hand that reached up to grasp mine. I loved my wife, whoever she was. Very much. I had built this house almost from scratch for her. Because...because I couldn't...something...I couldn't give her something...something else she wanted. What that was I couldn't quite recall - again I had run up against a few missing pages in the history book of my life. She was beautiful, my wife. Different from Sue, because those had been different times; women back then were supposed to be skinny and flat; boyish in figure. My wife was certainly that - or tried to appear such in the picture. Sue is also beautiful, but different. Where the woman of my former life was slender, lithe (how could I tell that from a still picture, I wondered), and almost coy, Sue is lush, voluptuous, and meek. She has a more substantial form than...hers, but her demeanour is the most appealing thing about her: she has this shy, vulnerable aspect that cries out to you to protect her. Even a phantom - a GHOST like myself wasn't immune to this call. I loved Sue - still do. But not in the way I loved my wife; Ms. Hoover was...was a friend, a little sister, a charge for me to watch over. I'd only known her for three days, but already I liked her and thought of her as a cherished friend. So why did 'little Bradley' decide to put in an appearance? It was at this point that I heard Sue's moan; to go through the thick walls and floor/ceiling of the house I'd built, it must have been fairly loud at the source. I'd been thinking protectively of Sue, so the first thing to enter my disembodied mind was 'She's sick or hurt!' I flew up the stairs to her (and less metaphorically than most people would) and stopped in the doorway, paralysed by concern...and surprise. Sue was under the covers in 'her bed,' and writhing. [Is she having a nightmare? No, she's not asleep. Maybe an allergic reaction to the soap she used? No. Perhaps she's - no, she's...oh. OHHHHHhhhh! Oh. Um.] Now, I was born in the Nineteenth century, and died in the Roaring Twenties; you may wonder how I could recognise a masturbating woman. The fact is that for the past eighty years I had been a somewhat captive audience to the sex lives of a wide variety of people. About thirty years ago, my house was host to a gaggle of...'hippies' I think they called themselves? Those kids were very open about pleasures of the flesh. Needless to say, I learned a lot about what both men and women did to make themselves happy in bed. And Sue was working at her own gratification quite industriously at that moment. Her knees were raised, making twin pyramids of the blankets. One hand was a shifting mound between them, while the other moved back and forth over her breasts, again hidden by the sheets. Soon she moved both hands between her legs and started panting: "Yes...oh, yesss...yes - do me, Dave...please, fuck me... mmmmm...yeah, like that...c'mon...fuck me...fuck me...fuck me..." But it wasn't quite working; her movements became somewhat disjointed, when - from past experience - I knew they should become even more rhythmic. Her face became locked in a frown; frustration and disappointment grew in that expression. And she lost grasp of the pleasure she was reaching for. She stopped her manipulations with an angry gesture and started crying. Her voice was broken and miserable: "Nooo...David - why do you do this to me? I love you so much - why are you away so much of the time? It's not FAIR! I miss you! Why can't you be with me?" Sue curled up on her side and started sobbing. My heart - if I still had one - would have shattered at this point; her statements were completely true: she did not deserve this, she deserved a man who loved her as much as she loved David, and would be there for her when she needed him. David may even have loved her more than she did him, but he was losing something so important to him, and he probably didn't realise it; his work was getting between them. He doubtless quelled any doubts with the argument that he was doing all that for his Sue...I rationalised my mistakes the same way. That came as a surprise to me; I remembered the big problem...my wife and I had had. I threw myself into my work as an architect; made an insane amount of money in a few years - even in the great boom of the 1920's - and built this house as a consolation prize to her. But...not just to make up for my absence...there was something else...something I couldn't quite put my finger on... Sue's sobs, easing somewhat to tired moans, drew me back to the living world. She was alone, and needed to be comforted. I really needed to do some serious comforting to make up for my mistakes in life - maybe that was why I was a ghost? A ghost that was still running on high emotion and materialising as I looked upon myself. I made my way over to the bed, and noted with pleasure that I had to pull the blankets up to slip under them. I slid up behind Sue, using my left hand to cradle her head while my right hugged her to my for-now physical form. I did something I hadn't thought about in years, and hadn't been able to do in decades - I took a breath. I used the exhalation to make soft, comforting whispers in her ear. Her crying eased immediately. She snuggled back into me, then giggled "Heh; tingles." I gulped - that was probably an effect of my 'form' touching her body. I hoped it wouldn't disturb her; right now she needed fewer concerns, not more. I patted, stroked and soothed her for some time, taking delight in making someone else feel good. Soon her breathing was deep and even, her cheeks dry, and her body free of tension. I started to ease myself away to let Sue sleep, when her right hand grasped mine, sinking in slightly. "Don't go, Mr. Fuzzy - I'm not finished with you." Ohshit; she was holding me in place! I was partly pleased that she could touch me and feel resistance, but I was just as equally panicked. She was keeping me from doing what I wanted! For the past eighty years or so I had been a - sorry - free spirit; uncontrolled by anyone except my own whims and desires; I didn't even have physical needs to worry about! And now I was trapped. Sue's hand pulled mine up to her naked breast. "C'mon, dream lover; I couldn't make myself come - you do it for me." Dream - she thought she was asleep and dreaming of a man coming to her; hell, maybe she was. "Please - David's so far away, and even though it won't be for much longer, I need someone NOW. Please? It's my dream; do this for me?" How could I refuse? Even though I don't HAVE heartstrings anymore, she still had a firmer hold on them than on my hand. My hand cupped her breast without any more urging from Sue's, and its mate moved her hair away from her neck, allowing me to kiss its nape tenderly. "Ohhhhhh, thank you," she sighed. I caressed and massaged that mound, felt (oh, god - I FELT!) the nipple harden against my phantom palm. My free hand eased under her body and came up to hold her other breast. Soon I had her moaning in delight, and feeling something pressing into the small of her back. "Ooooh; are you hard for me? I'm so flattered, lover. Let me feel how big it is." Her hand came back and grasped my erect cock. I was amazed and bewildered by this turn of events; looking over a fair number of school kids' and college students' shoulders had given me a fair understanding of biology - normally a lot of glands, muscle and blood was necessary for an erection; how was I able to manage this? "Oooooh yeah - that feels so good." She was understating - it felt FANTASTIC. "I can't wait to feel this big cock inside me. Put it in, lover." I paused, probably due to a lack of those aforementioned glands; did I want to do this? My animalistic side sure did, as did all of Sue. But I almost thought of her as my little sister; would I respect her - no, would I respect MYSELF in the morning? "Please - I can't have David, but I just need someone for tonight. Please?" She had a point - I was doing this more for her than for me; also it was just a one-time thing to help her wait for her beloved, not lure her away from him. I hunched back and allowed Sue to guide my prick, sliding it into the cleft of her buttocks. Her leg raised up and allowed my phallus to ease forward and wet itself on her moist pussy. I was paralysed with the long-forgotten feelings of a woman in my arms, and around me. Sue had to physically make me do what she wanted, but she was free to do so; I was barely still aware of my own consciousness, let alone in control of my...spirit? The hand she had behind her shifted and cupped my ass cheek, pulling me toward her. Her other hand slipped down her front and guided my hardness into her hot, wet cleft. I groaned loudly, not even surprised at my returned voice. "That's it, lover. Enjoy my tight pussy. Fuck me with that big, hard cock of yours. Make me come on your thick shaft." Did I say that Sue was meek and shy? She seemed that way usually - even when she thought no one was around to see her. Obviously she was a totally different person once her passions were roused. I began to move myself in and out of her, and my hands grasped her tits roughly, making her sigh happily. "Yessss, that's it - take me hard, the way you want to and the way you know I want to be taken. Fuck me, lover. Rape my pussy - make me yours!" I did and - for at least for that moment in time - she was mine. And I was hers. She wanted this rough treatment, a submissive fantasy of her, perhaps. But since she thought this was all a dream, why not indulge? This passion, this mutual lust lasted for an immeasurable time before Sue reached a crashing climax. Her body jolted and shivered, her cunt ran with moisture and clenched around my ethereal prick. Her voice called out her pleasure. And I felt it all - it was as if I was linked to her soul at that moment; my body...er, form was filled with not just my spirit, but hers as well - maybe people in orgasm experience an out-of-body experience, and at that time Sue's spirit touched mine. I still don't know, but it felt GREAT. But nothing good lasts forever...and soon enough Sue went limp, panting as she spread out on the bed. I noted grimly that I had become almost completely non-corporeal again. Still agog with all the pleasure I had just experienced I extricated myself from my recent partner and the bed, coming to stand at the doorway looking back at her. She was sweaty, flushed and tired. But she was happy; her mouth was curled into a satisfied smile. Even if I could never again do what I had just done, it was worth it for that look of pleasure on her face. The smile faded somewhat as she stretched out; patting at the bed, she sat up and looked around in momentary concern. Sue shook herself, and then smiled at the recollection of what she had experienced. She bit a finger and giggled, saying "Wow, what a dream," and then snuggled back into the bed, a happy smile back on her face as she quickly passed into slumber. fin de premier <1st attachment end> ----- ASSM Moderation System Notice------ Notice: This post has been modified from its original format. 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