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Argentina

 

 (An Erotic Horror Story)

 by

Bad Robot

(aka Hunsi)

 

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"Is this on?" Dr. Mann, asked as he tapped the mic while scooting his chair beneath his desk.

 

"Sounds good here , Doctor," his assistant replied with a thumps up and a nod.

 

"Thank you, young man.  Now, if you would please close the door behind so Ms. Lane and I can begin our session.

 

"Good Morning, Ms. Lane," he then turned to say.  "How are you feeling this morning?"

 

"Fine, Doctor, thank you."

 

"Well, I'm happy to find you cogent and comfortable this morning," he said with a pleasant anodyne smile as he went about starting the recording and then leaned back into his desk chair.

 

“Dr. Jonathan Mann, Serenity Gardens Sanitarium. Patient, Ms. Jane Lane, day # 62, on this day of our Lord, July 23, 2021.”

 

"Alright, Jane, as we discussed upon the conclusion of yesterdays’ session, the time to reset the clock has once again arrived.  Think of it as our back to the future moment, where I reset the dials and open the dialogue by asking what I need ask all my new patients upon our first meeting, as well as those on the repeat like you.”

 

“Ready to begin?”

 

“Yes, Doctor.”

 

“Okay.  Ms. Jane Lane, question one.  Do you know why you are here?"

 

“Yes, I’m here because you think I’m crazy.”

 

“No Jane, not crazy.  Let’s just say we feel you might be a bit confused.”

 

“Confused?” She heard him say, and then upon its hearing, she responded with a near autogenetic (knee jerk) response that welled up from somewhere deep within her subconscious mind.

 

“Hmm, confused,” she replied, while thoughtfully considering what she saw looking up and around the room to take in the whole of the placid, sterile room in which she resided that purported to be a doctor’s office.”

 

“Well, Dr. Mann, say what you will, but it seems to be somewhat of a disconnect between your wish to warehouse me in this serile white room and then telling me I’m simply confused.”

 

“I’ve already told you, Jane, this is my office nothing more.  So don’t let your flight of fancy get the best of you.”

 

“Oh, so you think I’m imagining things, do you? Well, I’m not. It’s just that when I look around this sterile white room, I can’t help but picture myself sitting upon the floor cutting out paper dolls while listening to looney tunes on a phonograph.”

 

“Okay, Jane, it’s not mine to argue, it is for me to listen.  Is that alright with you?”

 

“Yes, sure,”she shrugged, I don’t mind.  Besides, its alot better than playing with blocks on the floor.”

 

“Yes, well, I guess that’s as good a reason as any,” he said, as he broke out with a rather sedate, placid smile.

 

“Now, if you don’t mind, I think it’s time we get started.”

 

“Alright, where would you have me start, Dr. Mann?”

 

“At the beginning, Jane, that’ll work just find.”

 

“Though I need to remind you that it is my job to distinguish between what is true, and what you imagine to be true.  So if you’re not sure which is which, then stop and we’ll discuss it.”

 

 

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The Telling of the Story . . .

 

I first met Tomas Cabrera on the eve of my daughter’s birthday.

 

“That would be, Amy, correct?” Dr. Mann interrupted seeking clarification."

 

Yes, doctor.  You see, myself along with a group of friends were celebrating the occasion at a local ice cream parlor when Tomas walked in to escape the heat.

 

My friend Margret saw him first, and it was the sound of her breathless sigh and the tug upon my sleeve, that drew me to him, and it was only when I did come around to look his way that I came to understand her sudden paralysis and the loss of her tongue.

 

Quite honestly, he was the most beautful man I'd ever seen.  An honest to goodness Vanity Fair cover boy, and by the way Margret was taking in the sight of him, I knew she felt the same.

 

In fact, I remember quite distinctly the moment she found enough of her lost tongue to whisper in my ear, counting his praises.  Everything from his looks, the cut of his jib, to his ultra-cool suave demeanor.  The kind that only comes packaged in the Spanish Mediterranean model, somewhere near the golden sands of Marbella, a true bon vivant, or so she presumed.

 

“Yes, well, now I can see how you fell into his orbit,” the good Dr. Mann, said while writing down his observations on the tablet he had placed upon his lap.

 

Oh, yes, doctor, that is so true.  You know, I can honestly say that I never believed in love at first sight.  Not ever!  Not even with Danny-the-shit head, Amy's father, a guy who hadn’t the time to love anyone other than himself.

 

But this was not just some ordinary being who’d just walked into my life.  This was a bow-to-praiseworthy being, and as a consequence, all that disbelief about love at first sight just flew away like a leaf in the wind, and riding along with it, all sense of myself when Tomas Cabrera caught me looking at him.

 

Of course I wish I could tell you I wasn’t entirely ‘swallowed up’ by him at that moment, but when he strolled over and introduced himself to me with a, “¿Cómo se encuentra?” (Good day, Miss), I know then that I’d never see the outside of that beautiful latin whale’s belly ever again.

 

“Mm-hmm,”Dr. Mann mumbled, with his eyes fixed to his notepad while he continued to write.  “It sounds as though you found yourself quite taken by him.”

 

Oh yes, doctor, you are so right.

 

Anyway, we spent the better part of the evening talking about everything and nothing while one-by-one my friends departed while we talked and looked starry-eyed at one another, while Amy, my birthday girl, squirmed about upon my lap, her excitement no less than my own.

 

From there on, my once steady, routine life became a world wind. Dinner out and babysetters most every night under candlelight, my hand in his.

 

It was during one of those romantic evening that I came to feel that I could nolonger live without this man in my live, and shoving aside my fears of rejection, I told him so, and return he said the same to me.

 

Then one night, he said that he need return home and asked if I might consider going with him to Argentina, as he would miss my company terribly.  So I asked him why he needed to leave, and in reply, he told me his father requested that he do.

 

And that's when I first learned about his father and the truth about him.

 

He wasn't European, he was an Argentine, and that he wasn’t the worldly traveler I had assumed him to be, but had in fact lived with his father his whole life long.

 

“And that disturbed you?”  Dr. Mann asked while continuing to write.

 

Well, yes, I did feel a bit torn.  There was the part of me that felt a bit peeveed for his not having told me all this before I'd fallen head over heels for him.

 

But then too, there was the other part of me who fell even farther in love with him for his having enough trust in me to share such personal, private matters with regard to himself as well as his father.  A man who turned out to be a very Dominant figure in Tomas’s life.

 

"Hmm, Interesting!  The doctor said, stopping to look up from his writing.  “Tell me, did he come off sounding as though his father was a controlling figure in his life?

 

Oh yes, most certainly, doctor.  The man was a force of nature you could not avoid.

 

But please, doctor, I do not want to talk about that man.  A man who so terrorized me, so crippled me, that I can't even contain the vomit upon the mere mention of his name.

 

"Of course, I understand, Ms. Lane, but you must know that is why you are here.  To talk about him, to clear the air of him, so you can carry on with your life.”

 

Yes, Dr. Mann, I know, and I promise to try.  But when I faulter I ask only that you do not give up on me.

 

"I won't Jane, I'm in the fight with you."

 

"Now then, let us try this again. I asked you whether you would consider his father, Santino Cabrera, a controlling figure in his son’s life?"

 

Yes, Doctor, as I said, he was always the dominate force in every relationship, in everyone's life he touched.  You must keep in mind who exactly this man was.  He was one hard nosed Argentine, and it made no difference to him with whom he need tangle to come out on top.

 

“But then you must remember that his father, Santino, was but 16 when he left home aboard a Clipper Ship as a mere deck Swab, earning but a paltry quarter-share for a 6 month voyage across the Atlantic.  And that's all he had when that Clipper he rode landed in Argentina.  Penny's!

 

But from those few cents he had in his pocket to start out on his life’s journey, he not only managed to survive, put prospered, selling olives and Jamon (ham) from spain out on the street.  And it was from those meager beginings that he created an empire so vast that by the age of 30, he became one of the most influencal men, both socially and politically, in all of Argentina.

 

For most men you would think that a life accomplished.  But not, Santino!  Oh, no, it wasn't until the ago of 60 that he turned over his ten thouand acre estancia (Ranch) on the pampas to a conservatorship to take up a life of leasure.  Mostly the breeding of white Argentine Cordoba (a pincher like dog) for show, where he won there too.

 

And then there was his sculture.  Something he had been introduced to many years prior by his elderly Uncle Silvino Duarte back in Spain.

 

“He said that his uncle’s name was Duarte, is that correct?” Dr. Mann again intervened, and again made it a point to jot the name down.

 

Yes, Dr. Mann, why do you ask?

 

“No reason, just interest.  It’s important that I keep track of all the characters in this play.  Understand?”

 

Yes doctor, I suppose so.  Well anyway, his Uncle Silvino was an artist, a sculptor of some repute, who still has a life-sized marble statue of a Siren & beast on display at the La Granja de San Ildefonso in Spain.

 

“Huh, well, that is certainly saying something,” the doctor looked up to say.  But I wouldn’t be drawing any conclusion about the substance of his work based solely on that.”

 

“As you know, Jane, there are a great many wonderous pieces of art housed in the many halls of art around the world, but they also house an equal amount of imfamous art, and then there are those pieces that are housed in the halls of the dammed.  Care to venture a guess under which roof Silvino’s and Santino’s artistic creation lie?”

 

 

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And so the Plot Grows . . .

 

That night, in bed, Jane saw herself back at home, her daughter Amy lying beside her, both suffering a restless sleep.

 

Her mind filled with thoughts and impressions, good & bad, concerning the events of the day.

 

In fact, her thoughts and emotions were in such utter turmoil, that the promise of sleep was but a dream.

 

As to the reasons why, you need only consider the hours upon hours she spent listening to Tomas preacher the gospel of Santino, his father, building him up to such holy heights that she lived in fear of saying something wrong, and thusly, putting herself in disfavor with a man that meant so much to Tomas.

 

 

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The Morning after . . .

 

Yes, Dr. Mann, that is true.  There is alot of filth out there running down the millstream that passes for art in the books and magazines that saturate the landscape from hill to dale, but no where more so than in santino’s household, where he left it right out in the open on display for me to see, and especially discomforting, for Amy to see, for her to thumb through, and tickle her fancy while sitting upon his lap perusing through the May edition of 'Lollipop Suckers.'

 

“Hum, seriously?”  Dr. Mann responded, his voice expressing the unease he felt.

 

“Yes doctor, but out of respect to you, I left out far worse.  I mean there were times when her panties where left to linger upon the floor between her knees if you know what I mean.”

 

“Oh my, that is disturbing to hear. I certainly must make a note of that,”he said while jotting it down.  “But please go on, don’t let me distract you.”

 

Well, first off you must know how I feared speaking out else I unknowingly trip over some sort of line of separation between Tomas and myself.”

 

At the time I didn’t know what or where that line might be drawn, but not wanting to rile anyone to fist and arms, I chose instead not to ask questions and leave well enough alone.

 

“Well that is rich of you,” the good doctor muttered without looking up, his eyes pinned to his notepad.

 

What’s that, doctor?” she then asked testily.  “Rich?”

 

“Yes, rich!  I mean, why not offer to paste her lips with bubblegum favored lipstick for him to enjoy too?”

 

No, he preferred licking her face!

 

“Honestly,” he implored, his brows rocketing up?

 

Yes, like a dog licks her newborn pup clean.

 

“And that didn’t upset you either?”

 

Well there is only so much a mother can take before she goes berserk on them.  But with Tomas staring daggers at me, as if to dare me to say something, anything, what would you have me do?  Take one of those daggers to the heart?

 

“Hmm, well, okay I guest, given that you felt a threat, and thusly, hadn’t much of a choice in the matter.”

 

“But I have to say, I feel quite unsettled by all the accommodations I hear you making.  I mean, where does common sense fit in all this?”

 

“Actually, the way you’ve explained to me, it makes you appear more an accomplice then the victim in all this.”

 

Dr. Mann, what is it you would have had me do?  I was 5,000 miles away from home, living the part of a stranger in a strange land, and had I dropped dead on the spot, noone would care wick.

 

“Yes, you’re right, and I apologize.  Though I still feel no less compelled to ask when all this madness finally came to an end.”

 

I wish I could say that day, but unfortunately that wasn’t so.  Although, now, alert to my watching, Santino took it no further.

 

“He stopped playing gynecologist with a pantiless Amy sitting upon his lap?”

 

Well, no, he kept right on sucking on her face, and his fingers were still off the nautical charts floating around somewhere beneath her skirt, but at least he stopped the chortling and the silly howling like a wolf, baying at he moon.

 

 

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Day 64.  The Sessions Go On ….”

 

 

“Good morning, Jane, did you rest well?”

 

Well enough, Doctor, thank you.

 

“Okay, today I’d like you to go over with me in general terms that which composed your daily routine.”

 

Well, of course, there was breakfast and Amy’s bath, and dressup for the day.

 

Argentina as you no doubt know tends to be quite warm in the summer months, especial on the Pampas where it sun bears down unmercifully outside, and unfortionally, no less suffocating inside the house.

 

And then, there were the horses, and the sheep in the barn, and the dogs that roamed freely about the yard where the wild world began.

 

Anyway, to get to my point.  As it was, Santino who made it a practice to take Amy out into the yard to pet the dogs and pat the horses and take her along with him into the barn to feed the sheep.

 

“On his own, you were not invited?”

 

“No, I was to stay in and help Avila the maid clean house.

 

“Did that sit well with you?”  He asked.

 

No Dr. Mann, it didn’t.  There was a reason why I chose to call the yard ‘the wild world’ after all, because it was!

 

I saw it with my own eyes from out the window. Those blasted dogs who roamed about outside wouldn’t stop chasing after her to bury their teeth into her skirt, just to get at what was beneath.

 

Truly, it was truly was a ghastly sight, but worse yet, was the sight of Santino standing aside laughing his ass off.

 

With that, Dr. Mann look up looking appalled, without the words to express the horror he felt, except, maybe . . .

 

“Oh please, tell me you finally put your foot down or up his ass or wherever you need put it, to stop the madness.”

 

Doctor, remember I was the voiceless one in all this, so it didn’t matter what I placed my foot or what I said, so what would you have me do?

 

“It’s not mind to interpose my opinion into my analysis of you,” Dr. Mann said sternly.  But to any regard, at this point in our discussion I’d like to ask how long you allowed all this disgusting, intolerable barnyard business to go on?”

 

Allowed?  Me?  I didn’t allow anything!  I just did what anyone would do while living under the roof of a man who could do as he would regardless without restraint.

 

“Yes, of course,” Dr. Mann then said apologetically.  “I mistakenly spoke from my heart, and not from the mind of the psychiatrist I am.  So allow me to try this again.”

 

“Tell me, Jane, how long did you allow all this barnyard business to go on?”

 

Well, prior to that time it was Tomas who took it upon him to feed and water the animals out in the yard to help out his father.  So, I wouldn’t care to guess.

 

“No, Jane, I meant to say how long it went on during your time there?”

 

Well, that would be around the time Tomas took me aside to tell me that due to his father’s fragile health, it was left for him to travel to Cordoba to manage some family business.

 

“Fragile health?” Dr. Mann cut in, sounding somewhat incredulous.

 

Yes, that’s how I felt as well.  One moment he’s running around playing grab-ass with my pantiless Amy around running around the house, and the next, his acting the hobbled and senile old man who needs help to wipe his ass.

 

But what was I to say, and who was there to listen.  Not Tomas , not Matias the Butler, and certainly not Avila the maid who looked through me, not at me.  So what was the invisible me to do?

 

“I don’t know, you tell me, Jane.”

 

Believe me, I gave that one a lot of thought, day in and day out.  But all that came of it was a stomach tied up in knots. Though luckily for me, not for all that long.

 

As thing turned out, my answer came to me a couple of days later, wearing a pair of Guido Maggi shoes with spats and a velvet dress coat with a pair of Amy’s poke-a-dot panties tucked into his lapel pocket.

 

Santino?”

 

Yes, he came to me to ask if I would be so gracious as to accompany him on an excursion to Buenos Aires for some shopping and dinner at the renowned Don Julio's.

 

Quite frankly, it sounded a lot like he was trying to make amends for treating me as he did.  And if I need be honest, there was a moment when I thought his effort worthy a hardy laugh in his face.  That is until sensing my reluctance; he leaned down and kissed the back of my hand.

 

Por favor, Senora” he then said to me, while I stood there trying to catch my breath.

 

Well, to make a long story short, I took him up on his offer, and as things turned out, he did, indeed, treat me generously and kindly and thoughtfully to a shameless degree.

 

Everything from the ride aboard his 10 seat private jet to the Beaf Bourguignon and the worlds findest wines, no expense was spared.  Nor were the lengths he was willing to go to put on the charm.

 

And that’s when he asked me while enjoying dessert if his son, Tomas, had ever mentioned that he, Santino, had once been an artist of some repute?

 

“Had he?”  The good doctor asked.

 

Yes, of course, he had, and I told him so. And in response to my declaration, he lit up with a smile that added to the glow of the candlelight.

 

Then most modestly, he sought to clarify the historical record so there’d be no mistaking the roll he played; That it his beloved uncle Silvino back in Spain who had the eye of an artist, but as he was under his uncles’ totalage at the time, he felt the achievement his as well.

 

“And a truly a master he was,” he then went to say.  That he could take a block of marble, and transform it into a mythical Nymph of old that looked so real you’d expect to see it breathe.

 

“Truly?”  The good Dr. Mann asked.

 

Yes he told me that I must see it, touch it, become one with her to know that woman in marble was not real.”

 

Well I felt that statement to be a stretch, but I must admit I did yearn to see it, and I told him so, promping a grin, and his reassuring words that he ‘expected’ I would, given that it was matter of great importance to him that I should?

 

That it would be matter analogous to ‘a live lost’ to deny me the opportunity to become one with that siren in marble, the product of such wonderous imagination.  A pièce de résistance. (masterpiece)the likes of which he hoped one day to  emulate with a creation of his own.

 

 

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Day 66:  Dr. Mann Takes the Day to Conference with Dr. Harold Irvin.

 

“Well what do you think, Harold?” Dr. Mann asked his colleague while lighting his pipe.

 

“Have we a patient with a dissociative disorder on our hands, or is it a full blown case of psychosis?"

 

“Thank you, Jonathan for sharing this with me.  Her whole rendition of her story told is one the most fantastical delusional constructs I've ever heard.

 

“Agreed! ” 

 

“Harold, do you know what I’d find if I were to walk in on her right now?  I’d find her talking to the wall, asking whomever or whatever to inform her when Santino and Amy have finish their bath.  And this in face of the fact that neither Amy nor Santino even exist!”

 

 

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“Good Morning, Jane, sleep well?”

 

Yes, doctor.

 

“Alright, as to where we last left off.”

 

“If memory serves, that would place you in Buenos Aires restaurant sharing a meal with Santino.  The two of you talking about his uncle Silvino’s work of art on display at the La Granja de San Ildefonso in Spain, and how you yearned to see it.”

 

Yes, Doctor, and as I remember it, he was all in on the effort to convince me that I simply must see that lifelike incarnation in marble that still captured the imagination of the countless many.

 

Talking on as he was, about its’ beauty, its’ allure, and then to clarify the historical record so there’d be no mistaking the roll he played, he went on to say that it was his beloved uncle Silvino back in Spain who had the eye of an artist, and it was under his totalage that he, santino, had learned the art of sculpture.”

 

It truly was a colorfull narrative, so much so, I could well envision Silvino chiseling away like the true master craftsmen he was; A man who could take a 5 ton block of marble, and transform it into a mythical Nymph of old that looked so real you’d expect to see it breathe.

 

“Yes, Jane, you’ve told me that before, many time before.”

 

I have?

 

“Yes Jane, you have.  Not only that, but your words have a mechanical aspect to them as if spoken in rote.”

 

I do?

 

“Yes, In fact, we’ve had this discussion many times before.”

 

“But you don’t know that, do you, Jane?” He said to her while leaning forward in his chair, watching, listening for a sign, any sign of acknowledgment from her.

 

But like always, none came of it.  That is nothing other than the glassy-eyed stare that now spoke to idled state.

 

“Well, don’t let me distract you, Jane, you were saying . . ?”

 

I was just saying that it was his beloved uncle Silvino back in Spain who had the eye of an artist, and was a master craftsmen bar none.

 

“That’s quite a complement, especially coming from Santino.”  “Yes?”

 

Yes, that’s the reason I didn’t want to disappoint him when he said that I simply must see it, and in my doing so, I would be helping him fulfill a lifelong dream.

 

“I’m sorry, Jane, I don’t quite understand?”

 

Well at first I didn’t either.  So I just let him talk on in hopes he might explain himself.

 

“And what did he say?”

 

That he’d had many years to appaise my uncle’s work, and now sees a way to make that nymph in marble truly come to life.  That modern methods have opened up such an array of new tools that he came to believe that it was not only possible, but actionable.  Though again, to do so, he would require my help?”

 

“What an odd proposition,”.Dr. Mann again intervened.  “Didn’t you find that odd?”

 

Yes, of course, and I let him know it.  I mean look at me.  Do I look a woman who could pick up a hammer & chisel and start hammering away on a 5 ton block of marble?  Me?  A woman who can scarely chip the ice out of the ice tray in the freezer?  No, I don’t think so!

 

“Myself neither, Jane,” he replied, with a smile, pleased to see her humorous, self effacing attempt to rise up from the darkess, even if just for a moment.

 

“Well, that’s a good sign if I ever saw one.”

 

What’s a good sign, doctor?

 

“Your smile.”

 

My Smile?

 

“Yes, as it is you seldom show much of any kind of emotion outside the stone face that you normally wear when speaking to me.”

 

Oh, I see.  Well, please don’t indulge me, Dr. Mann, I might start making a show of it.

 

“Good!  Now, I’d be interested in hearing about what else Santino had to say.”

 

Not all that much.  He just laughed at me and then went to talk about all the new modern day technics that are out there for today’s sculptor to use.  Like cast and mold, a technic that truly adds a measure of true life to their artistry.

 

Of course I knew nothing about all that and told him so.  But I don’t think he even heard me, given that he was so absorbed in talking about himself; about his workshop, and of the new technics he’d been exploring.

 

All of which he seemed so excited about, and was quite quick to say to me that upon our return home from our shopping spree in Buenos Aires, he’d introduced me to his studio where he intended to make his dream come true.

 

It was then that the doctor looked at the clock, then putting his notepad aside, he thought to tell Jane her time was up for the day. But feeling the itch to play a bit on Jane’s story, he took a jab.

 

“Oh my,” he cried out, faining surprize with hand over heart.

 

“What a wonderful tale, Jane.  All the mystery, the intrigue,” he said with mocking tone.  I’ve got to hand it  to you.  Your telling of your story had me standing atop my toes.  Fact is, it was as good as any suspense novel I’ve ever read.  Perhaps we should call it, Janes Night of Intrigue in a Buenos Aires restaurant.”

 

But, as for what’s to happen next, well, we’ll just have to wait for tomorrow to find out.”

 

“Good night, Jane,” the good doctor then said, as he rose up from chair and walked over to the door and called out . . .”

 

“Nurse Ratched! Jane Lane is ready to be returned to her room.”

 

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Day 68;  The Jig Is Up

 

“Good Morning, Jane, I hope you rested well.”

 

“Now, let us see where we left off,” he said while thumping through his notes.  Oh, yes, you were about to tell me how eager Santino was to teach you as his uncle Silvino taught him about adding that ‘sparkle in the eye’ to his creation.  To add life, breathe life into that marble stone, so that when you stand close in, you can actually hear her laughing, or crying or screaming, how ever you see it.”

 

“I guest that might be something along the lines of a mummy rising up from sarcophagus,”he smiled, and chuckled for having pulled out a plum on that one.

 

“Sorry, Jane, couldn’t help myself,” he said with a smile, though given her unmoved, unfazed expression on her face, it came to him that he probably would have fared better had he asked the wall.

 

But that too was just another manifestation of her illness she suffered, as were her delusions of persecution and crazed illusions, like that face in the wall she spoke to.

 

“Well, don’t let me distract you, Jane, you were saying . . ?”

 

I don’t know, doctor, I seemed to have lost my place,”she said staring blanks at the wall.

 

“No problem, Jane.  I asked whether you recall Santino asking you for your help in bringing his lifelong dream come to life, by adding that which only you can.  Your youth, your beauty, that special sparkle in your eye that separates the living from the dead.”

 

Yes, I remember, that’s were we left off.

 

“Okay, good.  It’s good to see centered again, welcome back.”

 

“Now again, when Santino asked you give up so much of yourself to help bring his nymph in stone to life, why didn’t you just say no?  I mean, I find that disturbing, didn’t you?”

 

Yes, well in truth I found everything he said disturbing, but what would you have me do?  Remember, I was the one without a voice, something I’d surrended the moment I set foot in Argentina.

 

“Yes, that has become quite clear to me. So what else had he to say?”

 

Nothing much, that is other than what he had to say to me upon our leaving the restaurant.

 

“And that was . . .?”

 

He told me not to worry, that everything was come up roses and soon ‘our’ efforts will be admired by one and all, forever and a day.

 

 

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“Good morning, Ms. Lane,” Doctor Mann greeted as she was ushered into his office the next morning.  “Well rested are you?”

 

Yes, doctor, thank you.

 

“Well, good.  Now, if you would give me a moment, I’ll get this recording started so we can begin todays session.”

 

“One-two-three,” he said into the mic. “Good, right on the money, Jack,” he said to assistant.

 

“Now then, where were we,” he turned to ask Jane?  Oh yes, you were explaining to me you and you alone who was the voiceless one in all this.”

 

I was doctor.  No one would listen to me.  Not Tomas, not Santino, not his maid nor his butler.  Heck, not even those blasted dogs who roamed about outside wouldn’t stop jumping on me, chasing me, and burying their teeth in my skirt to ah, well, you know,” she said, and reddened as she looked away.

 

“No, Jane I do not.  This is not a quiz game and I am not Alex Trebek

 

I know that, but you are a man.

 

“I am, but I’m not a mind reader.  Furthermore, I’m here to ask the questions and you to answer, not play Miss Prig.”

 

Okay, then I will just say it, blurt it out, and you don’t have blow up like a blowfish.

 

“Thank you, Jane, do tell.”

 

Well, like I said, in the wild land, you’ll not find much in the way of discrimination.  Amy, me, whom ever, we were one and alike. Something in a skirt that instinct and a twitch of the nose told them they need jump on and tug away.

 

“Did they succeed?” he asked, though again with his nose buried in his notebook, totally disinterested in hearing yet another fantastical delusional constructs, a product of her crippled mind.

 

“No, stop, don’t answer,”he then called out.  “It’s mine to listen not provoke.”

 

I wasn’t, it’s not for a woman to say.  But it is mind to say, and for you to understand how voiceless Amy & I were in all this.  And I suspect the same could be said of all women in that South American cowboy land where women were handled and manager like cattle, and the herding dogs they owned treated them noless the same.

 

“Well that’s putting it bluntly. Okay, so I now know what you mean when you say you were voiceless.”

 

“Yes and you also now know why a walk though the yard was like walk through a happy hunting gounds for starving hounds!

 

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After lunch, Doctor Mann took it upon himself to take the conversation off in another direction . . .

 

“Okay Jane, why don’t we begin afternoon’s session with you telling me more about the series of events that followed your spenting spree in Buenos Aires.

 

Alright, doctor.  As I recall we arrived back late.  So immediately I went upstairs to kiss Amy a good night, before turning in myself.

 

When I awoke I found Amy already gone, presumably downstairs eating breakfast alongside Santino.

 

So accordingly I walked down to join her only to find Santino sitting alone enjoying his morning tea.

 

I was about to ask him where she was when he rose up from his seat to return his empty cup to the kitchen, and that’s when I spotted Lusy crawling out from under the table bare naked and wiping her mouth with the back hand presumably to wipe away what looked me like the remnants of her morning porridge.

 

“You scold her, did you?”

 

Yes, doctor, of course.  I told her that was very unlady like to be eating under the table.”

 

“Okay, so what happen next?

 

“Let’s see”she pondered. “I belived that was about the time Santino returned from the kitchen to wipe Amy’s mouth clean with a dish rag, and a quite thorough job he did of it too; taking care to wipe clean her mouth, her lips and the dripping that hung in long pasty white strands down to her chest.

 

It was only then as I approach that he thought to tell me the time has come for me to visit his studio to begin our project.

 

So instead of breakfast I went back upstairs to change while in the background I could here Amy spitting and sputting and bemoaning a ‘yucky’ through a mouthful of rag.

 

“When I returned she was nolonger there, so I asked Santino were she was, to wit, he point out the dinning room window, where Amy was doing all she could do to remain upright amongst the dogs who where doing what they need do to haul her to the ground.

 

“Is that so?” DR. Mann, was quick to asked.

 

Yes, and when I asked him if he was going to go out to help her before something awful happened, he just shrugged me off and told me sit as he need first explain to me what it was he expected of me on my first day in his studio, helping as I could, to bring his dream to life.

 

“Well, that said it clear enough!  Amy was about go down like the Titanic, and all he cared about was bringing that inanimate, cold hard stone to life.”

 

“Now that is gasily,” the doctor chuckled, grinning like a Buffoon.  “Although I do admit, it does make for a good story.

 

“Although I think it’s only fair that I remind you that you have told me this story before.  Only the last time you tended to be abit more frank with me about how Amy fared out in the yard, trying as she might, to keep her bottom covered by something other then those Dogs.”

 

The last time you told me this story?

 

“Yes.  While many Therapists believe it’s best to wait until the patient is suitably prepared to accept the true with regard to what is real and what is not.  But I perfer the little by little approach so the lot isn’t so much to swallow all at once.”

 

I don’t understand, doctor.

 

“No, of course not.  Nor would you believe me, nor would it change a thing, if I were to tell you that we’ve gone over this time and time again!”

 

“But not to worry, Jane.  I feel quite certain that one day you will come to understand why this merry-go-round, goes round and round and you’re never so much the wiser.”

 

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Day 72; The day of Trial

 

“Good morning, Jane”

 

“Today I’d like to concentrate on the day Santino brought to his studio for your first day of work.  To be exact, I’d like you to go over it step by step.”

 

Yes, well as I said.  He led me by hand through the yard, following the trail of skid marks left behind by Amy’s hands & knees.”

 

“The studio, standing abreast the barn, looked rather non-descript, that is until he open the door, and I saw the ultimate horror upon horrors, and I screamed!”

 

“Oh, yes, yes, scream my beauty.  I do love that sound, and it will sound sweeter yet once you’re encased in stone,” he said, with a profoundly wicked glint in his eyes.”

 

“You know, you’re so lucky to be the first.  Once seen and admired by the many, you’ll no doubt serve as an inspiration to one and all.  But there can only be one first; you! The one they will admire. The siren with her beast, cast in stone at the moment of coupling.”

 

Ayeee . . .”, he smirked wryly, “Just think, today, tomorrow, 10,000 years from now, you’ll still have my finest Argentine Cordoba tied to your cunt, but how sweet is that!  And don’t you worry about Amy, she’ll be keeping pace.”

 

Oh doctor, oh doctor, I wish I had the words to describe to you the horror I felt.

 

“There upon the floor lie what Santino called the mold in which I would lie in rest with his chosen beast, while directly above, feet up to the rafters, stood Matias the Butler, alongside the cauldron that contained the casting mold to be poured.”

 

Oh, the horror, the horror.  I felt faint, lost to this world, the whole of that heart gutting scene was tearing me in two.  And then all too the worse, the scene was punctuated further yet by the sight of that Argentine Cordoba with Amy attached behind stolling past!

 

“STOP THAT!  I said stop that, Jane, right now!  He spat out angrily.  I’ve told you before, none of this real, none of this ever happened!  There is no Santino Cabrera or Tomas Cabrera, or Amy, nor anyone else you speak of. All this is but an illusion that your subconscience mind has created to protect you from harm should any of it become known.”

 

“Now, you best get a hold of yourself, or I’m going to call, Dr. Know, to put you back in the toaster, up the amps, and flip the switch!”

 

“Trust me, 10 sec wired up to the electrical grid will have you talks in tongues for a month of Sundays.  Now I’m calling it a day!” he abruptly terminated the session as he press down upon button on the intercom.

 

“Nurse Ratched, Ms. Jane Lane is ready to be taken back to her room.”

 

“Yes, Doctor,”she promptly replied, and then . . .

 

“Oh, yes, before I forget.  Jane has visitors.”

 

“Honestly?  Are they Friends, neighbors?

 

“No, they’re family!”

 

“What?  No way,  that can’t be, nurse Ratched.  Her admin papers say quite cleanly that she has no living extended family still alive.  None, Zero, neither through birth nor married.”

 

“Well, I have no answer for that, doctor,” she replied.  “All I can say is that a Mr. Santino Cabrera, his son Tomas, and his daughter Amy have come to visit.  They’re a bit dusty given that they just arrived from their home in Argentina, but they look quite excited to be here to see Ms. Lamb!”

 

“Sorry Miss Ratched, but you’re wholly mistaken.  Check the records!”

 

“Doctor, I am looking at her records right now, and it reads quite clearly, Jane Lamb, admin date, 8-12-20, case #113.”

 

“No, you nitwit!  The woman who is my patient is Jane Lane, not Jane Lamb!”

 

 Ahhhh . . .”she sighed ruminantly while Doctor Mann waited patiently.  Then after a few minute of paper shuffling, a quivering voice came back on line.

 

“Doctor, I have no idea how this happen.  But apparently you were assigned the wrong Patient!”

 

“Did you hear me, Doctor?” She then repeated, “It appears you’ve been shrinking the head of the wrong Jane!”

 

“Did you get that, Doctor, hu? All I can say is thank goodness you didn’t order that lobotomy afterall,” she said, in a finger wagging, told-you-so voice.

 

“Well to any extend I apologize, for the unfortunate mishap.  Still friends, doctor?” She asked, while on other end of the line she could hear the sound of an anguished groan.  The good doctor, his good name ruined, his life in shatters, no longer had the means to reply, or cry, or anything else other than call to the angels as he fall faint to the floor. . .

 

Justice served???

J

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Das ende

 

by Hunsi

 

 

 

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