Une corvée de lessive… en moins
(Một chuyện giặt vò)

It happens about 1978 at Katum, near the border Vietnam-Cambodia. We lived in a big camp surrounded by huge (about 7 to 8 feet tall) and solid timbered fences and fiercely guarded by numerous (heavily)armed troops of the present government.

We were kept living together in several big commons houses, each one for 50 to 100 inmates next a current spring. So it happen 1 day, I noticed my close inmate, we had each one a separate bed selfmade before coming in the camps

- Where do you go so early and get back with wet underwear to dry, Di?...

- Um! It do not happen to you, isn't it?...

- What do you mean, dear friend!

- Tomorrow, we don't go to work, do we? So you have times to do what you want!

- Why are you in such a hurry!

- Remembering your loved ones, you ejaculate and you have to wash your underwear, is it right!!...

Remembering my lovely wife, no question with this kind of malnutrition and these everyday laborworks, I can't.

Really you don't get the awful problems as everybody in here. Almost people here are involved.

- It is so strange nothing happens to you,dear friend!...

- What do you mean ?

I see the problems. I have noticed that every morning there is 1 inmate to go and wash his underwear at the springs but I really thinking that people longtimes far from their loved ones like wives, girlfriends, too much remembering them, got in their dreams having sex with them and in the morning have to go washing their underwears!...

- Oh! With this kind of life right here, I am sure that anybody is enough strong to have sex-dreams!

- Maybe tonight, it is your turn to get a guest at your bed and you will see what happen to you as to everybody in this house! Good luck!!"

And really, night coming, everybody go to sleep, the house completely in the darkness because we are forbidden to have any light inside. At about midnight, I get awoke by a small sound at my bed. I open my eyes and see a white shadow at my feet. Do you imagine, a nice young lady, long hair, nice face, and naked, in sexual positions ready to get sex with (like Marilyn Monroe or Brigitte Bardot 100% naked in almost their movies)

"It is cold,very cold!! Let me in ,with you,honey!! Hurry up! Let me in! I love you,honey! get us have sex right now! Hurry up!I need you,honey!" whispering at my ears.

"Oh!My god! Really it is so hot with such a sexy and lovely young lady (about her twenty,big breast,large hips)! I react quickly All my whole body is truly motionless. I try after many times, about 2,3 times, to react against this Temptation by praying at the beginning by whispering then loudly (enough to do not awake everybody) my regular prayers(secretly in the camps because praying, religious exhibits are strictly forbidden) and at last my hands moving ... I make a sign of cross in the direction of the lovely ghost already to jump in having sex with me. And the lovely ghost disappear completely. I get up and silently walk around to check out the truth.The so quiet house is only full with the loud snoring of my fellows-inmates.

In the morning, I tell Di :

-You are right! It happen to me!

- And you do not get nothing? Congratulations! The ghost is afraid of you. Congratulations!

- Do you know where does she come?

- I do not know...

And further I investigate among the fellows-inmates. And I learn that young lady was a war victim, a former liaison officer of the present armed forces, she was killed during a B-52 bombing and in revenge she haunts every Southvietnamese officers detained and devastated a lot of reeducation camps along the border.

Lam chi Hieu (62)