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  ........... ........... ............ Hounded: An extract from a novel set in the future, The Last Clone          
Maurilia Meehan          
 
  Dog kept growing, and was soon a loping black beast with a penis, Hildegard noticed, which was always at least half-erect.
  78  
  It was obscene, this unsheathed testosterone...so...well...animal.
  79  
  'It just means he's happy,' laughed Andre.
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  Hildegard thought of their own sex-life, the sliding-slippery-sudsy way she liked to do it in the spa. About once a month was what she liked, and only in the spa. Now that this pink penis was wandering about the house, Andre wanted more. That would ruin everything. She liked sex (occasionally) but she hated being hounded for it, before the urge was upon her. She wanted to feel the longing, the desire for a man, but now Andre never left her alone for long enough for that desire to arise in her.
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  Yes, she hated being hounded.
  82  
  Hildegard heard yelps of joy from the porch and went to investigate.
  83  
  She saw Andre down on all fours, tugging with his mouth for possession of a gnawed shank-bone with the dog. One end was between the dog's teeth, the other end between Andre's. The dog's penis was more that usually erect, and with fear, Hildegard found her eyes inspecting the corresponding anatomical area on her husband...relieved that no information could be gained from the state of the baggy cords he wore.
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  The two males were unaware of her presence — both enjoying the tussle in the faint scent of urine and the stronger odour of bargain dog-food that permeated the porch. Her husband growled convincingly in response to the dog's playful provocations. It seemed they were communicating with each other.
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  With a sudden toss of his head, Andre manouevred the shank deeper into his own mouth, snatching it free from the dog, but failing to avoid a long trail of dog saliva which alighted on the end of Andre's nose, hovering over his mouth.
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  At this moment, he became aware of Hildegard watching him, and he turned to her, the end of the bone still in his mouth.
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  'I got it darling, I won,' he said, beaming.
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  Just at that moment, the dog-spittle dropped slowly into his smiling, unresisting mouth.
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  And Hildegard saw that his arms and neck were sprouting coarse black hair, and that the top of one ear was folding forward in a most hound-like way.   90  
Volume Four 
Issue One: August 2003
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