The Man Who Loved Karla Nelsen, part 1 By Forrest Curran A man can love, can't he? Update: 15/10/1997 to misc2 The other musclegirls were jealous. That much was obvious ! And why shouldn't they be? Karla had them outclassed this year. Defeated by a massively built blonde woman whose size and shape had put her in a class by herself; she towered over them, made them seen small and foolish. Some of the girls had even covered up. Self-conscious of their shortcomings around her, they had kept their distance, too. Karla Nelsen sat by herself, her thickly-muscled arms folded across her generous chest. She was alone, off from the din and glare of photographer's flash bulbs. She was concentrating on the next test; preparing her mighty sinews to meet the strain and challenge that was coming. But why should she worry ? She had aced all the others, leaving disgruntled and shocked competitors in her muscular wake. Karla always made a strong showing at the Women's Extravaganza, held every year in New Jersey, a short hop across the blue-gray waters of the Hudson River from Manhattan. And well she should ! At nearly six feet in height, she usually weighed in at just under 200 pounds. But not this year. This year she had trained with an abandon never seen before. Her deltoids were round and thick and full of the audacious promise of strength unmatched in her sex; her stomach, washboard hard and runged with a lattice of carved abdominal muscle; thighs powerful and carved from oak. Her breasts, as always, proud and defiant of gravity. And topping it all, a mass of honey-blonde ringlets falling freely and wildly down her back, framing a sweet, mid- westernishly pretty face; a farmer's daughter, as it were, crossed with a steel-limbed, muscle-packed Amazon. We weighed her before leaving the hotel, right after leaving the bliss of our queen-size bed. This morning, after months of blasting intensity, heaving iron and pouring sweat, she weighed in at an amazing 215 pounds. And she knew that, on either side of that freshwater tributary that divided New Jersey from New York, there wasn't a single woman would could match her. Not today. Before dressing, we showered; my hands ran across the sculpted, rough-hewn physique, and I watched the stream of torrid water as it crashed like a waterfall as it hit her massive shoulders, and down her chiseled chest, to run off perfect breasts. I washed the huge musclegirl's body, careful to massage the thick muscle, dense and massive and broad on her mesomorph's ideal of a body. She had admonished me to behave; only my hands obeyed. "Easy, honey. We have a long day ahead of us, don't we...?" Yes, I knew. And a night, too. Hopefully, like the last one... There had been friendly looks from the other girls when she walked in; she was always popular. But no one was ready for the shock of seeing her like this... "...Shoot, Karla's packin' some pair of shoulders", came a stage- whisper from the crowd as she signed in. She had slipped off her leather jacket, and handed it to me to safeguard; she was wearing only a tank top, cut low on her wide, powerful back. Big breasts strained the white cloth, and held me spellbound. When she was done, she turned to me and smiled. And flexed; a cannonball of a bicep crackling under her skin. I smiled at the thick arm in heartstopping display, and I wanted to feel it on my mouth.. "...Forty-seven, forty-eight, forty-nine", the judge continued the count; Karla wasn't getting tired or slowing down even a bit as she curled the barbell. Angry veins fought their way to prominence on her thick and chiseled arms. They seemed ready to explode, straining to feed nourishing blood to hungry muscles. There were more murmurs from the other girls. Mary threw down her towel. Tazi groaned in dismay. Liz glowered. Michelle, who thought she'd walk away with it again, looked grim and looked down to flex and inspect her own rather-respectable biceps; they were dwarfed by the arms that now held the heavy bar in their grasp, pumping... The audience was roaring with delight. Karla would not stop ! Her face was a knot of straining concentration, a grimace that was slowly overtaking her pretty features, half-concealed through falling tresses. But it didn't matter. "...Sixty-two, sixty-three..." How many reps was she going to knock out? Her biceps were pounding, almost pulsing. Applause was breaking out, growing louder, stronger, even as her deltoids expanded with each rep. At the peak of each rep, she'd issue a small grunt, audible only to those who stood near. Flashbulbs lit the stage like lightning; freeze-framing the stunningly muscular woman who was simply blowing her fellow lady bodybuilders off the stage, leaving the pretty ironpumpers to stand in awe and run self- conscious hands over arms that had been overwhelmed by the size of Karla's own commanding guns. And make no mistake; guns are what they were---hadn't they mowed down the competition? Her nipples had begun poking through the tank top, aroused by the excitement that had made the air electric. Raye and her sister conferred in the corner. They both wore looks of amazement. It came as no surprise when, after running the gamut of tests, the newly-pumped, massively muscled Karla Nelsen walked away with the contest. And the prize money. Some of the more sportsman-like (or was it ladylike?) women congratulated the towering Amazonian, and grilled her politely to see what it was she had done to put her body "over the top". But they knew they had just plain been outclassed, outworked, and outgunned this time, and the towering blonde Amazon smiled. "What did I do that got me over the top?", she asked rhetorically, her voice surprisingly light and gentle for a woman who stood nearly six feet tall and towered over the other ladies. " Simple. I fell for that great guy over here...", she said, putting a massive limb around across my shoulders and hugging me close to her. And so what if she towered over me by a good four inches? Okay, five... Later, we were alone. At last. I had been holding my breath in anticipation of returning to the hotel again, and mating my oversize lover girl again as we sat in the oversize Jacuzzi that bubbled in our suite. When I entered the bathroom, she was already seated majestically, an amazon goddess flexing for herself amidst the hot bubbles, immersed to her shoulders and full of the contented look of a winner who had proved something today. Not just to the her fellow lady bodybuilders and strongwomen, but to herself. Her trophy stood, shining and golden, in front of the mirror, as though to announce to any that might behold her here that she was a winner... Her hair was piled high over her head. She sipped a glass of wine, and gave me a long and lingering look over it's rim. She sat in the suds daintily, with a feminine grace that somehow dovetailed neatly with her chiseled awesome bulk; there was nothing contradictory in this heart-stopping, throbbingly beautiful vision to me! I joined her in the warmth of the tub. I was thirsty, but not for the wine. Seated across from her shapely bulk, I felt her eyes gaze at me affectionately. She handed me my glass, and I took it. We sipped Chablis, engaged in a silent conversation of lover's shorthand; arched eyebrows and smoldering looks. Being with Karla had been the greatest two weeks of my life. She dressed to impress; skintight micro-miniskirts and the highest of spike-heeled decadence dared your eyes to wander when she walked into the room, and mine had yet to even think of such an act. There had been no other women on earth since she walked into the ad agency where I worked, to discuss a product endorsement we had been hot to get her to sign onto; I had the lucky job of buying her lunch. I hadn't needed food that afternoon. My hungry eyes were eating her up, imagining how good all that stacked female muscle would taste as I sucked on the massive ball of bicep, bared on a sleeveless blouse as she rested an astounding arm on the table. I never thought she'd give me the time of day, but after putting my best foot forward as we nibbled on a health salad for two, I swallowed hard and asked for her home phone number. And to my delight and relief, this perfect specimen of Amazon woman, with a voice that was soft and a body that was hard, said yes... "C'mere", she said finally, extending a thickly muscled arm to her lover... I needed no prompting. I shot up, wanting her now, here. The footing was slippery as I scrambled to her, and I had to be careful or... I disappeared under the water. Suddenly it was much deeper than it should have been, and nowhere near as warm. I fought my way to the surface unaided, wondering why she hadn't reached over to me and with a one-arm hoist, pulled me to the safety of her powerful thick arms. The sun was out. I was treading water in my backyard pool. Coughing and spluttering, I barely managed to paddle to the edge and climbed out; and sprawled on the hot wet cement as I tried to find my breath... "Having fun?", Andrea asked, voice dripping with contempt. I rolled over on my side, spitting up several ounces of chlorinated H2O. My wife stood over me, at the head of the half dozen steps that led to our wooden deck. She was standing very still, a long- fingernailed hand on either side of the narrow stairway railing. She held the long pool-cleaner's pole in her hand; she had used it to stir me from my slumber as I dreamed my private dreams on the inflatable raft. She wore a look of exasperated disgust; skin newly taut on her cheekbones recently grown prominent and striking on her still-youthful face. She was made up for a ball; glassy-red lipstick, Maybelline artfully etched onto her highlights; her newly hennaed dark hair shining in the early afternoon sun. She wore a sleeveless v-necked yellow blouse and a very short and sharply-pleated white tennis skirt, that bared a broad expanse of her very shapely, tan thighs. In fact, it was barely a skirt at all; it's bold brevity made it almost a tunic, and a flash of tiny white panty was visible as the lightweight skirt fluttered in the afternoon summer breeze. "Havin' another wet dream, honey?", she chuckled and sneered. "I saw the lump in your shorts and I almost fainted from shock. Christ, I haven't seen that sight since I don't know when !", she added. That wasn't true; it was she who had declared a moratorium on sexual couplings; for two weeks she'd been stalling me now. "I know", she added as she put a palm dramatically to her rouged cheek as though she'd figured out quantum theories of relativity. "You were having a dirty little daydream about that big Amazon she-hunk's picture you've got up on the wall in the basement. Was that it?", she cooed in mock sympathy. "You getting all hot for a cute farmgirl with big muscles, huh? You wanna fuck her? Or do you wanna be the one getting' fucked, little hubby? Maybe I've been playing my hand all wrong lettin' you lead in bed. I thought your little ego would wither up if you knew I could kick your ass!", she hooted. I was afraid the neighbors would hear... She kicked a long bare thigh high in the air, playfully, and the brevity of her panties became all too clear. What she was wearing beneath that tiny girlish pleated micro-miniskirt was not a panty at all. No, it was more like a stripper's tiny g-string. It was backless, and from the way she kicked her leg high in the air, she didn't care very much who saw, either. In any event, when she kicked up her heels, the mystery was over... "I just had to wake you, my tiny husband. Pool needs cleaning", she said, counting on her fingers. "Lawn needs mowing. Shutters need painting...." When she had finished my afternoon's litany of jobs, she sighed deeply. "Well, you're gonna be plenty busy. Toodle-oo, lil' hubby..." I had to say something; that skirt was indecent! "Uh, Andrea?", I asked, wiping a bit of pool water from my eyes. She had already turned for the storm door, to re-enter the house before leaving. I got a clear flash of girlcheek as it peaked under the micro- skirt. It was newly-taut and had returned to it's pert perfection, the way it had looked before we were married. "What?", she asked with a pout over her shoulder, annoyed at this interference in her busy itinerary. I had to say something; after all, she was my wife. Even the way things were between us, I couldn't let her leave the house like that, could I? "Uh, that skirt, uh...It's just that it's so short for going out'; isn't it a tennis outfit ?", I asked hopefully. She shook her head sadly. "Of course it is, idiot. That's cause I'm gonna go play tennis". And with a shrug of her bared shoulder she marched into the house. I watched her go, hips aerobically slim and wiggling in long, bold strides. I asked myself one question... Whoever heard of going to play tennis in high white spiked heels, I wondered, as the click-clack of the hot-to-trot lady's shoes faded into the interior of the house ? She was right to be angry, I guess. And she had been right on target about my early-afternoon dream, right? Moments later, I heard the roar of her engine as she raced off to a scarlet encounter of afternoon sex. She would lie about it perhaps, and accuse me of having a dirty mind before going downstairs to hit the iron in my basement gym. But I knew where she was going... Okay, so I had a thing for Karla Nelsen. What was so bad about that? I mean, besides the fact that my wife didn't much like it. It wasn't like I had ever met her or anything. And I probably never would. But I always had a secret fascination for lady bodybuilders, and I had seen Karla on Musclesport USA once; and the sight of her had knocked me out. There was something so elemental about her; so hard and lean, but there was an approachability in her soft features, a friendliness of sorts, as though she could be the woman next to you on the subway. Provided that she had years of hard-won muscle concealed under her business suit... I had several of her videotapes. I would always wait until Andrea left the house, and I would unlock them from the cabinet in the basement. And I would lust after her from a thousand miles away. She was alot of woman to handle; the unfortunate men who crossed her on the tapes found that out quickly. She would manhandle them easily, making them understand who was in charge, alright... Ripe muscle flexed all over her vast body; buttocks bared, tight, taut, clad only in the most outrageous of bikinis, squeezing all opposition from her inferior opponents. She was a woman fully comfortable with the quality that made her so special, so perfect a woman in my eyes. She was packed with muscle and she like it just fine. But I couldn't stop and enjoy the tapes today. No, Andrea had been quite clear on that. I had to go to the bank and cover a check. One of the checks I had signed lately that had alot of zeros on it. For Andrea's newest, uh, developments. She had been going on and on about it for months. She was convinced that the only thing that prevented her from being the most fulfilled, giving, and kind superwife who ever lived was a simple pair of breast implants. It had taken a little more convincing to sway me to the opinion as well, but she had. With pouting lip and batting eyelashes (and a rare but wild weekend where Andrea had strutted about dressed as Barbara Eden's Jeannie and calling me "master"), she had brought me around. And a few days later, she had two rather large and prominent and perfect double-d-cup breasts perched provocatively on her chest. They stood at an almost unnatural attention, too---even when she went braless, which was a state she strutted about in more and more these days. Problem was, I was stuck paying the bill for the surgery. It occurred to me, as I waited on the long Saturday afternoon line at the First National Trust, that the money that had gone to her mammarian enhancement was the same money I had been squirreling away for a new car... But instead of a car, all I had gotten was a pair of headlights ! And I wasn't even getting a chance to use them, I thought as I sighed at the full, uniform-blouse-breaking bust of the female bank guard as she disappeared downstairs with a customer to the safety-deposit box department in the basement. I could hear the metal gate slam as she threw it open; the sound echoed in the high ceiling of the old bank; designed in the twenties, before everything had fallen through. It had been redecorated; all-modern stuff that didn't fit. It had a dramatically high ceiling that made every sound bounce for a good two or three seconds before finally fading. Boy, these banks were getting sloppy. I could remember when nobody ever raised their voices in the bank. Everything was done with a hush, in a whisper, sort of like a funeral parlor. And they weren't nearly so sterile, either. This place was all smoked glass and brass and ferns. And.. I was getting jostled; something was going on behind me... "Everybody get down!", came the shout. I couldn't see who said it, but the gruff voice meant business, that much I knew. I followed the dozen-plus other people and sprawled on the thin orange carpet. Strange, but at the time, that color seemed so odd for a bank... "...and nobody will get hurt...", the voice continued. "Keep your eyes down", said the voice as it moved around the bank floor. From what I could hear, he had an accomplice who was busy clearing out the teller's registers; female whimpering came from behind the counter. Keep calm, I told myself. He was coming around to me; he was clearing the customers of anything valuable that they might have. And I had nine hundred dollars in cash that was earmarked for Andrea's new breasts!... I was seized with the thought that I had only paid for one of the breasts; what if I didn't come up with the money? Would they take one of them back ? The cash was in my inside jacket pocket with a deposit slip; maybe I'd get away with just giving them my wallet. How much did I have on me? I heard a hard slap; somebody didn't have much money on them, and the guy with the gun (I assumed he had a gun...) had hit him. I felt a pool of sweat gathering under my shirt. The guy was coming to me. I heard a lady teller whimpering again, sniffling... "Shut up", came a voice that matched his partner's, and a slap across flesh that brought even more tears. I couldn't raise my head, even as I heard the other guy leave the teller area now, and head for his partner... I heard a metallic click over by the stairs; as if on instinct I disobeyed the orders of the crooks and looked over out of the corner of my eye. Something tall and dressed in blue was standing firm. "Party's over, fellas. Put your guns down", came a strong and unwavering female voice. Sometimes you don't have to see things to know what's happening. There are sounds people make, certain sounds, special sounds, that can be identified clearly and simply even if it's something you don't ordinarily hear. It fits in a little mental jigsaw in your mind as belonging to only one thing. And in this case, I was right. The two bank thieves were clicking back the hammers of their revolvers, preparing to fire. Instinctively, I curled into a ball on the weird orange carpet. My hands were covering my face to protect my nearsighted but operative eyes from a stray bullet. I didn't think the guard was gonna make it... I wasn't sure how many shots I was hearing, but they echoed loudly in the high ceiling. I heard glass breaking as a stray shot rendered a glass table to so much rubble. Within seconds, two sharp, high male screams filled the muted, fearstruck environs of the bank. I heard two metallic thuds, followed by a series of small bounces, as the guns of the two robbers fell from their hands and skittered away. I looked up to see the blonde bank guard, her long curls falling freely now, her hat off and fallen to the floor. From beneath the short sleeves of her white blouse, there extended two large, powerfully muscled arms that spoke of a woman who knew how to handle situations just like this one... Her short and tight uniform skirt bared her powerful legs; legs that were moving fast now... She dove for the guns and she had them, as the two men, dressed in black and wearing stockings over their heads, writhed on their knees and held their bleeding wrists. A small grey bank officer, his courage found now, hustled to her side and took the cheap handguns before skittering off to his small grey desk and calling the cops. The big blonde woman looked down now, to a small streak of red on her white, stiffly-starched and creased blouse. It was growing in a long vertical pool on the side of her rib-cage, and down to dark skirt. It did not seem to disturb her, and so she simply began to unbutton the blouse, calmly, hands not shaking, as though she was merely trying to remove a stain of ketchup or something. She stripped the blouse off her body, and a rush, a sigh of awe went up from the people as they gathered themselves to their feet. The short skirt fell next; it was a dark blue and matched, or had matched, her white blouse. I still couldn't get a clear look at the officer; the wide "V" of her back was turned to me as I looked up now, scrambling to find my feet. Thick powerful calves bulged over her high spiked heels. Her body was hugely muscled. Thick deltoids dared you to look away. Trapezius trapped your eyes, making you want to ride their long hard, steep slope with both hands. And huge biceps beckoned your attention; and my heart as it thumped in my chest. She turned; her stomach was so hard and chiseled it seemed hard to believe that this woman wasn't bulletproof, but she wasn't. One of the errant shots had ricocheted, and grazed her side. Her opponents weren't going anywhere, but all the same she was going to make sure... The eyes of the miscreants were wide with fear; fear at the sight of this huge blonde woman dressed in white bra, flowered trim panties, and high heels. She was a large woman, alright; solid, living muscle was about to loose it's wrath on the punks and deliver their punishment. And her punches, one to the face of each of the robbers, ended any danger, any argument. I heard her fist crunch against their trembling jaws, each issuing little grunts of pain and fear; and I saw them drop like frightened, lifeless sacks. They were unconscious in heaps on the orange carpet. Or was it burned ochre ? At any rate, they had been tamed, all fight gone from them now, as the blonde lady bodybuilder flexed over them, thick muscle silently making it's statement. Presently, she pulled the stockings from their heads and tossed the silky things on the floor. One of the men writhed and groaned, semi-conscious, but in pain. Karla was not sympathetic. She grabbed the man as he lay prostrate on the floor. Holding him by only his collar, she hoisted him high in the air with one hand. Every thick muscle in her seventy-inch-tall-body flexed and strained. "You say something, mister?", Karla growled at the man; he was small and dangled like a puppet in her grasp. He shook his head and made a choking sound; Karla dropped him to the floor, where he lay at her feet, demolished by this most- muscular mademoiselle. The golden-tressed sharpshooter turned around. She was breathing only slightly heavily, her big bust rising and falling on her sculpted chest. It was Karla Nelsen! And she was looking right at me... "You okay, sir?", she asked, after she had walked with calm authority to me. "You look a bit shaken..." Me? I grabbed a shred of the blouse rendered a rag by a quick tug of the blond gladiatrix. I got on my knees in front of her and tried to stem the small bloodflow; and saw after a moment it was nothing more than a scratch. I looked up at the muscle-chiseled blonde, her bra fighting a losing battle with breasts that wanted to burst free, fall naked and full on her chest... She smiled down at me, and bending low, kissed me hard; her tongue took over the kiss and I let it. I wanted it to. She reached for me; I did the same to her. As I rose, my hands felt the iron in her thick and massive arms, as though something of the metal she hoisted had become a part of her own flesh. It was getting hard to breath, but I didn't care. I didn't want the kiss to stop. I didn't... "Sir? Sir?" I shook my head as if to clear it and I opened my eyes. The young teller was chewing gum and looking at me as if I had come to the bank for the expressed purpose of screwing up her day... "Oh, sorry", I stumbled. "I was distracted..." I handed the cash over to her. She looked at it but said nothing. The expression on her face was sort of like the one I saw on my wife's puss when I handed her the envelope every other Friday night... I wasn't sure how long I had been lost in that little daydream. But it had been fun, hadn't it? I went home to watch my tapes, and see Karla Nelsen tame a world, and teach it to respect her powerful body, one man at a time...