The nights I would la awake on the futon. By day I would work. When I came home, the ewes would gather by the fence closest to the driveway. They would stare at me with those huge eyes and low at me enticingly.
With their wool, they had smelled, and looked like animals. Without it they seemed as exotic women, moving about on all fours in my barnyard.
Their skin might be pink, like an Irish wench, a mere 18 year old lass, or dark as a nubians.
It was impossible not to notice the play of muscles beneath the flesh. So familiar was it, and their haunches so like a women’s that it was difficult not to be fooled in the soft autumn twilight. They seemed a band of sirens calling to me.
“Bahhhhh. Bahhh.” They said.
I knew what they really meant, of course.
The worst though was yet to come.
I’d stand by the fence as they gathered, pressing against it and me, seeking to nuzzle me and pull me in with them.
I would feel their soft lips against my pants and shirt, and I’d have to fight the urge to rip off my clothes and joing them, frolic with them, become one with them as man was meant to be. How could it be wrong?
I’d run my hands over their smooth faces, lips, and flanks. What was wrong with petting ewe?
Somehow though I’d find the strength to pull myself a way. As if sensing my resolve the sheep would move reluctanctly away. And, that was the horror.
For, walking away from me, I saw that they had the exact form of a woman. The curve of the flanks, the anatomy of their nether regions left no doubt to the imagination in the se unshorn beauties.
I recalled pictures in a book shown to me by an impure acquaintance. They showed women displaying and defiling themselves in vulgar fashion for the amusement of men.
One such pose would show a woman, naked on all fours from behind, her womanhood explicitly prominent.
I tell you now, on my honor as a gentleman that had you taken a picture of one of these ewes from a similar angle, it would have been indistinguishable from those vile photos as to which was woman and which was not.
This fact presented disturbing possibilities which would trouble my mind, as I skulked up to our house. There my fiancee would greet with a deep hug and a kiss, and I would be reminded of her womanhood. So similar, yet so different in its nature. Or was it?
As we ate the wonderful dinner my fiancee would always have ready for me and she asked me of my day’s events and regaled me with stories of the wedding preparation, I’d find my mind wandering back to the barnyard.
“Ewe?” I heard. My fiancee staring at me inquisitively, a mildly peeved expression on her face. I snapped back to the present.
“What? No nothing. I was just petting them.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Ummm,” I collected myself. “I didn’t hear what you said.”
“I said I’m talking to ewe. Are ewe listening?”
“Oh ho ho.” I said deeply flustered. I felt dizzy. “I thought you said something about sheep, but you said “you,” Y-O-U, not “ewe” EWE. You confused me.”
“Oh. I see.” We ate in silence for a few minutes.
That night I could not sleep. I brought forth my briefcase seeking to lose myself in the day’s labors, but after two hours I had clearly gotten nowhere.
My failings, and trepidation brought me to the cupboard, and I poured several stiff shots of whiskey. Thus fortified, I finally slept.
Every night, earlier and earlier I would seek the surcease of the cupboard and my whiskey glass.
I was in a spiral, a rider on a runaway train to what destination I knew not.