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: Edge -- Because we (particularly the tops among us) share a predilection that it also not uncommon among true psychotics and deviants? ?
Truehearted Henry
By
Mara Maharakshasa <MaraMahaRakshasa@aol.com>
What do we know of this man, really? =The leader calls him 'truehearted Henry,' and trusts him with almost all his innermost thoughts. He's a meticulous planner, seemingly devoid of human emotion. But, he gets things done, and he never shirks orders, until the very end of his life. =He's short, unprepossessing. With bright, ferret eyes behind gold-rimmed round spectacles. You'd not pick his out in a crowd, ordinarily. He's pale-skinned, yet looks almost =Asian with high cheekbones. A tiny clipped mustache is intended to make him look older, harder, more military. =If things had been different he might have been an auditor, a tax collector. Or maybe a farmer, with his interest in agronomy. But, he isn't. Nor is he a doctor, despite his misguided interest in science and genetics, on which he will speak for hours, given a chance. =Someone has to organize, get things accomplished. And that's what he does. He's not conspicuously violent, but his childhood was. He rarely speaks of his stern, intolerant father, quick with the belt for disciplinary infractions. His cool, remote mother has been supplanted by a matronly woman, older than him. His colleagues' more pretty wives call her 'size fifty knickers.' We know nothing of their relationship, and can only speculate. Does her motherliness include Henry over her knee, on occasion?
He's supervising tens of thousands now. Efficiently, dispassionately. =One day, in July 1942, he pays a visit to one of his Polish enterprises. A sprawling series of factories, where labor is unpaid and coerced. He's overcome his nervousness, and wants to see his handiwork firsthand. The manager, his trusted colleague Rudolf, is happy to indulge him. =His genetic theory, shared by the leader and all his cohort, is that some drastic steps must be taken, to ensure the survival of their own lifestyle, their dominance. One day, they vow, the entire world will show them grateful allegiance. Right now, it isn't working as planned, but Henry is not deterred. No, business must continue as usual. =He watches with indifference as a surplus group of laborers is led away, for permanent downsizing. =The next day, he asks Rudolf if he can witness a disciplinary procedure. The process he supervises has swept up a number of women of dubious morals, and it is Henry's contention that they should be punished for their laxity. He watches, impassive, as a woman is stripped naked, bound to a triangular frame and mercilessly flogged by two other females, forewarned to not take their usual malicious pleasure in this activity. =What is going through his mind, as she screams and writhes? =What fantasies are being fulfilled? =No one knows, no reports remain. And if they did, would they dare note that this senior manager was aroused? It would have been too dangerous to say. =Later, it got worse. =So you must welcome to the ranks of 'spankos,' Treue Heinrich, the national leader of security squads, the original Men In Black: Reichfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Nazi pervert and murderer.
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. Facts from 'Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust' by Richard Rhodes (2002)
Reviews
Pam <pamiMac(at)aol(dot)com>
This is incredibly dark. Too dark for me. With the documentation Mara provided I suppose this is a true story. But that she thinks that: «Authors are encouraged to include a note describing why the story is edgy for them. -- Because we (particularly the tops among us) share a predilection that it also not uncommon among true psychotics and deviants? ?» I find this the most interesting part of the story. Are we that close to how the Nazi's were in the 30s and 40s? I hope not. I'd hate to think I'm a true psychotic and/or deviant. But the story itself was written very flatly which probably enhances the scariness of the story.
Tami <tamishy(at)webtv(dot)net>
Another college-level manuscript. Very articulate and specific, but losing entertainment value. Reader has to determine what the writer is trying to get across instead of enjoying the story.
Dyke Grrl <dyke.grrl(at)verizon(dot)net>
This was a very creepy story. The dispassionate narration works well for conveying how mundane the evil was. <shudder>