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Driven

September 5, 2021 12 Comments

By Paula Wescott

Your attendant recognises my unblemished voluptuous curves and quirks an eyebrow. It’s my fifth time this week but, like a moth to a flame, I cannot resist—I need your touch.

As soon as the barrier’s breached, I am wet. For six stationary minutes you teach me the meaning of passion. You shower me with limitless liquid love and whisper kisses across my quivering body.

I groan in pleasure at the sensuous texture of your silken brushstrokes mapping every trembling inch of me. My engine purrs and I exit, sated.

Tomorrow, I’ll be driven again to worship ‘The Car Wash King.’

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  1. Gia says

    September 5, 2021 at 8:26 am

    Excellent :))

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  2. John Adams says

    September 5, 2021 at 12:18 pm

    So good and so clever! What a great title, too! Well done!

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  3. Derek says

    September 5, 2021 at 12:45 pm

    A good story with superb misdirection.

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  4. M says

    September 5, 2021 at 6:31 pm

    Amazing writing. Keep your stories coming!

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  5. nancy liddle says

    September 5, 2021 at 8:24 pm

    hahhahaa. so rude. so wonderful. thanks.

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  6. Valli says

    September 6, 2021 at 9:12 am

    Nice vivid imagery… cars have feelings too… lol… well done…it captured my attention…

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  7. Elizabeth Thomas says

    September 8, 2021 at 7:48 am

    Superb:)

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  8. Our Mick says

    September 8, 2021 at 11:37 am

    Excellent.

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  9. Amanda Barusch says

    September 8, 2021 at 1:13 pm

    Yes! What a great piece!!

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  10. dlherrmann says

    September 8, 2021 at 7:37 pm

    WONDERFUL!!! A title that is accurate – and so misleading at the same time!!! That is often a goal of mine too. I could not anticipate the persona was a car!
    Great. Thanks.
    dlh…

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  11. Patrick ten Brink says

    September 9, 2021 at 6:54 am

    Going to the car wash will never be the same again after reading you piece!

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  12. Indra Raj Pathak says

    September 10, 2021 at 9:09 am

    Very exciting expression. How a car can become the mouthpiece of its owner. Well done Paula, what a groan!

    Reply

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