"Beaten" drabbles by Neville Hunt

Shunkeys

Beaten #5

However, the twins were determined Tony would not be ‘someone’ for their mother. They didn’t like him from the first time Angela introduced him to them, despite his cheery and apparently friendly nature. His offer of a handshake for the two of them was ignored by each in turn.

Nonetheless, Angela wasn’t having her sons be rude to Tony or to deny her future happiness.

“Just ignore them, Tony, sometimes they can be like that, the little monkeys!”

These little monkeys shunned all attempts at friendliness, because Tony was a challenge for their mother’s attention. That simply would not do.

Two's company

Beaten #4

Like many identical twins without other siblings, Angela's boys were an item, a unit, a force to be reckoned with. Their father had died two years earlier and they both really missed him, as of course did their mum. However, Angela realised that at 38 years old, she should still have a long life to come and that she must move on and find someone to move on with. Would that someone be Tony? She didn’t rule out that possibility as he seemed to be a perfect gentleman, both charming and thoughtful, and, importantly, keen to bond with her twins.

Fair pair

Beaten #3

Who would imagine what sordid activities Tony was involved with... except those reading his books or providing inspiration for them… those at the receiving end of the Birch.

It was after his third marriage had failed that he was pursuing a potential wife number 4, Angela, a widow with identical twin sons, as attractive as their mother, who was fair of face. Anyone new meeting the pair might describe them as angelic, although heaven knows how untrue that was. The two of them truly had the devil in them. They were eight years old when Tony appeared on the scene.

Charm, but offensive

Beaten #2

The things Tony practised on his wives were essential to feed his writing. He wrote from experience whenever he could. He needed the authentic touch. When writing to titillate fellow sadists, creative imagination was one route, but there was simply no substitute for the real thing. In the periods between wives though, he delved deep into the more unpleasant regions of pornography, that and engage the services of members of the ‘meat trade’, most of whom would subsequently wish that he hadn’t.

He was an extremely unpleasant character, but to anyone who met him casually, Tony Dawson was charm personified.

Plumbing the depths

Beaten #1

Tony Dawson was a writer. Not the most popular of writers, but he made some money to enhance his regular insurance job. Mass popularity was denied him probably because of his subject matter... not to everyone’s taste, and just as well too. Tony’s writing genre was dark, very dark. He wrote under a nom-de-plume, as Dan Birch. His novels plumbed the depths of S&M, the sordid and the depraved. They came from Tony’s own predilections as he himself was turned on by sadistic practices, preferences that had already destroyed three marriages through his abusive behaviour towards his wives.