accident. My father’s sister had not liked me. “You watch yourself,” she’d said more than once but I never knew what she was talking about. I was a good girl. Perfect school grades, not a twinge of trouble in my record, no surly teenage boys sniffing around. She was a miserable woman anyway. Her husband evidently thought so too because he ran off with a buxom neighbor strangely named Twiddly. I had escaped to the other side of country as soon as it was legally feasible. I tossed my clothes off and stared critically at myself in the bathroom vanity. I was a little bigger than a woman my height ought to be, but my skin was smooth, my face clear and pleasant. I unhooked my bra and unleashed peachy tubular breasts. There must be a man somewhere eager to appreciate this. Perhaps Liza was right. I should go shopping tomorrow to find whatever tit-bearing tops my meager budget would allow. I sighed and let my hand travel south. I would get myself ready for a romp with Max. It would be the most excitement I would see anytime soon. After I enjoyed the guilty glow of an artificial orgasm I would settle in front of the television with Ben and Jerry. I frowned. The slow swirl of inner pleasure wasn’t coming. I felt too distracted, uneasy. Perhaps it was the loneliness which plagued me in the bar. Maybe it was the creepy walk home. Whatever the reason, I couldn’t concentrate. I gave up, throwing on a large t-shirt. It barely covered my ass, but who was there to see? I surveyed the living room restlessly. The worn red futon seemed depressed. I felt stifled suddenly by the smallness of my life. I opened the latch to the sliding glass door and stepped out onto the shallow balcony. The night was cool. The silver light of the moon played upon the courtyard. In the community pool a barely discernible male/female pretzel was locked in a pose of wet ecstasy. I stared. Would this be my life?? Casting sneaky glances at the pleasure of others before bringing myself to a forlorn climax? I closed my eyes and imagined strong fingers undressing me. They explored my honeyed depths before my legs were spread to welcome that engorged organ which required satisfaction in a tight wet place. Even as I pictured it and could nearly feel it I was terrified such delights would never be mine. I had one more year of law school and then what? Likely some dismal grueling position in a corporate hellhole. So I tried to console myself with the possibilities. A late night working on a brief with virile coworkers in rumpled suits…. Perhaps there would be conference table begging to be used in an unconventional way. Perhaps no words needed to be spoke and he (or they; I was generous) would sense my ripe need and bend me over that conference table. There would be neckties to play with, orifices to abuse. I didn’t want some dullard’s hand under my shirt in a seedy bar. I wanted something else. My musings had brought me to the point where Max would be welcome. I was about to retreat indoors when the close weight of a dark shape made me gasp. There, having launched himself onto my narrow second story balcony, was a large grey wolf. His amber eyes glowed. He was so close I could nearly feel the bristle of his fur. The sight was so astonishing that for a moment I did not move. I opened my throat for a scream but a rough hand sealed my mouth. “Don’t,” a low voice warned. The face peering into mine wore a grizzled shadow but was definitely the face of a man. And the hand clamped over my mouth was nothing more than that, a hand. My eyes shifted. Where was the wolf? Was I dreaming? Was I high on some unknown drug furtively slipped into my drink? Slowly the stranger relaxed his hand. I could see his form in the moonlight. He was large, muscular. And naked. Almost involuntarily my gaze shifted down, past his spectacular abs, down further to where that enormous part of him swung between his legs. I became suddenly conscious of the fact that I was