- Reservation for One Young Man
Welcome! We’ve been waiting for you for a really long time. You must be hungry. Tell me, are you hungry with desire, does it burn? We’re sure it must, you’ve been waiting for a while. We have something special prepared for you, trust me, we’ve been working on this one for a really long time. We’re really proud of how it turned out. Come in! Come in! Look! Look at this massive spread we laid out for you, legs wide open and arms ready to embrace you, mouth open, eyes vacant. Look at the platter and the finger foods, this endless buffet for you to consume.
Put a finger in it, and see the way it stirs! We made you one that’s really easy. There are some bottles of rum and wine, some liquid confidence for you, the first time’s always a little awkward. But don’t worry! Look, we laid it out so beautifully, we’ve caked its face in lurid vibrant colors because we know you’re not used to seeing a normal face with its disfigurements, lines and craters, and dark undereye circles. But don’t you worry about all that, we don’t really make any like that anymore.
As you can see, its crimson lips are shiny from gloss, and its cheeks are flushed red from blush, and its eyes, the eyes! Previously, after we were done with them, their eyes always ended up so sullen and hateful. A complete turnoff for you guys, surely, so we used to get them to just cover up their face entirely. Sometimes men would just gouge out the eyes from the start while they gobbled up the rest of the food. That way, the eyes wouldn’t haunt them while they were at it, I can imagine it’s quite annoying. But this one! The eyes! So doe-eyed and innocent and larger than life with the eyeliner and mascara, and so inviting.
She’s such a doll, isn’t she? You can play with her as long as you want, however you want, whatever you want. You can contort her into positions and yank her hair and pull at her legs and arms and head, whatever way you want. After all, we’ve made her just for you. Look at how we’ve draped her in our finest silk, how it falls over her curves and valleys, there for you to rip off of her. You can grab it by the hips, press your palms into its flesh, and grip it tight right before your teeth tears into the first layers of skin, and the deliciously rich, creamy blood starts pouring through. And the best part is, she’ll bend however you want her to. You can press your big claws deep into her flesh, and it will come away forever changed by you. What’s special about this new recipe we’ve used is that, in the end, she’ll take everything you throw at her, and she won’t leave any bitter aftertaste.
What did you say? Did you just ask what this is, my boy? It’s a woman! Why, yes, of course it is! You’ve never seen a real one before? Well, we’re not surprised, really.
You want to give it a go? Don’t worry, boy, she doesn’t bite back. Doesn’t she match your wildest dreams? Doesn’t she match the fantasies fed to you from when you barely knew how to read? Go on, take a bite. Her flesh has been tenderised and marinated and lambasted over an open fire to get ready for you. Dude, look how juicy she is. She’s been plucked free of hair, just smooth skin. Which piece of a woman do you usually like? We’ve got thighs, breast, ass, even neck, which is pretty rare. A real delicacy! Do you want the breast piece? This one’s a little small, but it’s really all about preference, isn’t it? It’s pretty nice to eat, albeit a bit chewy, but we stewed her in the Dutch oven long enough for her flesh to fall right off the bone.
No, not your style? Well, if you want her prepared a different way, we can do that too. You want her salad tossed, maybe stuffed with a ball gag? Did you watch that on a video somewhere? That’s so naughty and cheeky, how amusing. We can absolutely make that happen . . . hmm? No, no, she won’t fight it. It doesn’t really matter what she wants. But, you know, if you don’t like her, we can get millions of others prepared just for you. In fact, with an additional fee, you can customize one according to your desires. Make her waist disappear? Gone. Her armpits, her kneecaps, her cellulite? Gone, gone, gone. All gone. We can make her figure contort into wild shapes—hourglass, pear, apple, inverted triangle, rectangle, whatever you want! She’s all but a vessel for you to hold and fill. She can dress the way you want, speak the way you want, think the way you want, and be the way you want completely.
If you want more than one, that’s even better. One is just boring, right? We’ve always believed that one is never enough, you should never stop eating even after you’re full. Make sure you keep on eating as much as you possibly can, binge and swallow and guzzle her down. We need to get rid of as many as possible before they start going bad and rotten, you know, and their wombs expire really quickly, which is usually the best piece. So, you should be quick and eat as many as you can. Please enjoy your meal, and leave room for dessert!
No?
Hey, we don’t take no for an answer! Ah, that’s just a joke, don’t mind it. Don’t you like her? See how she lies still for you, ever ready. She hasn’t said a word, but trust me when I tell you, she clearly wants it. Don’t worry about her, she’s been waiting for this moment her whole life—to be seen by you and to be taken by you. Look at her. God, come on, she clearly exists only for you. She will satisfy you. We would know. We made her just for you.
Let me tell ya, we had issues with the previous models who didn’t really want to do all of this. Jesus, we touched them, and they cried wolf when we ignored their objections! Imagine that! So, obviously, we had to come up with something new. It was a stroke of genius, really. We somehow convinced them that going along with all of it is, like, super empowering and fun. And not only that—they think it is their life’s purpose. We convinced them they had no inherent value unless they could lie down spreadeagled for you. Now most of them just get on the table and lay themselves flat, unprompted! Impressive, right? Seriously, that was a real breakthrough in the design. Once we changed the recipe for every model, we had no more problems! Turns out they’ll pretty much do anything if everyone else is doing it.
What did you say? Really? Love her? If you love her, whole and in her natural form, don’t tell anyone, that’s shameful. It’ll make you less of a man. Come on, seriously? That’s ridiculous, we didn’t make her for that, she won’t even know how to handle it. And to love her completely, that’s going to diminish your wholeness. She’s just a sum of parts. Parts that you can tear away and eat till your heart’s content.
Ah, that’s understandable. You want one of those loud, smart, confident ones, but who will fade away as time goes by, eventually becoming whatever you want. You want to make them yourself! That’s a little tricky, but they’re definitely popular nowadays. Young men used to like the ones who were ready to be devoured whole without much fuss, but nowadays they love a challenge! It’s part of the thrill, isn’t it, kinda hot? A lot of young men like you come by here asking for the same, so we’re a little out of stock, but we’ll see what we can do for you. You sure you don’t want to try this one while we get another ready for you? Come on, we really need you to keep eating this stuff, you know, to keep the lights on in this place.
Go on, eat it. Won’t you please eat it? Eat it, eat it, eat it.
I wrote this one in an enraged and bitter haze after fruitless conversations and courtships. I wanted it to evoke disgust and I wanted it to be graphic. I found that even after I was graphic and evoked this disgust, somewhere along the way, for some reason, it wasn’t how I imagined it to be when I started writing it. I can’t quite put my finger on it. Perhaps that’s just how writing is, that you can’t chart everything out in a mental blueprint and the final piece will just reflect back parts of you that were unbeknownst to you. I try not to think of myself as a cynical person but this piece contains a lot of pessimisms I wish I didn’t have, but it’s an honest work.
