Chapter Twelve The Possibilities & The Impossibilities “You will be transformed,” The Reverend told me, his voice inflected with equal parts wonder and regret. “Receiving The Message will bring you unimaginable pain and almost unbearable pleasure.” There was an immediate twinge and throb in my clitty. “You will be thereafter unable to . . . receive any other man—myself included—in that manner.” “I won’t be able to feel anyone else,” I said, in a tremulous whisper. The Reverend nodded hurriedly. “You will become his concubine—though you will remain my wife. I will take your final virginity and our physical communion will then consist only of sodomy; I will yield your mouth to the congregants for the purpose of their ongoing redemption.” I felt like I was a house, like we were discus

