This is my first attempt at a story that plays with chronology. It mirrors the structure of the movie "Memento" (which you should rent, stream, or steal, if you've never seen it). There is a sequence of events in the present which is interrupted by a series of flashbacks. But the flashbacks themselves happen in reverse order. That is, each flashback is earlier in time than the previous flashback. So each flashback helps to set-up and explain the previous flashback (the previous one that you read), and the chronologically earliest events happen in the last flashback that you read.
Like all my stories it's centered around erotic spanking and humiliation, but it's only the second one I've written in which the recipient of the punishment is male.
The Present
"What?!? Fuck!" Chazy said out loud as he read the note on the door of the darkened building:
DUE TO A WATER PIPE LEAK AND FLOODING, THE DEPT OF HEALTH HAS CLOSED THE BUILDING. NO MEETING TONIGHT. WE'LL CONTACT YOU WHEN WE'VE GOT A NEW MEETING PLACE.
β CREEKSIDE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
"Shit!" Chazy nearly shouted as he slammed his hand on the door in frustration.
Chazy's real name was Charles, but he'd been named "Crazy Charley" by his classmates in grade school for his chronic troublemaking. By the time he was in high school, he was the leader of a gang of toughs who had merged "Crazy" and "Charley" into "Chazy." The title stuck and he'd been "Chazy" ever since.
He hadn't seen the gang for over three years, not since before he'd gone to Creekside; but he occasionally heard of them. Def-Mad was their leader now. They were still into the same shit; petty theft, beating up homos, a little drug dealing β anything that could that pull in a little cash or stir up trouble. But they rolled without Chazy now. He was steering wide of trouble these days, ever since Creekside. And, like everyone who'd been to Creekside, he had secrets now, secrets that Def-Mad and Jer and Loosa and the rest of the gang mustn't ever know.
But now, tonight, he was horny; very horny. The alumni meeting was supposed to take care of that. That's what the meetings were for, after all. But it had been two weeks since the last one and Chazy was so randy, he could hardly concentrate on his job at the warehouse.
How could they have cancelled without warning?
Chazy thought as he trudged up the street with his left hand fingering the ping pong paddle in the pocket of his rain jacket.
They know we have no alternative. We can't even jack off. Not after Creekside. Fuckin' Supreme Court! Damn
Gosling vs. Idaho
! Mutha-fuckin' Chlorinated Sulfate! Cocksuckin' Ammonium Crystallite!
Two Weeks Before
The chairman of the Creekside Alumnus Association was speaking.
"Before we begin tonight's playtime," he said, looking out at the 30 or so sullen men β they were all men in the association β sitting in rows of metal fold-up chairs, "a reminder:
everyone
must stay after playtime to help with clean-up. No excuses."
"Also," he continued, "remember to take your toys home with you. After our last meeting, I got a call from the city's community services director. One of you left a paddle behind and it was found during a meeting of Girl Scout leaders."
There had been a time in his life when Chazy would have gleefully shouted out a lewd suggestion or two about Girl Scout leaders and paddles, but he didn't. Neither did anyone else. Creekside alumni don't talk much. They tend to look down at the floor and avoid meeting each other's eyes.
The chairman was still speaking.
"... took a lot of effort to convince the director to let us use this room in the basement of the community center, so let's try not to piss him off."
Finally, the chairman announced that playtime could begin. He held up a bowl filled with scraps of paper.
"Has everyone put their name in?" he asked.
There was no response, so he began randomly picking out the slips one-by-one and reading the names out loud. He paused after every third name and the three men whose names had been drawn would get up from their chairs and gather together near one of the walls of the large meeting room. There were over a dozen old tables, couches, stools, and stuffed chairs around the edges of the room. Each group of three would lay claim to one of these.
When Chazy's name was called, he rose, there were only tables left unclaimed, so he walked, head down, to one of them. He didn't bother to listen to the two names of the men called after him. He knew they would follow him to the same table.
When all of the names had been called, and all the men were standing with their play partners; playtime began. Chazy watched as, around the room, paddles and switches appeared suddenly from jacket pockets as if three dozen magicians had pulled rabbits from their hats all at the same time. Shoes were kicked off and pants dropped. Many of the men were already half-erect. It had, after all, been two weeks since the last alumni meeting and these men had not had an orgasm in all that time. Indeed, like Chazy, they
could not
have an orgasm ... not without the help of their fellow alumni.
Fuckin' Chlorinated Sulfate and Ammonium Crystallite,
Chazy thought to himself, as he had thousands of times in the last three years.
The three men in Chazy's group played a couple of rounds of
Rock, Paper, Scissors
to determine the order in which they would play. Chazy won.
"I'll sub first," he told the other two, "and I'm a 7."
The other two nodded in understanding. The alumni association had developed a system of numeric codes that summed up what each man needed to be sexually aroused. They knew what a "7" meant.
Chazy pulled a ping pong paddle from his jacket and handed it to the larger of the two men. Then he stripped completely and bent nakedly over the narrow table. His hands gripped the far edge and his head hung over the opposite side. The smaller man stood just in front of him, his crotch just inches in from of Chazy's face. From his vulnerable position, Chazy glanced back over one shoulder and then the other. All around the room, men, bent over like he was, were being spanked, paddled or switched. Some were holding their ankles, others were bent over furniture. On one couch, a red-faced man wearing only pink frilly panties was being spanked across the lap of another man.