The Junus Box

Disclaimer : all of the characters are 18 years old or older at the time of the story.

Did you see it advertised? On the inside of a comic book? Next to the X-ray glasses or the Charles Atlas method?

(Exotic item #62371) the Janus box. An unassuming thin box of plastic that imitates white marble with veins of black. There are 2 dials and an inset that changed when turned with options. The second dial is a timer from 10 minutes to 1 hour.

It was marketed by the now defunct Head Space games in 1960

"tired of your life? Step in to the shoes of someone else!"

"With a turn of the dial any wall flower can become the belle of the ball or any wimp can become a prize fighter. Just point and watch the magic! Just set the option and time limit and hit that go button!"

It seems harmless. Is it hypnosis? Is it magic? is it even real?

The original item cost $25.00 in 1960. There is rumor of a Supreme version for $100 that was only market to adults for it's "special options" no Supreme version has ever been found or recorded in use.

"STRANGE OBJECTS" season 2. Episode 8. 2024. History channel.

Last week, in the suburbs somewhere in America,

The it starts with "Hey gran? What's this in Grandpa's stuff?"

"What is what sug?"

"It's like a thin plastic box that looks like the marble coffee table. It says Supreme...something it's kind of hard to read"...

Tommy had come up at his mother's request. Tommy's gram was moving into assisted living and he was going through her and his grandfather's things. What to put into storage and what to trash.

"Tommy, sug come up and we can have lunch. I'm sure half an hour can't hurt" she called down from the basement door.

Tommy picked up the strange little box by the handle and went upstairs into the light.

Tommy's Gram, Marris was still stunning in her 60s. Shoulder length grey hair, her makeup was always perfect and if not for her hair color you could easily think she was 10 to twenty years younger.

All Marris's life she had been on a rocket to success. The only daughter of the town's bank manager. Class valedictorian. Attending an all girls school in the north.

Until that weekend she returned on spring break.

"Gran... hello Gran? I said how did you meet grandpa?" Marris sighed as Tommy's words broke her concentration.

"Oh your grandfather? I knew him all of my life. He was always trying to ask me out. Alway pushing for attention. I turned him down every time... then one day I... I didn't "

Sam was almost the opposite of Marris. Born to one of the poorest families in town. His mother had died in childbirth and his father was never home. He dropped out of school at 16 to work in the factory. By 18 he lived on his own in a room he rented.

"Hey Sammy check this out, my brother bought this for my daughter for her birthday it'shilarious" Seth said hold up a little white marble box. It's called a Janus Box. Seth switched the dial to "Cheerleader", turned another dial to "3 minutes" and pointed it at Jon a 300lbs worker sitting eating lunch at the table across from them.

"Watch this... LET'S HAVE A CHEER!" Seth said and winked at Sam.

Jon stood up and shouted "Ready? OK" before going into a perfect cheerleader routine as if he practiced it for years. When the 3 minutes on the timer ran out, Jon looked confused to everyone's laughter and sat down embarrassed.

"It makes you a cheerleader?" Sam asked "no, it has other settings" Seth said before turning the dial to boxer, the timer to 1 minute, and pointed it at a woman cleaning up a table. The short Mexican woman squared her shoulders and sung hard at the nearest man, knocking him unconscious. When the timer ran out, she looked down confused and ran away.

"How does it do it?" Sam said in awe "I don't know, its the 60s man. We will have flying cars soon. Haven't you read the comics? I mean that where my brother found the Janus box" Seth said before getting up as the return to work bell rang.

"Oh... Tommy you found your grandfather's Janus box. He ordered that from a catalog he found in a comic" Marris said then she took a sip of her water.

Sam found the advertisement in the pages of an Adventure comic. Below the Sea Monkeys, the Charles Atlas method and X-ray glasses. For $2 you can order a catalog from Head Space inc. In a month the catalog came.

"Bored with your life? Step out of your shoes and into someone else's"

$25 original version

$100 Supreme edition. Only available for responsible adults

After much thought, It took Sam 2 months to save up. Every penny saved. He went to the bank and got a cashier's check. The manager always watch Sam closely. He didn't like the way the boy looked at his daughter.

It took almost a month for it to come. The woman who rented Sam his room signed for it. In his room Sam marveled at it.

The box was different than Seth's version. It had a lock under the timer that would operate without use of the timer and different persona options.

"Spouse, Stripper, Bed fellow, Dominate, Submissive, Dancer..."

"That looks expensive" Mrs Tompkins said from the door. "$100, it took forever to save for it" Sam said excitedly. "You paid $100 for that? I haven't seen rent yet" she said putting her hands on her hips.

Sam sighed, turned the dial to Stripper, and hit the button. Mrs. Tompkins froze for a second, her hands removed her glasses, and she moved sensually.

In her head Leslie knew the moves, it was like she had been a stripper her entire life. She danced to the music only she heard. Her fingers found the buttons on her blouse , then to her dress, and turned to remove her bra.

Sam smiled, usually his land lady wouldn't talk to him unless she was shaking him down for rent. Now she was seconds from showing him her entire body.

She bent over and removed her panties, her dark bush glistening with excitement and sweat. Sam couldn't help it he was hard at the dance and the feeling of power he had been denied almost all of his life.

Sam turned the dial to "bedfellow", Leslie paused. She didn't hear the stripper music. She didn't know the dances. She saw Sam, her lover, that's why he lived in her house. That's why she was naked. It had been like this for longer than she could remember.

Suddenly her mouth was on Sam's kissing him deeper and deeper until her tongue was in her mouth. Her fingers fumbled with his shirts buttons. Her hard nipple pressed into his chest. Sam unbuckled his belt and slid down his pants.

Leslie was on him, she could feel him deep inside her. She adjusted so he hit that perfect spot.

Sam could feel her tighter around his cock milking her. Her nails on his back. She screamed in orgasm as he filled her with his seed. Then he heard the front door open the close. "LESLIE BABE, I'M STARVING IS DINNER READY?" it was Ted, Leslie's husband.

The box was close enough he fingered the dial to "Submissive". Leslie paused she had to do what Sam said, had to. It was the most important thing in her life. Anything, anything he said. "Get dressed, go downstairs, make his dinner, pretend to be good wife" Sam said the smiled as she whimpered a "yes, sir" and quickly got dressed and ran downstairs "sorry honey, I fell asleep" he heard her say from upstairs.

"Do you still miss him? Gram" Tommy asked reaching forward to hold her hand "Everyday, Sug. I miss hearing his voice" Marris said as a tear ran down her cheek.

End. Part 1

-Jmojocat