The Warden's Daughter
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2002 7:44 pm
"The Warden's Daughter" is one of the best stories that I have read in a long time.
You made it all so realistic, with even the minor characters being developed -- the first guy to be 'broken', and also the guards who tie up the prisoner for Claudia. She contains that awful combination of youthful seeming-innocence and EVIL. One can imagine that it might be possible for a young girl to develop in that way if she were a Warden's daughter -- she may have watched her father doing similar things to inmates when she was quite young, so she would come to regard her complete power and what she does with it as 'natural and normal'.
It's good to find a story which gradually builds up tension, and a horrible realization of what is going to happen, plus all the sexual arousal and excitement which is ironically associated with his sexual destruction. So many other stories jump straight into the 'castration scene' almost right from the beginning, and it then just becomes mechanical -- what is really interesting are the characters involved and their responses to what is happening.
Khaled
You made it all so realistic, with even the minor characters being developed -- the first guy to be 'broken', and also the guards who tie up the prisoner for Claudia. She contains that awful combination of youthful seeming-innocence and EVIL. One can imagine that it might be possible for a young girl to develop in that way if she were a Warden's daughter -- she may have watched her father doing similar things to inmates when she was quite young, so she would come to regard her complete power and what she does with it as 'natural and normal'.
It's good to find a story which gradually builds up tension, and a horrible realization of what is going to happen, plus all the sexual arousal and excitement which is ironically associated with his sexual destruction. So many other stories jump straight into the 'castration scene' almost right from the beginning, and it then just becomes mechanical -- what is really interesting are the characters involved and their responses to what is happening.
Khaled