(WARNING: This chapter has sexual situations. If sexual stories offend you I suggest you do not read this chapter, and the entire book is rated mature.)

THE SWORD AND SICKLE

PART ONE: REVELATION

CHAPTER THREE

VENUS

Adonai appeared to Levi and said, "You will have intercourse with Venus, and she will bare you a daughter who will be a witness of the savior's return. Athena will prepare the way for your daughter by cutting a wide swath. Soon, she will appear to you in a dream, and will prophesy of the coming days of the destruction of the great nation. She will symbolize for the world that no one is impure to me. I, Adonai, the Voice of the unknowable God, shall use any vessel that I have wrought from the dust as a witness of my return."

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The Voice of Prophecy, Chapter 24: verses 1 and 2

In the year nineteen ninety-one, Levi taught an adult education class in a nearby town. The class, for experienced oil-painters, was to learn how to paint portraits. He had always been a talented artist and had a gift to capture the image of people on canvas. This talent he felt, others could learn so he advertised for experience painters for the class, because he felt it would be difficult to teach a person first how to paint, and not have them slow down the more experienced artists learning portraiture. As time grew closer for the class, the enrollment proceeded very well and he was looking forward to the day the class would begin.

One night while in his office, the phone rang and Levi answered, "Hello, this is Levi." On the phone, he heard the voice of a distinguished sounding man, "Mr. Jackson, this is Jim Polanski, and I would like for you to enroll my wife in your portrait painting class, this August."

Levi replied, "I am glad that you called. I have one more opening to fill. Tell me, Mr. Polanski does your wife have any experience painting?"

"Well, Mr. Jackson, she doesn't have any experience in painting, but what she lacks in experience; she more than makes up with enthusiasm. I assure you that she will be no problem for you."

"Mr. Polanski, I am afraid it would not be fair to the other students to have a slower student in the class. That is why I advertised for experienced painters. I am sorry. I am afraid I cannot help you."

Mr. Polanski did not answer for a few moments and then said, "I am sorry I have wasted your time," and then hung up. Levi went on with his studies and forgot about it until a few days later when he received another phone call from Mr. Polanski. "Mr. Jackson, may I call you Levi?"

"Sure, in fact I prefer to be called by my first name. How can I help you today?"

"Levi, I am calling on behalf of my wife. She really wants to take this class. She is begging me to convince you that she will not be a hindrance. She is a very talented artist and is a young woman of thirty-five, intelligent, a very enthusiastic person with a wonderful personality and I guarantee you she will not slow your class down."

Levi replied, "Well Jim I am not sure. I feel it will not be fair to the others."

"Please Levi, she is going to be hell to deal with if you turn her down."

Levi knew the feeling. He felt sorry for Jim and he thought that perhaps any woman who could get her husband to beg was a very strong person. Perhaps she would be right for the class after all. "I will tell you what Jim. I will take her on as long as she can keep up. If she slows down the class, then she is out with no refund. What is her name, so I can enroll her?"

"Judy V. Polanski? She will be very happy, and Levi understand that you have made me a very happy man." With those words, Jim hung up the phone. Levi suspected that Jim hung up so quickly because he didn't want to give him a chance to change his mind. Levi could not get this woman out of his mind. He was anxious to meet her and their seemed to be something very familiar about her from how she controlled her husband.

Venus woke up that morning wet between her legs. She was alone, as her husband had already left for work. She reached down to touch herself and inserted her fingers. At first, she celebrated in the fullness of the sensation. Slowly she began a rhythmic pumping motion. She could feel the power of her hand as she increased the speed. She could feel her fluids flowing down her inner thighs, and after a few minutes of pumping, she felt a strong release. Her youth had been a nightmare of sexual abuse by her father, but--thanks to her mom, her sister and a male friend she became interested in having normal sexual relationships. By the time she became a senior, she had found a strong person to please her. When she turned nineteen, she met Jim in college and felt from the get-go that he was the one to father her children. He was good looking and seemed to have no flaws. All through their college years, they were inseparable. Almost every spare minute they spent together doing things and going places. Best of all, Jim Polanski was a good lover and romancer; she never told him about her father's sexual abuse. Jim, became flavorless for her as time passed, too much of the same taste grew old for anyone, and she was no different; oh, he could please her, but never really understood her dark side. Only one man knew first hand about her dark sexual desires and she knew that man was the only man who ever would, and that man was not Jim. When she remembered the year, they had been together, and she felt warm all over. She often wondered what had happened to this special person but had lost contact with him, and then Jim came into her life; she wrote this man twice after he returned home after college, but she never heard from him again. The man was special, because he erased all her bad memories. After marrying Jim they soon moved to Missouri for a new job offer, Venus knew this was Levi's home state, and someday, if the stars were aligning, she would leave Jim in an instant, and she knew that time was nearing, thanks to her own husband's pleas.

Jim and Venus' wedding was a grand event and the last thing they did before heading to northern Missouri to make a new life for themselves. The first couple of years, they were happy, and although Venus did have the occasional affair, she always came home to Jim.

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