In the underground, in Les Spirites, the lesbians broke out their rings for the night.
Some wore black, white, yellow, green, blue, violet, or pink.
Others garnished their thighs with straps of comparable colours.
The rest simply wrapped their wrist or arm with bracelets.
Within record time, lesbians paired by the colour of the rings: spotting others within seconds or minutes. Some from inches or several yards away.
How it came to this night: we must look to a closeted lesbian who attended an Ivy League school. Where cultural prejudices created a venue that was hard to book for lesbian lovers.
She devised a colour system. Black for one night stands, white for lifers, yellow for multiple partners, green for environmentally inclined, pink for soft lovers, and violet for rough lovers.
But these colours meant different things over time for lesbians who devised their own system. The black ring meant other things: it meant a clan.
Enter a Pan-Lesbian bar, look to your left, you’d see the black ringers in a den, with just their clicks.
For some: it may matter little as they eventually entered their rooms to finger their partners, to explore, finger, and kiss the crevices of all their sexual partners, to elicit tempestuous gasps and moans.
The rest who wore thigh belts or garners were mixed in and outside the lesbo-ring culture. What they thought of rings and their arm and leg garnishes, they only knew.
Some speculated they wore thigh belts as a count of their sexual conquests as some wore two, five, 10, or twenty. Others: to tone their leg muscles and give an even shape to their forms. Perhaps it was both.
Call them divas, lesbo-queens, lesbian panthers and princesses. They garbed themselves clandestinely to rule the night. And made a tempestuous choice of lovers and clashed and meshed.
Their moans and signs arching in the night: cresting with the moon, and fading with the moonlight.
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A lesbian short story by Kelly McGill. Drawn from a collection of lesbian short stories penned under various pseudo-names for a local regional creative writing club. No copyright or ownership expressed or implied: termed free to use. Free to use, share, modify, or add to existing works, ex. video, articles, blogs, posts, stories. Contributions are welcomed. Suggestions are welcomed. Forward all suggestions and contributions to Allow 2-3 months for processing: as this profile / and its owner peruses dozens of submissions per month: only a few make the cut. All contributions must be termed ‘free to use’. All stories that are copyrighted or will be copyrighted must be forward to the appropriate channels / persons. We do not accepted copyrighted works / contributions.