Author's note: This is a story of a young man's plunging descent; from the heights of independence, leisure, and luxury plunging directly into the depths of slavery, drudgery, and austerity. As told here, his journey is festooned with the various fetish images that I, the author, find most compelling. Hopefully, if we share enough of those fetish images, you, a potential reader, might also enjoy the descent described.
Having noticed that Literotica seems to allow authors multiple postings of exactly the same story, I decide to do that here, with a Femdom version of a previously posted story. Just as for the original story, the title Carrion Comfort is the title of one of George Manley Hopkins' dark sonnets. To highlight the story's connection with the Hopkins poem, certain lines of that poem are inserted at various places. Those lines, in order, are: lines 2 and 3; lines 6 and 7; line 10 and 11; lines 12 and 14.
And of course, all the people involved in the story are 18 years or older.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Given the chance to finally tell my story to someone, to someone who knows English which is the only language I speak, yet to someone who could never be in a position to help me in any way, I would like to start with clarifying that it is essentially a story of how I have somehow endured, of how in the total devastation of the life I once knew and the continually escalating devastation of the life I now know, I found a meager tattered comfort to cling to.
(Not untwist — slack they may be — these last strands of man
In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can)
I was alone in this foreign country. Possibly worrisome for a man; but at the time I was young, rich, and handsome; and an American. And so I felt entirely secure as I wandered the picturesque streets sightseeing and shopping. I had chosen to visit here since the economy functioned using a form of chattel slavery. All around I saw most of the menial labor being done by naked slave boys in bondage. It amused me that my purchases were delivered to my hotel by such slave boys hauling carts in their bare feet, and that my hotel's lobby and hallways were scrubbed clean by such slave boys on their hands and knees. It felt good to know they were all around me struggling in so many ways to please me; it felt good to know they would be whipped if they failed to please.
As I turned a corner, there was an instance of my very thoughts. A naked chained slave boy was cowering in front of a woman with a whip, his overseer I supposed. She looked displeased. She pointed at the ground and he dropped to his knees; she pointed to her shoes and he bent over and avidly kissed them while raising his ass high and offering it to the whip. Yes, I thought, whip it, whip him. He must deserve it. But the woman only said a few words, and the slave crawled on his hands and knees to a nearby entryway and started scrubbing energetically, presumably resuming the task in which the woman had found him wanting. The woman stood still and stared at him, and he trembling strained to visibly increase his efforts. I moved on, but I doubted if he could stave off that beating for long, not if the woman continued to watch him.
I found myself a bit hungry, so picked a restaurant and ordered. Maybe if the timing was right I could catch his delayed beating after my meal. When the food arrived I found it inedible. I couldn't speak the language, but I loudly and longly made my disappointment quite clear to all the staff. When I then made the move to haughtily pay and stomp out, I realized that my knapsack was somehow now missing. Clearly one of the people working there had taken it when my attention was focused on making my displeasure known to everyone involved with my disgusting meal. When they attempted to bring the bill, I ignored it and tried to point out I had been robbed, and very quickly an official looking woman appeared.
I then found myself being put into handcuffs. The bill for my meal was then brought again and held up to my eyes; it seemed to be inordinately large - undoubtedly the restaurant's revenge for my diatribe, a revenge eminently feasible against one in handcuffs. The official seemed only concerned with the bill, not with my missing knapsack. What with me being ignorant of the language, and with no one around admitting to knowing English, I felt helpless. Cowered, I made gestures indicating my total willingness to pay the outrageous bill. In turn, gestures made it clear to me that since the clothes I was wearing was all I had with which to settle the bill, I would have to agree to using some of them to pay. I was quite expensively dressed; my jacket alone would be more than enough surely, so I nodded agreement.
Thankfully the official then freed me from the handcuffs. But before I could even start to register relief, I was then stripped by the restaurant staff not just as expected of my jacket but also of my watch and rings. A clerk of the restaurant glanced over them, wrote a number down, and seemed to nod his head ``no'' at the official. I was further stripped of shoes, socks and pants; the staff seemed to thoroughly enjoy doing so. The clerk again wrote and then again ``no''; next my shirt; and finally then my t-shirt and underpants, leaving me standing there completely naked surrounded by a leering restaurant staff. I noticed several cell phones appeared then. I felt so vulnerable. So surrounded by hostility. Before I could even start to recover my self composure from what had just happened, one of the staff at the restaurant picked up my watch, rings, and clothing and left with them, while the clerk added up the numbers he'd written down.
The restaurant bill was again held up to my eyes; the clerk had subtracted off a comparatively small amount. I was being outrageously cheated. Revenge is even more feasible against a helpless naked person. By gestures it was made clear to me that I still owed for the remainder. Terrified, I could think of nothing to do but nod agreement. At that point several more cell phones appeared. They were taking videos of me, and continued to video-record my nodding as the bill was pointed at, as I was pointed at, and as various of the people around me spoke. Then, at a word from the official, the cell phones all abruptly were put away, and the official then very roughly manacled my wrists and ankles and locked a metal collar about my neck. This was just like the way all the chattel slaves I had seen were kept in bondage. What was I to think? Was I now to be one of them?
I did not know till much later, but my nodding while being videoed was what doomed me. As a rich American I could have easily ensured means to escape my dilemma if I had not been recorded consenting. But in this country I had definitively agreed that I owed the restaurant bill and would pay for it with my now naked body. The recorded sequence of: bill pointed at and my nodding, my body pointed at and my nodding - that plus what was being said at the time - was considered iron clad proof of my consenting to being enslaved, and my total ignorance of the language carried no weight, not against the legal needs of the slave economy here, where once one had crossed the line to legally be presumed a slave, all legal protections were revoked with no recourse; once I was tentatively presumed a slave, I was irretrievably a slave forever. When the US embassy first heard of my situation, they were simultaneously shown the recordings; upon seeing them, the embassy officials simply shrugged and went on to other matters. ``Why don't our citizens learn the basic rudiments of the countries they risk visiting?'' one of them had sadly muttered. Words I learned about much too late to help me.
So I stupidly nodded and was instantly put into slave bondage. I tried to strenuously object. I was rich. I would pay. There was no need of this. But the official quickly cut me off and, showing me a whip, pointed to the ground. I understood instantly, as I had seen this done with that slave earlier in the day. Trembling I dropped to my knees on the ground before her. She pointed to her shoes. I had also seen that. I bent over and kissed her shoes raising my ass to the mercy of her whip. I hoped I would be spared like the slave boy I saw earlier. The whip started lashing my ass. I had hoped that by complying, kneeling then kissing her shoes, I would avoid the whip. The slave I saw early today had so complied and was not whipped. Why was I treated differently? Why, all of a sudden, was the world crushing me like an ant caught between a boulder and a giant's fist. So helpless, my bruised heap of a self, helplessly longing to escape all this back to my normal life.
(Thy wring-world right foot rock? lay a lionlimb against me? scan
With darksome devouring eyes my bruised bones?)