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Mr Balcher Strikes Again

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From Blushes 36, the second in the Mr Balcher trilogy following A Ritual Caning  in which young Sharon Smithfield suffered from the diabolical attentions of both Mr Pearling and his cane and the caretaker Mr Balcher and his tube of Ralgex. Our little functional room. Mr Pearling’s room: the sign says  Mr Pearling  on the other side of one of these facing doors, the one next to the chest. The room is as before: the same simple functional furniture most noteworthy of which is of course the splay-legged wooden horse. That horse which reveals and is central to this room’s primary function. On closer inspection, though, not all is unchanged. The notice board on the wall. At the top it still says:  Sharon Smithfield: 11 o’clock  and  Janice Maybury: 11.30 . These notes should have been wiped off now, they are clearly redundant, referring as they do to appointments of two days ago but by some oversight — or it could alternatively be desc

A Ritual Caning

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From Blushes Supplement 23, the first part of the Mr Balcher trilogy. Mr Balcher is the archetypal Blushes school caretaker: grubby, furtive, manipulative, dirty-minded, exploitative and — in this case — armed with a tube of Ralgex. Poor Sharon Smithfield… Perhaps the best description of the man is nondescript. There is nothing remarkable about him, nothing noteworthy, unless it were his very nondescriptness. Well, there are his feet, which are certainly larger than the norm: large for his height and build which are very much average. The large feet are in scuffed black shoes; distinctly unpolished. The rest of him is distinctly unpolished too: a rumpled old sports jacket over a not-very-clean, cuff-frayed shirt , and baggy unpressed trousers. Oxfam would kit a man out a lot better than this. The man himself, this nondescript individual, is perhaps fifty; with grey hair that has disappeared on top but as if to compensate there is