How are you? I am Mildred. I bet you are looking for a place to stay. Well, you are in luck. I just had a cancellation for the weekend. I bet you and ...your man will be very happy here.’ All this just seems to flow from her mouth in that warm welcoming tone Veronica misses so much from her home in the south. The people in LA seem so preoccupied and driven. Veronica has never really felt at home there. ‘Yes, I would love to stay here. It is just me. My soon to be ex-husband is not here to spoil. 'You are going across my knee, remember the drill, you object or don't do as you are told and you get busted, you do understand?' "Yes" She bent over my knee, I raised her skirt and pulled her knickers down. 'On the bare Sarah, always on the bare' I started to lay my hand hard across your ass, "Fuck, that's hard and painful, I never hit you that hard" ' For one, yes you did, for two this is just the start, the cane will hurt more and I guess your crime is far more serious than mine ever was'. I was just about to send a drink her way when I noticed a man approach her at the bar. He ordered a drink for himself and turned to Linda and spoke a few words. Soon the bartender placed a drink in front of her. She laughed as she chatted him up and I noticed every few seconds or so he would very casually let his hand brush across her back or arm. I sat there speechless, waiting for Linda to look my way. She didn't and kept up a rapid conversation with her new-found friend.Soon a second man. ” LUCILLA I rolled into leaves and grass, the blanket tightening as it coiled around me in my catatonic shifts. I slowly awoke to the smell of dawn air, the gentle sounds of morning wind, and the sight of a tarantula’s fangs inches from my face. I bolted upright, squirming uselessly in the soft constraints of my bedding, cursing mother nature with every breath as I thrashed away from the hairy spider. I was so fucking done with sleeping outside. I was ready to proclaim my sentiments to the.