This short story is an entry in the 2001 Soc.Sexuality.Spanking Summer Short Story Contest and is copyright by the author and commercial use is prohibited without permission. Personal/private copies are permitted only if complete including the copyright notice. The author would appreciate your comments
Category: Edge
Refused
By
Valerie Meilong <VMeilong1@excite.com>
When it really hit me, I felt so defeated and crazy and miserable that I went to the bathroom and slumped down on the muddy yellow vinyl and sat there in a heap between the tub and the toilet. I felt like killing myself, but I didn't have enough energy to move. I thought that maybe in a little while I would crawl across the floor and put my head in the gas oven.
For the first time I wondered if his first wife had done that. And for the first time I wondered if Greg had ever said the same to her as he'd said to me this weekend, till she blamed herself for everything and was totally wiped out and beaten down. I remembered how his face had turned into a horror-film preview, and suddenly I felt kind of lucky to have got out of his house. I thought that even if he changed his mind now and took me back and was as charming and affectionate as before, I would always remember this weekend and wonder if it would happen again, and I would have to tiptoe round him for the rest of my life.
What if I was wrong to believe he was trying to tell me something? What if he'd been trying to warn me? I still don't know for sure if that's right. I'd really like to go up there and ask him straight out. But I don't see how I can.
So, our engagement was over, and it remained over too. He never married again, though he's been with a lot of different women since we separated. I wonder if any of them had been like me. Maybe, because none of his relationships seemed to last very long.
But while I'll never forget him I'll never forgive him, the bastard. How dare he refuse to spank me when I'd asked so politely.
The End
© Copyright Summer, 2001
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Aficionados will recognize the style of Alison Lurie here, one of the world's greatest writers. Apologies Alison, but they say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
Reviews
Michele <mcasson(at)telus(dot)com>
One of the challenges implicit in a short-short story contest is writing a story that rises above the conventions of the spanking genre and offers readers a surprise or two. Valerie handily subverts these conventions in "Refused." The ending of the story is a genuine, and humorous, surprise. Well done.
Molly B <mollyb(at)newsguy(dot)com>
Says "edge" and it means it. Evidence of how important spanking is to the narrator.