” I could not believe this was happening. Kate had to stand facing the table, hands at her side and tell us that she had been smoking and would rec...ive six strokes of the tawse. Then Aunty led her to the stool, facing away from the table, and told her to place her feet either side of the stool legs and to bend over. I hoped no one was watching me; I stared directly between her open legs and I could see everything. I was grateful to be sitting down out of sight as my cock was swelling. ‘My kids will starve!’ ‘So will we all,’ one of the men said. ‘Well I’m off for the last beer I’m going to taste for some time. Anyone else coming?’ As he turned away to start off to the nearest bar, four of us followed him and we all had a beer as they all told of the problems that they were now facing by being out of work. I even put in my cent's worth for I had little chance of getting another job with my lack of any experience out in this cruel world of recession. I was now twenty three,. Now it was Friday and I thought, I really must get in there today. I planned one last lunch in the quayside bakery, and then a gentle three hours in the office before the weekend. After a second coffee and completing the crossword, I reluctantly thought, "Get your ass out of here and go to the office". I went to the counter to pay, and just as I was about to leave, I saw here pushing her baby stroller with some difficulty through the doorway. The nig plate glass door had a habit of self-closing. "You boys is shitting me now."Harlan listened to both boys swear they'd pissed down her throat. The more he listened to the two boys, the more he questioned whether he should believe any of their story. At the same time, they sounded mighty convincing, and Harlan did want to believe their story. It was the best story he'd heard in years, and it kind of made up for the story Cal had told him this morning about Jenny Kane and Lynn Smith. Seth and Tyler had done justice to that bitch city woman,.