Thanks Dommmu and Monty - that's the sort of compliment I need to reflect on, what does it say about me?
When I came to the Forums, I'd got a few poems I wanted to share with people who'd empathise with them rather than recoiling in horror and judging me a monster - I posted 'Crucifixa' and that was well appreciated, and I think one or two others. But I had this huge fantasy of bleak, unremitted horror and cruelty that was haunting me - I think there are reasons in my life why it had taken possession of me, I needn't go into those - but writing it, The Interrogation and Punishment Centre for Girls -was certainly a kind of therapy, I needed to write it to get it under control and out of me.
As we've often found in our discussions here, our cruel fantasies seem to bear no relation to the kinds of people we are in RL - or if mine do, they are the 'dark side' of a naturally fairly quiet, peace-making person, with - under the surface - a submissive, masochistic sexuality, frankly quite shocked, even scared, by my own dreams!
But I'm happy that story does make an impact, maybe it helps others to deal with their 'dark side' too. I don't think it's the best of my stories, in terms of story or style, but I have to agree that - while they're all quite cruel - IPCG remains the cruellest.