Room 2D

Photo-story from Janus 128 featuring "glamour model" and former gymnast Amanda Dawkins. Two men sit on chairs in the otherwise empty gymnasium, their faces tense. ‘Come!’ calls the man on the right. The sound echoes. Seconds pass, as though the one being summoned is making a point of asserting her independence by taking her time. After several insolently-delayed moments she steps into view at the far end of the room. Her name is Sheena Steele. She is twenty years old. Dressed as instructed in short skirt, white top and trainers, her nubile body is trim, toned and shapely. Her eyes are hard. She chooses not to look at either man. Especially not the visitor. Sheena is a youth leader. The man seated to her left as she faces them is her supervisor, Ray Dayton — one of the few people in this world she respects and trusts. The other man has come to punish her. Sheena actually laughed about it when Ray put the ...

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From Roué 23 Cheryl sat at her bedroom window and stared gloomily out at the garden below. How could she be so inconsiderate?, she thought; what makes her think she’s got the right to treat me in this way? Downstairs her mother poured herself a generous helping of brandy and sank back into an armchair. At last she had done it — at last she had refused to give into her daughter’s demands. She took a sip of the beverage and purred as it warmed her insides. She was a contented woman. It had been almost a year since Brenda Willis lost her husband to a slip of a thing from the typing pool and the most problematical aspect of life without hubby had proved to be her daughter’s behaviour. Slowly but surely Cheryl had wound her mother round her little finger; she had her exactly where she wanted her. If one of Cheryl’s requests didn’t meet with her mother’s approval — as was often the case — the point would be argued over but, without ...