It was bitter, and hard, and twisting in her, but it seemed the time for even token resistance was past, as the certainty, the inevitability of this defeat, this tragedy built itself into her; as she worked to make herself understand that this was an inevitable part of her submission, and Odile was trembling with it. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 12 minutes; 2400 words.

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She was nothing, and she would be tightly, claustrophobically controlled, and she would shamed in public, and violently raped, and made to experience intensity; sexual, despairing, agonising, humiliating, suffocating intensity. And one day, one day, perhaps, it would destroy her, as He had told her, but it would be worth it, for occasional moments like those. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 14 minutes; 2900 words.

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Nothing mattered but Him; in His presence— even His servant's presence— she was nothing; nothing but need, and vulnerability. She was on a knife edge; would always be on a knife edge, must always offer herself to that knife edge— between being discarded, and being abused. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 20 minutes; 4200 words.

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The Ms. F. character was used in several early stories, without any attempt at coherence. This short piece attempts to force some believability onto what is, frankly, a mess of THW's' own making. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes; 900 words.

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In the dining room, with everything changed, bent right over in an explicitly submissive pose, knowing that it was forbidden for her to object to, or obstruct, any sort of manipulation, that each of the people around the table would see just what was being done with her, would see just how weak, how vulnerable she was, how could she cope? [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 27 minutes; 5700 words.

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I was in awe of her effortless domination, dismayed and delirious, too, at how easy I was making it for her, at how welcome her dominion over me was, how it fit, so perfectly, into the sick flaw in my character which she had so ruthlessly revealed, so skilfully manipulated [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 18 minutes; 3700 words.

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Simply, stop trying to be your hero, stop thinking about the possibility of it, even. That's all it takes. Step in to your reality; that you are not required to be a hero, not capable of it; that you can relax into the role you were born to— that of an extra— a walk-on part— a plot device in the story of others, who are real heroes. Everything will be simpler, I promise you. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 11 minutes; 2300 words.

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She would ask for a meeting with Mme. Danika at the earliest moment. Mme. Danika would make things right. If Sir Stephen was the head and the captain of the group, she was the backbone. If Mme. Danika would listen to her, she would be safe. She would go to her, as soon as possible, and say that she had decided, for personal reasons, that she needed to go home. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 18 minutes; 3700 words.

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Oh dear, silly girl. You have ruined the rug, and wasted my rather expensive and very hard to get nail varnish. Now, you have to decide something. Do you want me to punish you, in which case I will take all responsibility, or do you want me to call Mme. Creux and tell her of your several failings? [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 18 minutes; 3800 words.

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Estimated reading time: 8 minutes; 1700 words.

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