Jon Smithie
Tribune
Thanks for providing these stories, Elephas. I really enjoy reading them.
Hi I’m in the process of writing a little interactive story on CHYOA about judicial punishment.
Use the customise tab to enter your name (or anyone you’d like to see punished)
https://chyoa.com/story/A-judicial-punishment.13953
An interesting format with the multi-linear story, although the plot is not new.) As Windar already said, keep writing and post your stories here (and there) to supplement our collection.Hi I’m in the process of writing a little interactive story on CHYOA about judicial punishment.
Use the customise tab to enter your name (or anyone you’d like to see punished)
https://chyoa.com/story/A-judicial-punishment.13953
You can do interactive stories here too. Some have done them. Just write a chapter and invite people to do the next one.Apologies. The reason I posted the link rather than writing here was the interactive nature of the other site.
From “The Signeury” by F.E. Campbell, сhapter 3, “The Cart's Tail”.
Sabina's public whipping behind a cart's tail. A very impressive description.
This was of great interest to me since my own "Mina" was sentenced to a cart tail whipping as is Sabina in this excerpt. So I have to admit that this was a bit of a disappointment to me. Sabina's whipping is a contrivance. It's a masque. She has contracted to do this, so it's basically consensual. Her reactions to the whipping raises a bunch of distracting questions for me: Did she not ask exactly what she was contracting to do? Have the people she contracted with exceeded the terms of the contract? Does she not have an out--like a safeword? Why doesn't she get out of character during the whipping? Why doesn't she scream that she didn't agree to this and she wants it to stop? Sure, they might ignore her but for Sabina to demand that they stop seems like a natural reaction under the circumstances. So, as I say, distracting questions that detract from the action, IMHO. Also, the mention of the amount of money she's getting for her whipping doesn't sound like a whole lot. Five thousand dollars in today's money just gets you the cart and the donkey. Believe me, I know.
December in New England-the whipping might have been welcome just to get the blood flowing....I agree that Sabina's punishment was part of the game. Let's return to "true" punishments. Here is a poetic description of the whipping of three female Quakers in Dover in 1662.
"How the Women went from Dover" by John Greenleaf Whittier (1892)
http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/poetry/dover.htm
The tossing spray of Cocheco's fall
Hardened to ice on its rocky wall,
As through Dover town in the chill, gray dawn,
Three women passed, at the cart-tail drawn !
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Let's begin this thread whith a true classic of the genre:
"Nell in Bridewell" by Wilhelm Reinhard (1900), originally "Lenchen im Zuchthause".
http://www87.zippyshare.com/v/lcgG365p/file.html
"Nell in Bridewell" by Wilhelm Reinhard (1900)This file seems to still be there, but how on earth do I download it? Each of the "download" buttons just cause stupid pop-ups.
"Nell in Bridewell" by Wilhelm Reinhard (1900)