BarbersChoice
The barbershop on Maple Street smelled like talc, aftershave, and old magazines.
Sharon sat in the big leather chair, her hands folded tightly under the barber’s cape. Her brown hair hung halfway down her back—thick, soft, and something she had always worn long without thinking much about it.
Jack stood behind her, leaning casually against the counter, but his eyes were fixed on the mirror.
“You don’t have to,” he said, though his voice betrayed hope.
Sharon glanced at him in the mirror.
“Jack, you’ve asked me a hundred times.”
He laughed nervously. “Not a hundred.”
“Close enough.”
The barber, a gray-haired man named Lou, turned the clippers on for a moment to test them.
BZZZZZZ.
The sound filled the shop.
“You sure about this?” Lou asked.
Sharon hesitated.
Her life felt uncertain back then. She had a young child, a small apartment, and a string of bills that seemed to multiply each month. Jack had brought excitement into her life, stability too—or at least the promise of it.
And he adored short hair.
Not just liked it.
Adored it.
Demanded it.
She looked at him again through the mirror.
The excitement in his eyes made her smile.
“Okay,” she said softly.
OLe Lou snapped a guard onto the clippers.
Then the buzzing began.
The first pass ran straight up the back of her neck.
Brown hair slid down the cape in thick curls.
Jack’s eyes widened.
Sharon felt the cool air hit her skin where hair had been seconds before.
Another pass.
Higher.
Closer.
By the time Lou finished the back, Sharon’s nape was clean and tapered. The sides followed, gradually revealing her ears.
Jack looked like he was witnessing magic.
When Lou finished shaping the top into soft pixie bangs and spun the chair around, Sharon barely recognized herself.
Her neck looked longer.
She felt naked.
Embarrased.
The shops patrons watching as she was treated like a fresh Army recruit.
Jack stepped forward slowly.
“You look… incredible.”
She simply sat there, no words – just a few collected tears.
For a while, things were good.
Sharon forced into a string of barbershop visits.
The cuts shorter and shorter.
She loved the lifestyle he provided, the cars, the sex.
The sex was unreal.
He got to her in ways noone ever had in the past.
But underneath it all – she fucking hated him for his hair demands.
The threats. The surprise barbershop drop ins.
She had no choice at the time.
But life has a way of bending stories in directions no one expects.
Eighteen months later, they were no longer together.
2. Separate Lives
Decades passed the way decades do—quietly and all at once.
Sharon raised her child, worked steadily, and eventually built a comfortable life. Her hair grew long again, sometimes shoulder length, sometimes longer, but short again.
Jack married.
Built a business.
Settled into routines.
They rarely thought about each other, except sometimes when an old song came on the radio.
And then one summer evening everything changed.
3. The Concert
The town amphitheater was buzzing with music and chatter.
Sharon had almost stayed home that night, but her friend Linda insisted.
“You need to get out more,” Linda said.
So Sharon went.
The band had just started their second set when she spotted a familiar profile across the crowd.
It took a moment.
But then she knew.
Jack.
Older now. Gray at the temples. But unmistakably him.
Standing beside him was his wife.
Their eyes met across the crowd.
He looked surprised.
Then he smiled.
Later, near the drink stand, Sharon approached him while his wife was talking with friends nearby.
“Jack?”
He turned and broke into a wide grin.
“Well I’ll be…”
They hugged.
The kind of hug that held decades inside it.
They talked about old times. Jobs. Families. Life.
Then Jack chuckled.
“You ever go short again?”
Sharon laughed.
“Still thinking about that shit I see – damn, you’ve not changed a bit?”
“Always fucking hated you for that.”
“My hair?”
“That fucking aweful haircut.”
She shook her head.
“Your wife ever try it?”
Jack sighed.
“I’ve asked,” he said with a smile. “But she loves her long hair.”
Sharon shrugged.
“Nothing wrong with that.”
But the conversation stayed in her mind long after the concert ended.
4. The Decision
Weeks passed.
Sharon occasionally saw Jack around town.
Sometimes they exchanged quick messages online.
Friendly.
Light.
But one quiet Saturday morning she stood in front of her bathroom mirror studying her reflection.
Broke. Divorced for the 3rd time. Added pounds on her 5’3″ frame.
Almost homeless. A daughter who she had not spoken to in a number of years.
Her life was a complete mess.
Her hair fell past her shoulders.
Perfectly safe.
But something stirred inside her.
Desperation perhaps.
She knew this was her last chance.
5. The Barbershop Returns
Lou’s shop was long gone, replaced years ago.
But another barbershop now sat on the same corner.
The bell jingled as Sharon stepped inside.
Three men sat waiting.
A young female barber looked up.
“Can I help you?”
Sharon smiled.
“Yes.”
She pointed to the chair.
“I’d like a short haircut.”
“How short?”
She paused.
Then said the words she hadn’t spoken in forty years.
“Clippers. A faded pixie”
The barber blinked.
“Really?”
She nodded.
“Real short on the back and sides.”
She draped the cape around her shoulders.
“What about the top?”
“Leave the bangs long. Pixie style.”
The barber smiled.
“Alright then.”
He clicked the clippers on.
BZZZZZZ.
The sound sent a ripple of fear through her.
“All the way down” the barber pressed on the crown.
PTSD.
Those words sent chills down her spine.
A reminder of how Jack would simply point years ago.
She would instantly drop to her knees.
Head down- the clippers grinding up he rnape leaving a path of destruction.
The first pass ran up the back of her neck.
Hair slid down the cape.
The second pass followed.
Cool air touched her skin again just like it had decades before.
She watched the transformation in the mirror.
The back tapered tight, faded bald.
The sides faded smoothly.
When she finally scissored the top into sweeping pixie bangs and brushed away the loose hair, Sharon stared at herself quietly.
The barber turned the chair.
“Well?”
Sharon ran her fingers across the back of her neck.
“No lines, I want it down to skin here”
And as it was.
The lady barber with long blonde locks took her down skin tight.
Sharon walked out with skin tight fade, triple 000 on the back and sides and jsut enough on top to keep her from a complete meltdown.
And so it was. She lost her identity that day.
How would Jack reaact?
6. The Reveal
Two weeks later another town concert brought everyone together again.
Sharon’s creeping on Jack’s Facebook.
She knew he would be in attendance.
Sharon arrived early.
The summer air was warm against the freshly clipped back of her neck.
Jack appeared across the lawn with his wife.
At first he didn’t notice.
Then Sharon stood and waved.
Jack walked over casually.
And stopped mid-step.
His eyes moved slowly from her face… to her hair.
The tapered sides.
The exposed nape.
The long pixie bangs brushing one eyebrow.
He blinked.
“What in the hell did you do, I mean… ”
Sharon grinned.
“That little hint a few weeks ago”
“Thought I’d go back short – kinda made me wet down there, you know, that cold blade gliding up my nape”
7. Small Moments
Over the next several weeks Sharon kept the haircut fresh.
Reluctantly
Every two weeks she returned to the barbershop.
The clippers.
The familiar hum.
She hated every bit of it each time.
The post’s to her Facbook page.
Jack noticed every single update.
“Just left the barber, soo needed a good cleanup”
Hashtags
#clipperedtight #freshnape #Oster76gal.
Again, Jack saw everything.
And over the next few months, the spell was cast.
Their conversations deepened.
They talked about memories.
Regrets.
Dreams that had been forgotten.
The haircut had reopened a door neither of them knew still existed
8. The Walk
One autumn evening after a community festival Jack asked if Sharon wanted to walk with him for a few minutes.
They strolled down a quiet street under glowing streetlights.
After a while Jack stopped.
“You know something?” he said.
“What?”
“You getting that haircut again… it surprised me.”
She smiled.
“You mean you like it.”
“That too.”
He paused.
“But it reminded me how brave you always were.”
Sharon laughed.
“I wasn’t brave back then.”
“You were,” he said gently.
“And you still are.”
He reached out and lightly touched the back of her neck.
The short hair felt soft beneath his fingers.
“You never lost that spark,” he said.
Sharon went for the kill.
“The sound of those clippers made me think of your cock” she said softly.
The way you would run your stiff cock in me, rubbing my bald ass nape.
I’ll get in that fucking chair every morning to have that thing in me every night again.
9. The Taunting
Sharon began the assault.
The texts.
“Headed to the barbershop, wanta join me.
I’ll bet with all the Youtube videos out there, you could save me a shit ton of money skinnin’ my ass.
The pictures.
It was too much for Jack to bare.
The calls to his phone saying nothing – just playing the sound of the clippers.
The Oster 76’s – his favorite.
And the moment when from nowhere Sharon worked her way in line at a food truck.
She stood behind Jack.
His wife ordering.
A quiet whisper from behind.
“Our day would start with a quick trip to the barber, you have him skin me good, I want it prickly so you’ll get that feeling again on your thighs as stroke and suck that hard cock – whatcha think.”
She simply walked off.
Jack was fucked. It would soon be over,
His desire for the ultimate buzzed gal was simply to much.
Weeks later Jack and his wife had a long conversation.
Years of quiet distance finally surfaced.
They realized something important.
Their lives had slowly grown in different directions.
The separation that followed was calm and respectful.
No anger.
Just honesty.
10. A New Beginning
A new apartment.
Both now acting as if 40 years were only yesterday.
Sharon’s plan followed thru with perfection.
A small price to pay to get back in the game.
Eventually she learned to accept her situation.
Clippers. A shop in their apartment. Cuts sometimes daily.
Flattops. High-n-tights. Crewcuts. Skinned to the scalp.
She’s had them all over these past few years.
She ran her hand across the faded nape.
This shit grows so fast baby, I’m a lucky woman to have you.
The way treat me. Fuck me. Keep my hair in line. The life you provide.
Sharon leaned back in her chair and looked at him.
Every time I hear time those clippers buzz… I remember I’m still alive.”
Jack reached over and gently brushed the back of her neck again.
“Well,” he said softly.
“I’m glad you walked back into that barbershop.”
The sun dipped below the trees.
And so it was.
Oh by the way.
Her double life continued.
Sharon still out partying when Jack traveled. At times gone for weeks.
By day she would text and send him pics of her hair.
Always just as he demnaded.
Weekly visits to the barber when he was away.
Facbook posts telling the world how she loved to be skinned.
And how her man loved her buzzed nape.
BUT by night.
Wine.
And of course.
Wigs.
Expensive wigs purchased with his money.
One’s that made her feel sexy. Desired. Hot.
After all.
What guy in his right mind wants to fuck a chick with a horseshoe flattop?
Running around cheatin’ on Jack was her way of revenge.
One night stands.
Getting fucked by many randoms.
She now knows she still had game, even if Jack kept her damn near bald.
The end…
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