I Just said 'Yes' - Part 1, Chapter 2.

she finds herself determined to be chosen.

I began to position myself where he would certainly see me if he arrived via the lobby. Suddenly I wished that the dress was shorter - after having felt it was too short all afternoon. What was the point having made an effort if it didn’t get me the prize? [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes; 2100 words

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Fawzia and Alina, Scene 3

Alina is managed by Susie, and finds it all too easy to go along…

It seemed ridiculous that this could be happening, and at the same time inevitable, irresistible, as she let Suzie direct her, as if in a dream. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes; 1400 words

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The Story of Odile Pt17.

Odile is introduced to a new level of 'pathetic'.

It was awful, awful, to find herself so frightened, so pathetically subservient to Nadia, to experience such stress over such small disapproval, to have been so completely and effortlessly subordinated; but there was nothing else in Odile's body but a desperate, humiliating desire to please. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes; 2000 words

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Justine, Pt3.

Justine's year as an upmarket au-pair, during which she begins to think of herself as a sexual being.

It was beginning to be a little of an obsession with her, wondering if, before the summer was out, one of them would find a way to proposition her, and if she would find it possible to say 'yes'— not just freeze like a silly little almost-virgin. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes; 1900 words

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I Just said 'Yes'… Part 2, Chapter 2.

The reality of being a whore is harder than the thought…

It was one thing thinking about being used as I had been last night; to accept, in the abstract, in the peace of the morning, looking into the mirror, that this was going to be part of my life; it was quite another to have this stranger tell me, so brutally, make it so clear, that these people were not going to do any pretending about what was really going on, what they wanted me for. I was going to be a whore for them, with no sugar coating at all. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes; 2000 words

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Justine, Pt5.

The position of 'maid of the salon' is both important and meaningless; Justine finds it disturbing. But then 'the incidents' begin…

The incident; Justine, who had so skittishly jumped when propositioned, when lightly touched, Justine, who had been so outraged to be patted on the bum when in her waitress outfit; now, in the atmosphere of that house, the same Justine had done the opposite, had suppressed her nervous reaction, her outrage at such behaviour. [Read More]

Estimated reading time: 13 minutes; 2600 words

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Justine, Pt9.

After a day of finding calm in service, Justine serves dinner for the first time.

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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The Story of Odile Pt18.

Odile understands that she must give up on herself, but finds it hard to sustain.

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 Story of Odile Pt19.

In the minivan, demeaned, Odile finds herself transported.

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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