Dauphin
Assistant executioner
The Ramp
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Like many other young girls, Lucy had often dreamed about being a model. Dreamed of being one of those incredibly beautiful women who stalked down the ramps at the fashion shows showing off beautiful, expensive and often daring fashions.
Part of that dream had come true! She was walking on the ramp, showing herself to the watching buyers. What was missing were the clothes.
Unlike most of the other women on show, Lucy had not made the conscious decision to sell herself into slavery. They had contracts that outlined the conditions of their voluntary slavery. The limits to their use and the way that their share of the purchase price of their bodies would be invested to await the freedom that awaited them at the end of their periods of servitude. They wanted to be here!
Lucy was different! Her shaven head, the handcuffs that bound her hands behind her back and the brand burned deep into her buttock identified her as a convict! A criminal sentenced to what was termed “Penal Servitude”. The words of the judge echoed in her mind as she walked along the ramp, her body on view to all. “Drug smuggling is a very serious offence. I accept that you did not at first know what was in the package, but it must have occurred to you that the amount you were offered had to indicate that it was illegal. I have taken this into consideration in deciding on your sentence. You will serve twenty five years of penal servitude! There will be no limits to your use. The only limit will be that your owner, or owners, must not do anything that will end your life. At the end of twenty five years you may be paroled, to work for the rest of your natural life at prescribed employment.”
She had been taken away, her head shaved and the brand burned into her buttock. Now she was on show, soon to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. What would become of her? What would her life be?
She paced the length of the ramp. Like the beautiful woman of her dreams. Naked, exposed! There was no beautiful gown. Just her beautiful body.
Twenty five years, as a slave!
Really nice idea, my friend. I wish you would continue the short stories.