She took it off and held it in front of him. "Take hold of my talisman. Renounce your god and swear allegiance to my goddess."Lodos reached out and gr...bbed the talisman. "I swear to devote my life and soul to the worship of your goddess." Lodos felt a tingle in his hand and he was holding a silver sword on a chain of his own. Midala put hers back on, and he did the same, understanding his new place in his goddess's new order. He was a man, and thus scum. He was not fit to love women, only to. ”“Why?”“That’s just it! I have no idea! It was like, out of the blue, she turned into a jealous bit ... person.”“I heard that!” Mom One said, coming into the kitchen.“Sorry, I know you don’t like that word but I totally don’t understand!”“Did anything happen in the last couple of days?” Mom One asked.“No. Nothing. And before you ask, I haven’t done anything with any girl since I asked Kelly to be my girlfriend.”“How much does Kelly know?”“She’s sure I had sex with Francesca, but she doesn’t. But I want more. I want fresh meat. I want women who’ll do the filthy things I’d never dare ask my wife to do. I want a whore!A woman’s voice calls over the entryphone. I tell her I made an appointment online and give my name, not my real name of course. She’s only interested in my money and my body. That’s fair enough. She calls herself Samantha, but all I’m interested in is her body and what I can do with it. The door buzzes and opens. I enter and climb the narrow stairs.She’s late twenties,. ” You look deeply into my eyes and see no irony, no masks, just my green eyes looking deeply into yours. “For me,” I begin, “it’s a little like you and the ‘C-word’. For you, that word is jarring, a downer, and so out of respect for you I don’t use it around you. For me, that particular word is one that I use to name the vagina when I’m very excited or it’s a word that I use derisively to name a person when I’m very angry. They’re two different things to me. In the heat of sex, that word.