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: Child
SSC: Naughty
By
I got the surprise of my life as another wave came rolling in toppling, and sending me crashing into the sand. Luckily I didn't hit my head, but I almost lost my boogie board as the surf was taking it back into the Pacific.
Three young women clad in the skimpiest bathing attire, were giggling and watching me as I retrieved my Styrofoam board, shaking the sand and water out of my ears. I attempted to hold my protruding stomach in as I walked past them. My face was three shades of red, and it wasn't just sunburn.
I love being here on the white pristine sands of Waikiki, swimming in the bluest ocean south of the equator. I don't mind returning home resembling a boiled Maine Lobster. This is a much needed, well-earned three-day Holiday.
I watch the three giggling bikini beauties heading out with colorful surfboards, wishing I could join them.
"Ahh… If I were only younger." I say to myself. I can still dream.
Sitting under an umbrella and applying sunscreen for the 15th time that day to my glistening red skin, I hear a muffled beeping several yards in front of me. I choose to ignore my cell phone, buried in a foot of sand. My production manager and staff will have to get along without me for the next three restful and sunny days.
I don't know how long she was standing there, staring at me, her eyes red, her cheeks damp as if she had been crying. I cringed a little as I motioned her forward. I always have a soft spot in my heart for children, especially anguished ones. This little blonde girl looked to be nine years old. She was wearing a pink one-piece bathing suit with a mermaid on front.
She choked back a sob as she asked to sit in my lap. I sigh granting her request. Too bad it wasn't one of the three bathing beauties I had spotted earlier, asking to do the same.
No matter where I travel, what strange apparel I am wearing, or how short I trim my beard and whiskers, they always find me. They can pick me out among a multitude of strangers.
She winced a little as she climbed into my ample lap. I noticed her skin was quite red along the bottom of her bathing suit, and it wasn't a nasty case of sunburn either.
Weeping a little the child said to me " My daddy is so mad at me, he says I could have drowned."
Her eyes looked so pitiful as she inquired "Is it true? You will only be giving me coal next year?"
Before I could answer she cried. "Please, I didn't mean to swim out so far. I didn't hear the lifeguard yelling at me to come in."
I chortled loudly reminding her, she had three hundred and sixty-four days left to be nice.
I wonder if it was the candy canes on my bathing trunks that gave me away.
The End
© Copyright Summer, 2002
Reviews
Tami <tamishy(at)webtv(dot)net>
An unexpected story, by an unknown writer, makes for a good read. I just love it when a story gets me completely off guard.
I have no doubt believing this story will live on even after the contest is over. At least in my mind it will. And if you've changed the life of just one person then you've done your duty!
Nice Job
John <johnb(at)ssec(dot)wisc(dot)edu>
Now this was CUTE. Not only that, but it fits nicely into the literary form of the short story, in which everything changes focus and meaning in the last line.
The words in such a piece have to perform multiple tasks. Like every story, they have to keep the reader's interest and advance the plot. But here, they also have to provide the disjoint picture elements which will be brought into focus at the last and provide the surprise ending, without giving anything away. This entry performs its second objective somewhat more perfectly than its first. But over all, a lovely piece of work and a very pleasant surprise indeed.
Owen Williamson <ashthorn(at)maildulf(dot)com>
This was an interesting story. A little different from the usual fare we have on this newsgroup. For me, I think, there was a little too much put into setting the scene and not quite enough on the meat of the tale.
I also enjoyed the lightly humorous twist at the end.
MollyB <mollyb(at)newsguy(dot)com>
Cute story. I like the way the reader can gradually put the pieces together.