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: First/Last
Be There Tigers?
By
Y Lee Coyote <YLeeCoyote@juno.com>
In the great green room, there was a telephone and a red balloon. Pat sat watching the sunlight dance on the green walls as the red balloon flittered about on its string in the breeze coming through the open windows. The redder than red telephone, without a touch pad or a dial, sat silently on the tiny table between the two green doors.
The garden was so beautiful but Pat could not be there. The pond was so very inviting but Pat could not be there either. Pat was confined to the great green room with the telephone and red balloon. Pat had been waiting for hours; worrying that it would ring with its summons. Worrying that it would not ring with its release.
Behind one door was the exit to the garden and release.
Behind the other....
Behind the other was the strapping bench and the heavy, thick, wide strap and the brute with the black hood and big bulging muscles.
Upstairs the board was deciding Pat's fate.
Pat stared in dread at the red telephone; the silent telephone.
Pat stared with hope at the red telephone; the silent telephone.
Pat's butt twitched as the red balloon flittered about in the breeze.
Time crept very slowly although the great Ra still galloped along his heavenly path.
Eventually the telephone rang. Pat continued to stare at it as if it hadn't.
It rang again. Pat picked up the handset.
"It is time." was all the mechanical voice said. A light over one door blinked. Slowly Pat replaced the handset and got up.
Slowly, with a racing heart Pat approached the door.
Pat paused a long time before turning the knob, pushing the door open and stepping through.
The End
© Copyright July 19, 2002
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Reviews
Abrat4you <abrat4you(at)aol(dot)com>
This remined me of another store...The Lady and the Tiger...the story did catch my attention even though the other story came to mine...good visuals.
Pablo Stubbs <Pablo.Stubbs(at)newsguy(dot)com>
The use of the first line is a little tenuous here, but it seems to fit anyhow, and the story is wonderfully intriguing, and just as wonderfully unresolved, the ambiguity actually saying rather more about conflicts of desire than either actual resolution would. The blurring of gender by avoiding pronouns is also a very shrewd and effective technique. Very original, and skilfully executed.
Anne <Ladyanne60(at)aol(dot)com>
The waiting was indeed the edgy part, more so than the intended punishment. Pat is a somewhat complex character as he is hoping, and dreading at the same time that the red phone summons him. One can see the inner conflict within him. The comparison between the red balloon and Pat's bottom was bold. I find myself asking what did Pat do to deserve a long wait in the great green room?
Tami <tamishy(at)webtv(dot)net>
The suspense is killing me. Talk about a story to be read on the edge of ones seat. Very well thought out, each moment built on the last. The only problem is that the reader needs some cold water by the end of the story. Great Job