Justine, Pt4.

Justine accepts Sir Stephen's suggestion of a position as a maid to a high-value business conclave, and is treated as a servant.

Posted on May 21, 2024

If the room was almost overwhelmingly grand, this was more or less as expected. What was not expected, what made Justine's belly clench was that she recognised several of the people around the table, and that their faces generated strong emotions in her [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 20 minutes; 4300 words

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TAGS: #“Justine”  #scenario-suborned  #“Harshness:-1-🌶” 

Castle Garden Party— 4— Teechal-D and Tamara.

A rapper has convinced his on-off girlfriend that The Castle will be good for her.

Posted on June 15, 2024

Last updated: June 26, 2024 - Added a chunk at the end.

Around this time of year, The Castle holds its annual garden party. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 13 minutes; 2600 words

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TAGS: #“Castle”  #garden party  #“Harshness:-1-🌶” 

Justine, Pt7.

Deeply disturbed by Chanxin's abuses, Justine knows she must do something— but finds herself frightened and weak, and with conflicting thoughts.

Posted on July 16, 2024

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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TAGS: #“Justine”  #scenario-suborned  #“Harshness:-1-🌶” 

Justine, Pt8.

Justine receives an impactful lesson in pragmatic philosophy, delivered by Mme Creux.

Posted on August 3, 2024

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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TAGS: #“Justine”  #scenario-suborned  #“Harshness:-1-🌶” 

Incantata Fiammina— a complicated character

Various aspects of Ms. F.'s life are implied or described in stories here. This is an attempt to make sense of them.

Posted on August 9, 2024

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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TAGS: #MsF  #MadameF  #meta  #cabal  #short  #Harshness:-1-🌶 

The Story of Odile Pt20.

Odile is hit hard by the realisation that she will, must be stripped of her hard-won sense of womanhood. Hooded, she is strapped, naked, into a framework, suspended in mid air, and abandoned.

Posted on November 17, 2024

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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TAGS: #“Odile”  #“castle”  #“Andrew”  #psychological  #“Harshness:-1-🌶”