2025 Update:I used to have several more chapters of this posted here, but decided to take them down. I ended up self-publishing this through Amazon. It's never gotten all that much attention, and I don't expect it ever will... but every month Amazon pays me a dollar or two.
If you have Kindle Unlimited, it's a free read. If not, I just reduced the Kindle version's price to $0.99. It's also available in paperback. I might even add a hardcover version, if it seems like it's worthwhile, and I've considered recording an audio version.
Here's a link to the book: [url]https://a.co/d/dAUdwwb[/url]
Feel free to ask me any questions or send me any comments on it.
Back to the originally posted content:
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I'm not entirely sure why I wrote this, other than I wanted to mentally xxxxxxxxxxx (in a fun way, hehe) someone I know. She thought I should go ahead and post this somewhere.
Mind you, this is not my typical genre of writing, or activity. However, I have a very twisted imagination.
With no further ado... this one goes out to the ladies.

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You awake to find yourself in a room with bare wood floors, plain white walls, and no windows. There is a ceiling fan overhead, gently stirring the air, but making no noise.
The room is silent.
And you realize you are tied to the bed... though tied scarcely covers it. More like bound, the ropes tied with such perfection that only a sailor or boy scout can master. Soft cloths pad many of the ropes, to avoid chafing or friction burns, but other than those pads and the ropes themselves, you are completely naked.
And, as the room is slightly cooler than room temperature, your skin is beginning to feel the stirring of the air and raise goosebumps on your smooth flesh.
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After a period of time, how long you cannot say for sure - it could have been hours - it could have been minutes, you hear footsteps. You are bound in such a way as to have a limited field of view. You cannot see a door, but you soon hear one open. And close.
More footsteps around the room. You catch, out of the corner of your eye, a glimpse of a person. A man. Dressed in a white shirt and dark, perhaps black, pants. But you cannot see a face. He says not a word. Makes not a vocal sound.
You are lying face down. Your head turned to your left. By the sound of the footsteps, you believe he is standing near your feet, slightly to the right.
You feel a hand touch you. Neither rough nor gentle. The hand slides over the back of your leg, as might the hand of a man touching a new possession. Feeling it to know its really his.
The hand lifts away, and there are a couple steps, moving away from you. You hear a rustling noise. And a few footsteps back.
There is no warning. Nothing to prepare you. Nothing to suggest this was about to happen.... but you feel a number of sharp stings over your naked ass and the back of your thighs. An involuntary yelp escapes your lips as the shock registers. Then you feel the leather strips slide over your skin as the cat o'ninetails is slowly pulled away.
Thwack! Another strike. The leather strips each impact over a slightly different area, spreading the pain.
Thwack!
Thwack!
Thwack!
Each lash is different, though each is the same. The slow, methodical lashing covers your entire ass over the course of several strikes. None of which are enough to cause severe pain, but the total of them leaves your ass burning from the sting and releases a flood of endorphins into your system to counter its effects.
You lose count, but there's been at least a dozen lashes. And then... no more.
The footsteps move away again, and you hear another rustling. Then they come back. You cringe, knowing something more is coming. Will it be worse? Just what did you get yourself into?
You are taken by utter surprise as you feel something cool and soothing pour over your burning skin. A cream or lotion.... and a gentle hand to spread it over the burning sensation. It does not remove it entirely, but makes it more bearable.
After a moment of gentle ministration, the hand lifts away. The footsteps step back a moment, and more rustling and rummaging among items which must be on a table or bench. And then you hear the footsteps again, the door opens, closes, and the footsteps recede.
For now.