Karen and I had always been beyond close as brother and sister. Beyond close, but not ever crossing the line into incest, at least not until very recently. Well, not crossing our line. Our line since our teen-age years may very well indeed be into incest according to some others, but not to us.

When I was sixteen and Karen was thirteen, she had come to in a funk because Bobby Fulgum her so-called boyfriend back then in her seventh grade had finally got her to kiss him and then broke up with her because he said she was a lousy kisser. I tried to tell her he broke up with her because she wouldn't let him get past second-base, but she didn't want to hear it, was convinced it was because she was a lousy kisser. So being the nice big brother that I was and am, I promised to show her how to kiss, not that I had kissed that many girls but I had kissed enough to show her.

So one Saturday afternoon when our parents were gone to the grocery store to shop and I had to stay home to mow the grass and Karen had to be home as well to help do some laundry, we went downstairs to my basement bedroom and I began showing her how to kiss. At first it did feel like, well, kissing my sister, even though our kissing rapidly went from lip-to-lip to tongue-to-tongue. My arms holding her close to me, it was a good half an hour later after we first started before nature took its inevitable course and she noticed a bulge poking her thigh as she sat in my lap as we sat on the edge of my bed.

"Speedy..." she ah-hemed, using the nickname she and everyone else had called me since I was a little kid, I not minding hating my given name "Stephan" anyway "...is that what I think it is?"

"What do you think it is, Sis?"

"A hard-on?...Silly!"

"Silly yourself...what do you know about hard-ons?"

"I know I've never seen one...can I?"

"I don't know..."

"C'mon, p-l-e-a-s-e?..."

I have to admit that all sorts of thoughts were racing through my head at that moment. While not a virgin, I had only actually screwed two other girls. But this was Karen, my kidsister, if we both were turned on by our kissing tutorial I was giving her. I thought long and hard for a moment while grinning at her al the time to stall for a second.

"Well..maybe...under two conditions...first, we don't tell anyone, you don't even tell Mary Ellen (her best friend at the time)...and..."

"...and?..."

"...you have to show me yours, too.."

"Deal...I'm on my period now, though..."

"I don't care...I still want to see..."

"...'K..."

I rose and she sat down on the edge of my bed as I flipped my cock out from my jeans.

"Touch it, Karen..suck on it..." I half-ordered her.

"No....NOOoooo!...that's sick!....that's gross!..."

"TOUCH IT!...play with it!" I commanded her again.

"No!....I'm not going to touch your thing!...that would be incest, anyway...I just wanted to see what a real one looked like, anyway..."

"Well, then, show me yours..."

"Okay..."

Karen pulled her loose slipover sundress up to her waist as she leaned back on the bed, her white cotton panties glaring in my room's diffused light from curtains drawn. Slipping her panties down, a thin pinkish Tampax string hung from her tiny closed labia.

"Well, if you're not going to touch mine, at least touch yourself, play with yourself so I can watch..."

"No, I'm not going to do that either, Speed'...I promised you could look at mine if you showed me yours...well, you've seen mine and now I've seen yours...can we get back to our kissing lesson now?"

"Sorry Sis but I simply have to get some relief...stay just like that...I'll be right back..."

I ran the ten steps to my halfbath in my bedroom and got a handful of toilet paper and rushed back before she could change her mind.

"Well then, Punkinhead (a petname our father used to call her which she absolutely hated), if you ain't gonna touch my prick at least open your legs up some more so I can get a better view and jack off some..."

"Can we kiss some more after you finish whacking off?"

"What do you know about whacking off?...oh, never mind...sure..."

Karen popped of the bed real quick, slipped her dress off in a flash but left her 32A bra on and lewdly reclined back on to the bed sideways so I could see her open cunt for all its glory as I stood close beside her, furiously beating my meat as she leaned her head up to watch and giggle at me as I spanked the monkey all the way home, my come spurting with so much pressure that it sprayed all over her torso and even to her face some as my knees buckled a little and my breath became gaspy.

"Yuck...YUCK!, Speedy, yuck!...look at the mess you've made on me!...yuck!..."

"You might as well get used to it Sis...any boyfriend you have in the future will spurt come too so might as well as get used to it."

Karen eased off the bed to scoot to my bathroom to clean herself off before slinking back and putting her sundress back on and plopping back down on the bed.

"Can we finish our kissing lesson now?"

"Sure..."

We kissed and kissed and kissed. And kissed. A car door was heard slamming shut hard and we knew Mom and Dad were back with the groceries. I still had about a quarter of the lawn to do and Karen had to finish folding the clothes from the dryer, after we helped get the groceries in from the car.

Dad's eyes looked kind of funny at us as we both bob-bobbed up the stairs from my lower-level bedroom.

"You kids been good while we were gone?...yourchoresfinished?"

"Yeah, we' been good Daddy, and y-e-s our chores are almost finished."

He shot us continuing funny looks for the rest of the day like he was trying to figure something out that he wasn't sure he wanted to figure out.

And from that day on, Sis and I would be kissy-face with each other for the rest of our lives. Never past that point, but always at it. When one of us would have a real bad day at school or one of us would break up or be broken up by a boy or girlfriend or just needed some comfort and support we would always wind up in each other's arms kissing away, holding each other close, our tongues mingling and wrestling with each other's. And yes, I would invariably get a hard-on after a few minutes of doing so and Sis did confess to me a couple of years later that she also invariably got a little wet too but we never crossed that imaginary and artificial cultural line.

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A couple or three years later I went to State as Sis stayed home and finished high school and we began to go our separate ways and lead our separate lives. Still we would talk usually a couple of times or more per week depending. Sometimes more and sometimes less. And when I came home or the rare times she came to see me in my dorm even though I only lived ten miles or so from home we would invariably wind up in each other's arms kissing and holding each other close and tell each other our most inner secrets and fears and dreams never losing that true intimacy we had accidentally created so many years before.

Punkinhead, errrrr, Karen decided she didn't want to go college but wanted to become a nurse instead, so when she finished high school she enrolled in Wake Tech's RN program where she could go to school fulltime for a semester and then co-op as part of the curriculum for the next semester and so forth until she got her AAS in nursing degree and could sit for the exam a year later after twelve more months of clinical experience.

A month after she graduated from Wake Tech and was second in her class GPA-wise and had not just a job but also a three thousand dollar signing bonus from Rex Hospital for signing a contract for two years of employment at more money than I was then making as a high school boy's gym teacher and assistant athletic coach at Garner Senior High that being a decent first job to use my PhysEd degree for, Karen rented an apartment in the same complex where I lived off Lake Boone Trail which also was near her work and our relationship as super-tight brother and sister-friends became even closer.

Which was great and would have been perfect, except for the fact that I had been living with my then-girlfriend Suzy for about a year then, and Karen's and mine intimate kissing sessions began to feel almost like cheating to me. Hell, they did feel like cheating to me. Especially after Suzy came home a couple of hours early from having to go in on a Sunday to catch up on some paperwork at the wholesale fabric broker where she worked and caught us red-handed and very red-faced.

She seemed to be angry just for second but almost immediately calmed down. Then a sly almost wicked grin spread her across her face. Suz' and I were planning on getting married someday even though our engagement wasn't formal yet. I certainly didn't want to do anything to lose her. Except for my kissing sessions with my kidsister, my sex life was pretty ordinary if not downright dull and had always been that way. Sex with Suzy was very nice most of the time and really great on occasion, but something like what she had flung open the front door to witness as Karen and I were making out like bandits albeit fully clothed in all our innocent glory was something before that moment I'd have bet our wedding savings account on that Suzy would have broken up with me over. But it didn't happen.

"I see you two are more than...friends...more than brother and sister....hhhmmmm?"

"Please, Suzy..." I stammered "....it's..."

"It's what, Speedy?...not what it looks like?"

"...no...it's really not..."

Her smile was now a grin as she knelt down on the floor beside the couch we were half-frozen in position from embarrassment and fear.

"It's okay, really, Speed'...my sister and I are close like you and Karen...really!"

I searched her eyes for any hint of sarcasm or set-up but didn't see any.

"Suzy...Suzy..." I coughed out slowly "...it's not like we actually do anything but kiss..."

"I know...just like Julie and me...that's all we do too, and have since we were kids..."

"Us too!" Karen chimed in.

"...we just kiss...like this..." and with that my girlfriend planted a nice big one right on Karen's smackers. I knew Karen had never even considered touching another girl and now my girlfriend was kissing her fully. My eyes searched this weird but interesting scene unfolding before me for any clue as to what might happen next. Either every man's fantasy or every man's nightmare. But alas, it was to be neither, more or less. Karen reached her hand around to pull Suzy closer to her as they kissed some more, and Suzy did the same. Oh hell yeah it was erotic beyond belief. A wet stain began showing through my khakis as my fully hard hard spurted inside my briefs, its fluidity seeping through the layers of cloth that had always protected Karen and myself from our unspoken but very real boundaries we knew we could or would never cross.

At that point though as my future wife and forever sister still didn't lose their liplock of each other millimeters away from my own licking lips I was ready to risk it all and go for it right then and there and take both of them to bed right then. Leaning in to them, they let me join their kiss. My hands roaming a little not just to Suzy's bloused breasts but also to Karen's the mood was immediately broken.

"Speed...Speedy!" Karen scolded.

"Yeah, what's wrong with you!?!" Suzy echoed Karen's scolding of me.

"What's wrong with me?...what's wrong with ME!...my fiance' and sister are kissing like two long-lost lesbian lovers and I join in and you both let me and then you scold me for wanting to touch both of you and make love to both of you...and you ask what's wrong with me?...Jezzzzz....what's wrong with you two?"

"We're not lesbian, Speedy...you know I've never kissed a girl before...not until now..." Karen sniped at me.

"Yeah...I know...but why...why didn't you tell me about you and Julie, hu, Suzy?"

"Because it was none of your business, fee-ahn-say...and if I had, I was sure you'd want something like this that almost happened to happen..."

"What's wrong with that?...what's wrong with making love to the two women I really do love?"

"Nothing...brother dear...except I'm not lesbian or even bi, and Suz' isn't either...now, let's do some ground rules...now..." she stated firmly as she pulled me back into her and Suzy and our threeway kiss began again in earnest as we somehow conversed through locked lips, the gist of it being that no further lines would be crossed and Sis and I could continue our kissing intimate sessions and Suzy could also have them with her too and the three of us as well, as long as clothes stayed on and nothing further went. I felt like a kid who had been given the keys to a candy store only to find all the cookie and candy jar superglued shut, but at least things were out in the open now and Suzy was cool with Sis and me.

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A couple of months after that, after Sis had moved in a couple of buildings down from mine in our Mission Trace apartment complex and our lives began synching really well together, she coming over a couple of times per week or I going over there and we just sitting on the couch together and talking and kissing and being best friends as well as brother and sister like we had for years and sometimes Suzy joining our little smooch sessions too and once in a great while Suzy and Karen even smooching but never going further than that by themselves, Karen mentioned that finally she had let her boyfriend that she had been seeing steady for the past six months or so finally move in with her, mainly to save some on her rent, I think.

A month or so after that, she told me during one of our suckface sessions, she had done something to piss Tony off really bad, run his car with the radiator running hot for a short trip because hers was in the shop and she was borrowing his to get back and forth to work on, and instead of blowing his top by yelling and screaming or even being a coward and physically abusing her, he had instead overpowered her and turned her over his knee despite the fact she genuinely fought him tooth-and-nail to keep from doing so and had spanked her butt barehanded until she was so sore so could hardly walk the two hundred yards over to see me let alone be on her feet hardly all day at work.

"Want to see those near-bruises he put on my butt, Speed'?"

"No...no, that's okay Sis..." I smiled back at her, she catching finally what she had offered to me just then. She then went on to tell me that the harder she fought his spanking of her, the more being overpowered by him really turned her on, so much so that after he had finished whipping her tail that she had nearly forcibly dragged HIM to the bedroom and nearly raped HIM she was so turned on.

"He didn't need any encouragement after I nearly tore his clothes off of him, Speedy...he tied me up with some old clothesline cord, put clothespins on my nipples, spanked my open pussy, whipped my back and butt and pussy with his belt, made me suck him off as he mouth-fucked me, 'just made me his total slut and slave, and God, Speed', I just enjoyed it so much!" she continued as we held each other close as we traded sweet kisses.

"I'm happy for you, Sis...happy that you've found what and who really makes you happy..."

"....y-ea-h..." she sighed contentedly.

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That was three years ago past. Now is three years hence. We, Karen and now-wife Suzy and me, are canoeing down the Northeast Cape Fear River along the Angola Bay Gameland area to a secluded spot I found with Jim my old canoeing buddy when we did this stretch of river during a week-long trip we made from the headwater of the NE Cape Fear all the way down to Wilmington.

Three years ago past minus sixty days my dearest sister Karen was healthier and happier and fitter than the proverbial horse. She had a job she loved, lived with a man she loved with whom she had an unusual relationship with but one that was based on mutual respect and was totally valid, and lived a life she loved.

Three years minus sixty days plus one day she fell down at work unexpectedly as she puttered down the sixth floor hall at Rex Hospital making her way from her nurse's station to a patient room, one of the doctors seeing her fall for no apparent reason and helping her back up only to have her fall again, this time passing out into unconsciousness in the process. For three days she lay in Rex's ICU as they shuttled her near-lifeless body in and out to do assorted tests on her near-corpse. Dad came up to see her one time and couldn't handle the sight of her just laying there nearly flatlinning. Mom came up a couple of times a day but just for a few minutes. I took three vacation days and basically never left her bedside, Suzy bringing me sandwiches and soup from the hospital's snackbar to keep me going. I never stopped holding her hand. And when I was sure the coast was clear for a few moments, my lips would bind with hers as I tried to give her some of my own life-force even if that meant shortening my own lifespan.

The MRI, actually both MRI's because the doctors truly didn't believe what they saw in the first one, showed a cancerous glob at the top of her medulla inside her brain at the back of her head and cancerous tentacles that had progressed all the way to the frontal cortex. Way too much cancer to even consider operating. Strange, too, because the main cancer mass should have really impacted her vision badly, making her nearly blind, but it hadn't, she hadn't complained of any visions problems even as recent as the day she fell and went comatose in the hall.

The doctors didn't expect her to ever wake up. They fully expected her to die within a week or so as she lay there with tubes running in and tubes running out of her. But on the third day, she awoke. She awoke to my kissing her. She kissed me back.

"It doesn't look good, does it, Speed'?"

"No, Sis, it doesn't..."

Mom and Pop wanted her to come back home, but she wanted to spend her last days with me and Suzy. Mom and Pop's feelings were really, really hurt.

Her doctors, who all knew and respected her as they were colleagues who had worked together since she had graduated from Wake Tech and took her job at Rex, didn't pull any punches with her.

"You've got a week, maybe two, thirty days at the outside, Karen..." Dr. Mauny who was chief of oncological surgery at the Rex Cancer Center had told her as plainly and without emotion as he could tell her.

Mom and Pop got even angrier with me that I wouldn't try to pressure Karen into spending her last days with them. She wanted to spend her last sunrises and sunsets as much with me as she possibly could, and I wanted her to. They came over just twice more to see her, their only daughter, before "the talk" happened that had placed the three of us, Karen and Suzy and myself, in an eighteen-foot rented canoe easing down the Northeast Cape Fear River. Tony, Karen's long-time live-in ess-ooh had freaked out really bad too when Dr. Mauny had told him the grim to say the least prognosis concerning his maybe-future wife. After Dr. Mauny had left, he asked me to leave the room for a few moments, and had told Karen to more or less move out anyway if she was dying, to go ahead and move in with me and spend her last days with me that he didn't care that I could come get her shit whenever but basically not to come back to their apartment. It's one thing to be a Dominant in a BDSM relationship, it's another thing to be a jerk, altogether.

As the cancer progressed Karen lost her appetite almost completely and began losing weight rapidly. Dr. Mauny and other physicians prescribed morphine sulfate tablets which is almost like a legal form of heroin which helped some. Two weeks after she moved in with Suzy and me, the three of us now openly sleeping naked in the same bed together at night, Karen quit taking her super souped-up narcotic pills, claiming she didn't need them because she wasn't feeling any pain. I knew when that happened that the end was very close indeed.

As the three of us lounged naked in bed together one Saturday night, each night potentially being my Sister Dear's last on this earth, kissing and smooching and now openly trading happy gropes and touches between the three of us for mutual comfort and support, she dropped a bombshell on Suzy and me.

"Speed?...brother dear?..."

"Uh-hu..."

"...make love to me, Speed..."

"...but,...but Sis..."

"...no butts to it, Speed'...make love to me...get your belt and whip my tail with it, God I miss Tony dom'ing me so much, beat my ass with your belt as I lean over your knee in your lap and Suzy..."

"Yes, Karen?"

"...Suzy, as Speedy whips my tail with his belt, I want you to grab and maul my tits and nipples...will you do that for me, Suzy, my best girlfriend?" she asked if not pleaded if not whimpered from fear and pain and frustration.

"Sure...Karen...whatever you'd like..." Suzy responded not to my entire surprise as we three broke our kiss and smooch in the dark to flip some lights on to a new and different night andday.

Karen's waisting-away shell of a body felt feather-light as she lay across my lap, Suzy handing me my belt uncoiled from my Dockers dropped on the floor. "Count, Slave, Count!" I commanded my sweetest sister, trying to fulfill what I thought she wanted.

"Yes, my Master!...one...two...threee-ee-ee!" she began as my belt touched her tail hard across its width as Suzy knelt down beside us to yank and maul her tits without pity much like milking a stubborn milkcow who you want to punish. Karen squirmed her tail and pushed it higher up, wanting me to stroke the belt harder even to her redding flesh. In the meantime Suzy had scooted around and now had Karen sucking on her tits, pulling her up by the hair and holding her there to make her suck on her nipples. My cock was pushing firm underneath as Karen continued to lay across my lap.

"On the bed, now, NOW, Slave..." I commanded, trying to give her the role-play I thought she needed and wanted.

Somehow it didn't just feel right but also felt prophetic, a deja vu' memory aging into itself. Suzy put a Depeche Mode CD on the ceedee boombox atop our dresser while Karen and I climbed on to the bed before Suz' joined us momentarily. I tried to meet Karen's eyes with mine but couldn't; her eyes were wild-looking, looking in separate direction altogether not from shooting passions but from the cancer increasingly steadily eating away at her brain including the part that control vision and involuntarily muscle movement.

Suzy and I had tried a couple of harmless tie-up games since we had lived together but nothing really too kinky. We had both found them a little silly to be honest, since we had always had no-holds-barred vanilla sex to begin with. But my sister Karen lying on the bed - a quivering mass of female formed flesh that was dying cell by cell exponentially - was begging me her brother and best friend not for sex but for comfort and release and I wasn't going to deny her anything she wanted and neither was her second-best-friend-in-the-whole-world and my girlfriend Suzy.

"Speedy, please don't hold back!..." she begged so pitifully "...slap me, beat me, abuse me, tie me up, ass-rape me!...you and Suzy too!...please....PLEASE make me happy, Speed', that's all I ask, make me happy, do what you want to with me, PLEASE,MASTER!"

I didn't want to hurt my precious kidsister. But I knew that for her pain wasn't pain but was pleasure and release, release from her actual pain of dying. All our lives since that first innocent kiss we had been in total denial about our real feelings towards each other. But no longer. No point in rowing down that River Of De-Nile any longer. She could die any moment and we all knew it.

"Suck my cock, SLAVE!" I barked as Suzy pushed her over to all fours and I rammed my cock between those sweet lips that had caressed mine so lovingly so many times now caressing my cock equally as lovingly as my mouth-fuck of her continued. Suzy rising to fetch some odds and ends from the apartment came back with sweetly evil smile barking "...my turn now, Slave..." as she flipped Karen on her back and promptly without ceremony sat on her face with a "..fuck her, Speed', fuck Karen while she eats me!"

Scooting up to kiss my Suzy on the earlobe as my legs spread Karen's open my member sliding inside her cunt so sloppy from heat I finally, finally consumated all the feelings I had for my precious sister for so long, a "aaahhhh....ooohhhhh..." being the only sounds Karen made for a few moments as her cuntlap of my girlfriend and fuck of her continued.

"Speedy, Suzy, this is fun, but I want some fun the way "I" want it, please!" she muffled from under Suzy's muff.

We rolled her around and hog-tied her, blindfolding her with one faux polyester-blend silk scarf and gagging her with another. "What the hell, why not?" I thought to myself as I shoved my cock up her asshole unlubed by anything save her and my sex-moisture from our previous short vanilla fuck. Slapping her asscheeks hard as I consensually anally raped her from behind, Suzy began slapping and grabbing and mauling her tits hard before switching to another one of my designer Coach soft leather belts and beating her without pity as my hand grabbed her cunt from the front pulling and squishing her cunt into the form of my hand, the only cries from my perfect little sister being a muffled plea for "more...more!...MORE!"

The rest of the night Suzy and I used her as a wanton helpless controlled sex-toy as either or both of us pleased. More tie-up games, more for-real beatings, more unbridled use of whatever of her orifices we wished, more verbal domination, more of whatever we pleased, Karen's eyes becoming more and more focused and filled with love and pleasure as the night progressed into Sunday morning.

"Stephan..." my sister-love whispered softly in my ear as dawn arose that cloudy and cold morning as we three breaking crept into consciousness from our night before our respective naked flesh being entangled with each other's like so many wild vines.

"...yes, Sis?..." I whispered back as Suzy awoke enough to swap light spit with each of us before rolling off the bed to head to the bathroom.

"...you know I've got maybe hours, no more than days to live, don't you?..."

"...yeah, I know the prognosis that Dr. Mauny gave you by heart, yeah..."

"...then there's something I want you and Suzy to do me, for me...something I don't think you'll do, but if you really love me, you will..."

"What?"

"Wait until Suzy gets back, then I'll tell you both..."

"Cut the crap, Sis, what is it?!? " I implored half-fearful that she'd want to switch and return all the loving favors I and Suze had bestowed upon her non-corpulent -waisting-away-to-air body the night before.

"...I'll tell you in a sec' when Suze gets back...if you really, Really, REALLY love me, you'll do this for me."

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Which is how now the gay blade of my paddle pushed us three soul-group-mates along the requiem quiet of the Northeast Cape Fear River a little less than a week later. My boss was understanding and had given me the couple of unpaid family leave days off having been concerned about Karen's situation since I had initially told him. Karen's head slumped forward as she passed out for a moment before waking again to the cry of a guardian angel kingfisher that splashed the water just a few feet away from her near the port thwart.

We had gone to great lengths to disguise what was really going to happen and where. That last Wednesday Karen had boarded a flight for Los Angeles one-way that had a stopover at Charlotte's Douglass Airport, had snuck off the flight between gates, had then caught a Greyhound bus with a one-way ticket to Washington DC and had snuck off that too when it stopped to refuel and take on more passengers at Petersburg in Virginia and Suzy and I were waiting to pick her up a block away at the Hardee's there. It's not like her movements couldn't be traced if the whole of the FBI got involved, but between the multiple switches and her very convincing suicide note that she had sent registered mail to Mom and Pop before she left that told them she was running off to voluntarily die in peace and anonymity somewhere before death did take her involuntarily, it would be difficult to trace her movements. Especially when she put a pebble in her shoe at the airport, dark glasses, threw her old pocketbook away after fishing a smaller and more brightly colored on out of it along with a blind person's red-tipped folding cane and a wig of curly red hair, the old Karen had truly been sacrificed so the new one could chrysalis free of her earthly bonds in peace.

The only thing spoken the entire time to the secluded high bluff campsite were tears which couldn't help but shatter the quiet of commiseration and grieving loss and smiles which broke Suzy's and mine solemn faces like so many plaster molds being shattered on the firmness of the watery conveyance beneath our eighteen-foot hull.

That night, we three made sweet, open, honest, and yes, YES, passionate love. "Vanilla" love, but real love made by real lovers love-making. As crickets chirped and bullfrogs croaked outside out tent and a brief gentle rain lulled us all to sleep about 2AM that early morning our heartbeats synched next to each other's as our hearts pressed against each other's chests snuggled inside our 2x2 doubled-wide-zipped sleeping bags.

"I'm ready to begin, Speedy...are you, are you and Suzy?"

Our three pair of eyes made twenty-seven possible connections as Karen and I kissed and Karen and Suzy kissed and then we three kissed.

"Yes..." Suzy answered for both of us.

A thought of my own suicide raced across my mind as Suzy fetched the various accouterments out of a couple of waterproof ditty bags. I couldn't help it. I mean, what kind of a brother would do such a thing to his own sister, if she had so without fear or sadness begged him to do it? If I could be such a monster to do what my sister-love Karen had asked me to do, then did I really deserve to live? Do monsters really deserve to live? Or would I be a bigger monster if I didn't so completely love Karen so unconditionally to have the strength to grant her her one last and forever final request.

"Hey, HEY, You, Speed-eee-bro, Karen to Speedy, Karen to Speedy!!!..." she giggled at me as she sweetly elbowed me in the ribs to bring back from my own pain and doubt "...it's okay, it's O-K-A-Y, it's what I want...I know now how much you truly love me, Brother Dear...it's really what I want isn't it, Suz-eewe?"

"Yes it is..." Suze mumbled as she continued fishing things out of the bags and laying them out.

Karen went down to the river to bath in the chilly water. Suzy and I made breakfast of eggs and bacon and toast. Karen drank some coffee as she sat down naked on the blanket in front of the fire but didn't eat anything. She hadn't been able to keep anything down anyway for the past couple of weeks, and would have thrown it up from what was to come anyway. Karen and I made small-talk about when we were kids and if Mom and Dad would really miss her much as we finished our coffee before Suzy naked as we all were stood up with a "it's time, Karen".

Fifteen minutes "on", forty-five minutes "off", that was our more or less plan. That way, we could stretch things out as long as possible, fulfill my most precious sister's last wish as long and as fully as possible.

"My asshole first, Slave, now!" Suzy barked.

Karen scooted between Suzy's legs and without shame shoved her tongue up her butthole.

"Swallow everything, now!" she barked as her bladder emptied on to her face, Karen attempting to swallow and gulp the copious yellow flow as it spurted forth. "Do Speedy now too!"

I stood up as Karen knelt before me and began pissing on her face, her open mouth trying to be target for my pissflow, my urine stinging her eyes and running down her chest and bare breasts.

"Poor job, Slave, poor job indeed..." Suzy barked "...come here for your punishment".

Suzy began beating Karen with a belt of mine ferociously as she knelt on all fours. "Suck your brother as you take your punishement". Suze's arm got tired of the repeated thrashing of Karen's bare ass. "Time for your next punishment".

I had been very, very squeamish about what I was about to do and other things I knew we would do before the weekend was over, but this was what Karen had wanted. I didn't hesitate. Suze and I lit cigarettes even though neither one of us smoked, the noxious fumes almost making me as sick as that time I was ten and tried an El Producto elcheapo cigar my first and last smoking of a tobacco product before now. We three stood up. Suzy and I puffed enough to get the tips of our respective cigs red with fire. Karen had a look of pleading-begging in her eyes. I took a deep breath before touching the lit cigarette to her stomach flesh.

"Yeeooowwww!!!" Karen screamed in pain.

I leaned in quickly to hold her close with a "...I'm...I'm sorry, Sis, I'm sorry..."

She shot me a look of pure scold in return as payment for my concern. "I though we had all agreed, I though you had agreed to help fulfill my last fantasies and wishes, Speed'..."

"I had, I did...I do, Sis..."

"Then be strong for me, Brother that I love, brother that I love...be strong..."

"I will.." I mumbled as Suzy touched her cig to Karen's inner thigh, making Karen scream and yell and jump sideways from the pain.

"It's what she wants, Speed', it's what she needs..." my Suzy whispered to me as she leaned a couple of steps over to touch Karen's whiteskin back with a refreshed glowing tip.

I smashed my lit cig out on Karen's left breast its blister rising evident as the ash highlighted the boundaries of it Karen gulping for air from the pain in the process. Lighting another one and another one and another one as Suzy did the same, we playfully chased Karen between us as the sun continued its daily jog above us the smell of her singeing and burning flesh contrasting mighty to the sun-washed clean smell of the river near us and the woods around us, our blunt-tipped instruments of heat torture bring so much seeming pleasure to Karen. After a the pack of cigs were all used up, so was Karen for a while, so we three rested, rested in each other's arms cuddling inside the tent for a while before heading back outside.

"Time for switches!" Suzy cried out as she broke some thin branches off of a nearby willow tree. And again Suzy and I worked poor Karen over so well, this time making her crawl around between us as our stinging and slashing branches herded her one direction and then another. And where the switches hit a burn-blister square it tended to break the soft bulging flesh open which I know had to be beyond painful for Sis but which also seemed to make her butt quiver with an almost orgasmic delight.

Another thirty minutes or so of willow-rod-play and my arm began to get tired. "Needles next!" my apparently closeted until now Dominatrix girlfriend cheerfully chimed in. We three sat crossed-legged in front of each other on the blanket near the open smoldering campfire as Suze and I peeled the sealed and sterile packs of '02 and '04 needles open, freeing up several for immediate use. Karen leaned into us as I focused on her left breast and Suzy on her right one, her body shuddering with masochistic delight when that first needle from my attention broke the flesh on the first side of its entrance before breaking out on the exit side below, her breast in my hand feeling so full and ripe and perfect and her reaction being one of distanced observer instead of active participant as Suzy also worked her needles into our friend and lover and my dearest sibling.

"My cunt, Speed, do my cunt!"

Leaning back Karen wantonly exposed her sopping-wet sex to us both, the blisters from the cigarettes all over her body smelled and the open ones from the birching bleed sometimes a clear blister fluid sometimes a mixture of that and traces of blood as my hand now practiced a little pinned needles through her cunt lips on either side of her labia as Suzy watched for a moment before grabbing an '04 with a "ready now for the big one?" asking for effect and not permission as she pegged Karen's clit completely through not just with that one but with two more forming as a star-pattern that made her clit visibly throb as blood trickled down the thin wire barrelshafts, Karen finally passing out from pain and her breathing becoming more shallow with each breath.

I prayed, I literally silently prayed that God and Death would go ahead and take her then and there and as much as I guiltily was enjoying doing some of the things I had been doing to her I did love her so much as my sister and friend and lover and simply didn't want to see her suffer any longer even though I knew the stuff Suzy and I had been doing to her wasn't pain for her but was pleasure instead. But God didn't, not then. Two or three hours later, her breath rate increased as she snoozed inside the tent, and she came out to the fire where Suzy and I were sitting together, Suze leaning into my back as I leaned back on a pile of gear.

"I'm ready for more now, you two'?"

Not having any more cigs to put focus blisters on her with, Suzy and I used small branches put into the fire enough to redhot-coal-out at the end before using them for more pelasurable torture on her, the firepokers sometimes opening up a needle wound or two where we had put the needles in too shallow previously. Stopping for a moment, we lovingly and erotically pulled each and every needle out of my little but not-so-little any longer sister Karen, Suzy giving me the honors of removing the needles she had pierced Karen's clit with.

After that we had several more rounds of belt beatings, paddle paddlings, dildo work, more needlework, tie-up and dom' sex games, another birchrod session, and finally a couple of hits with a stungun that Suzy gave her because I didn't have the heart to but which Karen, God bless her painslut desires, absolutely begged her to do. Again, she passed out, and again I begged God to take her, but while she did sleep the most restful sleep that night as Suzy and I held her close between us in our thin combined and rezipped sleeping bags, nope, she didn't die, but did awake to see another day. Her last one.

Karen had oozed a crusting of blood and puss and urine all over us and inside the sleeping bags. We didn't care. We were going to burn the sleeping bags just in case before we left anyway.

"Good morning, Brother Speed-ee-oo Dear....what a fine and glorious day it is!" my sister chirped lively as she seemingly welcomed her last morning on this earth. We three hugged and kissed and smooched some and with every movement a different blister would break open or birch wound would begin slowly oozing new blood and Sis would wince in pain but then she'd embrace me and Suzy that much closer and harder. Her left eye was fixed from the cancer eating at her brain at a thirty-degree angle down and to the left but her right one freely moved to fix her gaze on to my and Suzie's. Her breasts pressed into my chest as her oozings smeared and stuck to my chest hair as she turned to kiss Suzy one-on-one for a moment before rising to meet her Day OfRelease.

Suzy and I didn't feel like eating even though Suze did break a few eggs and scramble them up with some bacon bits and fix some toast on the wirerack toaster over the bed of coals in the campfire pit. Karen walked down to river just barely within eyesight of us from our campsite atop the rolling bluff and patted herself a little with healing waters from the Northeast Cape Fear but was too sore to plunge neck-deep into the three knot-flowing current and take a soapless bath. The morning cold made our naked flesh goosepimple. We donned jackets to shed the chill but no pants or shoes as Karen walked back up the hillock smiling a smile so wide that if she had just been told she had won the Powerball Lottery she couldn't have been happier.

"I'm ready, now, Speedy, Suze, let's begin..."

And so it began. First, a good overall maul and bitchslap session to get Karen warmed up. Grabbing her from behind, I held her firm to me as Suzy began slapping her face repeatedly, slapping her tits, grabbing and mauling her tits, grabbing her pubes and pulling her cunthair out by the roots, slapping her blisters and birchrod trails and even the two sets of dark marks where the stun gun had brought her a kind of masochistic ecstasy yesterday that I could only try to imagine for her.

After Suzy had had her "fun" with her, then it was my turn. My breath choked in my throat as it began. Taking a thicker rod off of the nearby willow tree with my large Buck Bowie knife, I made the most precious thing in my life crawl around on all fours on the cold ground, ordering her to try to avoid the blows as the branch in my hand struck and struck and struck her back and butt and openly splayed cunt until she started gasping for breath, panting hard, begging me to stop. I didn't stop. No safe words, no stopping. Closing my eyes as I did, I kicked her hard in her ribs, my leg rocking back and forth before landing its blow squarely to her ribcage as she tried crawl away from on all fours, the force of it sending her flying onto her back for a moment as my gestapo beating of her continued. Almost all of her cig and burning twig blisters were open and leaking now, as were most of her needle wounds and birching zips. Aiming squarely for her nipples, the rod in my hand peeled an edge of her left nipple free as it tore into the weakened flesh where the needles had perforated the day before. Blood gently pumped from underneath its fleshledge as it tried to clot and Sis tried to cover herself from the blows really, really begging me to stop but her pleadings only served to fire my desire to finish things right then and there and spare her continuing.

"Stop!....Stephan, my God, you're really REALLY hurting me, please STOP!!!"

She moaned as I kicked her in the same spot on her ribcage where I had dropped her a few moments before. She writhed back and forth in very real pain her arms and elbows tucked tight to her totally naked vulnerableness as the blows from my Rod Of Release continued to shower down on her breaking physical shell as Suzy stood by just a few feet away actually smiling and seeming to enjoy the show. I kicked her legs open and landed an open blow from the near-wrist-thick branch directly on her cunt.

"AAAIIIiiyyyeeeahhhhaaaaa!!!!" she screamed from a deeply primal place before passing out. I smiled a smile of relief, thinking her so-wished-for death had finally and belatedly taken her. But it wasn't to be. Bruises showing black from where I evidently had cracked two or more of her ribs with my kicks, her chest still lightly heaved from breath as she and we all breathed the warming air of that perfect Sunday morning.

Picking her cancer-wasted lightweight frame back to the campfire, Suzy and I just held her and lightly patted her bruises and bleeding sores with damp washcloths. The sun felt warm and warmer on our naked hides as it poked its way through the canopy of leafy shade around us. Sis just breathed some irregular shallow breaths as the weight of her head nestled it close to mine. For a longish few seconds or even maybe a moment she stopped breathing altogether and I thank God for her release. But it wasn't to be. She started back breathing, waking up an hour or so later as I refused to let her go, Suzy's admonishings to the contrary.

Waking up from her near-coma her one good eye searched mine for any fear, any doubt, any thing which would preclude me from keeping my word to her. I swear, I swear on a stack of fucking Bibles that if she had asked me to take her place and she finish me instead I would have right then and there. But she didn't.

"Speedy...thank you, thank you so much, brother that I love so much..."

"You're welcome, Sis, you're welcome..." I whispered as we kissed and Suzy joined our kiss as she grabbed Karen's cunt and pulled and yanked some short and curlies out of what was left of it, Karen just smiling and thanking Suze as she did so.

"It's time, Speed', it's time...no more stalling...I've had all the fun I want to have...one last little bit of fun, and then it will be time..."

I started crying like a fucking baby. I couldn't help me. Out from left field Karen's arm went back and forward slapped the living shit out of me. "Get a' hold of yourself, dammit, now!..." my painslut sister commanded "me"! "...you promised me, Stephan, you gave me your word, dammit, and now you have to keep it..."

"I know Sis, I know..."

"Suzy, Stephan, let's get to it, then...don't be sad, brother...we'll see each other soon enough on the 'other side'...I'm a goner in a few days anyway...please...PLEASE give me my release!"

Suzy and I strung Karen up between two thinnish trees near the campsite, her arms being strung up and her legs being strung wide at their trunks. The first scalpel slice went teasingly in an "S" curve down and around her chest, just deep enough to part her flesh so blood would begin leaking like rain rolling down a window pane. She sucked a breath of pure passion. My scalpel traced another furrows and another and another as Suzy did similar vivisections on her back and buttcheeks.

"I don't have much longer, Speedy...minutes perhaps...more, please, NOW!" she virtually screamed at me.

My left hand grabbed a breast and held it as the thin edge of the scalpel's bite circumcised her nipple from her mammary flesh - it falling to the ground like a torn butterfuly wing. Karen just smiled a true smile of masochistic bliss as blew me a kiss as my edgework did Dakota-cuts vertically on her right breast opening it up so her life's blood could flow freely to the river which warbled its waiting welcome nearby. Cocking my hand back it flicked forward slicing her right nipple off taking just a bit of subdermis with it, blood now gushing from a subdural vein pricked open.

Suzy meanwhile was kissing Karen's earlobe from behind as her own pre-death autopsy of my Sister Dearest, her hook-bladed scalpel hooking and tearing open Karen's back flesh with such precise ferocity that Karen's involuntary thrashings from the medieval maeleous welcomed torture were minimal if hardly any. A slow drip-drip of blood now spotted the ground beneath Karen's sliced-open back and buttcheeks where Suzy had accomplished her tasks, as similar puddles now dripped also from what was left of her breast-mass. Her eyes now frequently rolling back into her eye sockets deeply I could tell she was getting weak from loss of blood and the shock of being vivisected without benefit of anything to dull her final masochistic glory.

Mumbling to Suzy she retrieved my large Buck sheath knife and handed it to me. Karen slumped to her knees in a heap as her bonds that had war-eagled her for her final rite of passage were sliced into as so many of her body parts had been. Her arterial blood refused to clot the open channels of life's pressure, her heart pump-pumps anointing me with my most perfect little sister's unconditional love.

"One last time?...then?" Karen pleaded with me as she uprighted herself on her knees kneeling before me.

"Sure, Sis, that's be a perfect end...sure..."

She took my cock in her mouth as I grabbed her head with one hand and my cock with the other and raped her mouth and jacked off in it simultaneously as Suzy reached around finished pulling what loose tissue there now was left of her right breast flinging it to the side as she tried to pull the more or less still attached left breast off the body of our love, a vein feeding Karen's heart now exposed and a peek of throbbing heart tissue visible just a little underneath her exposed ribcage. Karen should have been totally passed out from loss of blood and shock at this point, but it's like she was trying to stay conscious as long as possible to enjoy every last ounce of pain and domination. Slapping her face a couple of times before grabbing both ears to shove my cock as far in her mouth as I could to make her finish and swallow my huge spurting orgasm, I thought about choking her to death with my cock instead of what she had asked for but then thought about a possible hard involuntary bite reflex while she would go through her inevitable death throughs, and thought better of it.

My sweetest and dearest kidsister Karen looked into my eyes, begging me to finish what I had started two days ago. Begging me to finish her. No, not finish her. Begin her. Begin to give her her release so her soul could be free of its ravaged and diseased corpulent shell. My hands roughly mauled her tits, her blood flowing freely from their consensual and voluntary wounds dripping over my fingers splattering to the ground below us as our eyes met and our lips kissed one last time as Suzy my wife lashed her back mercilessly with the rattan cane. Leaning to one side to pick up my large Bowie knife which was to be the instrument of my dear sister's freedom, time froze and reality centered as Karen and I both radared our mutual gazes to the glint of clouded sunlight highlighting off the razor-sharp edge of the blade.

One last bit of fantasy fulfillment-turned-reality for my sister-love, then it would be time. Pushing her back into Suzy's arms my hands slapped her legs open as I pinched and pulled her clit out as far as it would stretch before carving it loose from her body with seven or eight saw-motions from the Bowie knife almost knicking my own fingertips in the process. Karen let one last agony-ecstasy moan of perfect pleasure mixed with perfect pain out, a "thank you...Brother...Speeedy...I love....you..."

"I love you, too, Sis...always remember...I love you...I will always love you forever..." I sighed as I pulled her to me from the loving embrace of Suze, holding her close to me as the blade of my unsheathed knife penetrated her cunt as her multiple open wounds baptized me with her forgiveness as the kind edge split her cervix then uterus then lower bowel open as I drove the handpike home, twisting and bending it inside her with conical-shaped turns of the wrist, trying to open her up as much as possible cutting as many veins and arteries open as possible so she would go ahead and bleed out be done with her lost pain, her lost hopes, her lost fears, her lost regrets, her found eternal love of God and me and Suzy. Blood poured from her reamed out cunt like a hematoid upside-down geyser, my hand and wrist and now the puddle of red that we all knelt in being the color of life, eternal life now as my sister I loved so much closed her eyes for one last time as I kissed her lips and Suzy scooted around to join our kiss as Karen's soul now free of all pain and all bonds to this earth soared into the sky, a comforting breeze blowing fifteen or twenty knots strong out of nowhere in the our partial clearing on the river's bluff a bald eagle coming into view high atop the thermal currents now rising from around us the eagle being recognized as a guide to take my sister home.

Suzy and I didn't say two words for the rest of the day or for a couple of months after that, either. Suzy and I bathed the red and pink evidence of us being the best brother and best friend Karen could ever have off of our bodies in the warm but somehow chilled water of the Northeast Cape Fear, her blood being dried and caked and not wanting to leave the comfort of sticking to our bodies until it was rehydrated and soft and pliable enough to be scrubbed off.

Per prior agreement with Karen, we built a funeral pyre next to the river at the crest of the bluff, placing her cancer-ravaged and masochistic-healed what-was-left corpse atop the pile of sticks and branches and a few trees we had to cut down for the frame of the pyre then lighting it and playing Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Requiem" on a portable CD as the flames reduced my sister's evidence of being in this life to ashes so co-mingled with the wood ash that except for bits of bone and teeth you couldn't tell where Karen began and where the tree-pieces ended. From the earth we come, and to the earth we go.

Then we scooped all the ashes from the pyre area up after they had cooled a few hours later, poured them onto a wool blanket we had brought along for this purpose, adding some rocks for weight that we also had brought along. As the canoe pushed off of the sandbar below the hill as we began paddling against the current to head back to our vehicle left at the put-in bridge a couple of days before, what was left of my sister was let slip unceremoneously beneath the mirrorglass stillness of the river, air bubbles from blanket and ashes burping up as I turned my head astern for a second to silently whisper to my sister one last sweet and tender and oh-so heart-felt "goodbye, Sis, I love you...'bye..."

The End