An outsider who was a regular on Saturday night asked Pete, “May I try a glass of poteen?”

“Ask Pat, it’s his liquor,” replied Pete, “It’s not for sale.”

“Surely,” replied Pat. Put the price of a whiskey in the kid’s Christmas party collection box. Pour your man a glass, Pete.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00004130
ALL DAY SECOND QUARTERDAY GIMLET AND LEECH
Leech was wearing his distinctive twin-tailed, russet, vaire deep-hat and Gimlet hers of pure white ermine, the black tipped tail fluttering in the breeze behind her.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00004140
AFTERNOON SECOND QUARTERDAY LARK (32) AND SETH (32)
“Let’s go home, Seth. The dance has servt its purpose, and there are more interesting things to do.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00004150
AFTERNOON 2ND QDAY BRUANA (42) AND NOAH (37) KIRSTY (12) SHIRLEY (10)
Shirley was weälgry and desperate for love and care, and she spent a very happy hour cuddled on Noah’s lap before bed time.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00004160
AFTERNOON SECOND QUARTERDAY MINT (22) AND KEVIN (23)
Mint’s unnerving silences meant men didn’t try to have spaech with her a second time.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00004170
AFTERNOON 2ND QDAY FAITH (53) AND OAK (35) LILLY (10) JASON (13) GEM (4)
Master smith, I should like you to consider me. For though I am nearly twenty years your elder I am accountet comely still.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00004180
AFTERNOON SECOND QUARTERDAY ELLEN (80)
When Lilly asked, “May I sit next to you at lunch, Granny?” Ellen burst into tears.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00004050
BRAEKFAST LUNELIGHT (42) AND DOUGLAS (52)
Almost inconsequentially, she added, “I’m taller than most men.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00004060
2ND QDAY FORENOON YVETTE (32) AND WHITEBEAR (32), THRIFT (10) & HAW (4l)
“Your shock due your man leaving you was so great you haven’t even startet griefing for your babe.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00004070
EARLY FORENOON TO LUNCH JUDITH AND STORM
“What’s his name, Dear?” asked Judith, understanding the reason for Iola’s flush immediately.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003600
EVE DINNER DANCE TIMOTHY (41) & AXEL (40) NECTAR (12) WAVERLY (11)
Axel maekt up the bedtime story of The Astonishing Growth of Apprentice Founder Inch and the Shrinking Rule as he went along.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003610
EARLY EVE TO BEDTIME YVETTE (32) AND WHITEBEAR (32)
Whitebear wasn’t wasn’t as poor a dancer as he had led her to believe, he was much worse.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003620
EARLY EVE TO BEDTIME FIREFLY (40) AND FARSIGHT (16)
He was old enough to be affected by her obvious femininity, but not old enough to be able take it in his stride.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003630
AFTER DINNER TO BEDTIME JANET (63) AND BLACKDYKE (57)
“That was…,” she searched for words, but she knew of none more appropriate than, “That was wonderful.”

This Chapter brings us to the end of Day 3. Nextday is Quarterday.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003520
DINNER TO BEDTIME GINA AND JONAS
“I shall have to take care you are never in this situation with any strange women then shan’t I?”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003530
EVE PATRICIA (28) AND CHESTNUT (26)
Patricia blushed, a deep blush that went all the way down over her shoulders, and stuttered, “I’m not on duty. I came to see you.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003540
DINNER THE PASSING OF HAZEL
Her last major act had been to assist the absorption into the Folk of most of the incomers, who would never now have the opportunity to know her.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003550
DINNER DANCE TO MID-EVE JANET (63) AND BLACKDYKE (57)
“You are beautiful. Isn’t she, Dad?” Clover said in awed tones.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003560
DINNER DANCE TO BEDTIME CLARY (40) & BRENDAN (48)
“Yes, I wish to be your wife, so if you agree I am.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003430
AFTERNOON PAMELA (33) AND MULLEIN (53)
The yardstick by which she measured men was her father.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003440
AFTERNOON PATRICIA (28) HEALER AND CHESTNUT (26)
She had always admitted to herself she was the kind of woman who needed a man and children simply because caring for them was what would make her happy.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003450
AFTERNOON PERSONAL & CRAFT PLACEMENTS LAVINIA (14)
She looked to be a tiny little girl for whom puberty wasn’t even on the horizon.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003460
COUNCIL MEETING & A DEAD WOMAN TOO
There were some animals with some goat-like features and some sheep-like ones, but they had longer necks than either, and they were possibly neither.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003470
LATE AFTERNOON CATHERINE (39) AND CRANE (42)
“ I am certainly not doing my brother’s wooing for him.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003350
CONSTANCE (38 nc) AND RYE (43) BLING (9) BULLACE (8 nc)
Constance had been stunned when Bling, in a few short, blistering, obscenity-loaded sentences, had disposed of the entire establishment, and in particular politicians, the media, social workers and the police, as lying, kiddie fiddling perverts with their hands in the till.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003360
AFTERNOON PLACEMENTS BERRY (22) AND JIMMY (19 nc)
When the meeting moved on to consideration of personal placements Jimmy said he had met Berry at lunch lastday, and they had agreement.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003370
AFTERNOON PLACEMENTS LEVERET (23) AND RORY (27 nc)
Leveret couldn’t remember skipping for years, not since she was at least ten years younger when playing with some of the little ones she had looked after, but she couldn’t entirely suppress the slight skip she had in her walk and the smile she had on her face.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003380
AFTERNOON PLACEMENTS SHELAGH (40) AND SILAS (43)
“I have always wanted a settled family life, but because I thought I was never going to meet any one I wanted to settle with I decided to select someone to father my child.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003320
LUNCH AND AFTERNOON GINA (36) AND JONAS (38) AND CHILDREN
Snowflake asked, “Are you going to have babes too, Mum?”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003330
AFTERNOON JANET
She smiled to herself, and spake the words aloud, “Janet Mistress brassière.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003340
GERALD (55), PATRICK (51), TANSY (15) & CRAIG (23), BARRET (19), RYAN (17)
Tansy had admitted to her mum she loved Craig and had seduced him to make sure she had agreement with him before any other did and hoped she was pregnant.

VENNgence Is Mine 3 revised

A Trust Machines story

This should be the last installment of Marvin's story. Thanks to dkfenger and trismegistusshandy for pointing out the errors and giving me some helpful suggestions.

Any errors left are mine.

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While college campuses have changed with the times, Venn Machines have sped up those changes.

Like with the rest of the world, most people look exactly the way that they want to look.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003210
BRONWEN (41) AND FOREST (26)
“Now we are married, I don’t care who sees me holding your hand.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003220
OPAL (34), SPICE (32) &VINCENT (45)
“Make sure he doesn’t behave himself then you have him, Dear.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003230
KATHLEEN (45) + NIALL (13), BLUEBELL (11), SOPHIE (2)
She felt aggrieved she had become pregnant when she couldn’t even remember having had sex.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003130
JANET THE DINNER GOWN
Janet asked, “And what of those who are more generously bosomed or nursing?”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003140
GINA (36) THE HEALERS MEETING
The healers’ was a craft with no time for cynicism, scepticism yes, cynicism no.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003150
ALASTAIR (19) AND THE REMAINING FILES
“Alastair has been, in the words of the incomers, poppin’ pills.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003160
JOAN (26) AND BRÆTH (28)
“Bræth was taken with you wasn’t he?” Nell said to Joan.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003170
FAMILY PLANNING JUDITH AND STORM
“If we adopt a large family, and I presume you weren’t joking when you sayt six lastnight, Judith?”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003050
FORENOON PEARL (78) AND MERLIN (74 nc)
“Dad can go with Perch and bring a coney home for a celebration dinner this eve. The children like coney, and a coney dinner and grandparents will be a significant event in their lifes.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003060
FORENOON JOAN, TRUTH (4l nc)
“Before you ask. No, nursing a baby feels nothing like what it feels like when your man does it.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003070
FORENOON RACHAEL (25 nc) HEDGER (25 nc)
“We all have to try to put the grief behind us eventually. None succeeds entirely of course, but we have to try. We have to move on.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00003080
AFTERNOON RUBY (26 nc) AND DEEPWATER (22 nc)
“I was wondering if I could be a wild food forager with a young child.”

Erin has pulled a couple of her old ASS* stories, and reposted them here. I'm following suit. This story was posted as part of Lord Malinov's Exploding Nipples contest: write a short story with a title based on a spam subject line. I've written several, even after the contest was mostly forgotten.
 
        Tit Torture-Free Site
        By Daphne Xu
        Copyright 1998

"YOWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!" Something zapped my breasts!

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002560
DINNER DANCE AGRIMONY (40) AND BENJAMIN (42)
All in all she believed this was a man worth having.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002570
DINNER DANCE ELLA (30) AND KESTREL (38)
“I should like to know you better before I commit myself.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002580
LATER IN THE EVE JUDITH (34) AND STORM (32)
“You’re really serious with this then, Judith?”
“Enough to discuss it in bed, and if we don’t think we’ll suit each other no harm done, and at least we’ll have enjoyed the eve, and we can both keep looking for someone else.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002530
DINNER DANCE DOMINIQUE (38) AND OXLIP (42)
“It must be quite an advantage for a man as tall as you to be able to look down and see what ever you want when dancing with a small, large bosomed woman.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002540
DINNER DANCE ALMA (19) AND ALLAN (17)
“You have never been with a woman before have you?”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002550
DINNER DANCE TRESS (24) AND BRYONY (26)
“I have a spare chamber.” Then looking Bryony in the eyes she said quietly, “But you don’t have to use it if you’d rather not.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002510
THE DINNER DANCE CARLA (19) APPRENTICE POTTER AND PETREL (20)
She had kissed him and said, “There comes a time when you have to take a chance, and I’m going to take it now.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002520
THE DINNER DANCE ALKANET (29) AND FERDINAND (47)
Her two previous men, both of her own age, had been hasty and a little rough in bed, and she had rarely experienced the satisfaction other women spake of. She had thought for some time an older man would be gentler and more considerate of her needs.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002460
DINNER DANCE SELENA (22) AND SÆTWÆN (28)
“Would you like to talk to me whilst I nurse Borage?”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002470
THE DINNER DANCE GRACE (26) AND GATEKEEPER (28)
“I like you and if you ask me to marry you I intend to say yes, but I won’t try to deceive you about the chances of me having any children.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002480
THE DINNER DANCE RAQUEL (20) AND THISTLE (23)
“They dance most featly together.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002390
ELEANOR AND WOAD BIO-GAS
Gosellyn had smiled and said, “I have a man for you.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002400
JUST HOBBIES
“Many of the incomers possess real skills and practise crafts that to them have no value at all.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002410
MOONSHINE AND GLULAMS
“What kind of a place is it where you’re not allowt to make brandy?”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002420
CATHERINE AND CRANE
“I should be honourt if you would consider me for a husband.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002350
NIGEL (32) PROTÉGÉ

Dabchick laught, and said, “That’s the most oblique way of saying I’ve big breasts I have ever hearet.”

Campion laught too, and said, “It’s not enough to have them. You have to know how to deploy them too, and I have no worries there.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002300
CATHERINE (39) LÆRER DAIRY CRAFTER
“Do you have any others, Mistress, besides the one you carry under your heart?”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002310
WINIFRED (33) SOAP CRAFTER
“Unless you can guarantee someone who won’t sleep with my mother I’m not interested.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002320
DOMINIQUE (38) SEAMSTER
Dominique had protested as the swell of her large breasts crested the bib top

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002330
FERDINAND (47) WOODWORKER
Ferdinand was forty-seven with two failed marriages behind him.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002270
AFTERNOON MURIEL (26) HORSE TACK MAKER
She considered it to be a pity Gavin was gay and in a stable relationship.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002280
RAQUEL (20) LÆRER SEAMSTER
The day she left school she left home. She didn’t bother to tell her mother

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002290
GRACE (26) KEEP COOK
She didn’t realise how desperate the kitchens were to recruit crafters of any level of ability.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002200
GINA (36) DAIRY MANAGER
“What! You want a lecture on what I know of milk and what I have done with it‽” asked Gina.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002210
REDHEAD WITH NO NAME (15) HURDLE MAKER
I want to marry. You’re going to tell me it’s very cold out there and without a placement I shall die. Is that it? May I leave now?”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002220
JESSICA (16) BEE KEEPER AND CANDLER
A long time ago a famous bee keeper said, “Bee keeping is best left to the experts: the bees.”

“I always collected wild vegetables to eat. Milk thistle and the like. They used to be eaten in this country too before folk got wealthy and started calling them weeds. Back home a lot of folk can only dream about being what folk over here call poor. I’ve always collected road kill. It’s just cheap meat and Vince the Mince(3) saves all sorts for me. Stuff other folk won’t eat or stuff he has to spend time on to sell, Breast of lamb, trotters, heads, shin beef and oxtail before some idiot celebrity chef told every one they were good to eat and the price went through the damned roof. Sweetbreads and other offal, he’d just sell to me cheap rather than having to do anything with them. I never told Elle’s mum she was eating sheep head pie just said it was mutton, that sort of thing.

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002120
JANET (63) SEAMSTRESS
“Make your decision, you have ten heart beats, the orgy or the men at the camp.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002130
VINCENT (45) LATHE LAST MAKER
“Were I seeking a man I should have maekt sure of him before he left this chamber.”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002140
DOUGLAS (52) MOONSHINER
“Would you like to organise a whisky making arrangement as a trial?”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00002150
ALEC (60) WELL DIGGER
“Alice is a good woman, but she’s met her match in Alec.”