The reality of BDSM relationships…

 …. will nowhere feature in this post* as this one is about magic and fairy tales.  Sorry.


Their marriage remained strong all through their lives, I’m happy to be able to report, although it’s true that ‘occasional froggy days’ soon grew to outnumber the non-froggy days.  And she also got a lid for the jar, but that was more because of a very close shave involving her cat than anything one could truly call ‘oppressive’.




Actually, the signs were there from the very first night of the Prince’s ball.  Anyone outside his palace soon after her dramatic arrival would have seen the ‘horses’ gasping in heaving lungfuls of air to get their breath back after the journey – as well as the whip marks on the backs of the ‘horses’ and ‘footmen’.  But if anyone noticed, they didn’t tell the Prince.  Ah well. 



She does occasionally put honey on things.  And not only to attract fire-ants to pegged-down naked humans screaming in fear, just in case you were wondering.


You can bet if I’m ever shrunk by an evil witch, I’ll be no more than three inches tall… four, tops.  It’s just my luck.





On the other hand, with the stepsisters gone and the Prince preoccupied (obsessed, even), Cinderella was able to inherit her father’s cobbler’s business.  She became quite rich, in due course, when the Prince became King and everyone wanted to wear boots like the Queens’*. 



* Or any post here, frankly.

* Note the position of the apostrophe on that word.

Three wishes for Sissy Jemima





One afternoon, Sissy Jemima was – as usual – on her hands and knees, scrubbing the kitchen floor. It was a thrice-daily task, because Mistress reasoned that it was a lot easier simply to have her sissy clean the floor than to waste too much time carefully wiping her feet. Just at the point when she was about half-way finished, there was a flash and a crack and she looked up to see a flustered, middle-aged lady floating in the air before her. Jemima – assuming this was one of Mistress’s friends and thinking nothing of the levitation except relief that her nice wet floor would not be sullied – bowed her head low and murmured a respectful greeting.

“No need to bow, James” the apparition said. “I’m your fairy godmother!”

Jemima wondered who she was speaking to. Then she remembered.

“Erm, it’s Jemima these days, Ma’am. Hasn’t been James for a very long time.”

“Very well” the Fairy Godmother replied. “And I’m Fairy Godmother, not ‘Ma’am’”

“Yes, Fairy Godmother” Jemima replied dutifully, happy that she was being given clear instructions.

“And I’m here to grant magical wishes!” the Fairy Godmother continued, brightly. “I was supposed to appear on your twenty-first birthday but… well, it’s been a bit busy, and anyway, better late than never, and here I am!”

“You get three wishes – your heart’s desire, anything you want!”

She looked around, then down at the figure in the pink maid’s dress outfit beneath her hovering feet. She noticed the short chain connecting the ankles.  Using her fairy senses she could discern too the tightly-laced corset, as well as the steel tube nestling between whip-marked thighs beneath her god-sissy’s skirt.  Looking around, she saw a piece of paper attached to the fridge door, with a table headed “Sissy Jemima’s chores.”  It was a long list.

“You know…in case there’s anything in your life you’d like to change?” she suggested.

Sissy Jemima looked up. “Can I give my wishes to Mistress?”, she asked, eagerly.

“What? No – non-transferable” the Fairy Godmother replied, slightly taken aback.

“Oh…” the sissy said, looking worried. “Oh dear. Can I at least ask Mistress what I should choose?”

“Certainly not” the Fairy Godmother replied, more firmly. “You need to decide now – and time has stopped for your wife Sarah and everything in the world except you and me, here and now.”

Sissy Jemima glanced up at the clock and saw its second hand wasn’t moving. So there was no danger of her chore being finished late, which was a relief. Still, she felt a surge of panic at the thought of having to make a decision – three decisions! And she wasn’t even allowed to ask Mistress.  It had been a long time since she had made any decisions… she still vaguely recalled the big decision to sign the agreement with Mistress Sarah, but after that everything in her life had been fairly clear and straightforward, albeit not always easy.

“I wish that Mistress can have three wishes – a hundred wishes!” she ventured, but the Fairy Godmother shook her head.

“Doesn’t work like that – just wishes for yourself. You know: like Cinderella.”

The Fairy Godmother instantly regretted mentioning Cinderella, as she feared this simpering thing that James had become might wish to be swept off in a coach to dance with a handsome prince. Princes of any sort were in short supply in 21st-century London and the only one who could be described as even slightly handsome was already married and had renounced his position and decamped to Canada.

But Sissy Jemima was thinking along different lines. “Could I… do you think I might have a new scrubbing brush?” she asked, shyly.

“Really? Just that? Do you want… I don’t know, a magic scrubbing brush, maybe, that does the floor by itself? I can do that.”

Sissy Jemima shook her head. “Just the same as this one” she replied, indicating the battered and bleached wooden implement she had been using. “But new.  See: the bristles are all bent.”

“Not that I’m complaining!” she added quickly. “I’m very lucky that Mistress lets me use this wonderful brush.”

The Fairy Godmother sighed, then waved her wand in the tiniest imaginable circle in the air. Shifting patterns of green and purple swirled in the air around the brush for a moment, then vanished. A brand-new wooden scrubbing brush, bristles standing tall and ready for use, lay before them on the half-cleaned floor.

“Thank you Ma’am” said Sissy Jemima automatically. “I mean, Fairy Godmother”.

There was silence for a moment, as both contemplated the new brush. Sissy Jemima began to feel uneasy.

“It’s very different, isn’t it” she remarked. “I hadn’t realised quite how much the bristles had bent. And it’s a different colour too – darker and varnished.”

“Exactly the same type of brush”, the Fairy Godmother replied. “£4.99 from any hardware shop… even cheaper at Tesco’s. Supernatural power to reshape the universe to your desires was in your hands, and you chose a new scrubbing brush. Can you try to be a little more ambitious with the remaining wishes? Riches, fame, love…?”

But Sissy Jemima wasn’t listening to her. She was staring at the brand-new brush with increasing disquiet.

“What if she notices?” she murmured. “I mean, she might not, but what if she does? And I hadn’t told her. Perhaps I ought to tell her? But then she’d be cross… I’m not allowed to ask for things.”

She shifted uneasily on her aching knees, feeling the cane marks on her bottom and thighs from last Friday’s ‘reminder’.

“I shouldn’t have done that” she whispered, sadly. “I’m a bad, wicked sissy, ungrateful for the lovely brush Mistress gave me.”

“Oh get on with it.” the Fairy Godmother sighed. “Second wish – come on. The readers will be wondering whether this story’s worth persisting with.”

Jemima had a sudden flash of inspiration. “Could I – have the old brush back?” she asked, eagerly.

“Really?” the Fairy Godmother replied, raising an eyebrow. “You really want to have spent two of your three wishes that way?”

The sissy nodded vigorously. “Then I wouldn’t have done anything Mistress might not like, would I? Because I’d still have the same brush she gave me… so I wouldn’t have been a bad sissy at all!”

“Well…” she went on. “I suppose I would still have had the bad thoughts. But she might never find out about that.”

“Oh for god’s sake” the Fairy Godmother muttered, twiddled her wand back around in the opposite direction, and the rough unvarnished wood of the old brush lay before them once more.

“Third wish” she said, thinking she would never again object to over-extravagant wishes, or those that sought to reshape the fundamentals of the universe. “Come on. Something you really want. Something that would make you happy – you’re supposed to live happily ever after, you know?  This is your one chance – don’t waste it.”

Jemima shut her eyes tight and thought and thought. This wasn’t something she was used to and it gave her a bit of a headache. But just at the point when the Fairy Godmother was about to start making suggestions, she opened them again and looked up again, beaming with pleasure.

“I have it!” she said, and explained what she wanted.

“Are you sure?” the Fairy Godmother replied doubtfully. “Just that?”

“Oh yes” Sissy Jemima sighed. “That would make me happier than anything in the world.”

“Very well” the Fairy Godmother replied. “At least it’s not another fucking brush. Here we go.”

And she raised her wand.

*******************************************************************


In case you were wondering what Mistress Sarah looks like: she looks like this.


Two hours later, Sissy Jemima was standing slightly to the right of the back of her Mistress’s armchair, feet neatly together, her hands clasped before her. Mistress Sarah reached out for the cup of tea at the table to her right and took a sip.

There was a pause, during which Sissy Jemima hoped that her thudding heart was not audible.

“Very good, sissy!” Mistress Sarah remarked, with some surprise. “You actually managed not to stew the tea for once – and you haven’t made it too strong or too weak either.”

She took another sip.

“And just about the right amount of milk, too.” she added. “Now if only you could make every cup like that, sissy.”

“Perhaps I will, from now on Mistress.” Jemima replied, her voice quavering slightly as her heart tried to burst with unaccustomed pride.

“Well, we’ll have to see, won’t we?” her Mistress said, not sounding too optimistic. “But well done for this one, sissy. Footstool!”

So Sissy Jemima got down on all fours and crawled in front of her, to receive the welcome weight of her Mistress’s legs across her pink-clad back. She smiled a secret smile to herself, as Mistress continued to sip the tea with satisfaction.

And she lived happily – except, obviously, during weekly ‘reminders’, additional punishments and the occasional visits by Mistress Sarah’s sister – ever after. 

 
THE END
 
 

Mistress Sarah’s sister – pictured here on the left – likes tea, too.  Sissy Jemima hoped that it would help mellow her attitude towards lazy, incompetent sissies a bit, but it turns out she doesn’t like tea that much.

 

 
 
 
 
 
Addendum
 

This is not a picture of Sissy Jemima.  This is Sissy Peggy and unlike Sissy Jemima, Sissy Peggy used her wishes unwisely.  In particular, she used one wish to get the frilliest, froo-froo-est maid’s dress ever – but neglected to use another wish to ensure Mistress did not react badly when she came home and saw her sissy husband wearing this monstrosity.

 

Master Malcolm’s dreams come true

A maledom story!  Not my usual metier, but I thought I’d give it a go.

Malcolm was not much to look at – a nondescript man in his early forties, with greasy hair and poor dress sense – so it might be considered surprising that women worshiped his cock. Of course, they did not usually do so willingly, but only after being suspended, tied up in uncomfortable positions, whipped and even branded or subjected to other tortures.  Then, and only then, would nubile young ladies in at most scraps of clothing yield to his superior power and kneel before their master to express their submission.  Sometimes they did so in their chains in an exotic harem, other times women from today’s world would find themselves in prison and forced to satisfy the sexual needs of their brutal governor, occasionally they would find themselves back at school, squeezing their busty adult bodies into ill-fitting gymslips, sitting at uncomfortable school benches while their teacher took his time selecting the cane to use on their naughty backsides.  But all of these scenes played out in the same place: Malcolm’s head.

For Malcolm was only dominant in his own sweaty fantasies, inspired by his ancient collection of magazines and his more recent forays into the Internet.  In fact, Malcolm had had only two ‘real’ sexual experiences in his life and neither had involved girls kneeling down and submissively worshiping his cock.  On the first occasion, Malcolm had spurted too soon, on the second he couldn’t get it up at all.  Neither of the rather drunk girls concerned had regretted the lack of proper sexual intercourse and neither had expressed the slightest desire to try again.  But in his fantasies, Malcolm’s mighty cock fascinated and terrified the poor abused wenches at his command.

“Oh Master Malcolm” they would plead, desperately, gazing at the huge purple engorged organ swaying gently before their faces.  “I don’t think my jaw can open wide enough to – “ – but the whip would descend and the little sluts would soon discover how wide their mouths could open to scream out in agony, and they would frantically accommodate Malcolm’s massive member between their tautly stretched lips, and they would suck and lick as the whip continued its work of turning their milky-white buttocks fiery red with its lashes and… and… and Malcolm’s actually not-so-massive member would squirt out a few droplets of sticky come onto his sheets, he would take his hand away from it and turn over to go to sleep.

One day, Malcolm was returning from his tedious job, trudging along a sandy road across the common, when he stubbed his toe on a protruding object.  He reached down and scuffed away some sand, to expose a tarnished handle of what an earlier generation might recognise as an oil lamp but the ignorant Malcolm immediately believed to be some kind of gravy-boat.  Nonetheless, the object rang out with the sound of true metal when struck, so perhaps there was some money to be made from it, if it were polished up.

As soon as he got home, Malcolm got out some metal-cleaning fluid and a soft cloth and – well, actually, that was the second thing he did when he got home.  The first was to fire up his computer and visit websites with names including words like “bitches”, “holes”, “bound” and “sluts” in various combinations, that featured videos of quite unpleasant things being done to young (and not-so-young) ladies, each parade of nastiness happening only after an obligatory five-minute chat with the stars of the show, both smiling happily to show how consensual everything was – an intro Malcolm skipped, in irritation, each time.

After about half an hour of this – and a slight addition to the stain on the carpet just below his computer – Malcolm did, indeed, fetch cleaning fluid and cloth and set to work on the tarnished metal of his find.

Do I need, dear reader, to explain what happened when Malcolm started rubbing vigorously on the lamp?  Of course I don’t: you saw this coming miles away, so I will leave you to imagine for yourself the sparks, or flashes of light, or puffs of green smoke or whatever magical special effects are needed.  The point is, we end up with, obviously, a genie in the form of a lithe, attractive young woman, her surprisingly Caucasian body scantily clad in a wispy faux-arabic gaudy dress, her gleaming wrist and ankle shackles clearly showing her status as that creature of Malcolm’s fevered dreams: his slave.  As did her downward glance and soft murmur of “Your wish is my command… Master”.

Think ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ if you are old enough.  I often do.

Her Master was understandably startled but managed to get himself under control quickly enough (except for his not-so-massive member, which despite its recent performance beneath the computer desk, decided to become very uncontrollable indeed at the sight of this vision of submissive female loveliness).  He drew himself up to his full height and demanded “You can make my wishes come true, slave of the lamp?”

“Yes, Master, three wishes – “ the genie began but Master Malcolm cut her off in his excitement.

“I command that I shall be very wealthy, living in a palace on an island I own, surrounded by precious jewels and mountains of gold and silver.”

“Yes, Master” murmured the genie.  “Three wishes.  It shall be – “

“And slavegirls!” Malcolm went on excitedly.  “Three hundred slavegirls… no!  More!  One for every day of the year!  All young and beautiful, with big tits and pretty faces!  None of them fat.  And let the palace be the playground of my sexual desires, with themed rooms so that all of my fantasies can be fulfilled with my unwilling chattels…”  He was getting carried away.

“Erm, unwilling, Master?” the pretty young genie asked, looking up at him.  “Don’t you mean consensual?  I mean, that is the founding principle of a healthy BDSM relationship and – “

Malcolm glared at her.  “Silence, slave!” he commanded, his cock straining hard at the material of his underpants as he did so.  “They will be slaves: there to do my bidding whether they like it or not!  I am sure the palace will be equipped with all of the means necessary to compel their obedience and teach them their proper place.  To fulfill all of my fantasies – all of them.”

The genie looked confused.  “But how can I know what your fantasies are, Master?” she pleaded?  “I mean, apart from some of them, obviously…” and she glanced dubiously at the small but insistent bulge in his trousers at her eye level.

Malcolm nodded imperiously towards his computer. “Do you know how to access my Internet history, slave?” he demanded.

The genie blinked once, very deliberately.  “I do now, Master.” she replied.  “Oh – by the way, I did say: it’s only three wishes you see, and – “

“Learn about my desires – and tremble before them” Malcolm ordered, cutting her off.

“Your wish is my command, O Master” the genie murmured and stood up to walk over to the computer. “But it’s still only supposed to be three…” she added, under her breath.

She sat in front of the computer, picked up the mouse and started clicking faster than any human could manage.  Hundreds of web pages flashed before her as she sat motionless in silence, except for an occasional sharp intake of breath and once or twice a distinct ‘tsk’ sound.  Malcolm didn’t notice, instead admiring how her ivory breasts nearly spilled out of her vaguely Middle-Eastern bra and gently jiggled as her blurring fingers clicked and moved the mouse at superhuman speed.

After about a minute she lifted her hand from the mouse.  Her face betrayed a feeling of mild disgust.

“Right – so all of that, and I want a huge cock too!” added Malcolm.  “At least… three, no… four times as long as the current one and twice as thick.  And all of the slave-girls in my palace of pain will be fascinated and obsessed by my mighty cock.  And let it never get so tired or sore that I cannot get an erection, let it rise up fresh and ready again no matter how many girls it has satisfied.   I command you to find a way to do all of that within my three-wish limit!” he said, feeling very clever.

The genie looked over at him and smiled.  “Your wish is my command, Master!  And the three wish thing isn’t an absolute rule, anyway.  Not for such a wise and powerful Master as yourself!  You shall have it all!”

And she wiggled her delightful little nose and in a shower of sparks, flash of light and puff of green smoke (if that’s what you previously imagined) she and Malcolm were standing in…

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OK, so that was Bewitched, not I Dream of Jeannie, but it’s a lovely thing.  Isn’t it?

 


A vast ornate room.  Columns with different patterns and colour variations of pinkish marble twisted up to a vaulted ceiling, on which frescoed nymphs gamboled with satyrs.  Sunlight that could only be from a cloudless, tropical sky streamed from high arched windows to illuminate… a scene from Malcolm’s most feverish imaginings.

Across the gleaming floor, some displayed on plinths, others chained to posts, others still on couches in ones, twos or greater numbers of gently writhing female loveliness were… the slave-girls of Malcolm’s dreams.  Dressed in various combinations of silks, lingerie, chains or merely jewelry, they preened and purred, cooed and giggled – or merely pleaded mutely through their big blue eyes, above fearsome gags.

On the walls and also in racks and vases scattered across the room were whips, straps, paddles and canes aplenty, while ominous dark cupboards positioned near the stocks and cages within which the more brutally restrained girls were tightly held hinted at still more evil implements and devices within.  Pretty blonde and brunette heads across the room turned to gaze at their new Master.

Malcolm’s attention was suddenly caught by movement rather closer to home: a stirring rather greater in magnitude than he had ever experienced in his trousers before.  He glanced down, noting as he did so that he was dressed in rich but thankfully loose-fitting silks, and observed with satisfaction that a true monster of flesh was awakening, in his loins.  He looked up again, wondering which lucky slave-girl would be the first recipient.

Then his involuntary grin faded, as he surveyed the room, calculating furiously.

“I said one for every day of the year, you cheating bitch!” he snapped.  “There can’t be more than a couple of hundred of the whores here!  Where are the rest!”

The genie abased herself before him.  “Why, in other rooms of your magnificent Palace of Pain, Master” she said.  “Some are in the schoolroom, nervously awaiting your uniform inspection.  Maids are scrubbing floors, or awaiting their chance to polish your royal boots.  And of course the pony girls are in the stables.”

Malcolm grunted in satisfaction.  “Adequate, I suppose.  So there’s 365 in total?”

“366 Master” replied the genie.  “One unfortunate girl only gets to worship you with her body every four years.”

“366 slave-girls…” Malcolm breathed, the sheer audacity of turning his dreams to flesh breaking through to him at last.

“That’s right, Master” the genie, happily.  “And all of them without exception, your slaves – and completely unwillingly, as you commanded!”

“Plus you!” she added brightly. “Just you” and she clapped her hands and disappeared in a puff of light or blaze of smoke, seeming to suppress a fit of giggles as she went.


Malcolm felt vaguely troubled by that. It was the first time she’d truly looked happy.  He recalled fairy tales of wishes gone wrong, in ironic and usually justly-deserved fashion.  He looked around the room.

Over a hundred and fifty pairs of lovely eyes stared back.  One or two of the girls who were not restrained turned to face him.  Others merely craned their necks to get a better view.  Of him.  All of their gazes fixed on him and him alone.  They started to stir, in ones and twos: some stood up, others unraveled from tight loving embraces, to better focus their attention on him, often while still holding hands.

He felt a sudden pang of fear.  He glanced over to the nearest rack of implements: a row of hooks from which dangled five fearsome-looking bullwhips of different thickness, length and colour.  Three of the girls in that direction silently stepped sideways so they were positioned more directly between the weapons and him.

Malcolm turned and ran for the door.  Many of the slave-girls were restrained but most were not.  Almost all were barefoot, so their pretty soft feet made almost no noise on the sun-warmed marble floor, but a hundred soft pitter-patters can sound like a stampede – which is indeed what was happening. So Malcolm was well aware of the horde converging upon him, as he hurtled in a panicky dash towards the doors leading out of the room.  They were heavy doors, but wide open, inviting escape, and they were about twenty-five yards away.

He made it almost halfway.

Epilogue

And now Malcolm lives out the life of which he had so often fantasised.  Just not quite in the role that he would have preferred, given the choice.

Some days he is a maid, scrubbing floors under the watchful gaze of a group of whip-wielding overseers.  His cleaning is rarely – if ever – considered to meet their high standards, but he has to try anyway.

Other days are spent in educative pursuits as, in gymslip and straw boater, he writes lines, kneels on benches, holds his hand out for the tawse and – with distressing frequency over the course of each eleven-hour detention – bends over for the cane, sometimes knickers up, often knickers down.

Some days he is lucky enough to run around outside, his feet pounding the soft grass (or more often the sharp gravel) in a canter until the whips crack merrily out from his two passengers in the well-sprung comfortable carriage rolling smoothly behind, to encourage him into a gallop.  Other times, the carriage unhitched and he has the opportunity to carry each individual rider around the well-worn track his poor feet have created, puffing and wheezing as he returns her to the starting point.  There she will regretfully dismount and the girl waiting impatiently at the head of the queue, flicking her riding whip and occasionally admiring her razor-sharp spurs, will finally have her turn.

But most days, Master Malcolm’s life is simpler.  He is fastened into or onto one device or another that exposes most or all of the sensitive parts of his body, while also preventing him from in any way hindering access to those parts.  Then girlish hands will take hold of implements and his screams will begin, rising and falling, occasionally quietening into gasps so low as to allow the music of soft girlish giggles to ring out clearly, before rising again in full-throated agony at the pain.

Nipples, eyes, balls, fingers, tongue, soles, kneecaps… oh, and his cock.  Especially his cock.

You see, for some reason that attentive readers might recall, every single one of his tormentors is simply fascinated by his cock.  His mighty member is squeezed, burnt, whipped, clamped, crushed, electrocuted, frozen, kicked, bitten and twisted until it is a huge throbbing organ of pure agony – and beyond.  And it is indeed huge.  No male who has ever experienced a penis-whipping would need convincing of the disadvantages of possessing a member so long that it can experience three separate floggings all at the same time.  It is long enough that one end can be gradually be chilled down through sub-zero temperatures eventually to freeze hard in a bath of dry ice, while at the other a band of electrified metal slowly heats up to red hot, burning and charring the flesh with a smell that often puts the girls in the mood for a barbecue.  It is strong enough to pull concrete blocks for miles around the island, strong enough to bear his entire weight, even strong enough to hold up one corner of a four-poster bed, on which anything up to twelve girls happily gambol in sapphic heaven.

Oh, how they are fascinated by it! And yet, at the end of every long day during which they have worked on the object of their obsession, with Malcolm seeming too exhausted to scream any more, but screaming in horror inwardly at the thought of his life, as his satisfied tormentors happily hung up their whips and cattle prods… his cock will gradually recover until it rises up, fresh and ready again, for the new experiences of the next day.

366 girls. You would think they would soon run out of variations but they are creative and the palace is full of clever and fiendish toys.  Plus, the genie left them a copy of every video that Malcolm had ever bought, watched or downloaded.  Some days, the girl whose annual turn it is might decide to select one of these and work through it, trying to reproduce as precisely as possible the torments being applied to the suffering females that Malcolm had so enjoyed watching, sitting at his computer at home, the stained carpet beneath him.  It is not easy always accurately to apply the same techniques to a male as to a female body, but with ingenuity and a lot of force, it can often be done.    Other times the girl will simply freestyle her day in charge, letting her creativity run riot over (and within) Malcolm’s suffering body.  The slave-girls (as they proudly call themselves) would have a lot to teach the makers of those videos, should the latter ever be unlucky enough to encounter them.

Malcolm’s body turned out to have seemingly endless powers of recuperation, which is just as well, because each girl has to wait a year, with increasing impatience, before the day she will be in charge, so she is full of energy and enthusiasm when finally her turn arrives. Although most generously allow their friends to play, they have a strict rule that only the girl whose ‘Malcolm-day’ it was can decide on the theme and the major activities.  They hold competitions, scoring performances either by the state of Malcolm’s body at the end of the day, or the intensity of his screams and pleading during it.

One girl is, as the genie had foreseen, particularly unlucky.  Her name is Erica and her day is February 29th, so she has to wait four years between each Malcolm-day.  The others feel sorry for her and allow her to start at the stroke of midnight and enjoy the full 24 hours to the best of her ability.  She is one of the most creative girls, perhaps because of the four years she has each time to plan her artistic strokes, and there is usually a large and appreciative crowd to watch her rare performances.  Thus far, she has had only five such days, each more exotic and horrific (for Malcolm) and amusing (for everyone else) than the last.

How many more will there be?  Who knows?  That depends upon the kindness of strangers.  You see, from time to time, when the genie’s magic lamp is rubbed by a woman, the kindly genie offers that woman a chance to pardon Malcolm.  She tells her about him: of his life, of his desires, of his interests and she explains the circumstances in which he came to be where he is now.  She does not go into gruesome details, of course, but she describes some of the implements and devices in the Palace of Pain and she explains how Malcolm had intended to spend his life applying them to unwilling young women and is instead experiencing them himself.  She asks whether the woman would like to release him.

So far, none has.

THE END

 I thought maybe you’d like to see a picture of Malcolm: Master Malcolm, our maledom protagonist.  There’s something about a dominant male, isn’t there?  Even in a static image like this, you can almost feel the raw sexual power he exudes.


 

 What’s that?  You’d like to see pictures of the girls, too?  I’ll bet you would, you filthy little pervert.  All right – but only one picture.  There’s rather a lovely story, actually.   Immediately after piling onto Malcolm and subduing him, all the girls who weren’t in restraints obviously went around freeing those who were.  But these two said they’d rather stay the way they were, for a little while anyway.  Isn’t that sweet?

 

 

 

Some tales

 … as old as time for this bright new year!

Fairy tales, that is.  Not all themed around Beauty and the Beast.  Well… except insofar as everything that has ever appeared on this blog does have that theme, if you think about it.


And of course she’s keeping the whip and the
cattle prod.  But she’d have those anyway – her mother would have
presented her with them as a wedding gift, had circumstances not caused
her to need them sooner.
Many girls dream of meeting a handsome Prince, when they grow up.  Only a small fraction of those girls also dream of watching him being eviscerated by a seagull and then going off to make passionate love to their girlfriend… but enough do to make the world a more interesting place.






Well, let’s hope she turns him back soon.  It won’t be much fun for her having to look after a guy who’s basically not much more than an erect penis with a handle.


He’s going to need her to try the black leather corset, too.



Don’t try warning her how fattening you are.  Women find that offensive and patronising.


A magical realm

Don’t worry: it’s not just spiders.  She can change into lots of things.  And she can change other people into other things too.  So, yeah: never dull.

 

 

 

Don’t worry, I’m sure she’ll change you back. After all, it’s not going to be much fun for her having a boyfriend only eight inches high, is it?  Whatever could the two of you do together?

 

 

 

The fairy godmother is deep in the palace dungeons.  She’s treated reasonably well but for some reason the sisters insisted that she be fed nothing but pumpkin – which she hates.  Perhaps one day she’ll be granted an opportuity to explain that to them and they’ll relent.




She can and she has.  More times than she’d care to admit, actually.


 

 

 

Perhaps he can charm her – she loves watching men writhe and scream and I’m sure he’ll be doing plenty of that.


Not so far, far away

More tales of fairy femdom, especially for those whose dommes do not permit a ‘happy ending’.






If I had three wishes, the world would be a very different place.











She always lost at musical statues, when she was a little girl.  Maybe that’s where her anger comes from?












She’s not the sweet, obedient little princess she might apear, you know.  Anticipating just this sort of thing, she carefully hid a couple of young men in a secret room deep below the castle, to play with if ever her usual toys were taken away from her.  After all, a girl has to have some fun.









Bicycle races are coming your way, so forget all your duties oh yeah!









Ribbit?

The Dominatrix and the Magic Cane

In a small town on the edge of the mountains, there lived a dominatrix called Mistress Amanda. She was the town’s only dominatrix, because it was a small place and most of the men there were perfectly normal: enjoying vanilla sex and never dreaming of trying a BDSM fantasy.  But there were enough naughty boys needing strict lessons, sissies needing to dress up and scrub floors and also foot or boot fetishists wanting nothing other than to sit before her kissing and licking for hour upon hour, for Mistress Amanda to make a good living.

OK, this isn’t actually Mistress Amanda.  This is Lady Sophia Black. But she looks remarkably like Mistress Amanda, don’t you think?

When the town prospered, so did Mistress Amanda. Some years she was so busy she could hardly keep track of which sub was which and once began what was intended to be a realistic schoolboy scene, wearing leather corset, fishnet stockings and a spiked collar.  The ‘boy’ explained that this wasn’t what he wanted so Mistress Amanda, with two other sessions already booked in for that same day, airily told him to fuck off and he departed with a flick of her bullwhip. She even had a small financial domination side-line, which in those days before telephones and the Internet mostly involved being sent money accompanied by long gushing letters and responding curtly and dismissively with demands for more cash.  And in the leaner years, Mistress Amanda would make some economies but she would get by.

But one year the town went into an economic depression that it couldn’t seem to shake.   People laid off from the nearby farms started drifting into town looking for work but there was no work to be had.  Inns competed desperately for the dwindling custom, with offers of cheap beer, and the local stonemasons offered half-price carvings to anyone who could provide the stone themselves and every week, it seemed, more and more shops were shuttered. Times were hard.

They were hardest of all for the poor dominatrix.   When money was scarce even the most devoted sub usually had higher priorities than getting his bottom spanked – and Mistress Amanda quickly discovered that few of her subs were indeed as devoted as they had always claimed.  The pay-piggies stopped responding to demands for cash, the boots went unlicked, the toilet unscrubbed and the cage unoccupied and Mistress Amanda began to wonder whether she should seek other work.  She would sit in her dungeon during the dull long evenings trying to think of other professions that might value her specialised skills.

She still had a few clients who paid her the occasional visit.  One of the most frequent was Pansy Pink-knickers, an elderly sissy with a small retirement fund which enabled him to visit once a month, put on a maid’s uniform and perform a few random acts of spectacularly ineffective housework before being placed across her knee and given a moderate spanking.  The spanking was part of the roleplay, but it never lacked justice for Pansy Pink-knickers was perhaps the most incompetent sissy maid who ever pranced around in stockings.  He could be relied upon without fail to use drain-cleaner on the delicate laundry, attack the muddy tiles with a clothes brush or simply accidentally kick over, then hoover up, Mistress Amanda’s earring collection. Remarkably, Mistress Amanda found she herself had to do more household chores in the weeks when Pansy Pink-knickers had ‘cleaned’ than in those when he was absent, as it took her at least an hour to restore the place to its pre-‘cleaning’ condition. But he was a regular client and always paid his tribute without quibbling, so she tolerated him (and he, for his part, worshipped the ground she walked on, even if his attempts to clean that ground were usually disastrous).

Ah yes – that’s Pansy. In a position where he can do relatively little damage, thank goodness.
 

She also had the occasional passing trade – businessmen and bureaucrats from more prosperous (or rather less impoverished) parts of the realm, who took the opportunity to liven up their evening in the otherwise dull town by being tied up, buggered or peed upon before graciously being permitted to masturbate and leave the poor dominatrix to her gloomy thoughts.

One day, Mistress Amanda was preparing for just such a one-off client, who had booked a schoolboy detention.  The days of not caring whether her clients were getting what they wanted were a distant memory, so Mistress Amanda had carefully prepared.  She was wearing a blouse, long governess skirt and a black corset and looked the very image of a stern scholastic disciplinarian. The room was set up for the detention session: a blackboard in the corner, a school desk with little chair awaiting the unfortunate miscreant and exercise books and pencils for the written punishments that had been requested by the client, before the inevitable caning. The cane! Mistress Amanda suddenly realised with a shock that she had not brought one out, so she went off to her toy cupboard in the next room. She opened the cupboard and mechanically reached out for one of the canes she knew would be lying on the third shelf – and found none.  She looked up and down the shelves in confusion.  The cupboard was filled with tawses, paddles, whips and all manner of other leather implements but everything was in the wrong place and she searched ever more frantically for the canes, without success.  A faint memory returned to her of ordering Pansy Pink-knickers to tidy the cupboard on his last visit.  Of course, he was supposed to do a bad job – that was why he went across her knee – but he’d truly scaled the heights of incompetence this time.  Where the hell had the little bastard hidden her canes?  A tawse would not do – this client had been quite specific.

No, that’s not a cane.  She hasn’t got one at this point in the story.  Anyway, that’s not Mistress Amanda, remember? It’s Lady Sophia Black. I did tell you that.
 

She became aware of a knocking at the door.  She closed her eyes, collecting herself, then strode over and flung open the door.

“You’re late!” she snapped, and the eager-looking businessman scurried in.  He fumblingly handed her an envelope, which she took with haughty disdain, resisting her frantic temptation to feel and count the so-desperately needed cash within.

“I hope you have your uniform with you, boy!” she said and the man lifted the bag he was carrying with a sheepish grin.

“Well, get changed then!” she commanded.  “Don’t you dare keep me waiting – you’re in quite enough trouble already, young man!”

“Oh dear, I’m sorry Miss” her client stuttered, excitedly, removing his clothes. “Please – please don’t cane me!”

“Well…” replied Mistress Amanda, feeling an unaccustomed sense of helplessness.  “That’s for me to decide, isn’t it?  We’ll just have to see.  But you are on very thin ice!”

And with that threat hanging in the air, and with Mistress Amanda wondering how on earth she could deliver upon it, the session started.

Any hopes she might have had that the cane was just an optional extra were swiftly dashed.  She rapped his knuckles with a ruler, strapped his palms with a tawse and bent him over more than once for a dose of her heavy paddle.  But at the end of each such assault, the ‘boy’ made a remark along the lines of “Oh, thank you Miss.  I hope you won’t cane me too.  Really – it’s too much, I couldn’t bear it!”  Clearly, there was no escape – he expected the cane.  But there was no cane to be found.

The boy. Do we know his name? Do we care?

 

During a slow moment in the session, while the boy scribbled lines in his exercise book (“Boys who are repeatedly insolent get the cane across their backsides – good and hard.”, Mistress Amanda left him alone, walked through her kitchen and opened the back door, hoping the cool evening air might inspire a revelation as to where that wretched sissy might have decided the canes should be kept.  No such inspiration came, but just as she was preparing to head back inside, her mind racing with a script explaining that she had decided a caning would be too lenient  and she had something much worse in store (with no great hope of getting away with it) – she glanced down.  There, on the mat outside her back door, lay a cane.

It was not one of her canes. Nor just any cane. Truth be told, her dungeon equipment was becoming a little shabby and this cane was not one of the tired, chipped specimens that she had expected to find in the toy cupboard. This cane shone with the rich, deep brown that betokens quality wood, worksmanship and care. She bent to pick it up and noticed its weight, which somehow accompanied a remarkable flexibility when she bent it between her strong hands (she did not bend it far – to find such a cane at just the right moment then break it would be a tragedy; incompetence worthy of Pansy Pink-knickers himself).  It was quite a heavy cane but thoroughly swishy.  She wondered briefly where it had come from, but then heard a sneeze from the schoolroom.  Clutching the cane, she marched back through the kitchen, flung open the door to the schoolroom and strode imperiously to the front.

She tapped the end of the cane against a word she had previously written on the blackboard.

“Can you read, boy?” she demanded. “Or is even that simple task beyond you?”

“It, it says s- s- silence, Miss” stammered the boy.

“And what do you think that means?” she inquired, sardonically.

“Erm.. no noise, Miss.”

“No noise.” she repeated, thoughtfully.  She tapped the end of the cane gently against the blackboard again.  “No noise at all.  No talking, no singing, no coughing… no sneezing.”

She took two paces forward, towering over the desk and flexed her newfound cane between her hands.

“I had hoped, perhaps it would not be necessary to resort to this, boy” she remarked.  “I was beginning to think perhaps you would manage to behave well enough to leave here with your bottom no more than slightly warmed.  However, I see now that I was wrong – grievously wrong – it seems I gave you altogether too much credit.  I have been lenient, but leniency has obviously failed, so it is time for sterner measures.  Much sterner measures.  So stand up – with your hands on your head!”

“Oh, please Miss, don’t” murmured the boy, rapturously, as he struggled to his feet.

Here we go.
 

Soon his rather ample bottom was stretching the grey flannel material of his shorts as he bent across the desk.  Having prepared him with a stern lecture, Mistress Amanda drew her arm back in a well-practised manoeuvre and let fly with a neat flick of the cane.  She had found it was best to start fairly mildly, with moderate taps across the shorts, when first using a cane on a new client, to gauge their tolerance. Few wanted or could truly ‘take’ a proper beating and she was aware that this lovely new cane, whatever its provenance, was a fearsome implement.

The rattan impacted the clothed buttocks with the usual slightly disappointing ‘click’ rather than the terrifying ‘thwack’ of CP fantasy.  But on this occasion, that sound – and the accompanying sharp intake of breath from her client – was quickly followed by a ringing sound, as of metal striking on stone and she saw a gleaming flash out of the corner of her eye.

She looked down, and there on the floor, just next to the boy’s grey-socked right foot, was a shiny copper coin. She bent down to pick it up, wondering why on earth this client would carry small change in his fantasy schoolboy costume.  She vaguely toyed with working it into the scene but could not see any obvious angle and anyway the session had reached the point at which actions were required, rather than words. According to the client’s script, after this caning she would imperiously command him to kneel down and masturbate, to humiliate him and bring home the severity of his crime (which had, in theory, itself been masturbation – but she had long ago ceased to find this contradiction amusing).  Once he came, of course, she would break character, offer him wet-wipes or a shower and make rather stilted conversation while he put his normal clothes back on.

So she placed the coin on a shelf, to give back to him after the session (although times were hard, they were not so hard as to tempt her to steal a copper coin and she was fundamentally an honest lady), then placed another stroke across her quivering target, precisely half an inch higher than before (she prided herself on her caning skills).

Again, not only was there the click of impact and a gasp of pain, but a jingle and this time she actually saw a coin fall and roll under the desk.

She struck again. “Three, thank you Miss” gasped the boy, but she was paying no attention to him,  instead watching dumbfounded as another copper coin appeared.

She tapped the cane gently, experimentally, across the buttocks a few times.  Nothing happened, and the boy’s breathing calmed slightly.

She drew back and swished hard – not by any means full force, but considerably harder than before.

“Ouch!  Oh Miss, ow, four thank you Miss!”

But his stern schoolteacher was not listening and had eyes for nothing but the small coin she had picked up and now held between her shapely index finger and thumb.  This one was silver.

Again, the cane descended in a sweeping CRACK across the buttocks.  Again, the boy shouted out in pain and fear.

And another silver coin.

“Oh… oh… it’s too hard Miss, please Miss.” He gasped.  “It really hurts!”

“And it’s going to hurt a lot more” she replied sternly.  “Last of the six – always the hardest. Brace yourself, boy – this is going to be a stinger!”

Excitedly she drew the cane back, then swept it forward with all her might. This time the cane connected with the THWACK! of fantasy and the boy leapt up, bellowing.

“Oh CHRIST – oh fuck, that really hurts. Red – red, Mistress, oh fucking hell…”

She ignored him once again, gazing down in satisfaction and wonder at the small coin by her high-heeled black shoe.  Her theory had been correct: the lustre was unmistakable. Gold.

“Please Miss” the boy pleaded, half in and half out of character. “I’m sorry, that was just too much, I – “

“No more than you deserve” she replied, severely.  “However, I believe that should now constitute a sufficiently… effective lesson.”

The boy calmed down, rubbing his backside ruefully.

“But I am still not satisfied that you are truly repentant” she continued.  “Masturbation – a filthy habit and a deliberate breach of school rules! That’s why you were beaten, boy, and you deserved every stroke!  But I think I need to bring home to you how ridiculous, how humiliating and shameful such an act can appear.  You’re going to masturbate for me – right now, here, with me watching.  In your shorts, like the filthy little schoolboy you are.”

“Oh please, Miss, no” he murmured ecstatically, slipping his hand into his shorts and after a minute or two of grunting, accompanied by contemptuous, mocking comments from the schoolmistress, the session was at an end.

Later, her feet luxuriously soaking in the usual post-heels bowl of warm water, Mistress Amanda tossed the coins from one hand to the next for the umpteenth time and thought and thought.  The three copper coins and the two silver were together about equal to her regular session fee.  But the gold was something else.  With copper and silver, she could live her old lifestyle.  But with gold, she’d be rich.  And the only way to get gold, it seemed, was to flay some poor bastard’s bottom.  She had very occasionally encountered clients who sought out ‘judicial’ beatings but she had not seen one for years.  A pity, as they were now – almost literally – gold dust.  And so Mistress Amanda thought and she thought and she thought – and she came up with a plan.

***

The whole town turned out for the wedding of George Eichert and Amanda Collins.  Few could imagine what the statuesque beauty saw in the little old man.  They would have said ‘money’ – especially as there were wild and scurrilous rumours about what went on behind the closed doors of her house – but although George was known to have a small nest-egg, the town banker rather indiscreetly explained that it enabled at best a comfortable standard of living.

“I do” whispered George, at the appropriate moment, and mouthed the word ‘Mistress’.

“I do” smiled Amanda back. And she said “Pansy Pink-knickers” just loud enough for the shocked priest to hear.

It had been easy enough to explain to him that, as her longest-standing client, he was her first choice to take on as her 24/7 lifestyle slave in retirement.  He had nearly had a heart attack from shock and delight, and then had spent half an hour incoherently slobbering at her feet.  Signing the contract to give up any safeword rights had been a little harder, as although Pansy Pink-knickers loved being spanked, anything firmer made him squeal in pain. But she’d explained that if they were going to do this properly it was important that she could occasionally – just occasionally – punish him in ways she knew he would not enjoy.  Real punishments to back up the more playful sessions across her knee.

She promised she would do so only in the case of real failings on his part, where punishment was truly warranted.    And so he had signed.

Ah, the happy couple. Don’t ask what happened to Pansy’s outfit.  Let’s just say that cheap fetish maid costumes don’t do well on the ‘boil wash’ setting that he somehow mangaed to find.
 

‘Real failings’ she thought happily to herself, gazing fondly at her new husband as the hubbub of the wedding feast swirled around them. She thought back to images of streaks of cleaning fluid distributed across mirrors, of knickers slowly and incompetently handwashed, of floors scrubbed only slightly cleaner by a silly old pervert in a pink frilly dress eagerly pushing the brush around in wild circles. And each one of those images seemed to disappear behind dazzling visions of showers of gold and silver coins, too many to count, so close she could almost touch them.  Perhaps he would get slowly better at housework.  But she doubted it, at his age.  Even with encouragement.

***

Two weeks later, they returned from their honeymoon in a fine coach, pulled by four white horses driven by two strapping young coachmen. Amanda was resplendent, in new dress and a rich brocade coat. Her proud husband seemed more subdued, stepping gingerly down from the coach as if his years had finally caught up with him, and walking stiffly and slowly towards the front gate. Amanda drew out a bag that bulged with coins and generously handed out coppers to each of the coachmen, who later swore that most of the gleaming metal in the bag had the heft and the glow of silver or even gold.

He must have been richer than we all knew, the old skinflint, said the townspeople. And they raised their glasses to the happy and rich couple, while the banker sat quietly in shame.

And right they were to do so.  Amanda seemed to have a never-ending supply of silver and gold.  She bought a large house and employed over 30 servants, she invested in land and brought prosperity back to the farms, there seemed no limit on her appetite for expensive clothes and jewellery and although even her abundant shower of gold and silver could not by itself solve all the region’s problems, it was perhaps just the boost the region needed and it has been prosperous and bustling to this day.

And so everyone lived happily – albeit in one case very painfully – ever after.

Moneybags
With profound thanks to Lady Sophia Black, both for playing the part of Mistress Amanda in this tale so beautifully and also for providing Servitor with some wonderful sessions. She really was as beautiful and poised as she looks in the photos and as delightfully evil as she seems in her videos – I was very lucky to know her while she was working.  But you’re not: she’s retired now, I believe. 

The lovelorn blacksmith

Once, in a small town surrounded by thick forests, there lived a young blacksmith.  All day long he laboured, turning out horseshoes, railings and all manner of metal goods for the people of the town. He loved his work and could think of no better way to spend his time than beating hot metal into useful things.

One day, hard at work in his smithy, he looked up and saw a young woman standing by the door.  When she smiled, he recognised her as one of the two young women who had moved into a house in the forest just outside town earlier in the year. The townspeople kept away from them believing them to be witches or – worse – lesbians, but the blacksmith was an easy-going soul and always had a kind word for everyone.

“Good day, Miss!”, he said cheerfully. “Were you looking for something?”

The young lady was fingering some of the chains hanging in skeins by the doorway.

“These are very good” she said admiringly.  “Did you make them?”

“Aye Miss”, the blacksmith replied, puffing out his (considerable) chest in pride, as making chain was a time-consuming task in those days without machinery and the hanging chains represented several weeks of work.

“I think I’d like to buy some”, she said with a smile.  “Always useful to have chains – especially in the forest with so many wild beasts about.”

“Aye, Miss” the blacksmith replied again, and they took to haggling and soon the young lady was the proud possessor of several lengths of chain of different sizes.

“Can you make anything, from iron?” she asked.

The blacksmith paused.  “Almost anything, Miss” he replied, cautiously, for he was an honest fellow.

“Could you make…say… a collar? An iron collar, with attachments for chains, and thick flanges for a padlock?  And shackles too, the same but already connected to one another with chains?”

“Aye Miss” the blacksmith replied uncertainly. “But a dog’s better off with a leather collar, you know?  Iron collar’d be powerful heavy.”

“Oh, this isn’t for a dog.” the young lady replied hurriedly.  “It’s for a… a beast. A big, fierce beast that we trapped.  A good heavy iron collar is just what it needs.  And shackles, like I said.”

“Aye, very well Miss” nodded the blacksmith, secretly rather uncomfortable as he did not believe in cruelty even to big fierce beasts.  “But you don’t need flanges and padlocks: I can do you a catch that no beast’ll ever be able to work.”

“No, padlocks are best.” the young lady replied earnestly.  “Can’t be too careful.”

So the blacksmith agreed to make collar and shackles, and lengths of chain between them. He tried to make them as light as he could, but iron working in those days was a crude business and the collar with its great thick flanges weighed many pounds.

Nonetheless, the young lady professed herself delighted with them, and struggled off along the path into the forest carrying her heavy load, the blacksmith standing watching her outside his smithy, thinking her a winsome creature and desperately wishing he had offered to carry the heavy restraints himself.

These look rather unpleasant.  Poor beast.

Several weeks passed, until one day the blacksmith heard a soft knock on his door and opened it to see the young lady again.

“Good day, Miss!” he greeted her.  Not a problem with the ironmongery, I hope?”

“No, no!” she replied brightly.  “No, the beast is thoroughly under control.  They’re just right for him.  And actually, that’s what I wanted to talk about.  You see, we were thinking of going hunting.  To catch a few more beasts… just as big and fierce. And we were wondering if you could make…. Oooh, shall we say three more sets?  Like those?  Maybe a little heavier, if you can…”

“Hunting fierce beasts, Miss?” he replied, his brow furrowed with concern.  “That doesn’t sound very safe, for a pair of young – “

“We’ll be fine” she said, decisively cutting him off.  “It’s what we do.  But we need the chains and shackles and things.  Can you make them?”

“Of course, Miss” he replied, proudly. “It will be an honour and a pleasure.”

When the work was completed, it filled a large sack that the blacksmith could barely lift.  So with much clanking and clashing, he heaved it onto the back of his cart and set off for the young ladies’ house.  Along the winding path his horse trotted, before pulling up in front of the cottage. As he dismounted, he fancied he could hear some muffled cries, but when he paused and listened more intently, they stopped, so he decided it must have been only the wind.

He hauled the sack down and dragged it across to the door, knocking gently.

The young lady opened the door with a startled look.

“Oh, hello!” she said.

“Who is it, Melissa?” came a voice from inside.  The blacksmith peeked around the door and saw a dark-haired woman, hurriedly closing a trapdoor in the floor.

“Just the blacksmith, Harriet” the young lady – Melissa – replied.  “I think he’s brought the things I ordered – for the beasts, you know”.

Harriet came to the door and looked at the sack. “In there? What things?”

“Oh, you remember!” Melissa replied brightly.  “You know: chains and stuff. For the hunt.  When we go and hunt beasts?”

“Oh yes of course, the beast hunt” Harriet muttered and with a curt nod, she went back into the house.  With a certain amount of effort, and still more awkwardness, the blacksmith managed to get the sack into the house, took his payment and departed, kicking himself for not finding some excuse to be invited in by the lovely Melissa.

Back at his smithy, all through the afternoon, he found himself working metal into the shape of a capital ‘M’, with increasingly curly and ornate serifs.  He was in love.

Harriet and Melissa.  I don’t know why they’re wearing nighties… it’s ages until bedtime.

Four days later, in the forest, Melissa again opened the door to see the blacksmith standing there.

“Oh, it’s you” she said, immediately thinking it an extraordinarily stupid thing to say.  “Is everything all right?”

“Well, yes and no, Miss”, said the blacksmith wringing his leather cap in his hands.  “See, I don’t know if you heard the news in the town but… three young men went missing two nights back.  They were on their way back home from the inn and they just vanished.  Everyone’s in a terrible state about it.”

“Yes, we heard about that.” Melissa replied cautiously.  “Very sad.  I hope they’ll turn up… boys do run off from time to time, though, don’t they?  Headstrong things.”

“But not these three, Miss!” the blacksmith responded, earnestly. “One of ‘em was due to be married today – and another his best man!  Makes no sense they’d go a-running away before the wedding.”

“But what’s it got to do with us?” Melissa asked.

“Well Miss”, the blacksmith said, wringing his leather cap more than ever.  “I was just thinking-like.  With those three lads missing… missing in the forest like as not, this forest where the two of you live…”

“Go on…” Melissa said, narrowing her eyes.  Harriet appeared, standing silently behind her.  She seemed to be clutching something behind her back, but the blacksmith didn’t notice.

“And… and then I got to thinking of all those shackles and chains and things that I made you.  Well, I thought…”

“Yes…?” Melissa said.

“Well, I just thought perhaps you could help look for them, Miss.  Being such good hunters and that.”

“Oh!” Melissa replied in surprise.  “Oh, I see.  Because we… because we hunt things.  We could help look for them.  Yes, that makes sense.  Perhaps we could… what do you think Harriet?”

Her friend looked equally surprised.  “Yes, we’ll erm… we’ll certainly keep an eye out.  When we’re hunting beasts.”

“Yes, we’ll keep an eye out!” Melissa confirmed.  “If we see any clues, we’ll be sure to let the town know, all right?  Good day, now!”

And she shut the door in the poor lovelorn blacksmith’s face.

***

A week later, the blacksmith was overjoyed to see Melissa  walk into his smithy yet again.

“Any news, Miss?” he enquired, eagerly.

“News… about?” she replied, somewhat perplexed.

“The missing lads, Miss.  I suppose you’ve seen neither hide nor hair of them.”

“Hide nor hair” she giggled, as if at a private joke.  “No, I’m afraid not.  No: I came with another job for you actually.  Another set of shackles and chains… to collar one more beast.”

“My pleasure, Miss” the blacksmith replied.  “Same as before, then?”

“Maybe these ones… we thought…a little bigger?” Melissa  replied, looking up at the brawny young blacksmith.  “Three more inches for the collar, I’d say.”

She glanced down at his hands.  “And maybe an inch or two extra for the wrists – forelegs.  For the forelegs.  And good and strong and heavy, please: this beast is the strongest of all.”

“Aye Miss” said the blacksmith, and when her lovely form was no longer lighting up the darkened workshop, he set to work.

This time, he didn’t even try to make the devices lighter. His kindliness towards animals had been quite forgotten, in his desire to please the lovely Melissa.  So he heated iron and beat and pulled, and quenched and bashed and filed, until he had a set of the most fearsome iron restraints imaginable. The collar alone weighed 15 pounds and when the ensemble was put together, he could barely lift it.

He put out the furnace, left the smithy and carefully locked it all up, as if going on a long journey, without even knowing he was doing it.  He was about to load the restraints onto the back of the cart when he thought better of it, patted his horse on the nose and set off staggering under the weight of the heavy irons, all the way along the winding path to the cottage in the woods.

He paused to recover his breath once he’d reached the clearing where the cottage stood. He gazed at the cottage, then took a long look around as if taking in the fresh air, the trees, the sky and all of the smells and sounds of the forest. Then picking up his sack once more, he strode over to the door.

Melissa opened it, before he could even knock and stood there smiling at him.  A shaft of sunlight through the forest canopy caught her hair and it seemed made of the finest spun gold, burning in the sunshine.

“Who is it, Mel?” came Harriet’s voice.

“It’s the blacksmith.” Melissa smiled, delightedly.  “He’s brought his collar and chains.”

Harriet came to the door and hugged her friend around the waist.  “So he has.  Isn’t that sweet?”

“Isn’t it just?” Melissa murmured.

“You’d better come inside.”

THE END

In the years that followed, the blacksmith got to put his expertise at forming iron into the letter ‘M’ to good use, although he usually had to add an ‘H’ to it as well.

The fairy and the fisherman

Once, a young fisherman found a magic shell from which a
lovely fairy appeared to offer him a wish.
“Not three?” he asked in disappointment.
The fairy’s pretty brow furrowed crossly.  “If you don’t want the wish” she began
but of course he did, so he shushed her and fell to wondering what to wish
for.  He could have had wealth, he could
have found love, but deep down he knew he wanted none of those things and after
a few minutes of indecision he blurted out.
“I’d like to be a pair of boots.”
“Boots?” the fairy asked in puzzlement. “You could have
wealth unlimited, then you could buy thousands of pairs of boots.”
“No”, he replied.  “I
don’t want to have a pair of boots. 
I want to be a pair of boots. I want to still be alive and
conscious and I want to be a pair of leather boots.”
 “Ladies’ boots that
is”, he added suddenly.  “That’s very
important.”
“Perhaps you’d better be more specific, then.” the fairy sighed, taking out a notepad.  “Wouldn’t
want this to turn out badly for you in an ironic manner, like in the stories,
would we?”
So the fisherman described the boots of his fantasy.  They were tall: thigh length rendered taller
by heels four inches long. They had leather laces, tightly wound through bright
shiny eyelets all the way up the back, culminating in little leather tassels.
They gleamed with a mirror shine. They were, in short, the boots of almost
every male submissive’s fantasy.  And he
wanted to be them.
“Got it” said the fairy when he’d finished his long and
rather creepy description. She looked anywhere except the bulge in his trousers
as she took out her magic wand, waved it a little and then the world exploded
in a shower of stars.
 

The fairy

The fisherman woke up in some discomfort.  He was standing tied against a wooden frame
with arms splayed out above him and his wrists fastened so he could not break
free.  His ankles too were restrained, his
legs apart.
 
The fairy was sitting nearby, watching.  When she saw that he was awake, she nodded
and got up clutching a cloth bag.
“But – I wanted to be a pair of boots!” he protested.
The fairy nodded.  “And
you will be” she said, pulling a long, curved steel blade.
“Alive!” he shrieked, desperately.
“Yes, that too” she smiled. 
“All taken care of.” And she nicked his flesh deeply with the hooked end
of her blade and she began to cut.
Making a pair of leather boots takes time and skill.  First, the animal must be skinned, of
course.  The resulting hide will have
flesh on it, so this must be removed, first by cutting off the thicker layers,
then by scraping.  The resulting skin is
salted, folded and left for 24 hours or longer. 
Then, after soaking, the outer side of the hide must be scraped to remove
any hair and the epidermis.  The material
is then tanned, soaking in a vat with chemicals, before being tightly stretched
across a frame and left to dry as taut as can be.  True to the fairy’s word, the fisherman
remained alive and fully conscious throughout this process.  Although most of his nervous system was gradually
cut and scraped away, the diligent fairy ensured that he continued to have all
the sensations that an unskinned human would experience.  She even fancied she could hear his silent
screams, throughout, and she smiled a secret fairy smile as she worked.
Finally, the leather was ready. The fairy settled down with
her tools and she cut with strong shears and she sewed with a thick needle and she trimmed and
edged to make the boots of the fisherman’s dreams. The laces she made by
nicking the end of a thinned sheet and steadily pulling back, to make a thin
but strong strip of cured leather.  She drove
the metal eyelets through with a punching tool, she vigorously polished the
boots to the required mirror shine, then when she had pulled the laces through, she was
finally able to lean back and contemplate the boots she had made.
They were somewhat tacky, she had to admit, but she was quite pleased with how they had turned out.  Not her sort of thing, but
someone might want them. She left them on the doorstep of the town shoemaker at
midnight and disappeared into the night.
The boots were sold eventually, to a young, spoiled daughter
of a local nobleman. She wore them once, but found they pinched, and the
business with lacing up at the back was far too much trouble, so threw them
into her shoe cupboard and never thought of them again.  And there they remain to this day.

Moral: don’t ask a powerful supernatural being to skin you
alive. It bloody hurts.
…and the fisherman.

Shattered ever after


“My other daughter, Cinderella”, the merchant
gabbled, bowing low to the Prince and his party. A
haughty young blonde strode into the room, sat down in the armchair and
crossed her booted legs.  She stared with contempt at her father and step-sisters, huddled together against the back wall.  

“Well?” she demanded.  “Get on with your chores” and she watched them scurry from the room, stammering their apologies.


The Prince sank to his knees before her.  “May I?” he murmured, reaching out with a
trembling hand.  She
nodded curtly and the Prince slowly
unzipped her boot with his right hand, cradling the heel in his left. A moist,
warm miasma emerged as the loosened boot was gently lifted free.

“Sorry about the smell.  Been on my feet all day”, Cinderella
explained.

“It’s, erm… it’s no problem at all.” gasped the
Prince.   “You know, Lord Chamberlain, I think we don’t even
need to try the slipper. 
This is obviously the right pair of… pair of feet.” and he moved closer,
his face hovering just above the damp, stockinged foot. 

“Oh yes.  Yes: these are the feet.”

“Are you sure, your Majesty?” the Chamberlain
replied.  “They look a little on the
large side to -”

“Well then the slipper must have shrunk!”
snapped the prince, not taking his eyes from the foot he held so gently.

“Shrunk, Sire?” the Chamberlain replied, one eyebrow
raised.  “The
glass
slipper?”

The Prince turned on him in fury. 
“How dare you question your Prince! 
Arrest this man!  I shall decide
what to do with him later.”

“Perhaps a few years in the salt mines?” Cinderella suggested. “With hard labour? I’ve heard that can be quite
effective.”

The Prince looked up into her blue eyes in shock.  “That’s quite a harsh, erm… well, for a man in
his age
and condition…
I think…” he tailed off, noting a distinct pout coming over the lovely features
above him.

“Quite right, my dear, of course.” he continued.  “As you wish.”

Her restored smile seemed
to light up the room.  “And
we won’t be needing
that silly thing” she added, indicating the glass slipper with an elegant
finger.  The finger pointed towards a spot on the
floor, where the Prince placed it. 

Stand back”, she instructed.  And down
came Cinderella’s other, still-booted, foot shattering the slipper into ten
thousand iridescent shards.

“Oh dear” she smiled.  “So now I suppose whoever’s foot fits into that gets to be Queen?”, and the Prince raised the boot he was holding in shaking hands towards her gracefully-pointed toes.

And it was a perfect fit.

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