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“We/They/Us”—An Erotic Speculative Fiction Story

By M. Christian
September 25, 2022
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Today and in the future, sometimes it takes another person to help us love ourselves.

“Too much to see—” Seir thought, stepping from the cramped confines of the puddlejumper's airlock and onto Akkadian station's vast demarcation terminal.  

“—too much to do?” the words semitranspently danced in front of Seir's nose. Less telepathy, more a low level though highly perceptive algorithm's talent for reading the neuromuscular language of every fresh-off-the-boat tourist.  

Followed by a brighter flash of holographic typography, likely generated by another skilled program. One with a flair for extremely persuasive advertising.

“Then get Schismed—because two is always better than one!”  

✻

Before laying down on the hover bed and prior to having several trillion monomolecular filaments slid into Seir's cranium, a surprisingly human Schism staffer had launched into an over-enthusiastic explanation of what the process was and how it worked.

Eager to get on with it, all Seir heard was, “Quantum this, quantum that, consciousness this, consciousness that, RapReplika this, RapReplika that.”  

But enough came through for Seir to understand after those strands permeated skull and brain, a high level quantum intelligence would use them to read, record, and replicate Seir’s consciousness in a biologically identical RapReplika body.  

Then, when the pair wanted to become a single, solitary Seir again, the two minds would be merged, leaving the original with both memories.

No sound, no light, no sensation, no nothing: one moment, the zero gravity lift field was a gently oscillating wave under Seir's back; the next, the same over-enthusiastic staffer was drawing back a nearby plastic curtain.

Which was when Seirs reflected on Seirs and, sharing a mutual exchange of awkward, disapproving glances, each simultaneously turned away from the other.

✻

Seirsright, named for heading in that direction, and Seirsleft, for going this way, departed with a matching set of disconcerting, hesitant waves. Each agreeing to return to the clinic—and be reunited—in 18 hours.

Seirsright immediately visited Nixie Street. Relishing in the teasing, tickling, caressing, and stimulating delights of its hyperoxygenated, polywater fluidic environment.  

Splashing and cavorting in its protean embrace, not to mention from the sweetly slick caresses of the equally immersed swimmers, Seirsright's orgasms were brightly shimmering bubbles playfully popping on the street's distant surface. 

Seirsleft jumped at the chance to soar through Nuvola Avenue's synthetic sky. Unfettered from gravity, expectations, doubt, and hesitation, Seirsleft happily let the rented gossamer wings do the flying.

Bodaciously plumed serpents, lusciously winged harpies, leather-clad angels, fur enshrouded cockatrices—or is it cockatrici?—cavorted in and out of the Avenue's musk-scented clouds.  

Without an up, nary a down, and nothing remotely like a sideways, Seirsleft joined endless carnal murmurations. Laughing fully throated and joyfully loud as the flock's feathers flew everywhere.

Seirsright initially perceived Le Veles as formal, elegant, stately. Tables next to chairs, candles in candlesticks, soup spoons in close proximity to fish knives, teacups in appropriate saucers, une entrée before le plat principal.

Initially, as in Seirsright's perception changed. Changed, as a finely tuned set of sensorial projectors turned silver into a playful slap, porcelain into an engorged body part, cloth into a spontaneous orgasm, and the air its patrons breathed into a lover's caress.  
After dining on breasts, thighs, loins, bellies, and tongues. Seirsright, tasted lustful le vol-au-vents, and sipped voluptuous vintages—and, accompanying the last seductive morsel Seirsright boldly, brightly proclaimed, “Compliments au chef!”

✻

Blissful hours, rapturous boulevards, merry shindigs, exhilarating kilometers, cheerful boads, gleeful jamborees, jubilant routes, euphoric festivities, and everything between and beyond, Seirsright caught sight of a new and wholly unfamiliar holographic display.

As Seirsleft saw a different sign advertising exactly the same service.

Fueled by recent experiences and a long-standing urge to be someone, anyone else, a transformative hour later, Seirsright left AlterSelf an entirely new person. 

At the same time, for the same reasons, Seirsleft emerged from RestyleU looking completely different.

✻

Bodies watercolored with sensual radiances, their eyes only briefly skated across each other's. But then, seeing they were both being deeply, truly seen, their gazes firmly locked together.

As they did, Harlequinade Park's resident neural network tweaked its sybaritic light show to highlight their shared arousal.

Which was firmly, inescapably magnetic, invisible lines of reciprocally attractive forces pulling them across the dance floor.

Illuminated by the intelligent system, ablaze with desire, they moved ever closer until there wasn't any distance between their hands, their bodies, and then their lips.

Echoing laughter, they gamboled away from the dazzling crowd and towards the shadowed privacy of the park's topiary garden.  

Nestled between the leafy paws of a massively and splendidly flowering tiger, their kisses ardently wandered. From cheeks to necks, necks to shoulders, shoulders to chests, chests to bellies, on and on, up and down, back and forth until neither could tell where one began, and the other ended.

Their bodies were as comfortably familiar as a threadbare, yet eternally cherished, spacesuit's inner lining and as thrilling as an undiscovered asteroid.

Their minds spun, cartwheeled, and skyrocketed. Each was part of an ouroboros loop of emotional, physical—and the intersection of those and more—pleasures.

They never felt so liberated, so connected, so happy. But with the too-fast, too-soon rise of Akkadian's artificial dawn, they knew it had to end.

After another cascade of kisses, touches, caresses, and especially sweet tears, one went to the right, the other to the left.  

As they did, they looked back; each bidding farewell with an exchange of brightly beaming, deeply grateful smiles.

✻

With a ship-jarring knock, Sier decoupled the puddlejumper from the station.  

Home was free fall loosened muscles, a perpetually recycled atmosphere, the gentle tang of long chain molecules, and the far-from subtle perfume of hydrofluorocarbon industrial lubricants.

Suspended outside the main viewport, Akkadian sedately rotated in the big, black emptiness of planetary space.

Palm flat on the hyper-dense plastic, with the station's glimmering superstructure peeking out between five fingers, Sier promised to return.

Hand removed, but before setting course for Telesto and the mining stake Sier had been working, another thought came.  

One accompanied by the now unobstructed view of Sier's reflection superimposed over the station and the stars beyond. 

A contentedly glowing and serenely twinkling face, because we all deserve to love ourselves.

Editor's note: “We/They/Us” is the first of a new Sex Science Fiction section on Future of Sex. If you're interested in writing an erotic short story for us, please submit your idea for review.

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M. Christian

M.Christian (they/them) loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer they have six novels,12 collections, 100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to their name. Their non-fiction regularly appears in many sites, but they're most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of their erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing [they] can't write about… and brilliantly.”

Reflecting their unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, their stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. Their collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of their stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, their fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Brushes, Painted Doll; and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sex tech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—their ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with their friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, they have lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.

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