Book review - The Friday Night Bridge Club by Rollin Hand

How do you write a great spanking story? Pretty much the same way that you write any great story, but with, you know, added spanking.

So do you want to know the secret?

Yeah, me too. Sorry though, if I knew that I'd be out there doing it.

What I can tell you however is what makes a spanking story great for me; I like atmosphere, believable characters, spankings that grow out of the story rather than being forced into it, and good storytelling.

I also like one that exhibits a decent level of technical ability from it's writer; you know, the dull stuff like correct grammar, sentence structure and word selection.

I particularly like stories that amuse me, whilst at the same time arousing me.

Why am I so sure that these are the things I look for in a spanking story? That's easy; I've just read a bunch of them in  Mr Hand's latest Ebook, The Friday Night Bridge Club.

A couple of technical details; the book, which is 104 pages long, is available on Kindle for £2.02, or the equivalent in your native currency. I understand that it is also available in other formats too - check out www.disciplinarytales.blogspot.com for more information.

It contains 7 stories of varying length. All are worth checking out. The cover, by the wonderful Paula Lynn Russell, is shown to the left.

Rollin has, in addition to the virtues mentioned above, two more vitally important skills. He has a lightness of touch which make every story a pleasant read, and he has a sense of humour.

These stories are filled with little twists, which I won't detail as I don't wish to spoil anyone's fun in discovering them, but which often make the story something other than it appears. In particular you should beware if a story seems to merely be a retread of one of the standard spanking tropes; Rollin will undermine it with a surprise.

The collection includes Elm Street USA, which I believe Chross linked to a while back in his Spankings of the Week, and which is a delightful riff on the movie Pleasantville, and Love's Passionate Frenzied Fury, which is a funny satire on romance novels, and the way to write them. Oh, and on getting what you want.

The shortest story included is Scavenger Hunt, which is a wonderful little delight; for me the story I liked least was Bermuda Triangle, which I thought was just a bit obvious, but was an attempt to structure a story in a non-traditional manner. With hot spankings.

The title story is a kind of soft boiled noir tale of an insurance investigator, on a case to remember. In more ways than one.

Vale Vs Connor is a slightly deeper psychological look at the actions that need sometimes drives us to, which utilises a court room setting to good effect, and is told mainly through the use of dialogue and flashbacks.

The final story to mention is The Marriage Mentors of Maple Lane which is a tale of a somewhat subtle type of marriage counselling.

In this world spanking almost invariably leads to sex and this is described sensitively and well, as are the various spankings themselves.

I regret that I don't have anything more illuminating to say; I just thoroughly enjoyed this slim volume.

Which are my favourite stories here? Probably the title story and Elm Street USA, which was the first that I came across. Both subvert expectations, and both made me both chuckle and reach for the tissue (if you can excuse a little crudeness).

I would recommend this collection to anyone who enjoys well written and well thought out spanking stories; perhaps you should avoid it if your idea of entertainment is graphic descriptions of blood soaked buttocks, as all of the spankings are given at a sane level, or if the idea of both sexes being punished offends you, as no one is safe in a Rollin story.

For me the biggest disappointment was when the book came to an end; it is a genuine delight, and one that you could recommend to the non-spanko in your life as an example of why you find spanking fiction to be so much fun.

Go on, Amazon is always open. Pop along and download a copy now. You will not be sorry.

All the best

Tim

Watch Out! Beware! Danielle Hunt's out there!

Good morning Spankiworld and welcome to Friday morning. A whole working week of blog posts. Impressed are you? You bloody well should be! I certainly am.

I'll be taking the weekend off, but I'm going to leave you on a real high, with a short post about one of my spanking heroes.

If you've lurked around this blog for any length of time then you'll be aware of my affection for the wonderful Ms Danielle Hunt; in what seems like no time at all she has exploded onto the spanking scene, and turned the Trinity of British Spankees into a Quartet of Spanked Awesomeness.

I have tried to arrange a spanking session with D on several occasions, but as yet our schedules have not quite synced up, but it's only a matter of time.

For now though I've posted an alert to all law enforcement agencies across the Spankiglobe, as I fear that, if allowed to run unchecked, Ms Hunt will take over the entire World! In response I recently received the following message:-

Dear Sir
 
I am deeply sorry to be bothering you on a weekend, but as you know crime doesn’t take a holiday, and criminals such as Miss Danielle Hunt {inmate number 011041991DH} don’t give us any peace then either. 

The Miami Police Department arrested Miss Hunt on a minor charge – littering – however the abusive language alongside the kicking and punching she gave my members of staff when we arrested her is why she’s still locked up in these fine United States. Put simply, we are not prepared to release her until we can be assured that Miss Hunt will be taught to follow the letter of the law. So far, our attempts have failed miserably. The corrections officers have taken to giving Miss Hunt daily doses of the wooden paddle, we had even made one especially for this young rebel without a clue. The result of this is not a repenting and remorseful inmate, worryingly the result of this has been an even more brazen and sassy {just realized you Brits don’t use the term sassy… think cheeky and smug} inmate who takes pride in the fact that she feels she has beaten the system. She has also developed a notorious reputation amongst the other inmates as someone to be respected; she has others perform her prison chores and has earned the nickname ‘Knuckles’ as she fights the wardens.
 

This matter has is causing us a real headache down at the station, our egos have taken a real blow. We would like to extradite her back to England, where we can only assume she has a similar lack of respect for the boys in blue…or ‘pigs’ as she has taken to calling us. Put simply, until we have assurance that someone is willing to discipline this girl and change her wild ways, she will remain in the city jail.

Sheriff Jack Mulanax

Miami City Police Department – Institute of Corrections

As you can see out American friends have a serious problem that only we here in the UK can help with; arrange to see Danielle as soon as possible, and help to spank that naughty behaviour out of her. I'm certainly keen to do my bit, and I will be seeing the mischievious young lady just as soon as I can arrange to.

Danielle, I'm coming for you! I can't wait to see those wonderful bouncing cheeks reddening under my spanking hand.

All the best

Tim

All images are copywright Ms Danielle Hunt, and are  used with her full knowledge and permission. You can look D up on Spankeefinder, and her videos appear pretty much everywhere. I hope to have a report on a session with Danielle soon, and to follow that up with a full interview.

Look away now if you don't want to know the result - a spanking session with Tara Red

Good evening, Or morning, Or afternoon. Pick the one most appropriate to where you are when you read this.

Okay then; hope I didn't leave anyone out. In my efforts to make this blog a bit of the daily reading of every blog fan in the Spankiverse I will stoop to any depths to pander to your delicate sensibilities.

Apart from dropping the swearing of course.

And the crude pictures.

And the other stuff that I like and not everyone else will.

Um. Doesn't sound quite as good as I'd like. Perhaps I better move on to the reason that I called you all here today.

I recently celebrated my fiftieth birthday. As we are between permanent homes I said that I wasn't bothered about a present from my wife; I preferred to wait until we were settled, when I could have something for the new house. A lot of book cases perhaps.

A couple of weeks before the big day my wife surprised me by offering me £200 to book a spanking session. I had paid for my previous sessions out of money I had earned myself, but as I work from home our disrupted domestic situation meant that I had only been able to generate a trickle, and that had crawled back into the household budget.

I tried a couple of ladies who had sadly already been booked for the day (hi Fae and Danielle - we will get together at some point, I promise) and then I emailed Tara Red, a model who advertises on Spankeefinder, amongst other places. We had previously tried to arrange sessions on two separate occasions, but once I had to withdraw due to a family illness, and the second time she did, due to a work related injury.

We agreed a 90 minute switch session, and I emailed a plethora of role play suggestions. I confess that I got a little over-excited, and came up with about a dozen suggestions, often requiring costume changes as well.

We narrowed things down a bit; I requested a house wife outfit that could double as a Headmistress with the addition of a gown, and a traditional schoolgirl outfit for later. Tara promptly agreed, and ensured that I had directions to the venue (the same one that Winks used in my first session).

The day dawned, damp and miserable. Whilst my spirits were high I was incredibly nervous; my last session had been disappointing (more because of my expectations than anything else, I think) and I almost regretted having committed to another one.

I arrived at the agreed time and Tara welcomed me in. The room we were using had a comfy settee and living room section, along with a school desk and whiteboard off to one side. In it's centre was a coffee table entirely covered with spanking implements.

Tara was a delight; whilst she is in her early 40s her figure is that of a much younger lady, and she has a fiery shock of bright red hair. Her manner was welcoming, and, as she offered me coffee, she immediately placed me at my ease.

I explained my nerves, and she asked what exactly has disappointed me in my last session. She was keen to ensure she did not make the same mistakes that lady had. We talked about limits, and my lack of experience in role plays, and we agreed on a scenario for our first go.

This was to be a domestic scene; I was the slovenly husband who refused to put the top on the toothpaste tube, and preferred lazing around on the sofa to helping around the house. It was almost type casting! Tara as my wife had returned home from to work to find that, once again, I had failed to follow through on my promise to tidy the garage. She told me that her mother would have smacked her bottom if she had behaved as badly as I had. I mouthed off about her mother, and promptly found myself over Tara's rather shapely knee.

The conversation between us rattled back and forth as she spanked me over progressively less clothing, and finally used a slipper on me. My bottom was certainly steaming hot.

Ah, but during our conversation she had let slip that she has seen some of the girls at work looking at spanking porn, and I wormed out of her that part of the reason she had smacked me was to see what it was like. I felt it was only fair that she experienced spanking from the other side too, so across my lap she went, her short black skirt pulled tight against her splendidly rounded bottom. I set to spanking her, and matters progressed as you might expect.

This initial role play took about 40 minutes, and we relaxed for a brief discussion. Tara complimented me on my role playing skills (positive reinforcement is always good for a beginner), and told me that I could spank her harder if I wished. I didn't tell her that she could do the same!

She then put on her gown, and we ran though a Headmistress spanks (and slippers and paddles) the naughty sixth former. She placed me in various positions and ensured that my rump was stinging nicely.

Tara then dressed in her school girl outfit, and reported to the Headmaster with a note from her teacher regarding not paying attention in class, and not doing homework.(The note was one she found on the fireplace in the room we were using, but she quickly adapted it to our use). I started with her across my knee again (still by far my favourite position), and then across the desk, whilst I employed a number of her implements on her now brightly blushing bottom (including a genuine plimsoll that made a wonderfully satisfying whacking noise).

We completed the play (each segment had concluded with a resolution of the original issue, giving them a satisfyingly complete feel), and I admitted that I was quite worn out.

Tara had a wicked gleam in her eye, and a black leather crop type thing in her hands - I had used it on her a few minutes previously.

"Do you think you'd like to feel what this one's like? Trousers down I think, and across the desk." She warmed my bare bottom with this fiendish toy for a couple of minutes, and then proceeded to give me 50 hand spanks for my birthday (well, a few more than that actually).

We finished off chatting pleasantly as I rubbed a soothing ointment onto Tara's cheeks, and I assured her that the session had been all that I wished it to be.

It was a great way to spend my birthday morning, and Tara was a wonderful person to spend it with. She is great fun, and has a gorgeous bottom, combined with a wickedly hard hand. Her experience in role plays is wonderful; she guides the scene along with subtle hints and nudges that you only realise the significance of in hindsight.

I know that my sample is distressingly small, but I have no hesitation in saying that it was the best spanking session I've ever had.

Unfortunately it has left me craving another one, just as soon as we can get this house thing finally sorted out. Ah well, something to look forward to.

All the best

Tim

All pictures are of Miss Tara Red, and taken from her various adverts. If you're in the Midlands I really do recommend that you book a session with her but hurry - she gets booked up early!

Well of course it hurts! Or, are all spankers sadists?

So, back again eh? Yesterday wasn't just a flash in the pan. Or any type of flashing really, as my long coat with the holes cut in the pockets is still in storage.

Too much information? Tough shit. This is my blog and I'll gross you out if I want to. Or maybe even by accident on occasion.

So, where was I? Sitting on the bed with my cat, but that's not important right now.

Back to the point. I was reading the British Spanking Community forum the other day, and there was a somewhat heartbreaking post from a vanilla young lady who was in a relationship with a spanko. She let him spank her, but was entirely uncomfortable about the whole thing. She asked for advice.

A portion of the discussion that followed very sensibly revolved around the aspect of being spanked that disturbed her. It turned out that it wasn't the pain of being spanked but rather the embarrassment at the rituals of spanking, and the role play that her partner insisted on.

On the Consensual Spanking there is a heart felt letter from a male spankee, who has struggled to get his wife to spank him (an issue I can entirely sympathise with) and one of the issues is the level of pain she is comfortable inflicting on him.

Now, and this may shock any vanilla readers out there, it seems to me that most spankings don't really hurt. I know we've all seen Kiss Me Kate, where even in the most extreme versions Miss Vanessi gets at most a couple of dozen spanks, and then finds she can't sit comfortably for hours, but, generally, an adult spanking with the palm of the hand does not generate a lot of lasting discomfort.

This is not the case with an adult beating a child, where the difference in mass can lead to real suffering. This is just one of the reasons why I'm opposed to disciplinary corporal punishment for kids. Plus, you know, it weirds me out; spanking always has a sexual element for me, and, even lacking that it's a lot of fun in other ways too, and it just seems wrong as punishment.

There's enough bullying in life without adding a physical element at out most vulnerable stage.

A little clarification; I'm not disputing that a long firm spanking on a bare bottom causes a lovely red glow, genuine heat, tingling and even some soreness, but it soon fades. It's hard to see it as punishment.

When I spank I love to get a reaction; I love to see the silky cheeks of my victim change colour. I like it when I hear the odd involuntary gasp, when the feet kick sharply upwards at a particularly well placed smack, when the young lady feels a need to rub her bottom after I've finished (and all of my spankees are young ladies, irrespective of their age).

I love all of this, but my experience would in no way be better if my partner was writhing in agony, or slumped to the floor in floods of tears. I don't want her bottom battered and bruised, or, worst still, bleeding. I want to know that she felt it, but not that it left her gasping in pain.

I may be different here to some of you; I suppose that, if you're in a domestic discipline relationship, then the point of spanking is to punish, and therefore inflicting pain is a primary requirement. This isn't me however; I'm in the spanking experience for the fun of it.

Hurting someone, even when they might be getting off on it, isn't fun to me.

One small clarification; I'm not attacking those for whom pain is a vitally important part of the process. Provided both parties consent freely to the act then it's all fine with me; a lot of vanilla people would consider me spanking interest to be perverted, so I won't shun anyone else whose interests might be different from mine.

The thing is, I love spanking. I also like being spanked. I am not, I think, either a sadist or a masochist, although that is how spankos are viewed, by and large. We are seen as being a bit odd.

I've always liked odd myself.

There's a view around the scene that spanking, practised as an erotic technique, is becoming more mainstream, more socially acceptable. I think that's true, and, while I suppose I should welcome anything that  makes it easier to practice my favourite kink, I'm still a bit sad at the prospect.

One thing about being an outsider is that you tend to relate to your fellow hoodlums: you are bound by the bond of common interests. I know that I consider all of you out there in Spankiland as my countrymen, irrespective of where you come from. You are my peeps (fuck, I hate that phrase). You are my buddies, my colleagues in sexual unorthodoxy, my lust objects (in some cases).

I've wandered from my point a bit. I do that you know.

Oh yeah. You do know.

Thanks for coming back. Good things will follow, I promise.

All the best

Tim

All pictures shamelessly borrowed from Spanking Veronica Works, (except for the one that I added by accident, which is from Richard Windsor's spanking blog) of which hopefully I will tell you more shortly

A Slight Return

Um. Hello. (Gentle cough). Is there anyone there? Hello? HELLO?

Oh, good. There is still life in the good old Spankiverse.

Well, did you miss me? Hang on, don't answer that. I'd hate to be disappointed, especially on this, my first day back and all. Well, alright, you can answer, but any responses that aren't yes will be promptly deleted (Joke! Honest. I've never deleted a response).

So then, how are you? What's been happening over the last 6 months? I hope that all of you who want them have had lots of spankings, and that the rest of you have been able to give a load.

Glad to see that all of my old favourite sites still seem to be churning along, although I'm a bit sad to see that you need a password to log into the Italian Spanking comic site - I really used to like that one too!

I see that Chross is still finding new mainstream clips (really liked the one from Save Me, even if it was pretty short), and that Richard Windsor is carrying on his one man campaign to promote spankings in the theatre (and more power to him - he has some wonderful old pictures on his blogs).

I see Richard was 50 recently; I too passed that milestone in the same week. I celebrated with a morning spanking session with the wonderful Tara Red - a surprise from my lovely and tolerant wife! I'll probably go into more details of that in due course.

There are a few problems; while I'm healthier than I have been in 18 months I still struggle a bit, and sadly we are between permanent homes (we were part of a chain and illness caused the seller of our new house to pull out, and we didn't think that we could afford to let our own sale go); much of my stuff, including the PC with most of my spanking stuff archived, is in storage. Hence no pictures with this post.

Hopefully in the near future I'll get in touch with some of the delightful spanking friends that I've made through this blog, and get some new interviews and reviews for you; I'd planned to set some stuff up before I posted annew but somehow today I just felt an urge to type.

So, joking aside, welcome back to all of you super spanking people who've stuck with me during these long fallow months; I never expected it to be this long. If I ever get the chance to meet up with any of you (female) tops, you can spank me for being absent without explanation. Oh please, go on!

It might be a few days before I get anything else up here for your entertainment; should anyone want to contribute an interview, or access to their website for a review (whether a new one or s follow up to an earlier look), please get in touch.

I have a couple of opinion pieces partly written, including one in praise of our wonderful professional spankers/spankees/switches; look for me to be around and about.

Finally, thanks to those who kept checking back here (I'm still averaging 250 page views per day), and to those bloggers who left a link to my blog on their sites; faith will be rewarded.

All the best

Tim

A little break

I apologise whole heartedly to those of you who turn up here regularly but due to a change in my circumstances there will be no blog posts for the immediate future.

I'm not sure how long this is likely to be, but I'd think at least a couple of months.

Hope I'll see you down the road a bit.

All the best

Tim

Not a spanking but still a nice shot

The CW's new series, The Carrie Diaries started last night in the US; it's a kind of prequel to Sex in the City, but with less swearing. Alright, no swearing at all.

Whilst the show is not really my thing I came across this photo of AnnaSophia Robb, the 19 year old who plays Carrie, and I thought it was worth sharing.

Please enjoy.

All the best

Tim