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.
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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 β slack they may be β 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.