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
Lost in a Book
By
Don A. Landhill <DLandhill@aol.com>
"The next girl was Becky Thatcher. Tom was trembling from head to foot with excitement and a sense of the hopelessness of the situation. 'Rebecca Thatcher [Tom glanced at her face, it was white with terror,] -- did you tear --' "
Sharon paused in her reading. She wished that for once Tom would not intervene, and Becky would get the whipping she so clearly deserved. But the book never changed.
"Sharon Peasly, are you reading a novel again? Have you finished your math? *And* your geography?"
"Yes, Sir I was. No, I haven't quite finished, but--"
"Then get to it now, and then write out 100 copies of 'I must learn to finish my work before I start to play.' To be handed in before bedtime.
"Yes, Sir." Sharon put away the Twain, and got out her math. It took her quite a while. She knew she should get on with her geography, and her lines, but she wanted to read just a little more of Tom Sawyer, first. Just a few minutes break, she told herself. Soon she was absorbed, deep in the cave with Tom and Becky.
Suddenly, he was back. "Sharon, half-an-hour to lights-out. You should have been out of the study long since. I'll take your line, now."
"Uh. my lines? Well. uh. Sir, I'm afraid I haven't quite, uh, finished them yet."
"Sharon Peasly! Well, lets see the ones you have done, then. And your math and geography."
"Here is my math, Sir, all complete. I, Uh, I'm afraid I haven't done my geography, or any of my lines, yet."
"You lazy girl! I am most vexed with you. Clearly you need a serious lesson. Perhaps a good dose of the strap will remind you to obey." He marched her down the hall into the gym. Soon she was bent over the vaulting horse, bare bottomed. The strapping that followed was long and hard.
"Let that be a lesson to you, young lady. Now I want 500 lines from you, before bed tomorrow. You will be on restriction for a week, with no privileges, and if I catch you with a novel during that time I will get out the cane. No lunch for you tomorrow, spend that time on your lines. Now it's straight to bed for you, young lady.
He marched her right back to her dormitory. Everybody looked up, knowing that she must have just gotten it. She winced at their gaze, and sobbed.
"Was Sherry a bad girl? Got a smacking?"
"Yes, dammit. He caught me with work and lines undone. Ow!." She rubbed her bottom and buried her face in her bedclothes.
"Careful. Language."
"Come on, give the kid a break. I remember the last time *you* got it."
"Aw, ok"
Sharon cried herself to sleep as the other girls chattered. She wished that some gallant Tom Sawyer had come to *her* rescue.
The end.
The End
© Copyright Summer, 2002 Do not copy, reproduce, distribute, or repost this story without explicit permission from the author. Permission is hereby granted to archive and reproduce this story in connection with the 2002 soc.sexuality.spanking short story contest, by the contest organizers or as part of the overall archive of contest entries.
Reviews
Needy Wench <needywench(at)hotmail(dot)com>
This one makes me smile, for all the times that I've imagined what I've read coming to life. Let me read just a little bit more.... oh wait, I have to judge these short stories, or maybe someone will come and spank me?
Pablo Stubbs <Pablo.Stubbs(at)newsguy(dot)com>
The use of the first line as a story-within-the-story is a neat idea here, though it's perhaps not used as well as it might have been. Some clearer mirroring of Becky's situation and Sharon's might have been fun. As it is, almost any novel would have worked just as well. Also, it's not really clear how the girl responds to spanking. She lingers over *that* scene in the book, wanting Becky to be whipped, but then no further use is made of this when Sharon herself gets spanked. A nice idea, but doesn't fulfull some great potential.
Simon <srb(at)imrryr(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk>
An original premise for a punishment here. The scene is competently written, with some nice touches. The way in which Sharon procrasinates and talks of 'just a few minutes' had a nice feel to it.