AUGUST 19, 2017
"Not cheering how you drag that club foot across Fidelity's corporate floor."
"York, at least I don't mince along, I think you're barely hetero."
"Gnomey old bean, what are you doing with those resumes?"
"Never look a gift Social Security number in the mouth."
"Not even going there. I hope Fidi doesn't ask after them."
"What's the deal with the little blonde bitch, the typist? I think she mouthed off to Fidi."
"Yes, probably slapped her too. Rossi, who is a sales clerk at the S&M gift shop, Dungeonopolis?"
"The one who wears that brooch."
"Yes. She pretended to catch Fidi shoplifting last fall, and caned her-it was bullshit, Rossi's such a bitch, but Fidi liked it so much that Rossi was giving her a little ass-kicking now and then..."
"And what about the typist? Rossi's an old hag, this little blonde girl..."
"Yes, that's Hyannis. She's Rossi's stepdaughter or something. She got hired to be a typist in Fidi's office, but she can't type or word process or anything."
"Just kicks Fidi around?"
"Someone has to. We have to go a doctor's after this. He wants me to cut down on salt, high blood pressure stuff."
"Is it bad, old man?"
"Doc said it could be fatal."
"York, there's a better chance of you getting hit by a dropping safe, like in a cartoon."
"Or a grand piano, Gnome. That was far more popular in Looney Tunes"
"Yes, of course. York, there's no health problem with you, or me, Only the good die young."
"Ain't that the truth."
JANUARY 4, 2019
Miss Fidelity Ovingham Sethridge bit her lip as she stood uncertainly in front of the Gnome.
How can he do this to me? I'm the Senior Director of the Buttermilk County Center for Economic Development.
I've studied in London! I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Maputo!
"Gnome, York isn't here anymore. I'm the one with the good job, and you-I'm not sure what you do, but you really have no status in this house to get after me for staying out late. I'm thirty-four years old."
The Gnome smiled, his yellow teeth shining. He couldn't believe how gorgeous this little creature was, his late friend's slave-girl.
Curly dark hair, big tits, the jeans were so tight. But was she sending him mixed messages? After all, Fidi had laid the Ping-Pong paddle and the leather strap on the coffee table, and then awakened him, pulling him out of bed to tell him how late she'd come in.
As if reading his confusion, Fidi said "I'm all grown up, but York told me that I should be in by eleven. But I'm in my thirties, and who are you to tell me what to do?"
This last statement was said rather accusingly, as if Gnome had been arguing with her. Of course her Master was gone, felled by a cerebral hemorrhage six weeks ago.
Fidi seemed to pout, and she turned around slightly. Was she wagging her butt at him?
The Gnome had enjoyed sponging off York, it was easier than picking up stray credit card receipts or peddling autographed pictures of Jesus at the nursing home on Creswell and Fessenden.
"Look, Fidi, I love you very much, just as your Master did." the Gnome spoke slowly.
"Y-yes sir." Fidi tried to smile.
"And you've been very nice letting me live here even after York passed away."
"York thought so much of you, Gnome."
Ah, but did Fidi? The Gnome had overheard her laughing with a girlfriend about how the new lodger resembled "Humpty Dumpty".
How odd, to be discussing all this at three in the morning. Of course at her age, she shouldn't be out clubbing, and really, why get him out of bed to tell him about it? But there was the paddle and the strap.
Gnome picked up the Ping-Pong paddle.
Yes, it had the rubber stuff scraped off it. Gnome had seen York hitting Fidi's bare butt once or twice, and also her pretty breasts before he'd passed on.
And Fidi had complained that York shouldn't allow the Gnome to wank his Willy and stare as she was getting her punishments. She'd been much more reined in before York died.
Though she did make some reference to the Gnome as "that hunchback." Ugh.
Now she was out all the time, it was a party down situation quite a bit for the confused girl, as York could no longer regulate her to stay home and do her chores.
The Gnome looked at Fidi and-such a hot little thing. If he spanked her, she might get mad and throw him out, even if she did instigate it. On the other hand, if he didn't spank her, she might throw him out and get some other layabout to do this.
"Now Fidi, you know I must punish you. Take down your pants.
"P-please, Gnome, I'm a big girl now."
The Gnome had greatly enjoyed the spectacle of Fidi receiving her punishment, and had jacked off to completion in the bathroom, drooling on one of her 36 DD brassieres, a vulgar pink thing. He had to see this as an unbelievable opportunity.
In the orphanage, they'd discussed Life Skills and Career Opportunities. You had to seize your opportunity, the nuns had advised.
And after all, she'd brought the paddle out, right?
The Gnome stepped over to Fidi, shaking his head gently. "When you make me sad I have to punish you, and it's important that you remember the rules."