A New Short Story From Pat Powers: "So This Is My Life Now ..."

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I have started outlining my novels, though the outline tends to get fairly worked over by my subconscious as I write. But when I write novellas and short stories, I'm still a seat-of-the-pants writer, which means that often, I have no idea WHAT the fuck I'm doing. I just sit down with an idea, start banging things out, and see what happens.

The amazing thing is, I think my subconscious is a better writer than my conscious mind is, and it has PLANS. Plans I have no idea of!

Take my latest story, “So This Is My Life Now ...” It was inspired by porn. Really. It was inspired by this particular porn video. The idea was to use a striking bondage image to create a story. And I looked at it, and my mind did as it sometimes does when it sees a striking bondage image, and it created a backstory for this video (which is, in full, about a cop who gets the tables turned on her and becomes a lesbian mistress' slavegirl).

The Mistress' outfit looks kinda like a uniform, so I immediately had an idea: the Mistress is a rebel warrior and the submissive is the cop who got the tables turned, just like the video. I had a vision of the Mistress fucking the slavegirl on the table as in the video, smirking merrily, with people walking by, making the submissive feel so humiliated, with her huge tits squished against the table and her round ass hanging over the edge, tied down and gagged … oh, it was nice.

So then I start writing, and I start writing about a skinny corporate executive buying an implant that gives you dreams that are experienced like real life, from a snarky, class-conscious, non-sentient salesbot.

What the fuck? Where the hell did that come from? I have no idea. But I keep writing because I kinda wanna know. And because, while on a few occasions when something like this happens, it's gone nowhere, most of the time I come up with a better story than I anticipated.

And damned if this wasn't what happened here, because this story turned out to ask the question, “What if your fantasies were better than real life in every respect?” It dealt with the nature of dreams and reality, how they are experienced and how they affect you. The story got into the erotica very fast, in fact, almost all of this story is erotica, with tons of lesbian domination and submission and public sex, nudity, bondage and humiliation – all the good stuff. Stuff that's better than real life ...

Check out the blurb below:

June Jetson was just an ordinary executive, single and married to her job in a time when jobs were becoming increasingly scarce. Head of a corporate human relations department, she discovers that many of her company's lower tier employees are unaccountably happy. They shouldn't be happy: her corporation, like most, is cutting wages and extending hours for the ever-shrinking pool of employees it hasn't yet fired. 

So what makes these wretches so happy? A bit of research leads June to discover that her happier employees are all customers of companies like Your Fantasies Unlimited. June decides to conduct some personal research, and life gets very strange when she discovers Mistress Suzy, a Lesbian Janissary of the Thongan Resistance, a dominant warrior woman who knows exactly how to make submissive June bend to her every whim.

What will happen to June? Can she cling to her rung on the ever more precarious corporate ladder when she discovers an erotic fantasy world that is so much better, so much more fulfilling, more thrilling, and just as real, as her “real life?”

“So This Is My Life Now” is mostly erotica. But it's also science fiction. And it's social commentary. All bundled into one juicy story that will grab you by the genitals and fling you in to the future!

“So This Is My Life Now” is also just over  10,000 words long and part of the Basic universe. Enjoy!

the pic that inspired me to write the story: It's a vidcap from a NSFW bondage video featuring Carissa Montgomery for the BorntobeBound website.

Form Follows Function

What could you possibly need a fingertip control that looks like this for? (Really, who wouldn't buy switches shaped like this?) Image source: Training of O.com.

Why, to release the Kraken, of course! Image source: Training of O.com.

Welcome to The Bondage Building!

Typical bondage building waiting room seating. Image source: Device Bondage.
The flying monkeys brought home this image of a street sign giving directions to a place many readers of this blog will find of interest. Some commenters have said they think the sign was altered by pranksters. Bah! With all the bondage extant on the Internet, there MUST be bondage buildings ... where else could you store all that bondage?

Fifty Shades of Gray Brings More Images of Women in Bondage to Mainstream Media

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Claudette Colbert Kissed While In Bondage

Check out that happy smirk on Claudette Colbert's face after she's kissed while collared and cuffed at the wrists! I've seen that expression before! 
Image source: vidcap from "I Cover the Waterfront" from 1933.
A brief and pleasant clip now on Bondage Television from I Cover the Waterfront with hottie Claudette Colbert enjoying some kisses while strapped in a torture device. Consensual bondage, in short, though of course it was not presented as such, just a young couple horsing around in a romantic sort of way.

Note the date: 1933, a year before the Hayes Code rang down the curtains on anything resembling sexual perversion in films. From then on, if you put a woman in a torture device, you damn well better be torturing her ... preferably to death! THAT'S the moral thing to do ... in those days, anyway, when cultural conservatives ruled the movie screens ... and there were no television screens.

Ksenia Solo and Asphyxia Noir: Celebrity Clones

Left: bondage model Asphyxia Noir. Right: "Lost Girl" TV star Ksenia Solo. Image source: left, Sex and Submission.com, right: vidcap from "Lost Girl".
So, Ksenia Solo plays a hot Goth girl on the SyFy Channel's new TV series Lost Girl about a couple of hot young goth girls (one of whom is a Fae, a succubus in fact, making for much edgy sex, by American TV standards) who gets involved in a secret near-war the Fae (i.e., fairies of various stripe) are having. The Fae live among us and keep their identities secret, but they've got magical powers alrighty. It's all very urban mythology and it's a pretty good watch. (Psst. It's actually a Canadian science fiction TV series that is now in its second season, which is why it's so good.)

Asphyxia Noir is hot Goth model who sexes it up on Sex and Submission. Quite a resemblance eh? I'm thinking this is more definite proof that mad scientists are cloning Goth hotties for some reason. Not that you need a reason!


Try not to think of this next time you watch "Lost Girl"! Good luck! Image source: same as before.

Realization!

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"When I flip for a guy, I STAY flipped for a guy," said Slave Slippery.
Image source: Hogtied.

Star Wars Online Worried About Slave Leia RP I Think

"Jabba WOULD sell me to a Gorean paga tavern! 
Image Source: Second Life avatars created by Pat Powers, whoever he is. (OK, the Slave Leia avatar and outfit were purchased in the Second Life marketplace.)
So my flying monkey brought home a link about Slave Girl Leia, which didn't seem to productive at first glance ... a discussion on what appears to be an official forum of the Star Wars: The Old Republic online RP game. It starts off innocently enough, with an RPer asking where she can get a sexy slavegirl outfit for her character. There are a couple of reasonable sorts of responses, then long about the fifth post the mod rushes in and locks the thread on the grounds that"We ask that everyone hold off on submitting feedback until they have experienced gameplay on Public Test." Check it out here.

Seemed kind of abrupt to me, then the penny dropped. Star Wars is not exactly Gor, but let's face it, the Web is FULL of visual evidence that fantasies about Slave Leia are pretty much all about sex slavery. Or heroic rescues from sex slavery. Often, both! (See above, and below.)

So, Star Wars probably wants to attract that wonderful, mythical FAMILY audience that corporations love so much, and they are probably EXTREMELY leery of all the RP that Slave Leia is likely to spawn, so they're EXTREMELY skittish about it. I mean, it COULD be that the thread was shut down purely for the technical reasons that were cited, but it sure seemed awfully HASTY to me. I'm betting, corporate stuffed shirts gave out orders to put the nix on the sexy slave girl stuff.

Good luck with that, corporate stuffed shirts.

Medical Multitasking

"Doctor, what exactly are you planning to fill?"

Conducting dental exams and gynecological exams simultaneously did save lots of time for busy career women, but what with all the different things going on in different places, strapping the vic ... er patients down was necessary for their own safety.

Image courtesty of Bondagerotica sponsor Sex and Submisison.

Cute Light Fixture

In retrospect, slave Maya realized that she should have known better than to be hopeful when Mistress had said she would have light duties tonight.

Luxury Cot

Masters, having trouble with your slavegirl snoring? The Sleep Restraint Systems Luxury Cot is the answer!

Also:

She was so excited she was glad she was gagged so no one could hear her chortling with glee. Her camouflage was perfect! No one would notice her with her black and white striped bed and the black stripes agains her pale white skin! ... Then she noticed in which direction the stripes were running ...

Wraparound

Jennifer Ladell in a scene from the movie "Indecent Behavior 3."

This is one of those pictures that looks prosaic until you know something that's not immediately apparent. In this case, it's that the woman's wrists are lashed to the headboard behind her with a leather strap.

Before, the picture just conveyed passion, as the woman's legs wrap around the man's. Now it conveys helplessness and passion. The woman might instinctively want to embrace the man with her arms as well, but she can't, because they're tied back.

In fact, the woman's legs are almost all you can see of her, except for half her face projecting above the man's shoulder. The rest is all writhing pink stuff beneath the man. The rest of her body either bound or trapped beneath the guy, she does her slavegirl best to express her passion and affection by wrapping her legs around his.

As a result, there's something both touching and raunchy about this image, and the two emotions amplify one another. If the image weren't so touching, it wouldn 't be quite so raunchy. And if it weren't so raunchy, it wouldn't be nearly as touching.