Useless

I am from a land far across the sea. It's name, translated literally, is 'Big Flat Island'. It is home to about ninety of our tribe who live on the sunset side, and about eighty of our enemies live on the sunrise side. The island will only feed this number of people, so we make war sometimes to get land from our enemies so we can feed more of our own people, and of course they want our land.

We do not rate people in age, as you do here. We are all babies until we can walk, then we are children. Children are called girls when theier Hungry Mouths began to bleed and their Feeders grow large, and children are called boys when their Seed Makers start working and they start squirting through their Seeders. Boys and girls become men and women when they marry, and men are called men for the rest of their lives unless they lose their seed makers and become Useless.

Boys usually play with their seeders. The missionary word that best describes this is Fun. Some boys have fun several times a day, and some say that they never have fun, but I think they are liars. Some boys get together with other boys and have fun, and sometimes they stick their seeders in each other's mouths or poop holes, and we call that Gaiety. Gaiety is common and accepted among boys of all ages and usually stops when they become men, but some boys never marry and continue to be gay boys all of their lives. We are tolerant and they are accepted, but people sometimes laugh at them.

Men and women make babies by Elation. Boys are not supposed to elate unmarried girls, but there are a few older girls who make their living elating boys, and women married to useless men often have boys take their husband's place.

Sometimes women, mostly those who are bleeding or expecting, will do something else for their men, and we call this Rapture. All men like rapture, but most have to pay to get it.

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I had been a boy for many seasons when I became attracted to a girl the missionaries had named Sarah. Sarah had feeders the size of ripe melons,and although she wore a loincloth the lips of her hungry mouth could be seen through the cloth when she bathed in the river. Just the sight of her was sometimes enough to make my seeder erupt like the volcano, so I asked the Chief to let me marry her.

He said I could if I completed my Task. My task was to cross the island and bring back the seed makers form two of the enemy. We fight ferociously, and although we sometimes kill the enemy we prefer to make them useless instead. A man who has lost his seed makers will not fight and usually will not work. They just lie around and get fat.

Now you just can't just go up to an enemy man or boy and tell them that you want his seed makers so you can marry a girl with big feeders and expect to get them without a fight. It takes courage and cunning to get them, but I wanted to elate Sarah and make a baby so off I went.

The first set was easy to get. A boy was diving for pearls off the rocks and he was alone. I timed his dives, and when I knew he was about to come up I jumped in after him. He had been holding his breath for over two minutes, but I was full of air so it was easy. I just reached out and sliced them off.

The next set was much harder, and I had to stalk the man for several days before I was able to sneak up on him while he slept and finish my task. His seed makers were huge and that bought me great favor with the Chief, and he allowed me to marry Sarah.

I enjoyed much elation and even some rapture, and she bore me a fine baby.

Two years later I was hunting alone when two of the eneny fell on me and took my seed makers home with them.

That is my story. I have had fun, gaiety, elation, and rapture, and now I an useless.