Well, Gentle Reader, we're entering the dark realm now. Oh, don't look so surprised. Did you not understand that "Confessions" was part of the title of this memoir? Is it possible you did not see this coming? Hell, I did from that first stroke of the Willow switch. But if you're uncomfortable with true sadism, if masochism makes you queasy, if it troubles you that a son might enjoy doing these things to the woman who gave him life, then you should call it quits with this story. We're entering a dark realm, and I can't really see any light at the end of this particular tunnel.
Interlude
"I should have warned him," I thought, lying there, helpless, the pain from the charley horse in my right calf a hot knife driving deep. But the pain was overshadowed by the sheer humiliation. I was lying on the floor, flopping like a beached carp, my traitorous leg kicking wildly and my brain unable to control it.
Denial is a wonderful thing, right up until the instant that it collapses. I felt that burning tingle for a week, and I convinced myself that this time my body was going to fight off the new expression of my disease. Now I lay here, hoping that at least I wouldn't suffer the humiliation of my bowels or bladder releasing.
I felt the sudden flare of pain when he hit the back of my leg, and then a brief rush of relief when I realized that at least it wasn't flopping around outside of my control. But something had changed. There was no tenderness in the kick to my ass he gave me, or to the shove that made me lose my balance and scrape my face as I crawled along.
I closed my eyes when he told me to and then closed them again suddenly when the bright light pierced my brain when I opened them.
And then I did suffer that final indignity. My bowels and bladder let loose as I turned slowly and saw my future.
"You can always say 'no,'" he said.
But, of course, I couldn't. Low in my belly, I was feeling something.
Interlude Finis
The monster in my head was howling.
Then, in a moment of self reflection I thought,
"No, asshole. No monster. Just you with the mores of society left behind."
The monster and I danced a jig of joy as her bowels and bladder let loose, leaving her standing in a wet, stinking pile, her thighs wet and stained from what she had done.
I smiled at her then.
"Ready for a treatment?" I asked.
She was crying, tears and snot dripping onto her breasts and belly, but she smiled, a gentle, tentative smile.
"Please," she said, "help me."
I smiled, gave her a slick, snotty kiss, and walked her over to the circle of bare concrete with a drain in the center.
"Stay," I said, leaving her with her bare feet on the steel grate while I went to my bench for the cuffs.
She was sort of wobbling when I got back to her, and I realized that she was fighting against her leg that was wanting to start kicking again. Well, I'd take care of that.
She watched, her face slack, as I cinched the heavy leather cuffs on her wrists, their soft sheep's wool lining providing a needed cushion, her face an odd mixture of anticipation and an almost fatalistic acceptance.
"Stay," I said again, moving to the control with its big red and green buttons on one of the
faux
columns I had installed for ambience. I pushed the red button, the "lower" button, and the electric motor began whining in its high-pitched one-note song as the hook on the end of the ⅜ inch cable slowly, dramatically I thought, lowered.
Her eyes watched it, and I thought of the mouse frozen when it sees the snake that will be its doom. She made no attempt to move away, just watched.
When the hook was low enough, I used the chain between the cuffs on her wrists to pull her arms up high enough to loop over the hook, said "Stay," again, and hit the green "lift" button. The winch whined, and her arms were slowly pulled up. When I had her on tiptoes, taking away any chance that she would show some of that residual athleticism and jump high enough to release herself, I stopped the winch.
I spent a few seconds just looking, thinking how beautiful the female form is in that position, arms straight up so that her breasts were lifted, the sag gone, her legs straight, toes extended to ease the pressure on her wrists.
I went to my bench again, opened the little jar in which I kept my special treat, and pulled out one of the little squares of very thin dissolving paper.
Back at Mom, I smiled, brushed her cheek, and said, "Open your mouth."
"What's that?" she asked, and I slapped her.
"Open. Your. Mouth," I repeated, each word a separate command.
She opened her mouth.
"Touch your upper lip with your tongue," I said, "like you're trying to touch your nose."
Her tongue came out and up.
I touched the little square to the bottom of her tongue and watched, curious, as it began to dissolve almost instantly.
"Okay," I said, smiling, "relax."
I kissed her, a soft, tender kiss, and said, "Time for your treatment."
I pushed the green button again and she moaned as she was lifted clear of the floor, all of her weight now hanging from the cuffs, putting terrible pressure on wrist, elbow, and shoulder joints.
I lifted her until the fork of her legs was about four feet off the ground. I hadn't expected it, but she began slowly turning, and for some reason, I found that image wonderfully erotic.
I watched for a few seconds but then got about my business. I didn't want to damage her joints, well, to damage them permanently anyway. I walked past her, giving her hip a light push, increasing the speed of her turning, and got to the
Spanish Donkey
I had crafted so carefully.
I rolled it around to get it in position, pleased with how smoothly it operated.
The tail of the Donkey worked as a handle, by design. I stopped her spin, got my arm between her legs from behind, and slowly pulled the Donkey back, its smoothly curving back functioning as a wedge to push her thighs apart. When she was centered on the middle of the Donkey where the body was widest and the sharp wedge at the top the sharpest, carefully shaped until a mere one-eighth inch of flat kept it from actually cutting her, I hit the red button and watched as she settled, groaning, until there was slack in the cable ensuring that her entire weight was centered on that tender area.
I looked and damn near came in my pants. Christ, she was sexy, her arms straight up, her legs spread, and the tears and snot flowing freely.
I went back to the bench, leaving her there for a few moments, and got the two shiny stainless steel one-gallon buckets I had purchased from a medical supply place.
She watched, and there was that image of the mouse again, frozen by the snake that would eat it.
I carefully tied the buckets to her big toes, using the leather boot laces purchased specifically for this purpose.
I went to the column again, turned the valve that allowed the slow flow of water to begin following the chain down, and then went back to check to make sure my handiwork was doing what I had designed it to do.