This short story is an entry in the 2002 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:  Adult
 

I Had To Follow My Passion

By

Mara Maharakshasa <MaraMahaRakshasa@aol.com>

Oh well. I think it's resolved now. But, no excuses. I had to  follow my passion. And luckily, she understood what I needed.
We'd started out as a fairly unusual couple. Sandra is an  assistant district attorney, I'm a systems guy. We met when I was  upgrading the network at city hall. She's a couple of years older  than me, in her mid-forties, and tall and strikingly good-looking. 
People don't say either about me. What got us talking was a  shared interest in opera. Soon we had lunch together. Then,  dinner.
Springtime in New York does funny things to people,  and soon we were flirting. She's divorced, I'm single, so why  not? We take a trip to Washington to see the cherry blossoms,  and end up in bed.

What surprises me about Sandra is that she is a very submissive  partner. Not one of these women constantly nagging 'do this, do  that.' She's content to be pleasured in the way I choose. After a  few weeks, when we're together at her apartment, smoking a  joint after a long lazy afternoon fuck, she casually mentions that  she'd like to be spanked.
I see why, I think. As a compensation for her powerful  job, perhaps? And so, being an obliging kind of guy, I warm her  buttocks for her, to her intense pleasure. I'd never seen a woman  come from that, before.
 

It's a few weeks later, when we've progressed to me giving her a  quite severe thrashing with a riding crop, that I betray my own  interest in being dominated.
She stares at me: "Oh, no. Not you too! I can't believe 
I've found another one!"
"Meaning what?"
"My ex-husband. Two of my boyfriends since." She  shakes her head. "Aren't there any guys around who can just be a  master?"
She seems quite annoyed.
"No, no. Don't take it like that. I only meant, if you  wanted to. If you don't like doing it, that's fine. We'll just stay as  we are"
She seems dubious. "And you'll be sulking, wondering  why I won't give you what you want? That doesn't work."
I shrug. "Forget I said it, then."
She went to the bathroom and came back. Stared at me  for a moment.
"I'm not giving up on you, hear me? I still want you to  whip me, and make me cry."
"I will, I promise."
"But because I love you" 
She's not said it before. I kiss her.
" and because you're not like them, well, let's see how  it goes, shall we? Take turns, as the mood strikes us?"
I nod. "Fine."
"It's not that I don't like it, you see. But I get very  greedy. Are you tough enough?"
"I hope so."
"So do I," she says, staring into my eyes. "I bite and  scratch. I'll hit you really hard. And I won't let up till I've had  enough."
"I understand."
"You'll be sorry," she smiles, licking her lips. "I'm going  to write you a contract."
"I'll sign it."

The End

© Copyright by Mara Maharakshasa,  2002. All rights are reserved by the author. Do not retransmit,  store (except for personal use) or publish without permission.

Reviews

Anne  <Ladyanne60(at)aol(dot)com>
Does he know what he's in for? What a strange twist of characterization.  I sense she is cruel and devious while he is naive and honest. I think  she has been the dominant one the entire time masquerading as a  submissive. This was a clever ironic story.

Dyke Grrl  <dyke.grrl(at)verizon(dot)net>
The most effective part of this story is where you switched to conversation, rather than description, in the second half. The characters come through clearly, and the description at the beginning works well to set the scene.

Kate  <ecattiva(at)aol(dot)com>
This story does a good job of illustrating that sometimes people do  things they never imagined they'd do, such as give a lover a spanking  and ask to be spanked in return. It illustrates how a person who had  not previously been involved in spanking can come to really enjoy it  and wish to experiment, not just do it to be obliging.