This short story is an entry in the 2003 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
Anger Management
By
Starship <starship_64@yahoo.com>
"Yeah?"
"Hey Sweetie, it's me."
"You at school?"
"Heading into class right now. I just wanted to see if you were home yet. Oh, and to tell you I put your dinner in the fridge."
"Thanks. Yeah, I just got in. I caught some goddamned woman just before shift change driving a stolen car with thirty-five hundred dollars and two pounds of methamphetamines."
"I figured it had to be something like that."
"You want to know the worst part? She had her son in the car, sitting right on top of the drugs. The kid couldn't have been more than nine or ten months old."
"Yikes. Not good."
"I wanted to beat the shit out of her right there. I'm still furious."
"I don't blame you. I'd be furious too."
"I should be calmed down by the time you get home though. I'll go out to the garage in a little bit and punch the bag."
"Oh. Okay, because...well...I mean, I know that some of the people you have to deal with sometimes get you really angry and I've been thinking, um...for some time now actually, that, well...you know that long stretch of road through the canyon on my way home from school?"
"What about it?"
"Well, it kind of occurred to me that it's pretty deserted at night. And I guess that...uh...well, if a cop were really mad and he happened to catch someone speeding through there, he could pretty much do whatever he wanted to them."
"I'm not sure I follow."
"For example, if that somebody tried to use her looks to get out of a ticket, the cop might...um...take down her pants and give her a good spanking right out there in the open. And if he was really extremely angry, he might even rape her afterward, while she was handcuffed and helpless."
"Oh. That's...kind of intense. I know we play pretty rough sometimes, and I definitely love spanking you, but...wow. I don't know. Actually being angry sounds a little scary."
"Scary isn't necessarily bad, though. Some people even like being scared once in a while."
"And what if this speeder of yours winds up getting a harder spanking than she bargained for?"
"Um...well...I guess if that happened, she'd have nobody to blame but herself, would she? I mean, she did ask for it."
"Okay. It's still...Well, I know you've got your class right now, so I'll think about it. And...maybe if this hypothetical person tries speeding on her way home from school tonight, it's just possible there might be a pissed-off cop waiting to take out his bad day on her rear end."
"That might hypothetically be arranged."
"I said maybe though. No promises until I've had time to think this through."
"Understood."
"All right, I love you. Have a good time in class."
"I love you too."
The End
© Copyright Starship, 08 August 2003
Reviews
Sassy Jo <sassy_jolene(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Anger Management, made me smile. I love this fantasy. It happens to be one of my favorites. The author makes it read a bit differently by using the phone conversation instead of a narrative approach. I like that too. I never got confused about who is talking, good job on spacing. The story line itself isn't too original, like I said, it is one of my favorites whenever I get pulled over by a policeman for speeding (which seems like it is more frequent now that I live in a city.) The writing is excellent though. Good work!
Warm Hand Jack
This is an excellent story in which nothing happens – and it doesn't have to, because what is going to happen is so clearly described. I found this frustrating to read the first time, because I couldn't figure out who they were or what their relationship was until well into it. (In fact «You at school?» suggests at first that that unknown character – M or F – might be a teen, despite the category.) The all-dialogue style is a strong device and is well-executed here, but a few words of scene-setting would have helped. Aside from which the story is powerful and the dialogue flows very naturally. The negotiation of mutual consent is credible and realistic. The proposed escalation in the couple's play is dramatic and interesting (!), and works better (for me, anyway) because the idea comes from her. Her proposal is the more believable because she's been thinking about it «for some time now», and because his current feelings make this a good time to broach it. And I quite believe that tonight's the night – it's not just some time in the future! An excellent teaser story that says enough not to tease. Thank you.
Haron <haron(at)newsguy(dot)com>
This is a very hot and insightful story. It's hard to centre a story around negotiation prior to a scene, and it would be all too easy to portray the process as a smooth, problem-less one. The author avoids the trap by showing the reality of the couple's life: the desires have to be shared and explained, one person's fantasies may prove too edgy for the other person, and so on. Well done.