Private Teddybear's Second Deployment - Flash of desire SF

[VictimEyes]

Teaser:I AM The Traumatized Teddy and HE IS ME
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The following story is a work of fiction meant for entertainment purposes only. It depicts nonconsensual sexual acts between adults. It is in no way meant to be understood as an endorsement of nonconsensual sex in real life. Any similarities of the characters in the story to real people are purely coincidental.
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• This story is part of the Flash of Desire Tournament
• It competes against Wife's Pleasure in the SF
• Theme: Odd One Out

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Private
Teddybear's
Second
Deployment

by

Traumatized Teddy


Fresh from schooling, still in my teens
I joined the Teddy Bear Marines

Taught to march and follow commands
Taught to shoot the guns in my hands

Taught to fight and then taught to kill
Know, that I, assuredly will

Taught to fight to the final breath
No second thought nor fear of death

They made me tough and they made me strong
Idled time, but before too long

In time short, I served in the Corps
Packed me up and sent me to war

Steaming now to enemy lands
Secured rifle strong in my hands

Off the boat and storming the beach
Trod the sand and fighting to reach

Crucial mission objective first
Machine guns fire and mortars burst

Eyes grown numb to exploding shells
Ears grown numb to the screams and yells

Charging forward into the fight
Enemy stronghold plain in sight

Enemy soldier, green and scared
Hastily trained and unprepared

I think how lucky I can be
I see him, He does NOT see me

Nothing stands between he and I
Pulled my trigger and watched him die

Advance succeeds, objective won
Looking back and see what is done

The last gasps and desperate throes
Both of my friends and of my foes

Bodies cast aside as garbage
Blood and death and burning carnage

Stench of battle set in my nose
Stench of YOUNG LIVES brought to a close

Commander ON THE FIELD had said
We will bury enemy dead

Started digging, then I would find
Something had changed inside my mind

With each corpse I help to bury
I find my heart becomes more very

Quite unsure of what I have done
A new battle has just begun

Shoveled into the moistened earth
Question myself, question the worth

Shoveled into the poisoned sands
Shovel shuddering in my hands

Wreckage, bodies, death and as such
Now I know that I've seen too much

Forever now a tortured soul
Part of me left in every hole

Forever lost to memories then
Never to be the same again

Lost in life, unable to weep
Crippling fear of falling asleep

Ears now open, I hear the screams
Of friends I've lost each night in dreams

Now I know, for whom the bell tolls
Mourn the friends, the hearts and the souls

Never to heal, nor do I doubt
Always I'll be THE ODD BEAR OUT





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[RapeU]

Experimental poetry again. The PTSD acronym was clever. I'm not sure this story quite works for a sexual fantasy forum. But, it was a bold risk to try. We'll see if it pays off.

[Shocker]

I’m a bit with @RapeU on this one, it’s bold and novel but not sure how it will measure up in a contest.

[Claire]

I love so much about this. Taking the pen name persona and doing something creative with it definitely gets bonus points for the contest in my book.

I also enjoyed the poem taken on its own. I wish I could say more about the writing itself, but when it comes to poetry I feel a bit out of my depth.

Where the poem falters a bit for me is that the experience that's described doesn't feel unique to being... a teddybear? I probably would have gone for a teddybear in a human marine corps to underline the "odd one out" theme and highlight more what made the experience traumatic for the teddybear in particular rather than describing the horrors of war in general.

But overall, a daring entry in the tournament. I hope it gets some more love from the readers. I absolutely would like to see more authors take risks like that and get creative with the format of the contest.

[Traumatized Teddy]

@Claire ,
The instant I first saw the Traumatized Teddy avatar, I felt compelled to give him an origin story.

A person who isn't sympathetic to a TRAUMATIZED TEDDY BEAR isn't truly human !!!!!!!

I was delighted when the Teddy was trusted to me, even though it happened randomly. I do not know the history of the TrauTed, but it's clear that there is a history. I hope I have done right by the Teddy.

[Lucius]

I salute the daring rhyming couplets! Go, the risk-taking @Traumatized Teddy!

[MillieDynamite]

More poetry, I'm envious. I've written a few, very bad, poems.