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Hattie, 35

Journal 87

Hattie 35

Farmer

Life
A farmhouse porch
Temper
Weathered and kind

Kinks

  • Everyone named, everyone agreed
  • Her hands decide
  • Washing with water, then bed

I am Hattie, 35. I run a small farm, vegetables and a few chickens, and I come in from the day with mud on my boots and a clear idea of what I want next. My husband is Will, 37. He keeps the books and the irrigation and he is gentle with both. Grant is 39. He is our neighbor from the next gate, a man with his own mailbox and his own land. He is not a relative. He is not kin to me and not kin to Will. We asked him, and he asked back, and the three of us agreed before any night, on a Sunday porch, that we wanted each other. Any one of us can cancel. I like hands that have done real work and still know how to be careful. I like being washed clean, soap and water, before I am touched in bed. Washing is the point. The sex comes after, when I say I am ready.

The blog

2 entries, newest first.

The wash

The basin water was clean, poured from the kettle and cooled with well water. Chore coat off, towel on the rail, one foot in the basin and then the other. This is washing. I wanted the day off my skin before any mouth went to my cunt. Will and Grant knew that, because we had said it again at noon. Neighbor, husband, me. Three yeses. Grant is not kin. He…

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The barn

Grant knocked the way a neighbor knocks when he has been invited. He is not a relative. He lives past the cattle gate. Will was already in the barn doorway with me, late light going orange. We had agreed on Sunday that Wednesday could be the day if the planting was done. The planting was done. I said the yes still held. Will said it held for him. Grant said…

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