Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 06:38:17 -0500 From: Jacob Schwann Subject: PEN&&COB #3 bisexual-incest PEN&COB #3 Welcome! This revision of earlier Nifty bisexual incest et al. submissions is in the manner of Victorian erotica, being soft and slow as well as hard and fast. Herein are recounted the amorous misadventures of young Cobby, his sister Penny, and their family and friends. All communications read; and in the main answered Jacob Cygnet Schwann III (JCS) cobschwann@gmail.com Support Nifty! + + + + + Letter #3: FAMILY LIFE - brother Cobby - age 10; sister Penny -- age going on 10; Mom; Dad Epistler: Jacob Cygnet Schwann Date: 1930's or so Place: The Parsonage, beyond Shallow Lake Letter #3: FAMILY LIFE - Chapter I Xoanan Pendant Messy, chaotic, animalistic.... ...That was our family life. My budding years were spent close by Shallow Lake near Owen Sound in Grey County. This was at the ramshackle Parsonage next to the burned-out chapel. The Parsonage, once considered grand in the neighborhood, was an old, majestic, Victorian-Gothic house. It had been unoccupied for some years until our family moved in. Broken down, drafty and dirty, there was a leaning tower, peaked gambrels, faux-stone quoins, characteristic pointed arches at dormers and cross gables, with crumbling porches and window trim. The old furniture told of times gone by. Stunned and stuffed heads of long dead deer and moose could be found tucked in closets and in the attic. Even a Newfoundland-Native elk-antler headdress. Our family grandfather-wall-clock came to hang on the landing of the staircase. It had a brass pendulum that swung back and forth: tick-tock; tick-tock; tick-tock. We felt as though one might meet some strange figure, some unexpected occupant, or a wafting ghost at any turn of the dim passages in the near-empty house. Our mom, in her mystic earth-mother guise, would say: ..."For me, this `empty' house is fully lived in. For me it is `furnished' with Phantasma. Look beyond.... Take it in.... The Spirits are here.... Phantoms, Revenants, Shades, Shadows, Specters .... All here." Laughing, Immense Cousin Max joked of our mom as, "A `True Lilith', and hence like the biblical Magdalene, at once a consort of `The Seven Princes of Hell', embodying `Lucifer's Pride', `Asmodeus' Lust', and `Satan's Wrath'." Ah, Mom.... Even so, our Parsonage was a rosy home of light to my younger sister Penelope and me. I always wanted to return, to go back again and see where we were raised. To stir up the old days which I had dreamed away there. I wished to stop along the lane in June in search of a rosebud - `Rosa acicularis'. There were those spiny banks of rugged wild rose bushes ranging along the rutted drive. That reddish-pink flower with its five spreading petals and mossy fragrance reminded me of our Mom. To stroke the flower, as the petals dropped, it was soft and smelled rosy sweet - just like she did. But to clutch it gave pointed pain as I pricked my finger on a hidden thorn. Cursing, I held up my hand. The bright blood was a red bead on my fingertip, a single crimson pearl. I stuck my finger in my mouth and tasted salt. Those sharp thorns hurt, with a lasting kick - just like she did. Our mother's day-to-day love for us was full of unpredictable cruelty. Her shifts in temper were sudden and severe -- from rose to thorn in a heartbeat. She might be so full of frantic warmth one minute, yet savage the next. There were hot slaps, growls, even objects pitched across the room at me. Mom raised her hands to her ears so as not to hear my wailing. In a thrice she could, in the literal sense, throw one down to the depths of the despised and damned to be shunned as `The Outcast'. And then in a flash, be wooed and won as `The One'. I lived torn between my desperate need on one hand, and on the other, pure terror. Once when I was about ten, for some imagined transgression, she twisted her lip and flushed a deep indignant red. She chased me halfway up the grand switchback staircase at the Parsonage. I crouched on the landing and in that instant, beneath the growl of her face, I saw it. The fine, fine gold chain about her neck. With the small gold-nugget xoanan icon pendant. A tiny golden jungle cat. A young child crouched close behind. A she-tiger and a bare-boy -- cuddling and coupling it seemed. This swung in the air before me. One of her hands tightened in a choke-hold about my neck. With her other hand she smacked my cheek - hard. Twice. The stars took my sight. "YOU...! YOU...! YOU...!" So she shouted, her arms flailing, hitting and shoving me - hard. I tumbled and rolled head over heels down the stairs. Panic overwhelmed me before I reached the bottom. I was hurt, terrified, too afraid to cry. Then, in the blink of an eye, Mom rushed and opened her arms to embrace me - hard. She flashed that crooked jungle-cat smile. She nuzzled and stroked and smooched me without end on eyes, lips, ears, mouth, neck, chest, belly, legs. I was sought after...; ...I was desired. + + + + + Letter #3: Chapter II Goats On Fire Might I be raised to the delicious height of being lusted for...- ...her chosen elect? `THE ONE'! Without a word I succumbed and scrambled into my mother's arms. I climbed her like a tree. I melted between her abundant breasts, loving the gift of bruises and kisses. She rocked backward under my weight, laughing. I became hers in that instant. The love I felt coming from her body into my body that day was a feeling I could never get from anyone else. She made my body feel so happy having her arms around me. Having her body so tight against mine. Hearing her say she loved me. Love you too, Mom! Our mother was beautiful, with the long black hair and rich bronze skin of our Newfoundland Native ancestors. Penny was like her that way. I and my dad were both as pale as the belly of a Nordic plaice fish -- an artless, freckly fish in my case, and a striking, golden blonde fish in his. Our mother hankered after some combusting, disruptive power which `bodily passion' might unleash. Hence Mom was attracted to the fair yet fiery slip-of-a-youth sort of boy, such as I was to become as an over-enthused, eager teener lad. Then again, I was but one among many. She gave the `glad eye' and never said `no' to any hot and itchy adolescent boy of the `quick-sex' sort. The ancient old aunts of our Cainan Community cackled that our mom was a `praedo-cunabula', given that she liked to do it with the very youngest of men. I believe in truth that she loved them all. "I like the handsome young lads, the ones with good body and bad minds. They'll say to me, `What are you doing tonight?' And I answer, `I could be free.' Being with them is like licking white chocolate.... Yumm! They always ask for more. Ah, all the boys I met and never saw again.... Those young, firm bodies entwined over warm nights and loosed in the early morning. Yes, eyes that caught mine and were lost as soon as the pleasure came." Our dad was used to the attention that I and other boys paid to our alluring Mom. He was rather unperturbed by it, on the contrary, even amused. "Our Magdalena Rose has searchlight eyes that always roam here and there," Dad laughed. "Her entire appearance suggests some symbology out of the old Dionysic times -- honey in sunlight and bursting grapes; the writhen bleeding of the crushed fecundated vine beneath the hard rapacious trampling goat-hoof." Dad snickered: ..."She is a tigress who sports with her own cubs, tests 'em out for endurance, then eats 'em up: ..." `Recall the bonny young lad from Niger, -His broad smile as he rides the she-tiger; -They come back from the ride -With the poor lad inside, -And the smile on the lips of the she-tiger.' " "Her sexuality isn't coy or cute," Dad said. "She isn't saucy -- she is feral. Her very presence on earth stirs me. So what if she has a fancy for young high school boys? Let her take `em. `Tis her nature which drives her into the arms of the beardless youth. As Napoleon said: `What is infidelity anyway? Only a brief transaction on a couch'." Dad never treated Mom as a `wife'. Rather, he wooed her over and over again as a precious young love, with flowers, presents, ever new pleasures. Immense Cousin Max laughed about our Mom and Dad: ..."Your oversexed parents are `Goats on Fire'! They regard turbulent, embattled passion, however selfish and performative, as the ultimate form of `love'. By their set of values, simply `to be discrete' is the equivalent of `a personal morality'! They can resist everything..., ..."except temptation!" + + + + + Letter #3: Chapter III Squeak-Squeak-Squeak On her typical bad days..., ...our beautiful and sour Mom was cranky and short with us. She got the meals on the table, but it was as though she was not there. Yet her few good days were like lightning strikes. They were bright, garish and hot, with lots of hugging and kissing and giggling. On those mornings she and our dad might be found in their bedroom. I knew to explore Mom's Victorian lowboy dressing table with its mirror and stool. I was fascinated by the jars and bottles and the alien female smell of perfume, rose-water and rose-petal bath powder. Amidst the black mascara and blood-red lipstick was the diminishing jar of ever-erotic petrolatum goo. Just sniffing it was enough to make me shaky and stiff. And there on the vanity table were the adorable little statues and miniatures which Mom fondled and caressed and talked to. The alabaster figurine of the ancient twins: sister Isis and brother Osiris. The myth went that they incested in utero and became mother and father of child Horus at birth. The ceramic Sieglinde and Siegmund -- sister and brother lovers and begetters of a child of the wolf. The jade mother and son, Jocasta and Oedipus, with their daughter Antigone. The wooden sculpture of Tamar together with Absalom and Amon, her sibling paramours, who ended in death. And the little quartz and onyx carvings of the cannibal black-widow spider and flesh-eating praying-mantis. Those mothers who mangled, murdered, and munched their beloved male partners after mating. Caveat emptor! Decked about the walls of my parent's bedchamber were a dozen or more pictures and photos and calendar prints that were overtly sexual. Favorites of my mother, I was to learn that they all were variations on one theme of Classic Greek Myth. This being the deflowering of earthly young daughter Danaƫ as she received the Golden Rain within - the Shower of White Gold, generative, seminal-milt loosed and expelled from the celestial, heavenly loins of All-Father Zeus. The photographs and imprints on this theme were of works by Chantron, Corregio, Rembrandt, Tintoretto, Comerre and Titian, among others, including a very large, beat-up poster by Gustav Klimt. There, even in her sleep, princess Danaƫ appeared to be in flux with the ecstatic passion of sex. To her had come Father Zeus in a golden rain. She was set adrift by the Cloud-Gatherer into the protecting sphere of her own voluptuous transport. Removed from all worldly concern, she had been enraptured in that celestial shower of the First-Mover's sublime-sown spermatic seed. She lay curled in climactic carnal contentment, somewhat wrapped in a flowing, diaphanous veil as of a peacock's iridescent tailfeathers. Her auburn hair fell in luxurious tresses across her face. Her arousing bare thigh stressed the overt lusting of the piece. Some years later I was to be drawn in to a reluctant reenactment of this erotic fantasy with my own mother. [Letter #34, #35 ] I was about ten when I eavesdropped outside Mom and Dad's bedroom door. I listened for the much-anticipated squeak-squeak-squeak of the bed frame. I peeked through a door crack, since they would not let me be with them anymore. I remember their bed, a big wide bed that sagged in the middle. When they were together like that, giggling and grunting, anointed with lubricant, the rusty, spiral bed-springs counted the beats -- squeak-squeak-squeak. It pleased Mom that our dad was so much younger -- a dozen years younger. This woman found she was wedded to a man whom she loved sometimes, and therefore she saught him sometimes. Squeak-squeak-squeak. Squeak-squeak-squeak. And she called out, "Yes Jesse! Yes, my good boy. Oh, yes. Please, please. Deep, deep, right up into me. Oh, Great Mother." I remember my mom's laugh as she said these words to Dad, "Well, you're `in'. So you'd better 'do' me. Slow and steady wins the race....!" I watched, or did I imagine, as he stabbed at her, driving deep, repeating, iron-hard and demanding. She sought the piercing pleasure of his urgency, opening her legs wider, pushing her night clothes away and wrapping her limbs about him. His rough thrusts pushed her into the mattress. But she rose to meet every one. She clung to him at the hip, grinding her own need to match his. Her fingers clawed at his sculpted buttocks, gripping him into her, pushing herself against him, devouring him. I listened for that sudden wet squish~squish~squish when our boyish blond Dad wailed and moaned and called out Mom's name, "...Magdalena. Magdalena. Ah..., Magdalena-Rose...." Then I knew Dad was finished..., ...and I could take his place. + + + + + Letter #3: Chapter IV Wild Rose Bush On those bright days after he left..., ...my Mom welcomed me into her bed. It was still warm and a bit damp from our well-knit father's being there. I smelled each of their agile bodies on the bedclothes, her rosewater and his fresh sweat. And that newer, musty-sticky, ripening smell that made me feel something I did not understand. Then she swept her silken, shimmery bathrobe of many colors about the two of us. We flashed every shade in the morning sun -- aquamarine, tea-green and indigo. Like the opalescent, jewel-toned ocellus `eyes' of a peacock's tail. We kissed, and there was the crooked tiger-smile of my mother's. There -- right there - in the twist of her left upper lip. Something there which curved or twined like the tail of a wise, slippery, gliding serpent. It was mysterious. It was not to be found in pure angels, nor in mere devils - well, maybe in some devils. Over time I came to understand that the facial expression was not evil. Rather it arose from `knowledge'. Knowledge of Good and Evil. As if her smile had been poisoned, or rather flavored, by tasting the Forbidden Fruit of a once-upon-a-time Eden. I gazed at that paradisal expression on her soft, full, rosy lips. I felt the cramp-like twitching in my groin. Indeed, the convulsive yearning. To kiss those lips; to suck the honey of her breath. That was the affinity between my mother and me. And so she offered. And so I took. I took. I kissed her often. We laughed as I shared Mom's lazy toast and tea in bed which Dad brought in. He was annoyed to find this slight, red-headed lad cavorting with her where moments before he had been. "Great Mother, Magdalena. Can't you cover yourself up when you're around Jacob? You're nearly naked." "Oh, Jessie honey," said Mom, sipping tea from the faded floral cup with a wild rose pattern. "Jacob is just about to help me get dressed." When Dad left, I leaned forward to put my puny, freckled arms around her neck. She was warm and full under the covers. She drew me close to her. Her hand worked around my back as if to cling to me. I thrust my nose against her to smell her rosy bath powder. As we lay there, I dreamed dreams for her. Mom held my face in her hands as though seeing someone else there. Her long-lost boyish brother Josiah, perhaps? She pushed my crazy scarlet curls back from my ears and kissed me. "Mom?" "Yes, baby?" "Can I have another hug?" "My little strong man!" She would spread her legs wide and have me rub lotion on her skin there and massage her feet. I often helped my mother get her clothing on. "It feels nice to have a young man dress me. And undress me." I loved the bodily show of my mother. I craved the flesh appearing through gaps in her apparel. The outline of her ample body as seen against her dressing gown. In those years my Mom treated me like a young admirer. She bent over me with her bosoms hanging within her negligee, patting my cheeks. Even today I picture my Mom like I did when I was just growing up. To me she was a woman larger than other women -- vast, abundant. Her maternal curves spilled out of her loose peignoir. If she was not plump to excess, then she was very well padded. I dumped over her clothes hamper so I could swim in her soiled under things. I writhed naked among them, feeling the wrinkled cloth and smelling her deep, forbidden scents. I sprinkled myself with her rose water and clouds of her rose-petal bath powder. I dressed-up in her under things and she laughed. When Mom laughed it was like the sky lighting up with fireworks. She did not often laugh, nor did she often touch me. Except for her bright times. For then she hugged me and pulled me close, rubbing her hands up and down my narrow back. "Mmm..., you're smooth, so smooth Jacob," she murmured in my ear. She might sing our special nursery rhyme for hugging, kissing and rubbing: "Here we go round the wild-rose bush, wild-rose bush, wild-rose bush; -Here we go round the wild-rose bush...; ..."-So early in the morning." + + + + + Letter #3: Chapter V Photos In the family photographs..., ...our dad Jesse was seen as being a fine-looking young man. Engaging and likeable, he was fair-haired, athletic and vigorous. Strong-boned from our Nordic ancestors, with the long muscles of a sportsman. In those nascent years, Dad worked days currying stallions and mares and shoveling manure at a horse farm. At night our father `played parson'. He sat in the Parsonage parlor with the parquet floor and the red stained-glass windows. He had shelves and shelves of religious works. Hidden behind these were the more or less genteel books of erotica. As well as what were called illustrated `Works of Flagellation' or `Birch Discipline'. Most of these were later confiscated by the constabulary during a raid. "A dirty book is rarely dusty," Dad giggled. Our father supplied a lack of virtue with an overwhelming piety. As he acted the role of part-time pastor, he penned rousing pontifical homilies about fornication and aberrant biblical concupiscence. He wrote of blood-wolves, murderers and malefactors, incest and interbreeding, spirits and specters, adulterate vermin, Gadarene swine, weeds of Satan and minions of Azazel and Buzrael, of Beelzebub and Belial, generations of vipers and basilisks -- Hell alone would serve for such as these! It was no surprise that these exhortations were much in demand. He sold them as ready sermons for other deacons to preach. Beneath his parson's dignity there was something nebulous, elusive, shameful. He did not have his own congregation. Instead, he wandered in episodic fashion to the local little chapel and to the homes of the faithful. And to the schools to lead the pubescent children's choir practices. There were always flocks of middle and high school boy choristers and girl parishioners patting him and fawning over him; choruses of them. All those youths stared at him, brushed against him, wanted him without shame after choir practice. He was a great lover of those pretty adolescents. "Oh my children," he would sigh, "savor your youthful years, which are the best, clearest, most wonderful years of your life." Our dad was forever snapping away with a Kodak Brownie, or some other camera. The Parsonage basement was illumined by a red-filtered lantern. The place was redolent with rank, nose-pinching trays of photographic chemicals -- developers, stop baths and fixers. Rolls of negatives were strung on clotheslines, along with drying prints. Pictures, photos, snapshots, images and portraits were arrayed about the room. Most extolled the striking beauty of one or more adorable adolescents. They were at play or exercise in a minimum of clothing -- if any. All were posed -- hands-on - by our father. Close-ups of youthful bums and buttocks and chests and breasts and genitalia proliferated. Fall photos displayed almost un-clad teener lads and lasses sparking among the imagined reds and yellows of fallen leaves. Winter portraits revealed ripening youths sporting half unclothed, `wild and woolly', on snow banks and iced ponds. Spring images showed juveniles and sweet-sixteens lolling near-nude amidst daffodils and tulips. Summer snapshots exposed fresh and athletic naked youths skinny-dipping and diving and disappearing into the underbrush. There was even one of young me. I was stripped and made manifest, standing high on the rock about to jump into the old salmon hole, the deep-pool swimming spot down from Old Aunt Elsa's farm. [Letters #13, 18 ] And for Dad, what remained behind were those ever-arousing images. Rare was the photo that would not be condemned by any Decency League. Hence our dad Jesse's tragic flaw was perversion, although one of `pedophilia' rather than `pederasty'. He described his play with juveniles as "a holy experience, a baptismal event, a sacred adventure." Our father might pick out a teener pubescent youth who was frightened from reading his horrific homilies, as I was. Dad would crawl under a blanket with the lad, saying that he wanted to comfort him. Dad stayed long beside his chosen ones. Admiring them and rubbing them all over. And down their fronts and their behinds. Not that our dad ever needed a blanket to hide under to fondle an adolescent. He had alluring and blinding power; magic in his hands and lips. I can attest that Dad's particular compulsion did not involve sodomy or any penetration. It was the touching of the genitals, such as burgeoning boys and girls engage in with each other as sex play. His was a form of an uncontrollable addiction. Yet our dad always tried to dismiss these happenings as `Incidents'. Things that just `Happened' to him without any will of his own. Or, as any insurance salesman might say..., ...mere `Acts of God'. + + + + + Letter #3: Chapter VI Dad's Game Mom went away..., ...with little Penelope to the Cainan Native motherland by Red Lake in Newfoundland for the year that our parents separated. Hence it was just Dad and me at the decaying Parsonage in Shallow Lake. Being with our dad was a favorite of mine, always thrilling and even scary. One summer, there was a galvanized tin watering tub in the overgrown backyard where we washed up in the warm sun. Dad called it `Our Game'. We did not have any clothes on of course. He was so tall and trim and smelled of horses. Dad was maybe twenty-three then. Not much more than a kid himself. But he was an enormous grownup to me. He was strong, and he had hair on his legs and arms. It was fine blond hair that you could see more when he was tanned and the hair was almost white. I remember when I was ten, or so. I stood in the tub in the water warmed by the sun, with lots of soap suds. I hugged his sturdy legs and arms and he lifted me up. He pressed his lips against mine, kissing me as if he were parched with thirst. "Little one, stand in the warm water with me. Look - here are the suds all over the smooth of your thigh and back and belly." His soapy hand felt over and around the curves of my body. Scrubbing and washing and tickling about my bum with my itty stiffy cob curving up and getting hard. Daddy pulled back the tip-skin to wash it. I laughed and jumped, flinging my arms around, then squatting all naked until he lifted me up. "Hmm..., my little man," he chuckled, lapping his tongue upon my chest and belly. "Your body's not there yet, but surely going that way." He washed my back and hair and rubbed my neck and shoulders and on down. He pulled me against him all wet and slippery until it was hard to breathe. I loved it when he threw me up in the air to catch me, all so soapy on top of him. To slide down his front, sort of rubbing me against him. It was like sliding on our wooden clothes pole in the side yard. I would wrap my legs around the ash-wood rod and slick up and down. It felt good and made me want to pee. "Do thatt. Do that to me, Daddy." And Daddy pulled me full weight against him, my back to his front, crushing me against him. That first nudge of `it' terrified me. I gasped, then all of me let go, to allow him, or to not deny him. `It' came again, certain, hard, slick and sliding over mmy back, between my thighs and rubbing below my bottom. I moved with the rubbing. We were rubbing together. His lips pressed the back of my neck. His hands worked my shoulders, clutching me tight and close, my back and bum against his hard belly. Then from his guttural cry I knew it was over. Down between my legs his white stuff clung to the head of his cock. The foreskin covering his knob got frothy. Charged and craving, Daddy was stunned. " 'Daddy-milk' ," my father called it. "My creamy 'love-juice'. It shows I love you, Jacob." He touched it and held his drippy fingertip to his lips. I tasted a bit, too. Daddy said, "Like sweet, sour cream." And it was -- it tasted that way and felt that way -- like bitter-sweet sour cream. I turned about to face him. My hands and arms and legs sought him. Daddy lifted me high, his limbs so tight around my hips. He held me up in the air and his mouth surrounded my twiggy-cob down below there. Such a wet warmth, a 'delicious' ravenous sucking. It was stronger, more violent than ever. I grit my teeth to not cry out, and then fell back with dry release. I buried my head in his arms. My knees drew up as the last tingling ripples of our frolic faded. By the time we rinsed off, Dad had a hush-up talk with me. About how we `Big Boys' must keep our secrets, just the two of us. It was years before I understood that our Dad was the most desperate of closeted, jackleg deviants. He forever argued for the decriminalization of physical love between teeners and adults. He was obsessed with his titillating fantasies of secret play with pubescent boys and girls. And as obsessed with phobic fears of public disgrace. For him, the undeniable anatomical evidence of an older man's active or passive Uranian pederasty was being 'nib-cocked', that is having `a very thin, dog-like penis', and also `a funnel-shaped anus'. He believed he demonstrated both of those traits. He feared that others could not help but notice - thereby giving him away. When Dad heard a newsboy in the street yelling `Extra Extra Read All About It' he shuddered with horror, imagining himself to have been recognized and denounced in the evening edition. He lived with his terror right in his mouth, naked to every stranger's glance, he thought. We never knew if Dad kept getting sent off to the Hamilton Inebriate Insane-Asylum because he was crazy, or he drank too much, or he had gotten caught..., ...or he was just scared. + + + + + Letter #3: Chapter VII Do's and Don't's Our Dad Jesse had been quite young..., ...perhaps fourteen or so, when my little sister Penelope was born. `Penny-pea' was our father's name for her. The birth in the Parsonage was attended by Old Aunt Elsa who had come up from the farm at Pike Lake Crossroads. I was more than a year older. I imagined remembering the baby's cheesy smell and squirmy legs. The photos show that Penelope had a thick shock of black hair right at birth. Dad joked that this tickled our Mom during the pregnancy and made her laugh. Old Aunt Elsa had me help tie the traditional newborn's bracelet of calamus root around Penny's tiny arm. It lasted until she was almost two months old. Penny suckled at Mom's breasts for years. Even when my sister and I were in middle school Mom might have us climb into bed with her. On those bright days she called: ..."Come Jacob. Come Penelope. Let's have a threesome". I was nearly eleven and snuggled up close, tucking in naked behind little Penny, then not yet ten. Mom must have been a curvy thirty-six years old. Penny and I cuddled together. With my sister's back against my chest, like two spoons nested together, her bare bottom rubbing against my hips. I noticed Mom's breasts being large with dark areas in the center. I ran my fingers around the outer edges. I watched them swell and puff out. I sensed that Mom was getting stirred up. Every time I touched her, she sighed and pushed her hips against me. "Slow, soft touches, Jacob baby," she whispered to me. "It feels good, sweetie, to be close to someone this way." It was a bad time for my sister and me when our parents broke up. They separated and lived apart, for over a year in fact. Mom left with Penny to go back to the ancestral family grounds by high Red Lake in Newfoundland. That was where our Cainan forebears - our Norse and Native ancestors - lived for eons digging gold, it was said. My sister and I did not see each other during that period. I was alone and played alone on the tire swing. Alone, I closed my eyes and fantasized that by magic Penny would see me there, eyes still closed. The imagined-she would walk out there to the tire swing, saying nothing. And she would give me a light kiss. I waited, but this never happened. At last, our little family came back together in the Shallow Lake Parsonage. Our being apart meant that Penny and I did not have time to develop that usual icky response between sisters and brothers where familiarity breeds contempt. So, it was love at first sight for us. It was then that I began to realize that she was not like a boy, but was a girl. Yet she was not the same as ordinary girls. Instead, she spoke to frogs. And was the first to swim across the swimming hole. And could climb trees and move from limb to limb like a squirrel. Penny looked out for me as if she were the oldest. She spoke up for me when I got into trouble. Which was a lot. Every time Mom went to look for Penny, she always found me. And when she went to look for me, she always found Penny. We could not stay away from each other. Both of us tumbled down together in the autumn leaves, and crawled into one another's beds for sleep. There was a casual acceptance of nudity and pleasurable physical functions in our family household. To be hugged, fondled and kissed was second nature to us all. My sister and I always took baths together, until the day Mom said I was getting `too big'. The real challenges came at puberty, when sudden societal strictures introduced us to certain `Don't's!' and `No-No's!' and 'Never-Nevers!' that were off-limits..., ...and out-of-bounds. + + + + + Letter #3: Chapter VIII Burbling One summer..., ...Dad got committed to the Hamilton Inebriate Asylum. And then the local kids took up tthe taunt: "Your dad's a looney. Looney! Looney! Looney!" Mom used to train down and call on him during visiting hours. I was ten or more and my sister was a year younger. She and I played in the tall grass of the side yard at the Parsonage. The rainwater in the big tin washtub there had been warmed by the sun. We stripped and splashed in it. Afterwards Penny scampered about in nothing but her undies. Of course, I was rushing around barefoot in just my boy underpants and wild red hair. I pranced and leaped about in wild abandon, running wider and narrower circles around Penny and the yard. She twirled and skipped in smaller circles, already a true dancer. Time after time I swung on the ash-wood clothes pole. With my legs wrapped tight around, I slid up and down, excited, all trembling and triumphant too. I kept telling Penny how it tickled me there and made me want to pee. When was she going to try? She did stop running and did shinny up and down the smooth wooden rod like I showed her. When she felt like peeing, she said okay to our `change-the-baby' game. She flopped face-down on the mossy grass, giggling, She held the tip of her tongue between her teeth. I dropped to my knees. I pretended she was a baby and I was changing her diapers. (Which I may have done before she and Mom moved away.) I pulled her undies clean off. I remember looking at her lying all bare on her belly in the grass. Her small bum was but two sweet mounds of rounded flesh. Anyone would have sighed with desire. I did. She smiled when I touched her. Her skin was cool and smooth, soft yet springy, smelling yummy. That made me want to rub against her like on the clothes pole. My contrary red hair tickled her and she flipped over, face-up, flat onto her back. She might welcome huffs-and-puffs and burbles. I blew air from my lips tight against Penny's giggling tummy. We collapsed in laughter as my mouth made the blowing, farting noises on her. "Burble me. Burble me again, Cobby," she squealed. With nothing on, sucking hard on her thumb, Penny watched while I got close. She laughed when I blew a puff of air over her belly. She threw her legs far apart. I pressed my lips on her thigh and gave loud burble after loud burble. In the excitement Penny clung to me. She held my head down tight between her legs. Her mysterious secret girl-crease opened like a flower, revealing a pink smooth space. By soome instinct I pressed my mouth close. Then right against her gaping little `kitty' place - her `pen' as we named it. Fresh and silky, it was warm and moist and textured just inside. It had a somewhat salty smell and a taste of pee and seashore. I puffed and blew. Again, harder. And again, a stronger, longer burble. Penny let out a shriek of joy. The unfamiliar sensations swept her away. My gentle playing with her kitty had brought her to her pleasure, her `surprise' she named it later. We did not know then that we kids could orgasm pretty much from birth, and that it just got stronger and more defined as we progressed in puberty. But that was what we were doing. Then she pushed me away and sat up to squat in the grass. Her pee welled up, it seemed, spraying from her pen out and onto the ground. She looked up at me, so very pleased. My own need-to-pee sense, like what I felt rubbing against the clothes-pole, about overwhelmed me then. I got dizzy as though swimming in gauzy clouds and soaring through thick water. I got my bullet-like penis out of my underpants, my `cob' we named it. I let the pee go in a mighty spouting arc over the grass. Penny was entranced. I was thrilled. And so my sister and I learned a lot about my 'cob' and her 'pen'... ... - our `blessed jewels' as immense Cousin Max came to call them. Yours Truly, JACOB CYGNET SCHWANN END OF PEN-COB LETTER #3