Half-Past Seven
From Blushes Supplement 11 What was there to think about when a girl was made to wait for it except what she was being made to wait for! Your mind could wander off for a while — couldn’t help wandering, in fact, because if there was one thing about sitting on your bed and staring at the clock it was that it was boring — the trouble was though, the picture of what was about to happen to you and your bum, was the inevitable punctuation mark at the end of every escapist thought; right there in front of your eyes you saw yourself face down and bottom up, feeling the cane hovering behind you, ready to swipe down across your bum. You saw yourself being brave, not squealing or wriggling, and you pretended you saw it all over with — tears in your eyes, perhaps, and a tingle in your buttocks, but finished and done with — only that was a picture that you couldn’t hold clearly in your mind, because you knew it was a lie. You weren’t rea...