This short story is an entry in the 2002 Soc.Sexuality.Spanking Summer Short Story Contest and is copyright by the author and commercial use is prohibited without permission. Personal/private copies are permitted only if complete including the copyright notice. The author would appreciate your comments
Category: Period
Even An Astronaut
By
Mara Maharakshasa <MaraMahaRakshasa@aol.com>
Yuri was morose, and already drunk. We stagger into this small hotel bar. What a dump! What a wasteland for the great
Andropovskii's a final resting place!
It's a town in the Pripet Marshes, one that should have been evacuated and demolished after Chernobyl. But it wasn't.
The great Andropovskii was born here.
Yuri orders vodka, a whole bottle, and turns to me, red- eyed: "What a disgraceful fucking excuse for a service! These goddamn orthodox priests..."
"It's what he asked for..."
"It makes me spit! In the days of the Soviet Union, there would have been a state funeral. In Moscow! Red Square!
Troops, tanks, fly-bys! Not this bullshit in a crappy little town..."
"Well, the Union's gone," I console. "Once we were all heroes. Now, we're just has-beens. Forgotten men. At least we didn't get mangled in Afghanistan."
"I might have preferred that," he growls, pouring two stiff measures.
The bar fills up, as you'd expect at 11 a.m. on a weekday.
Bedraggled farmers, some scowling veterans, a few sharp- looking gangsters, some local whores.
And, after three drinks, Yuri starts declaiming about the great Andropovskii, eyes brimming with tears.
"Listen, people of the former mighty Soviet Union! We buried one of our great heroes today. Died poor and drunk at his old collective farm, forgotten by everyone. The mighty
Andropovskii, astronaut hero!"
There are lots of blank looks, but he's getting a sympathetic hearing.
"Who?" a veteran asks.
"We remember Gagarin," another says.
"And Valentina Tereschkova," a whore giggles.
"Andropovskii was the greatest of them all!" Yuri trumpets. "He was not only the first man to fuck in space, but he did it for the glory of the Space Program, and pioneered zero-gravity sex."
There are nervous laughs, leers, stares of disbelief.
"There was gossip about that space station..." the cadaverous barman offers.
"No, this was long before. On a Soyuz. Barely room to swing a cat, but Andropovskii was the man to do it. He went up with Nina Tupoleva, a beautiful blonde..."
"I wouldn't go that far," I intervene.
"No! She was a beauty! A big Russian girl, not one of these famine victims! And after a few days, the scientists at the Cosmodrome started getting worried. 'Look at their vital signs!
What's going on? Heart problems?' they were saying. And then, someone gets the camera working again. A big bare arse is filling the screen! The spacesuits, gone. And they were fucking! Not just once, but over and over. Every position, every orifice! The whole kamasutra, and some things never done before! And being Russians, they are spanking and biting, doing all kinds of dominance games. You should have seen the bruises on their arses! Oh, the Engineer went crazy!"
"He wanted the KGB to lock them up," I mention.
"But, no! They had to keep it quiet. And Andropovskii gets out of the capsule when it lands, with an erection like a club, and says 'what's this crap about 'bone loss' I keep hearing about?'"
The End
© This story is copyrighted (c) by Mara Maharakshasa, 2002. All rights are reserved by the author. Do not retransmit, store (except for personal use) or publish without permission.
Reviews
Pam <pamiMac(at)aol(dot)com>
A funny story but if you blink you won't realize it should be in the SSS newsgroup. She definately is going for the gusto in this contest. Wonder what the record number of entries is. Anyway, entertaining but missing the spanking.
John <johnb(at)ssec(dot)wisc(dot)edu>
Now this is funny. Also, as is common in this author's work, there's a very deft construction of setting.
Sarah Nada <circler73(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Even An Astronaut has very little to do with spanking. That said, the story has a lot of other interesting elements including dead cosmonauts and zero-gravity sex.
Mary Catherine <marycatherine(at)saintfrancis-sfg(dot)net>
Definite humorous tone in this piece, and a unique setting for a spanking. This got me to thinking of the effects of zero gravity and if it would be feasible, but regardless of that, an interesting concept.