The Whipping Post
by Alex Birch
They came for her at daybreak, the four men who banged on her mother's cottage door before barging past the shocked woman and into the bedroom where the young girl lay sleeping, attired only in her nightgown. Terrified, she was dragged from her bed and not even allowed to dress before being pulled out into the street and down the cobbled stones toward the village green. Weeping, she had demanded reasons for the outrage and told she was to be punished as an adherent of the new religion. She protested, sobbing, but was told that were it not for her tender years she would have stood trial for heresy.
As the girl was dragged down the street, she could see as they neared the green that all the villagers were assembled, her neighbours, all the traders, girls from her sewing class and she knew it meant abject humiliation. Her eyes fixed on the whipping post which had been hastily assembled and the bucket containing two birches soaked in brine then she screamed in terror. She was manhandled onto the green and her wrists secured firmly to the post. The village blacksmith, grinning, walked behind her and with one wrench tore her nightdress to her waist. She was a modest, shy girl and the exposure of her firm young breasts to the grinning locals was more than she could bear.
Her protests were to no avail and he finished the job, ripping the remnants of her nightdress away as she wept hysterically, hugging her thighs together and into the post, desperate to hide her auburn pussy curls from the leering crowd. She felt the cold air on her bare bottom and turned her head desperately, only to see the blacksmith walk toward her armed with a birch rod. He raised his powerful arm and she turned her head away only to scream in anguish as the birch whipped into her bottom. The excruciating whipping continued apace as the crowd jeered and the heat flooded through her arse and genitals. She closed her eyes as red heat flooded her cunt, suddenly ashamed as her hips began to undulate in time with the birching, the sexual arousal building as the birch did its work. The crowd noticed the change and men began to snigger as her cries changed to moans of delight, her thighs parting, showing them everything now before.
..'Jenny, wake up, you've overslept again' her mother's voice broke her dream and as the sleeping girl came to life, her mother noticed the historical novel still lying on the coverlet. 'Filling your head with this rubbish .' she said without rancour '.then you can't wake. Jenny sometimes I think you need your bottom smacked, old as you are!'
To her mother's consternation, Jenny grinned and sat up in bed then put her arms lovingly round her mother's neck.
'Go on then, mom, I dare you. I might enjoy it!' she whispered.