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Imbalance of Power

Conradin's Personal God Intervenes Again

Y Lee Coyote

I was inspired to write this by a combination of H. H. Munro (Saki) delightful tail of horror "Sredni Vashtar" www.classicshorts.com/stories/vashtar.html and Jonathan's drawing www.malespank.com/spankcartoons/christmas02.jpg.  Thanks to the "magic" of fiction, Conradin aged only fifteen years in the century plus since Munro wrote about him and his personal god, Sredni Vashtar and also emigrated to America.

The following story is fiction about two young men.  The story contains a scene of a paddling and is fantasy.  If this subject is offensive, uninteresting or if you are a minor (i.e., child) please leave now.

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Conradin had been unhappy with Lars for a while now.  They loved each other dearly but of late the blond boy had gotten impossible.  Lars thought that he was an emperor.  With unwelcome regularity, Lars found great fault with Conradin's mole hills and spanked him.  After each hard thrashing, he brutally fucked him and made him sleep on the couch.  Lying prone and through his sobs, Conradin made his plea to his personal god. "Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.''  It was unnecessary to explain to a god what was wanted now, any more than it had been when he had been a boy of ten.

It was Xmas morning and the couple had returned from a party in the wee hours.  The little boy in Lars insisted that it was time to open the presents under the tree.  There were the usual things from friends and relatives but there was one strange box which they opened together.

It contained a hard wood paddle with holes drilled through the business end to make it more effective.  Conradin's heart sank for he quickly decided that Lars had gotten it to use on his butt as if his strap were not sufficient.

"I got to try this out, Con." he said and pushed him over the arm of the big easy chair.  He raised up the paddle and swung.  It did not crash into Conradin's butt for Lars twisted around and fell.  "What the fuck!" he yelled, sprawled on the floor.

Only when he spoke did they noticed the fur-trimmed, red-suited, white-bearded figure with the black gloves and boots.  "It can't be used that way, Lars.  It is a very special paddle.  Try it Conrandin."  Conradin stared at the figure and saw that he had a white muzzle rather than a white beard, a pink nose and a black mask as he had first thought and knew that it was not Santa.

Conradin picked up the paddle and it felt strange.  It made him feel strange.  He sat down in the easy chair, pulled his mate over his lap and gave him a light pop.  Lars howled like a banshee and jumped up.  Conraden grabbed Lars's belt, opened it and then his shorts and yanked them down to his knees.  He got Lars over his lap without any hassle holding him in place with a hammerlock.  Then he spanked Lars long and hard with the special paddle turning his butt bright red and making Lars yell like a little boy.

"There are going to be a lot of changes around here, young man.  You are going to be polite and considerate to everyone – especially me – or you won't be able sit.  Understand?"

"Yes, Sir."

"Bedtime, then."

The two went off to bed and as Conradin held his subdued mate he remembered to thank his personal god, Sredni Vashtar the Beautiful, for the gift.  Things would be very different from now on.  He hugged Lars tighter and kissed his nape lovingly.

The End

© Copyright A.I.L. August 27, 2010

Kris

Well worked tribute to Srendi Vashtar the Beautful. It would seem Christmas would be his holiday, what with the nutmeg, although there were no offerings, ill or gainfully gotten. Nice parallel, that Conradin grew up under one overly controlling Woman to find himself a relationshing with an overly controlling Man, instead.

Zille Defeu

I have to give this a lower score because it was such a great title, and such a great idea ... and then it fell seriously short of expectations. The plotline is fine, but the storytelling is weak, and needs a couple serious rounds with the red pen and some rewriting to make this into the story it could and should be!

Pablo

It's a curious and interesting choice of story to use as foundation - and a good read in itself, for which this reviewer is grateful - and this story is a pretty good echoing of Saki's style. I found myself wanting to know a lot more about the two characters, though. Compare the Saki original with this: how quickly and effectively the woman and the boy are sketched with vivid details by Saki; but how little we really learn about Lars and the 'grown' Conradin here. We know that Conradin is unhappy with Lars, but that's about all. Consequently, we've far less reason to care about the reversal of fortune here than we do in the original. The image of the ferret as Santa is pleasingly disturbing - though I suspect the ambiguity Saki leaves in the original is a nicer touch than the unambiguously-magical version presented here.

Haron

I find it hard to believe that the child of Saki's story could grow up to love anyone at all, but if one makes an allowance for that, this story is a nice homage. I would have liked to find out what was so great about Lars that made him worth enduring the bad behaviour.