Summer Spanks Hop

Summer is officially over....and another school year has begun.

I'm excited to share a snippet from Laying Down the Law, to be released September 6 as part of the School's In Session Boxed Set which will include stories by Dinah McLeod, Maggie Carpenter, Kate Richards, Renee Rose and me.

Update: Now available on Amazon. Click here. 

In Laying Down the Law, Ali is 45 and recently divorced. She left law school 20 years before to give birth to twins and never finsihed the one last class she needed to graduate.

Much has changed in those twenty years, particularly technology. Here's a snippet where Ali learns about sexting.

He picked up the assignment and read aloud, glancing up at Ali to enjoy her flush of discomfort as the words sunk in.

A young woman comes to your office and reports that her now former boyfriend has posted explicit pictures of her online. The pictures have caused her great embarrassment and might have cost her a job she applied for. She wants the pictures taken down.

How do you proceed?

“Uhoh. She’s been sexting. What do you think of that, Ali?” He knew he shouldn’t tease her, but she was so adorable when she was embarrassed.

“Sexting? What’s that?”

Griff tried not to show his surprise. “Sexting. It’s when people use their phones to take sexy pictures of themselves and then send them to their boyfriend or girlfriend or spouse or both.”

Ali gave him a skeptical look. “Are you making this up just to embarrass me? Let me see that assignment.”

He laughed. She might be shy but she wasn’t stupid. “Sure, now you read it out loud.”

Her eyes scanned the piece of paper and a delightful flush started at her neck and moved upward.

“Why would anyone do such a thing?”

“Oh come on. You’ve never sent a naughty picture to your husband or a boyfriend?”

“I’d be mortified. Besides, look what happened to this girl. That’s why you should never act that way. You can’t trust anyone.”

Something in her demeanor changed when she said ‘you can’t trust anyone’. He already knew she was divorced, so that probably wasn’t a big discovery.

“You can trust some people, you just need to select them carefully.”

“I disagree. Everyone is just out for themselves, no matter how much they might try to tell you otherwise.”

“Well, we are partners for the next fifteen weeks. I hope you’ll eventually learn to trust me.”

She looked chagrined. “I’m sorry. We’ve just met. I don’t have any reason not to trust you, though your thinking must be a little addled since you said you were happy to have me as a partner. I will do my best to at least not distrust you. How’s that?”

“Excellent. Does that mean you’ll send me a sexy picture of yourself?”

“That’s impossible.”

“You mean it’s impossible for you to ever trust me?”

“No, it’s impossible because no picture of me would ever qualify as sexy.”

“Every woman is sexy. Just not all of them believe it.”

Ali sipped her coffee and appraised him with her eyes over the rim of her cup. When she finished, she changed the subject. “Maybe we ought to work on the assignment now.”

“Good idea.” He smiled. “What are some questions you think we ought to ask her?”

“Besides, ‘what were you thinking?’”

“Yes, we’re here to help our clients. Not judge them. I bet she’s getting plenty of that already, probably mostly from herself.”

“Okay, Mr. Smarty. What would you like to know?”

“I want to know what she means by explicit.”

Ali rolled her eyes. “You just want to have her tell you what she did.”

“No,  the assignment only says they were explicit. Maybe we need to clarify her definition of explicit. If they were just shots of her in a bathing suit, that’s hardly the same as photos of her pussy.”

Ali nearly fell off her chair. “You can’t say that in public.” She stage whispered like a shocked mother, which he assumed she was, and glanced from side to side to see who might have heard what he said.

“I’ll agree that’s not an appropriate word to use in court, so I apologize, but you need to lighten up. Are you Amish or something?”

“No, I am not Amish. I just don’t use words like that.”

“What sort of law do you plan to practice after you pass the bar?”

“I thought I’d like to do something to help the poor. Maybe abused women and children.”

“That’s great. I bet you’d be good at it. Now do you suppose in that situation your clients would say ‘vagina’?”

He really wasn’t trying to make her blush, but he wasn’t trying too hard not to either.

*****

Ali finally dumped her backpack on the kitchen table and poured herself a glass of wine. It had been quite an eventful first day of school and all she really wanted was a long soak in the tub.

But before she did, she went to the computer and looked up sexting.

Some of the photos shocked her. Bare breasts, glistening vaginas. Women touching themselves. But she kept looking. She wondered how many women had sent similar pictures to Griff.

Then she wondered why the idea of it made her jealous.

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