<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Mermaid on Gromet's Plaza Archive</title><link>/tags/mermaid/</link><description>Recent content in Mermaid on Gromet's Plaza Archive</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 20:13:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/mermaid/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The Siren's Curse</title><link>/stories/2025/12/06/the-sirens-curse/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2025/12/06/the-sirens-curse/</guid><description>&lt;h4 id="chapter-1-the-isolated-shore"&gt;Chapter 1: &lt;strong&gt;The Isolated Shore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The sun hung lazily over the turquoise horizon, casting a golden glow over the secluded stretch of beach. The waves lapped at the shore in a rhythmic lullaby, their melody the only company Emma Carter had wanted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She stretched out on her beach towel, reveling in the warmth of the sand beneath her. This—this was paradise. After months of grueling work in New York, escaping to a quiet, untouched corner of the world had been the perfect idea. The small coastal town had been charming, the kind of place where time slowed down and the worries of modern life melted away with the tide.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Summer Job</title><link>/stories/2025/05/31/summer-job/</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2025/05/31/summer-job/</guid><description>&lt;h4 id="endings"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Endings&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It was a peaceful Friday evening. Most of the students had already gone home for the semester, which meant that the campus was extremely quiet. The usual hustle and bustle of student life was nonexistent at this time of the year. Jessica Green was lounging on her bed, talking with her friend and flatmate Cory Fox. It was late May and the end of the academic year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For most students, the thought of the summer holidays was fantastic as it meant not having to do assignments and exams, instead relaxing at home with their family. However, the thoughts of returning home to her family in the Bronx in New York was egregious for Jessica Green. Her family was dysfunctional and a constant source of stress for Jessica. Her mother was unemployed and a narcissist, and her father was an alcoholic who was never around, not to mention her drug-addicted older sister.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Twisted Tail</title><link>/stories/2025/02/23/twisted-tail/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2025/02/23/twisted-tail/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;“Happy birthday!” The voice of her parents startled Hope awake, their cheerful tones echoing in her ears as she opened her eyes to a day she had long been anticipating. “I am finally eighteen!” Hope muttered to herself with so much ecstasy and delight.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hope had always been the golden girl; growing up in a picturesque suburban town, she had the looks, brains, and charm that made life seem like a series of effortless triumphs. With her long, flowing blonde hair and bright blue eyes, she was the epitome of perfection and the center of attention in her small town.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The King</title><link>/stories/2025/02/01/the-king/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2025/02/01/the-king/</guid><description>&lt;h3 id="dreams"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dreams&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Amy Sexton sat with her legs crossed on the floor next to the Sheikh. Amy Sexton was dressed in a blue burqa, covering herself completely. She was listening intently to the man who was speaking English in front of her. Amy was working as a translator for the Sheikh, Rameen Rasheed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Amy was 21 years old and had just graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She was an American woman from New York, and she had come to Saudi Arabia for a very specific reason. There had been rumors that the Sheikh had been kidnapping Saudi women and keeping them as sex slaves in his harem. The international media didn’t want to touch this story for fear of upsetting their oil partner, but Amy wanted to be the one to break the story. This could get her a Pulitzer award and kick-start her career.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Leon City Stories</title><link>/stories/2024/09/07/leon-city-stories/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2024/09/07/leon-city-stories/</guid><description>&lt;h3 id="23-summer-at-bondage-school-part-2"&gt;23: Summer at Bondage School Part 2&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Mom, Mom, look what I drew!” my daughter&amp;rsquo;s bright voice called after me and I looked up from my breakfast. She held up the drawing she had been working on all Sunday morning.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“That looks wonderful, Tamara,” I said, beaming with joy and carefully took the picture from her to spread it out on the table in front of me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Honey, look what our daughter has painted!” I said to Bruce, who immediately put his newspaper aside and picked up our daughter so that we could admire her work of art together.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Leon City Stories</title><link>/stories/2024/01/21/leon-city-stories/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2024/01/21/leon-city-stories/</guid><description>&lt;h3 id="15-bondage-hotel-iii"&gt;15: Bondage Hotel III&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h4 id="leon-city-falenplaza-district"&gt;Leon City. Falenplaza District.&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Red-haired detective Phoebe Wynters sat at her desk staring at her cell phone. She had been supposed to meet her friend Kim this week, but she hadn&amp;rsquo;t shown up. She didn&amp;rsquo;t answer her cell phone and her sister Chloe didn&amp;rsquo;t answer either. Although the sisters said they were going on a camping vacation, they should have both been back a few days ago.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Org</title><link>/stories/2023/11/26/the-org/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2023/11/26/the-org/</guid><description>&lt;h3 id="joy"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h4 id="the-convergence"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Convergence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The fluorescent lights of the underground car park were ominous, Joy thought as she stood waiting impatiently for her contact. Joy shifted her weight from foot to foot and stroked her hands together as she waited.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Although Joy Joyce was a medical doctor, you would never know it from the clothing she wore or the vehicle she drove. She was wearing a black conservative dress that came to her knees, and a white shirt underneath that. She was wearing a black pair of high heels and she had her nails painted black to match her black hair. At age twenty-five, Joy still was in touch with her goth roots. Her clothing was cheap, and her vehicle was an old petrol engine car from the early twenty-first century. There were very few of these cars left on the road in the year two thousand and twenty-five.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Mermaid</title><link>/stories/2022/05/12/the-mermaid/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2022/05/12/the-mermaid/</guid><description>&lt;h3 id="act-2--the-twist-in-the-tale"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Act 2 – The Twist in the Tale&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sarah was awoken by the sound of birds chirping which brought a smile to her face. She had quite a migraine, which she figured was caused by her excessive drinking from the night before. She stared up at the fantastic deep blue of the Greek sky, not a single cloud was in sight. She relished the heat of the sun beating down upon her. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the warmth of the sun. Something was bothering her though, how had she ended up outside? She didn’t remember leaving Robert’s mansion the night before, she assumed she had fallen asleep in his house – but how had she ended up outside.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Mermaid</title><link>/stories/2022/05/12/the-mermaid/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2022/05/12/the-mermaid/</guid><description>&lt;h3 id="act-1--the-island"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Act 1 – The Island&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At first, Sarah had been sure that she wouldn’t be able to handle the heat of the Island, never mind the Mediterranean as a whole, imagining long and sleepless nights wrapped in sweat-soaked bedclothes and days of fatigue that would follow. She was used to a colder climate and the need to wrap up in warm clothes on a daily basis, but to her surprise, she found herself acclimatising within the first day aboard the ship that would carry her around the various islands on their cruise. Somehow the warmth seemed to sink into her skin, rather than fluster her, and she grew to enjoy the sensation of the sun on her bare skin more than she could have imagined.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Mermaid</title><link>/stories/2022/05/12/the-mermaid/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2022/05/12/the-mermaid/</guid><description>&lt;h3 id="act-4--the-journey"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Act 4 – The Journey&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nine months later&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Beep, beep, beep, beep,” Sarah’s alarm clock went off to wake her up. It was eight o’clock in the morning and as usual Sarah woke up, went to the bathroom, brushed her teeth, showered, and waited patiently for Robert to come and pick her up and take her upstairs where she was supposed to cook breakfast for Robert. Her cooking skills had improved drastically over the past few months. She now jokingly said she had the cooking skills of a MILF but the body of a twenty-one-year-old.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Mermaid</title><link>/stories/2022/05/12/the-mermaid/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2022/05/12/the-mermaid/</guid><description>&lt;h3 id="act-5--the-mermaid"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Act 5 – The Mermaid&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Three months later&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sarah was swimming lengths of the pool and staying in the water as the weather was particularly warm today. Sarah was also preoccupied with the significance of the day: it was her one-year anniversary since she was kidnapped and turned into a big-titted mermaid. She was swimming as fast as she could trying to distract herself from thinking about the importance of the day, and she was sure that Robert had concocted some new form of humiliation or punishment to inflict upon her.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Mermaid</title><link>/stories/2022/05/12/the-mermaid/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2022/05/12/the-mermaid/</guid><description>&lt;h3 id="act-3--slave-games"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Act 3 – Slave Games&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The party started as the guests began to mingle and talk amongst themselves as they watched Sarah out on the island. Sarah for her part did as she was told by Robert, she smiled and waved and ensured her hefty breasts were on full display. Sarah watched from afar as the party progressed and grew worried as more and more alcohol was consumed. Sarah was instructed to swim over to the guests and pull herself out of the water. Sarah sat on the edge of the pool and put on her best fake smile, afraid of what will happen if she doesn’t comply.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Parasitic Love</title><link>/stories/2022/03/18/parasitic-love/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2022/03/18/parasitic-love/</guid><description>&lt;h3 id="chapter-6---invasive-parasite"&gt;Chapter 6 - Invasive Parasite&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Alli, your mother and sister are sooo nice!&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;I know. Did you enjoy that little family dinner, Sky?&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;A lot! I understand why you are so amazing now.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Hehe. Yes. I was raised okay, I suppose.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It was Friday night, and my lovely parasite and I slowly walked back from a small family dinner. I had a mother, a brother, and a sister. Since my brother worked overseas, it was just my mother and sister tonight. Skylar was very quiet during the whole evening as she didn&amp;rsquo;t want to cause any trouble around my family. Anyway, her desire to learn more about interpersonal relationships was greater than her desire to tease me.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Transformations Ball</title><link>/stories/2020/02/02/transformations-ball/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2020/02/02/transformations-ball/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Continues from &lt;a href="transformations_ball4.html"&gt;part four&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="meredith"&gt;Meredith&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Limo that ferried the attendees from the helipad in a clearing in the woods, to the hotel arrived with the next guest. Before the doorman could perform his duty of opening the car door for the occupant, a lithe woman swung the door open and stepped from the car that had barely stopped. Most of the guests had familiar faces and wore full-length cloaks to hide there costume, or lack of costume. The woman who strutted from the car to the entrance of the lobby wore a bikini top that almost entirely covered her moderate sized breasts and a shimmery skirt, slit on one side and hooked up at the waist on the other side, where it was tucked into a fish tail. It was evident, beyond any doubt, that the mermaid costume was exactly that.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Lacey Is Just A Fish Now</title><link>/stories/2019/12/28/lacey-is-just-a-fish-now/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2019/12/28/lacey-is-just-a-fish-now/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;“I really wish you would stop looking at mermaid stuff Lacey”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“It&amp;rsquo;s fascinating. I know it&amp;rsquo;s impossible and they don&amp;rsquo;t exist but I fantasize all the time about being one.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Well I suppose I can&amp;rsquo;t control what you think. I guess it could be worse.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“You mean having an affair, don&amp;rsquo;t you? I would never do that, I love you too much.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Yes, that is what I was thinking, and I adore you as well, even if you are a bit crazy.”&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Swim Fin</title><link>/stories/2019/07/21/swim-fin/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2019/07/21/swim-fin/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Orlando Scot. Future CPA of Gold Coast Accounting. It had a nice ring to it. He looked out his motel room window at the Atlantic ocean. He started his first day on Monday. But this weekend he was going to enjoy the Miami night life. As he did the bar hopping scene taking in everything. It was on his forth bar. He found her. Red hair, curly, shoulder length. Blue dress. A nice tight little plunging neckline number. Matching shoes. As he got closer. He noticed a necklace with a fish fin on it and a blue gem at its center. A swimmer no doubt. It was time to employ the old Scot Irish charm.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fluke</title><link>/stories/2019/06/19/fluke/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2019/06/19/fluke/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Doreen struggled like a fish out of water.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Because she was.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well she was and she wasn’t.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Her fascination with mermaids was started at seven and never quit. Growing up in near New Orleans near the gulf. Swimming was her passion. Swimming as a mermaid . More so.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now in her early twenties she had really done it to herself.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Her dad died when Katrina hit. She was just ten. Mom remarried about eighteen month later. An investment banker. But his wife died of cancer so she inherited a new dad and a brother. Dick.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Subterfuge</title><link>/stories/2019/06/02/subterfuge/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2019/06/02/subterfuge/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Anita was not sure what happened but she was sure she did not start her day in some hospital bed. Her mouth was dry and she was trying to rewind the events of the day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She was having a real shitty day. Hell it had been a shitty week. That much she remembered. She had been fired from her job a week ago. Land lord upped the rent. And Gary gave her the just want to be ‘friends’ speech.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Checkmate</title><link>/stories/2014/01/14/checkmate/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2014/01/14/checkmate/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;King vs. Pawn.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Peter is it? That what your driver license says.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sorry about the tazer. I have your accomplice. As you can see, she failed. But more about her later. Unfortunately I cannot let you go. Nor do I have any information about your level of involvement in all of this.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But I will.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You&amp;rsquo;re in my private dungeon. My testing area for all sorts of ways to extract information. That is what I do. I won&amp;rsquo;t bore you with details. But I am paid to do nasty things to bad people to protect god and country.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Halloween Mermaid</title><link>/stories/2012/10/30/halloween-mermaid/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2012/10/30/halloween-mermaid/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A Halloween Special 2012 Tale&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What better way to celebrate Halloween than at a pirate-themed party on an island that was rumored to be haunted?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That was the theory. Claire’s problems began when she went to pick out a costume.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The guys had it easy. There were lots of pirate costumes available. They could get anything from a historic pirate outfit to a Captain Jack Sparrow costume.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There were a lot of pirate costumes available for girls, too but they were all “sexy pirate”. “Captain Hooker” was more like it.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Reorientation</title><link>/stories/2012/10/23/reorientation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2012/10/23/reorientation/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Fingers crossed as she stepped into the lift and jabbed a finger at the button, Heather Stepney had no need to even glance at what she was doing thanks to the innumerable number of times she had performed those same actions before. As the familiar grinding rumble began and the car began to inch its way upwards, she wondered how much of her daily routine she could have managed to complete with her eyes closed or in a state of trance. A moment later she was reminded by the stench of the enclosed space finally hitting her that there were some things that even a blindfold would not have kept her from having to deal with in the course of her day.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Reorientation</title><link>/stories/2012/10/23/reorientation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2012/10/23/reorientation/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Fingers crossed as she stepped into the lift and jabbed a finger at the button, Heather Stepney had no need to even glance at what she was doing thanks to the innumerable number of times she had performed those same actions before. As the familiar grinding rumble began and the car began to inch its way upwards, she wondered how much of her daily routine she could have managed to complete with her eyes closed or in a state of trance. A moment later she was reminded by the stench of the enclosed space finally hitting her that there were some things that even a blindfold would not have kept her from having to deal with in the course of her day.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Her Contract Entails 4</title><link>/stories/2012/09/07/her-contract-entails-4/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2012/09/07/her-contract-entails-4/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;(story continues from &lt;a href="hercontractentails3.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Her Contract Entails 3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part Four&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Henry chanced a look into his mirror, supposedly checking out the flow of traffic, but in reality flagellating himself with another stolen glance at the occupants of the back seat. Aubrey Lister sat back on the leather like a king reclining on his throne, his face a picture of self-assured crapulence as he draped one arm over the shoulder of his favourite pet, the other lost beneath the fabric of her tight denim skirt.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Hope Floats Part 3: Mermaids</title><link>/stories/2012/06/14/hope-floats-part-3-mermaids/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2012/06/14/hope-floats-part-3-mermaids/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;continued from &lt;a href="hopefloats2.html"&gt;part two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part 3: Mermaids&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hope went unnoticed for the short remainder of the day, most of the guests by the pool choosing to leave well alone the toy that had been the subject of such wild attentions. She tried to be philosophical about the whole experience, telling herself that there was nothing personal in the trials she had been forced to endure. These were just people behaving as was natural in an environment that cast off the strictures of modern society and allowed them to go wild for a short time.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Maid to Serve 3: Mermaids</title><link>/stories/2012/03/27/maid-to-serve-3-mermaids/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2012/03/27/maid-to-serve-3-mermaids/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;continued from &lt;a href="maidtoserve2.html"&gt;part two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part 3: Mermaids&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It had been two or three days since Eleanor had woken alone on the narrow bed and in the room in the rafters of the house. She had no memory of how she had arrived there after falling into a state of exhausted torpor, drained by her ordeal within the vacbed. More worryingly she was genuinely unable to count the days that had passed since then, the monotony and isolation of her enforced duties as a housemaid occupying her physically and draining her mentally until the hours simply ran into one another and became lost to her memory.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Siren in Stockings</title><link>/stories/2012/03/06/siren-in-stockings/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2012/03/06/siren-in-stockings/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Agnes had always told herself that nothing would change her, that no matter how high her star rose and what plaudits were heaped upon her she would still be the same girl who had been given her first break on the bill of that off Broadway play all those years ago. There was a part of her that at least wanted that to be the truth, but in her most honest moments, even she could acknowledge the reality that no one could experience a rise to fame like her own and remain the same person they had been when they set out on the path they had chosen to follow in life.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Rubbermaid</title><link>/stories/2012/02/19/rubbermaid/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2012/02/19/rubbermaid/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Relaxed and finally having shifted down the gears until she felt that she was almost herself again, Tamara Dumas slipped into the booth and across the cracked leather of the seat until she was sitting directly opposite the man in the suit. Her last dance had ended more than an hour before and now there was no need for a performance on her part. It was no matter to her that the attention of a well dressed individual this long after she was off stage always meant the offer of serious money, if the customer was that interested in the goods he could stand to see the person behind the body that went on show every night.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Jemima's your Oyster</title><link>/stories/2012/01/04/jemimas-your-oyster/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2012/01/04/jemimas-your-oyster/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This story follows on from &lt;a href="jemimainthebox.html"&gt;Jemima in the Box&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href="../storieslr/lovethedoll.html"&gt;Love the Doll&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The carriage was crowded as always, but he had managed to become pinned in a corner with his back to the wall and so when the ringtone sounded and he fumbled the phone out of his inner pocket there was nobody else who could have seen the screen. As soon as he started to watch the video message that had been sent to him, he was glad that was hemmed in right where he was with no chance of someone catching a glimpse of the footage for even a moment.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Extensive Mermaid Bondage</title><link>/stories/2011/12/05/the-extensive-mermaid-bondage/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2011/12/05/the-extensive-mermaid-bondage/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This story was an entry into the 2011 Winter Fetish Story Contest&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Will wants to be in layers of spandex and to become a mermaid bondage doll. His girlfriend Vanessa has set an appointment with her girlfriend Buffy. Her occupation is a dominatrix in extreme bondage. She tells her friend about her boyfriend fetishes. They agreed to arrange a session this weekend. Vanessa says: &amp;ldquo;This weekend you will become a multilayer spandex mermaid.&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Extensive Mermaid Bondage</title><link>/stories/2011/12/05/the-extensive-mermaid-bondage/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2011/12/05/the-extensive-mermaid-bondage/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Story entry in the 2011 Winter Fetish Stories Contest&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Will wants to be in layers of spandex and to become a mermaid bondage doll. His girlfriend Vanessa has set an appointment with her girlfriend Buffy. Her occupation is a dominatrix in extreme bondage. She tells her friend about her boyfriend fetishes. They agreed to arrange a session this weekend. Vanessa says: &amp;ldquo;This weekend you will become a multilayer spandex mermaid.&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Jolene</title><link>/stories/2011/08/14/jolene/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2011/08/14/jolene/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;“Are we ready to begin?”  Without waiting for an answer Jolene settled into the chair.  “Well?” she demanded, “what are you waiting for?”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Inwardly, she smiled.  The whole crew knew that she and James, the director, weren’t getting along well.  In fact, they were barely on speaking terms.  It was openly whispered that he’d fire her if he could, but nobody knew exactly why, or why she was still around.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Installation 2: Mermaid</title><link>/stories/2008/12/02/installation-2-mermaid/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2008/12/02/installation-2-mermaid/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Installation 2: Mermaid&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Roll up, roll up. See the only genuine, real, live, Mermaid in existence.&amp;rdquo; droned on the American accent from the speaker for the umpteenth time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Above the speaker was a sign saying, &amp;ldquo;Amazing exhibit, Mermaid filmed off the coast of California.&amp;rdquo; in bright red and yellow lettering.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Below these two the small wooden booth had a pair of red velvet curtains, which the brown haired woman pulled open to find that there was only room for a wooden seat and a television screen. She sat down but nothing happened.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Repackaged</title><link>/stories/2008/01/26/repackaged/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2008/01/26/repackaged/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;(Copyright 2008: the work of prose below is the sole intellectual property of the author, permission is not given for it or any part of it to be posted or printed elsewhere without the consent of the same. The author can be contacted at &lt;a href="mailto:natewalis@hotmail.com"&gt;natewalis@hotmail.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The radio was a faint hiss in the background as Mina hunched over the dashboard of the car and tried in vain to keep her hands from freezing by holding them over the heat vent. It was a battle that she was loosing fast no matter how much she rubbed them together.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Smooth Plastic</title><link>/stories/2008/01/10/smooth-plastic/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2008/01/10/smooth-plastic/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;(Copyright 2004: the work of prose below is the sole intellectual property of the author, permission is not given for it or any part of it to be posted or printed elsewhere without the consent of the same. The author can be contacted at &lt;a href="mailto:natewalis@hotmail.com"&gt;natewalis@hotmail.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The rain had eased off and was steaming from the tarmac by the time Eliza breezed out of the studio building and crossed the car park. A cooling breeze was the only thing that prevented the heat of the early afternoon from becoming unbearable, overhead the sky was a clear blue and the sun blazed mercilessly without a cloud in sight.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Island Part 2</title><link>/stories/2007/11/02/the-island-part-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2007/11/02/the-island-part-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Island - Part Two&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With small steps we enter the great room of the lodge, and the 18 bidders greet Madame L with great respect. She nods acceptance, but does not speak until she has tied off my leash to a ring on the auction block. After formally greeting each guest, she inspects the other slave units already on display.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Slave unit C is dressed in a shiny silver latex catsuit and privacy hood, which complement the shine on the heavy metal neck/wrists stock and matching ankle spreader she is wearing. Two vertical poles connect the ends of the neck stock with the ends of the ankle spreader, effectively enclosing her in a picture frame. A third vertical pole rises from the center of the ankle spreader into her crotch, discreetly covered for the time being by a red latex miniskirt.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Her Contract Entails 2</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/her-contract-entails-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/her-contract-entails-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;(story continues from &lt;a href="hercontractentails.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Her Contract Entails&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part Two&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Carla was surprised by the view of the building as the car pulled to a stop with the sound of gravel crunching beneath the wheels. Although she had to admit that she would have been at a loss to describe what she expected the clinic in which she would be operated upon might look like, the red brick house she saw through the window looked to her more like something from a costume drama than a location at which a woman might be able to have herself transformed into a mermaid. As if the whole idea of what awaited her was not strange enough, she now found her mind struggling to cope with the unfamiliar surroundings of an English country house at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Her Contract Entails 3</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/her-contract-entails-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/her-contract-entails-3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;(story continues from &lt;a href="hercontractentails2.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Her Contract Entails 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part Three&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The darkness of the room was not truly penetrated as the door opened, but the corridor outside was filled with a shading of deep shadow rather than an absence of light and so a portion small degree of that dark was replaced with shades of grey instead. A vaguely human shape flitted through the gloom and made for the bed, followed moments later by a far larger figure that could have been mistaken for a hunched bear. While the smaller figure moved with purpose and without pause, the larger constantly glanced back over one shoulder as if fearing discovery at any moment.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Human Pet</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/human-pet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/human-pet/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part 1: The Decision&lt;/strong&gt;
(Any coincidence is fictional but is does make one wonder)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Devon and Cindy Cash had just finished watching the DVD movie of “The
Cell.” As Devon turned the player off Cindy exclaimed. “I want a pet.”
Figuring two dogs and gold fish where quite enough. Devon replied.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Are you sure Cin?” while taking a drink of his aged whiskey.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“I want a Human Pet!”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Devon reaction caused him to drop the remote and choke on some very
fine alcohol. Cindy seemed amused by his reaction. Devon though that his
was some sort of joke.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Human Pet 2</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/human-pet-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/human-pet-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;(story continues from &lt;a href="human_pet.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Human Pet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)_&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chapter Two&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part 1: Training the Pony&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A few weeks had passed. The playroom and storeroom were done. Cindy
kept getting these mysterious packages. However it was now time to start
turning their attention to the finding of their Pet. Devon&amp;rsquo;s idea of a scandal
of some sort would be adequate cover. The best bet was to concentrate their
effort in Washington DC. It was a good days drive from there home so that
eliminated their being local. There was always some dirty little scandal
going on. Plus it had a very high unsolved missing person rate. An added
bonus.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Zoo</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/the-zoo/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/the-zoo/</guid><description/></item></channel></rss>