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Submitted to Contest #178
Santa at the Roundtable In his nearly fifty years of existence, Scott Lazlon had never been at a loss for words. He had been blessed with the gift of gab, the power of persuasion. His mother (as well as more than a few women he had taken to bed) always told him he had one hell of a “talented tongue”, that he could convince anyone the sky was black or that cats barked instead of meowed. He thought that was a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. But as...
Submitted to Contest #119
"Listen, what you did was dangerous." His belt whipped through the air and bit me. I screamed out in pain, tears blurring my vision. The belt popped me again, and I fell to my knees. Daddy jerked me back up, his rough, calloused hand clamped around my wrist like a dog's teeth. "This hurts me more than it does you," he said, and struck me one hard, final time. The hell it does, I thought as he let me go. I dropped to the bathroom floor like a sack of wrenches. I lay on the cold tile in a heap, rubbing my searing bottom. I ha...
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