SSC2007 - Adult - Cathy's Inheritance - 500 Words

I waited in our spare bedroom. My wife, Cathy, and I had just returned from the Solicitors office. He read out my Mother's will. I assumed everything was going to be left to me, her only living heir. I had waited for this moment. I loved my Mother but she was so controlling, and at last, at 46 years old, I am a free man.

The Solicitor paused, to get my attention, then continued. "My hairbrushes are left to Cathy" he announced. He handed Cathy a hairbrush and a sealed envelope. Cathy looked surprised. I was stunned.

We did not speak until we got home. Cathy came in to the bedroom. She looked serious. She was holding something. Yes, it was the hairbrush. Wooden backed, oval, light brown, sturdy. This was just like when Mother sent me to the spare bedroom to wait for her. She would soon arrive holding a hairbrush.

It was always the signal for my imminent punishment. Cathy gave me a withering look "I wondered why you went by yourself to your Mother's. How often did she spank you Nigel, and don't lie?"

I looked at the hairbrush that Mother used so ably to discipline me. There was no point arguing now anyway. Mother sealed my fate in her will. Cathy was so like her, strong minded and determined, except she had never spanked me. Yet. I mumbled "Once or twice a month. She phoned you every few days and if you moaned about me I would be summoned. You didn't even realise."

Cathy nodded. "Right. Here, you can read the letter now." It started "I loved Nigel dearly but he needs firm discipline. Mostly just a stern look would be enough to bring him back into line. When that was insufficient I spanked him. He responded particularly well to my hairbrush. You will have my whole collection. His behaviour towards you always improved after one of his visits. Now Cathy you must take over. ......"

I read on. My head spun but I got the gist. She sat on the bed and said firmly "I do so love you darling but you are so much nicer when you are well behaved and I will make sure you are, always. We will start by discussing why you got drunk last weekend."

Cathy pointed the hairbrush and I knew she would discipline me. I was not free after all. She tapped her knee. I lowered my trousers and pants and bent across her lap. So, 46 and still being spanked. "We will have to cancel the restaurant tonight darling because you are going to find sitting down very difficult.

I groaned. "I was really looking forward to going."

"Maybe next week, if you are good. I thought your behaviour had deteriorated since your Mother died darling. Don't worry, I will be especially strict and I am sure your attitude will improve very soon."

I had no doubt that Cathy and her hairbrush will make sure of that.

A familiar concept of male submissive whose wife continues the good work that mommy started. These stories are not really my 'cup of tea' but this one was reasonably well told with nothing to lift it out of the ordinary.

I would make one comment about tenses. The author begins with 'I waited in our spare bedroom' and then we are in the lawyers office where he'read out the will' It reads at first as if this is happening at the same time.

A reasonable effort but not one that really sets me buzzing.

A fascinating premise well-executed.  The passing of the torch to a new generation is an intriguing idea and the story captures it well.

Nice story.  Nigel seems so trapped, but at the same time he seems to depend on the spankings, otherwise he would have changed his behavior by the time he was that old.  If it works that's what counts, and now he has someone who will punish him on a very regular basis.  Lucky guy!

The space allowed means that not many SSC stories have a proper beginning, middle and end, so this gets plenty of brownie points for packing a lot in: some nice plotting, some brief characterisation, even some relevant back-story. I do tend to find myself a tiny bit frustrated by stories in which an adult becomes subject to this sort of discipline by a partner as if it's the most obvious thing in the world. Obviously, that's the fantasy, but for me the most interesting stuff is that this *isn't* an obvious thing, and that's what I'm most interested in seeing dealt with in a story. This is a big thing for adults to contemplate. How does it fit with the rest of their lives? Are they conflicted at all? To just assume that it's an easy transition seems to me to miss potentially the best bit of the narrative.

This story is pleasantly suspenseful, and the author manages to convey a lifetime of spankings without ever actually describing one. The idea of the grown man whose disciplinary regime carries on from his mother to his wife is interesting.  In some ways, it makes this story feel like a child spanking story to me.