The Erotic Mind-Control Story Archive

As Julie entered the tea-room at Biological Sciences, it seemed like a ghost town. Nearly all of the staff were overseas at Johns Hopkins, or over at Lennox Hospital.

Only Gabby was here, seated at the big table, reading one of the newspapers which were always scattered across it.

She looked up and smiled as Julie walked in.

Julie had always felt quite sorry for Gabby.

She was pale, in a delicate kind of a way, and the skin on her face was still spotty, like that of a teenager’s. She was pretty enough, but she had a bit of a limp, as one of her legs was shorter than the other.

Julie imagined that Gabby’s problems were due to an accident, or congenital, but had never felt close enough to her to ask.

Gabby always wore a huge old woollen great-coat to keep her from the cold.. It was some kind of orangey tartan, lined, and had big, round, black buttons. It had probably been very expensive when it was new, but Julie thought it made Gabby look like a bag lady.

Gabby had once been wicked to Cassie, and Julie doubted that Cassie would ever forgive her.

“Hi, Julie.

“How was your holiday?”

Julie had to cast her mind back to WA; it was only ten o’clock, but her family seemed another world away now. The wedding had been lovely, her cousin had been beautiful as a bride, and it was so nice to be with her family again.

She only seemed to get to see them a couple of times a year these days.

“It was nice, Gabby, a beautiful wedding.

“The work at the hospital looks interesting. Have you met Miss Eve yet?”

Gabby was disappointed. Right now, she really needed a friend, and Julie wouldn’t even talk to her about a wedding!

She had to say her piece, whatever the consequences.

Gabby lowered her voice, and motioned Julie closer.

“Julie, I’m a little bit worried about Eve Hunter. I don’t like the sound of what she wants me to do at the new hospital.

“I should be over there today, but I don’t want to go.

“Eve wants me to work on black thread-worm toxin, can you believe that? Two years ago the Earth was almost colonised by aliens, aliens that can control people’s minds. Now they want me to see what happens when people take the toxin, they’re looking for new drugs to patent. Who knows what weird alien chemicals it has in it, who knows what long-term effects it has on the human body?

“I don’t like it, Julie. I can’t do much about it right now, I’ve signed an NDA, but I think I’ll try to find a new supervisor, maybe even move to a new Uni. With my original supervisor at Johns Hopkins, my thesis is going nowhere, and everyone’s working on cancer, cancer, cancer. It’s all very worthy, Julie, but it’s not what I want to be doing.”

Julie was a little surprised at Gabby’s outburst.

Gabby believed in aliens? Really?

Julie had always thought that Gabby was pretty sensible, but now she was sounding like she might need a tinfoil hat.

“Are you allowed to talk to me about this?” Julie asked.

“Of course not, Julie,” Cassie replied, “I’ve signed the NDA, but we’re all in this together, aren’t we? We can talk. You wouldn’t dob me in.

“We have to stick together. At least for a little while, anyway. Maybe you should think about getting out as well, while you still can.”

Gabby looked like she wanted to say more, but Julie was stuck on “Aliens” and “Mind Control”.

Gabby was crazy.

Julie couldn’t get out of that room fast enough.

As these things go, it took a whole week to organise the NDAs and the new scholarship contracts.

It was no effort to convince Cassie’s supervisor to defer her Ph.D. for six months. Actually, Cassie wasn’t sure if anyone would notice she was gone.

She would be getting an opportunity to do work on the black thread-worms!

Eve gave both Julie and Cassie a generous cash advance, and helped them out with removalists.

Their apartment was near Parkes Way, just back from the water, with a good view of the hospital and right at the edge of the University.

Built for visiting academics, the apartment block was brand new, and had been designed by the same architect as the new Lennox Hospital across the water, and the brand-new Uni bar in the opposite direction. The style harked back to the majestic reinforced concrete structures which appeared in Canberra in the 80’s.

On the day they arrived to look over their new apartment, Eve was waiting in the foyer of the building, looking like a real-estate agent in her suit and make-up, ready to take them on the grand tour.

She lived in the building as well, and had scored the penthouse apartment on the very top floor.

She took them up to see her apartment first.

She delighted in showing them her spacious office, the pool, several bedrooms, of which she only used one herself, and a wonderfully appointed kitchen.

As with every apartment in the block, she had a huge picture window spanning the width of the apartment.

The glass was beautifully clear and bright, and, supposedly, immensely strong, and extremely light.

Looking across the lake, Julie noted that the apartment building had been situated in exact alignment with the hospital. She could see the reflection of the apartment building in the black windows of the hospital, and the effect was stunning. All of the windows were optically flat, and in perfect alignment.

There was none of the rippling of reflections common to all of those tall, black, glass skyscrapers that thrust themselves up into the air in every major business district in the world.

Julie had always thought that this imperfection detracted from their appearance.

The opposite side of the apartment faced the brand-new uni bar building at the end of Daley road. It had been faced with the same beautiful, black glass. The bar itself had only just opened, near the top of the building, and the building itself would likely make the university a lot of money, as it had four floors of luxury student and staff apartments below the bar, much like this building.

Above the bar appeared to be another penthouse, much like Eve’s.

Julie wondered who would be lucky enough to get that one.

Standing here, in the middle of the three buildings, Julie could see now that the hospital, the apartments, and the new uni bar had been built as three of a perfect pair, facing each other with optical perfection, and spaced an identical distance apart.

Julie had heard that Johns Hopkins had started to invest money in the university, but was only just beginning to realise how much money had actually been spent.

“Girls, I have to tell you about this glass.

“The windows are here as a sort of tribute to the Taubett instrument, which has made the construction of these buildings possible, and so very necessary.

“It is a new kind of polymer glass, and it has some truly amazing properties.

“I have a small piece of it here with me. Please let me demonstrate.”

Eve pulled something out of her pocket, wrapped in velvet. It was a piece of black glass, about the size of a small picture frame.

The edges were wrapped around with black paper.

Julie had read about the polymer glass, but she had never seen it before. She was excited to be looking at such huge lumps of it, and was curious about what Eve would show. She turned to look at Cassie, knowing that she would share Julie’s enthusiasm for the this new science.

“In its natural state,” said Eve, “polymer glass is opaque to all forms of light, and forms a kind of electromagnetic shield. It blocks all wavelengths, from radio frequencies right up to soft gamma rays.

Eve held it up against the window, and, black and shiny, they could see that there was no light getting through it.

She removed the black paper, which was only held by a piece of sticky tape, and held up the glass again.

It now appeared transparent, although the view through the block was still quite dim, almost smoky.

Eve turned it around, and, looking down through the edges of the block, it was totally clear.

“Look at this ...”

Eve turned on her desk lamp, and tilted the bulb so that it pointed up at the ceiling.

When she placed the block of glass above it, side-on against the bulb, Cassie saw something truly astonishing.

The glass was now totally transparent, showing a view of the window through the glass block. But the view through the block was actually brighter than the light coming through the window.

Eve turned it upside down, so that the opposite side was facing the lamp, and the glass was dim again.

“This is the magic property which has made the Taubett machine possible. When the glass is not illuminated from the side, all light is blocked. When light, of whatever wavelength, is applied to the side, it pumps up the electrons in the atomic structure, and incident light coming through the front of the glass stimulates the emission of radiation.

“It is also used as an optical diode. Depending upon which side light is applied to, the incident light will only be transmitted from one face or the other. If you apply light to both sides, it will transmit in both directions.

“Because of the stimulation effect, this glass is an optical amplifier. If coherent light, as from a laser, is incident to the front of the glass, then an amplified beam of coherent light will emerge from the rear.

“Just a small, weak beam of coherent X-rays can be amplified using this glass to the energy levels required for making a Taubett interferometer”

She pulled a little green laser pointer out of her pocket, and shone it on the wall to show them its strength. Eve then pointed it through the back of glass block towards the wall. The green beam which shone on the wall was much brighter than the original, and Julie moved her head to see the speckle which showed that the amplified light was coherent.

“This new discovery will revolutionise electronics, and medicine, and all of science.” Eve said.

“And, I also think it is very beautiful, as I hope you will both agree.”

Julie and Cassie nodded.

“Johns Hopkins patented its manufacture two years ago. As you can imagine, this has been a good source of income for our research.”

Eve walked over to a dial near the window.

She rotated it, and the view of the lake through the windows dimmed down, until the windows became black.

“No need for blinds; all we need to do is control the amount of sunlight being directed into the top of the windows, and we can close off the view.”

She turned it the other way, just for a second, and Julie and Cassie had to shade their eyes; the view had become very bright, too bright, just for a moment.

“Or enhance it.

“At night time, the top of the glass is lit up with adjustable fluorescents.

“We can make night-time in Canberra look like daylight, if we wish.

“It’s just such a pity that there’s nothing to see!” she said with a smile.

Their new apartment was very plush compared to their dingy old digs in Downer.

All of their furniture and boxes had already been moved in.

Julie was a bit disappointed to see Stefan moving in to their building on the same day, but greeted him pleasantly enough. She wondered if she would see Gabby, too, but she hadn’t seen her since that day in the tea-room..

Even after they had moved in the books, their poo-brown couch, Cassie’s mismatched dining table and chairs, and Julie’s honking great CRT television, the place was still looking relatively civilised.

Their apartment was in the centre of the building, on the fifth floor, just below Eve’s apartment and looking across at the hospital.

After shifting furniture into the right places, unpacking boxes, and rearranging the kitchen, they were knackered.

Stefan knocked on their door to say hello.

Cassie, who had seen Stefan hanging around Julie a little more than she liked, could not hide her disgust.

She didn’t dislike all boys, but she did dislike them more often than not, and she disliked Stefan in particular.

Stefan ended up in their apartment that first evening, as he’d gone out to buy chicken and chips, and, despite Cassie’s issues with him, Julie was feeling happy and sociable. Stefan dominated the conversation as he kept chattering about old Uni gossip, kernel security. and world politics, until Cassie could stand it no longer.

“Stefan, please shut up. I know you like hanging around with the the cool Lesbian couple, but I’m not particularly interested in Iraq, or Syria, or Afghanistan, or any of the propaganda you keep regurgitating to us.

“I’d rather you just tell us what the fuck you think is going on in your personal life right now.

“Frankly, I find it a bit creepy the way you keep bumping into us, and I’d prefer it if you just left us alone.”

Julie looked shocked, and angry.

Cassie wasn’t being fair, and Cassie knew it. She was being deliberately mean.

Besides, they weren’t a Lesbian couple!

Stefan looked surprised, and hurt. He began to talk, hesitatingly. He had already guessed that Cassie wasn’t exactly fond of him, but hadn’t expected to be ambushed like this.

“I’m sorry, Cassie. I didn’t know I was being such a hassle. It’s just that … well ...”

“Go on,” Cassie encouraged him, looking more conciliatory..

“I really like Gabby,” Stefan admitted.

He blushed, and looked at his plate.

“I really like her, and I can’t talk to her. I hang out with you guys to see Gabby.”

Cassie nodded her head, glad to have her suspicions confirmed.

“I thought, so, Stefan, I’ve always thought so.

“But I have a few home truths to tell you.

“Gabby doesn’t even like me, Stefan.

“Gabby knows Julie, but they’re not exactly friends.

“But I guess that Julie’s the closest thing to a friend that Gabby has at work.

“What a perfect pair you are. Stefan and Gabby. I know that Gabby likes you, but she’s too repressed to make the first move. You’re equally repressed, but you’re the man. You have to invite her out, you know, that’s your role.

“To put it bluntly, Stefan, the two of you need a good fuck. You both need to loosen up a bit and enjoy your lives. Get out there, and get on with it, my little man!”

Now Julie was surprised. Cassie had moved from accusing Stefan of being a stalker straight to trying to hook him up.

How had that happened?

Stefan felt a bit inadequate, and still looked doubtful.

“You’re right, Cassie. You are right. I do need to ask her out.

“Have either of you seen Gabby?” Stefan asked, “I haven’t seen her all week. Eve says she’s working at the new hospital, but Gabby’s not responding to her email, and her phone seems to be switched off.”

Julie shook her head.

She’d noticed Gabby’s absence, but not really thought much about it.

After his tongue-lashing from Cassie, Stefan knew the evening was over, although he was actually grateful to Cassie for encouraging him to act on his desires.

Julie walked him to the door, gave him a silent hug, and Stefan left.

Finally, Cassie was alone in a beautiful, brand-new apartment with the love of her life.

She allowed her joy to bubble to the surface.

She ambushed Julie, creeping behind her and giving her an all-encompassing bear-hug before covering her neck, and then her face, with kisses.

Julie didn’t object, at least not at first, and turned around, held on tight, and returned Cassie’s ambush with a machine-gunning of tiny play-kisses planted on her cheeks, left, then right, then left, then right again.

Laughing, they fell onto the couch, still holding each other.

Cassie kept still, enjoying being held, but Julie soon pushed herself away, and carefully adjusted her glasses. She gave Cassie a half-smile, kissed her own index finger, and placed the kiss on the end of Cassie’s nose.

“We sign the NDAs tomorrow, Cassie. Tomorrow we find out what Eve’s got planned for us, and we get to start work on the worms.

“We’d better get some sleep.”