The Catalyst
Copyright© 2021 by Yob
Chapter 13: Mutiny
Christine is pregnant and we are recent, very recent newly weds. Her mother and sister came to visit and set me up, blackmailing me into marrying Christine. Now I’m stuck with them. Janice, the mother, is my worst nightmare, or a close facsimile.
The silver lining to the dark cloud, if you look at it cross-eyed and unfocused, is I get to have sex with all three of them. Theoretically, but not in reality. The two younger women, my bride and her younger sister have cut me off. The mother, Janice, demands frequent rogering. The only desire I can muster, the only way I can even get hard for Janice, is to grudge fuck her. Problem is, Janice likes being fucked violently! I’m screwed, unless I get rid of them.
My patriotic duty is to eliminate tyrants. These tyrannical women need some extreme prejudice. They have disenfranchised me, stolen my freedom. No problem, it’s easy. I could do for them between breakfast and lunch, and never feel a twinge of regret, if only it weren’t for the baby. My kid! Have to draw a line somewhere.
Puts me in mind of a true life adventure story. A real life mutiny. It happened in the Gulf of Mexico, aboard an OSV, an Oilfield Service Vessel. Counting the captain, she had six men aboard. Three were licensed officers, licensed as the Chief Engineer, Mate and Master. All but the captain were young men in their early twenties. The engineer and mate, new to their positions, were licensed for less than a year. The Master, call him Captain Bligh, was seventy years old.
They were offshore on a voyage and the weather changed, it was the first cold snap of the autumn. The HVAC unit was installed in a closet in the dining area and the thermostat mounted on the wall nearby.
The next deck up above the galley had the sleeping cabins and the level above that was the bridge, or the wheelhouse. The extensive ductwork fed the HVAC air to all levels. The bridge was at the extreme opposite end from the furnace. The HVAC, the heater, ventilation, and air-conditioning unit.
Do you know what black body effect is? It radiates away energy, specifically heat. At night, all those dark glass windows in the wheelhouse sucked the heat out of the wheelhouse in a dramatic way. Temperatures can be twenty degrees lower just because of black body effect.
Captain Bligh’s old bones were getting chilly up top in the wheelhouse with all those night darkened windows so he put the thermostat to heat position, and set the temperature on the thermostat rather high ... There was a lockable cage over the thermostat to prevent unauthorized persons from adjusting it. That’s standar practice aboard ships. Anyway, Captain Bligh set the temperature, locked the cage, put the key in the desk drawer in his cabin and returned to the bridge to navigate and steer the ship.
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