Ms Delia Sandsome never could get good sex. Except on Saturdays and even then only between one and three in the afternoon.
Delia searched for sex and found it in its many forms, but good sex she could find only with Sardine, a skinny, slippery, sallow-faced,fine-haired, breastless, fifteen-year-old member of the female sex.

On Saturdays Sardine went fishing. Off the docks, her family thought, but Sardine fished in deeper waters. Delia Sandsome, beached pink-breasted on a foamy white bed, her body laced, pinched and puckered with satin (black or mauve), her perfect heart-of-a-face glowing at the cheeks and blowing at the mouth,was catch enough for skinny Sardine, who darted like a silver fish between her cushiony thighs. Oh yes! Well worth waiting a week for.

Zip, zip, zip went Ms Delia's legs, her toes neatly pointed as sharp as scissor blades. Slip, slip went Sardine, sliding in and out of satin flesh and fabric. In, in, in she went, sometimes so far that she nearly lost her way, as well as all sense of time, but

always there was a familiar hill,hollow or curve that helped her, oh so very slow, backtracking retreat, withdrawal, exit, escape from the labyrinth.

Once she thought she saw a bull's horn lamp lit to light her way, but she never told Delia that. She never told Delia much at all. Sardine's family weren't the only ones who didn't know where Sardine was of a Saturday afternoon.

Sometimes Sardine found a pink pearl in an olive grove and held it in her mouth, rolled it round her tongue and sucked it with pursed lips, or slid it along the slit of her mouth, and then Delia held the back of Sardine's head and rolled her head around on it. Sardine loved the shiny pink pearl.

Other times, Ms Delia Sandsome grew muscles in her arms and thighs. Her body hardened as she lay upon the open body of the girl and the pearl magically grew, they knew not how, and it sprang out of its nest and pierced her. Many times Ms Delia penetrated the young girl's flesh, spreading her nether cheeks with firm, strong hands. Also, on some velvet afternoons, the pearl, now pointed, now coloured cherry red, dipped itself into the sweet waters between the young girl's thighs, and at such times both persons glued themselves in silent joy, lip to lovely lip.

This is good sex! Ms Delia Sandsome thought. But it is not enough. I will find more. Though I haven't yet.

And so Ms Delia S sallied forth in search. But not on Saturdays.


Liann Snow is an English lesbian, born in north Kent, living and working in London. She writes songs, poems, erotic memoirs, novels and short stories. She is also an artist and a gardener. Her writing first found its place in Sheba's groundbreaking anthologies of lesbian erotica, Serious Pleasure and More Serious Pleasure; and has since been featured in queer publications in the United Kingdom and online. Liann Snow has been an advertising copywriter for major department stores, and in 1984 received a BA Honours degree in Modern Studies from the University of North London.
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