I’d like to talk a bit about my story in “The Spanking Collection”. It’s called “Honour Among Fools”, and it’s a school story (I know, right, a major surprise there).
It came about because, on the one hand, I wanted to write an M/f school spanking story, as that was what I thought the anthology needed based on the balance of other authors and subjects, but on the other hand I was very wary of falling into the cliche trap and writing a story we’ve all read many times before.
The way to deal with the cliche issue – while still keeping the story recognisably within the M/f school genre – turned out to be using a boy as a protagonist, and have him observe the girl’s punishment. I’m far from thinking this is actually a really original move – there’s no such thing as an original move when you want the story to be arousing within the bounds of a specific fetish. I’m sure others have written stories along these lines before. But I hadn’t, and that was good enough.
I think it’s an okay story as a result.
It’s very much an OK story. My own contribution also has watching as a theme, and the mixed emotions that result.
Haron, yours is one of my absolute favorites in the whole book. Aced the voice, the originality, the hotness — thoroughly delightful on all counts!
I agree it’s a great story, you are too modest, my dear! (Although, to be fair, I don’t know anyone who’d come out with “Oh yeah, my writing’s brilliant” either!) I do think you found a lovely, original perspective to write it from though: unusual, unpredictable and yet still hot
Plus it had the added bonus of your (anti)hero’s voice reminding me a little of Ned, from our Lowewood blogging days, about whom I always loved to read. So it was a very enjoyable story in many ways, one of many such in the anthology.