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A tale of monomania

george RAYMOND51 Comments

We were a poor family but

we were rich in spankings.

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“Just wait until your father comes home!” my mother would say.

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And knowing a spanking was

imminent, I would go to the

study and grab the thickest

book I could find, and then

stuff it in my pants. 

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And then, when my

father finally got home

and heard what I had done,

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he’d storm into my room,

pull me over his knee,

yank down my pants —

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And then get lost in a good book.

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“Son, this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you …

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‘They call me Ishmael.'”

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51 thoughts on “A tale of monomania”

  8. We did put excercise books inside our trousers when we were going to be caned at school. The teachers knew, but it limited the damage somewhat as long as they avoided the thighs..
    Many thanks for following my blog.
    Best wishes, Pete.

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    • Absolutely, Pete. I have been reading your comments to David Miller’s posts for years but never thought to check if you were a writer, as well. Also, glad to see there is some truth to what I writ’.

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  14. Clever!
    I’m just thinking about the days when a parent COULD do that. Sometimes they take the kid away if a parent’s seen disciplining now. The world has gone insane !!!

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      • Yeah, I SHOULD have put a book in my pants to distract my father, lol. I was a very troubled child and got a few licks early on. What else could they do? I deserved it! I forged my report card once when I was about seven years old !!!

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    • Hey C – sorry for the delay in responding. And yes!! I thought long about how I could use that line, maybe as the title, or an addendum, or something. It is a very nice little line to end a book on.

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  19. OMG this was perfect! It brought back so many memories of getting spanked. I didn’t use a book, I always put my hand on my butt and my mother (she did all the spanking) would spank me with her wood stick and hit my hand. Whether it hurt my hand or not I would scream out how bad my hand hurt. She would feel guilty and was done spanking me. Lol

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    • Yes, that is true! Another reader even supplied the last line of the book, “And I only am escaped alone to tell thee.” Which, I think is from the bible, too. Thanks for reading and sorry for the delay in responding.

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  24. I love books as well but unfortunately in these modern times of social media including WP and YT it got lost in the sea of my book shelves. I still buy books wishing I could have more time to read one haha!

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