we will seeIn so many many ways.... I want it over and over and over and over again.... so so much....
we will seeIn so many many ways.... I want it over and over and over and over again.... so so much....
Here's the first part of a 'novel' I'm working on -
it's dedicated with affection (and in the hope that it won't offend) IM,
and to the memory of Makar,
to both of whom CruxForums owe so much.
Eighteen years hard labour! Eighteen years! I’ll be forty-five … no don’t even think about that, it’s the death sentence, a long, slow, freezing cold death …
The train-truck shudders and creaks its way across the endless tundra. I glance around in the dim light through the wooden slats that imprison us at the female bodies huddled together, silent, glazed, hopeless… one in the corner, pale, slim, no more than a kid …
Like I was when we were ‘liberated’. Eighteen years, that’s how long I’d lived then. Those last few days, bombs thudding, guns rattling, shells whistling past, planes droning over. Yet all we could think about was food, getting it wherever we could, scrapping mouldy potatoes, digging for roots, picking berries, guddling for tiny fish in the swamp, anything we could find. Mamma refused to eat, she made my sister and me have it, though we could see she was growing weaker by the day.
The Germans had pulled out, burning, destroying, smashing anything that could possibly be of use to the Red Army. We, in our battered little farmhouse, were stranded, out in a smouldering no-man’s land. Then the Russians came, tanks first, rattling past in a deafening roar, then truckloads of soldiers. We stood outside to watch, pale, disinterested. We’d seen the Germans – I was only thirteen when they arrived, spruce and polished in their dark uniforms, wretchedly ragged when they left. The Russians didn’t look much different, tired, dishevelled, but cocky with the scent of victory, some of them singing deep-throated tunes like we kept hearing now we’d started listening to Radio Moscow.
Borys, the crazy old pig-keeper, had gone on mumbling all through the war about how much better things would be under Communism, we wished he’d shut up, Mamma said he’d only get us all in trouble with the Gestapo. Now he was across the track, grinning, waving a tattered red curtain by way of a welcoming flag. But we girls had no hopes for heaven on earth, just enough food for mamma and us two was all we asked – and the sight of sweaty young soldiers, most of them no older than we were, was worth coming outside for. One truck passed close, the boys in it whistled, we blushed, waved back to them.
The Red Army moved on towards our little market town, we went inside for a supper of a handful of mushrooms. Borys staggered in with a bottle of village vodka he’d been hiding, he’d obviously already started celebrating. Mamma politely refused it, but her hollowed-out eyes lit up when he produced some strips of dried pig-skin, she begged him to take a few kopeks in payment, but he wouldn’t, “Everything’s common property now!” He lurched back to his hut, chanting a confused apology for The Internationale. We – even Mamma – chewed on the pig-skin like it was priceless pâté.
•••
We were woken by a loud lorry engine, shouting, hammering at the door. Mamma, still up, clearing the house in her anxious way, opened the door a crack and peeped out. “Devochki! Devochki!” men’s voices shouted – we recognised, “Dziewczynky” we’d say, “girls!” It’s us they’ve come for!
“Nie! Nie!” Mamma cried, trying to push the door shut, but a huge kick with a booted foot cracked it off its hinges, and in seconds eight burly men were in our kitchen, Nastusja and I in our nightshirts, clinging to each other outside the bedroom door.
One of the men, with chevrons on his lapel, a sergeant or something, was holding a whip, an old cart-whip. He’d have picked it up in a farmhouse, they’re common enough, not much use since all the cart-horses were turned into meat. He waved it unsteadily at us two, signalling us to come into the middle of the room – to be inspected.
In the light of our one oil-lamp, I could see their faces, ruddy and grinning, they’d obviously been drinking. I recognised them, the lads who’d whistled at us. They still excited my young breasts, but they looked threatening now.
Without warning, one of them lurched at me, grabbed at my hips, started hauling up my nightshirt. I cried out, made a feeble attempt to push him away, hearing mother shriek “Nie!” yet again – another man pushed her to the floor and held a pistol to her head. I knew I had to co-operate, lifted my arms – two or three others were groping at me now.
Suddenly Nastusja screamed, “leave her alone! Bastards!” and flung herself at them, her fists flailing. “No, Nastja!” I yelled, “Don’t! You’ll only….” But it was too late, they’d all turned on her, leaving me shaking as my nightdress slipped back down over my body. My sister had gone wild, she was a powerful young woman, could throw a punch like a boxer, and she was struggling, biting, kicking and twisting like a fury as seven tough men fought to subdue her.
But the sergeant wasn’t taking part. He was leaving it to his men, while he looked around our kitchen. I saw him smile cruelly when he picked up a tin tray. He crossed to the table, pulled out one of the wooden chairs, stamped with his boot through the straw seat, and placed the tin tray over the hole he’d made.
By now they’d just about got Nastja under control, two men gripping each arm, another pistol-whipping her across the face, his colleague using mamma’s rolling pin to crack her bare shins to try to stop her kicking. Mamma was kneeling, sobbing, her guard still holding his gun to her head.
The sergeant gave an instruction, they dragged my sister back to where he’d placed the chair and was holding it ready. They forced her to sit on it, tugged her arms behind it, one of them slipped quickly outside to their truck and returned with a hank of barbed wire and a heavy pair of Red Army issue wire cutters/pincers. As she squirmed and squealed, I thought of Borys’s pigs being bound for slaughter. They wound the wire tight around her bare wrists, twisted it even tighter with the pincers, bound her securely to the back of the chair, making doubly sure with further strands of wire around her upper arms.
Now the sergeant drew a knife, held it in front of Nastja’s face – she glared, swore at him, then yelped as he slashed it across the top of her nightshirt above her breasts, ripping it under the arms, tearing the shoulders. After that, it was an easy job for a soldier to pull it down and off her, along with the knickers she had on underneath. They tied another piece of wire tightly around her starveling’s waist, I could see the barbs piercing her white, hollow abdomen, dark blood oozing. While two were doing this, her legs were forced apart by the others, her feet pulled back and wired to the crossbar between the chair-legs, so she was fixed, naked, exposed.
Her eyes were blazing, as if challenging them to do their worst. The sergeant picked up his whip again, stood feet wide apart, much steadier now than when he’d first invaded us, a look of concentrated hatred on his face. Suddenly, he raised his arm and swung a vicious lash right across her breasts, she squealed, tossed her black hair back, the soldiers cheered.
She soon recovered her composure, swore at him again in Polish. Again he lashed her, and again, catching her face so her lip started bleeding, cutting weals across her collarbone, upper arms, ribs, raising red bruises on her breasts.
Still she was defiant. It was a contest between my sister’s naked, defenceless defiance and ruthless determination to break her. I was horrified, terrified, yet feeling excited, eager to cheer her on – but I knew better than to shout, that gun by mamma’s head urged restraint – I was even wishing I could be bound to a chair alongside her.
But now the sergeant had another tactic. He spoke quietly to one of the men, who took the oil-lamp from the table and brought it towards the chair. I saw Nastusja shrink, heard mamma quietly croak another “Nie!”, shuddered as I realised what was coming.
Two soldiers held the chair and Nastja’s shoulders in a tight grip as their colleague positioned the lamp under the chair, under the tin tray. Instructed by the sergeant, they adjusted the wick so the light was quite low, and the room was in shadowy darkness except for the terrible brightness under my sister’s bare bottom.
At first she just panted, wiggled slightly, testing how far she could move – not much! Soon, her twisting became more vigorous, her legs and hips thrusting against the tight-twisted wires tearing at her skin, her upper body squirming so her bruised breasts tossed in the glimmering twilight, her raven head swung back and forth. The kitchen filled with a sickly scent of cooking flesh, the taste of the dried pig-skin refluxed in my mouth. She was gasping, trying not to scream, but her resistance was breaking.
Suddenly she gave out a deafening shriek, began hurling her body furiously, the men had to grab hard at the chair to prevent it from tipping. The sergeant started whipping her again, harder and harder the louder she screamed. “Go on cunt, yell for mercy!” he shouted. Still she responded with Polish swear-words, more and more vicious grew his lashes…
Her head suddenly dropped forward, “Stop! Stop, please stop….” She was sobbing. Her tormentor just laughed. “That’s more like it, Polish slut … beg for mercy, beg the Red Army to fuck you to death, beg for anything but this….”
It seemed endless, the wait, Nastja was jerking, gasping, yelping, yet still not speaking the words they wanted to hear. She seemed delirious, her eyes were glazing over. And my whole body seemed to be sharing her struggle, my heart pounding, wild excitement was racing through me. Suddenly, out of the silent darkness of the corner of the kitchen, I heard my own voice so loud it echoed in the roof-space, “Stop!!! Leave her, please let her go …. Do it to me!!!”
it is already a classicHave to start reading this Eulalia. It starts out wonderful!!!!
for the Russians
for you
for the writing
Only just catching up here. Amazing writing, Eul. I don't know how you,do this, I really don'tHe leaves, locks the door. I wriggle, trying to get myself into a less uncomfortable position, but give up with a sigh and lie gazing at the ceiling, my heart pounding, blood still dripping down my cheek. I’m shattered by the vicious assault, bruised all over.
Yet my feelings and thoughts are mixed and muddled. The guards are just brutes, but that officer’s a stylish sadist, he’s got the same professional efficiency as Ivan – the well-judged weight, speed and aim of each whip-lash, the precise placing of each kick with his sharp-toed boot, the uncanny divination of my secret female feelings, my perverse but instinctive sexual responses to his physical and psychological cruelties – but of course he’s more ruthless, there’s no safe word, no limits …
I squirm with a sense of my utter vulnerability that brings a surge of moisture in my woman-parts, beads of sweat around my stand-to-attention nipples, the vision of him standing over me with his black whip seems engraved on my retinas.
As I lie, still softly panting, I hear shrill, desperate screams from a room nearby, a young girl in wild panic, men shouting at her, cracks and clangs of cruel instruments … Tomorrow, me …
The door of this Softening –Up Room’s unlocked and opened. A youngish female guard comes in with a bowl, places it on the floor. She looks less fierce than most of the women guards, but there’s an evil smirk on her lips.
The bowl’s a couple of metres away. How can I get to it? She watches, hands on hips. I writhe about, trying to change my position, but I’m trussed too tightly, I just squirm about on the same spot. I roll onto my side, no better, then onto my stomach, still worse.
She’s highly amused. She calls out through the door, “Hey, come here, watch this!” A gang of others, three or four males and another female, all crowd in. I make some progress by rolling, over and over, though it’s impossible to keep any sense of direction. My audience jeers and giggles, some of the boys kick me, not as skillfully as the officer.
At last I’m close to the bowl, I stretch out my neck to lap up the water in it like a bitch, but the woman guard snatches it away, puts it just out of reach again. The show goes on, my pathetic efforts constantly thwarted. Eventually I give up, just lie stomach-down with my face on the floor.
They’re not having that. A youth tugs my hair so I’m bent up, balanced on my knees. The woman takes the bowl and throws the water in my face, then gives it to one of the men, who opens his flies and fills it with piss.
She thrusts it under my face as the one who’s holding my hair pushes it down, “Drink that!” she yells. I’ve no choice, I am desperately thirsty, the acrid moisture wets my parched mouth, though it makes me retch. When I pause for a second, my head’s pushed down again, she orders, “Drink it all, every drop – then lick the bowl clean!”
I comply. Another youth jeers, “Want some more?” I look up at him pathetically, give no answer. “Well you’re having more, anyway!” He repeats the game, so does another. By now, the males are thoroughly, all too visibly, aroused. When I’ve licked the bowl for the third time, the woman-guard takes it from me, the youth still holding my hair jerks me up and swings me so I fall back, face up.
The dominant male, a tall, swarthy Tartar-looking guy, has his pants down already, he flings himself on me, I struggle to get into a bearable postion under his weight, but make no attempt to resist, my thighs are pulled wide by the shackles, I spread them wider, and tense their muscles so as to lift my torso against his weight.
My head rolls side-to-side as he pounds his tool into me, while clawing my breasts, biting my neck. My womb-muscles are warm, my vagina moist, as I feel his weapon invading me, a tremor flows through, I cry out with both pleasure and pain as an orgasm shakes me, and he erupts.
The others all have a turn. They throw me back tits-down, one rapes me normally, another buggers me, I shriek, it’s agony. The one who’d held my hair insists on risking my mouth – “The bitch’ll bite you!” his friends laugh, holding me up on my knees again. “She’d better not even think about it – eh, cunt!” I nod, open my mouth compliantly.
I’ve not done this, not been buggered either, since Liberation Day, nearly ten years ago. It brings it back. I lip-kiss and tongue-tease the lad’s cock like I did the sergeant’s that night, coxing it to hardness, letting him enjoy a long, slow arousal before he’s compelled to deliver a gush of salty brine into my throat, mingling with the sour taste of male urine.
The last one throws me face-up again, masturbates in between my breasts, spurting a thunder-shower of spunk over my face and shoulders. They leave me feeling the cocktail of spunk and piss still slithering down my throat, through my gullet, my stomach’s heaving as my gastric juices strive to digest, my own bladder squirts, the Softening-Up Room is oppressively stuffy, muggy with the rich scents of fluids and effluvia from bodies male and female.
I sink, resting my head on the wood, grateful for this unexpected intermission, though astonished at the sudden change in the demeanour of the interrogator and her abrupt departure. Pain’s still throbbing through my tightly-clamped thumb, I rest the screw on the desk-top, try to keep it totally still, the least movement berings another stream of pain.
Still wondering about Ivan. Still wondering why their questions seem to skate past him …
These guards, mercifully, leave me alone. They seem as baffled as I am by the sudden departure of the torture-team, mutter to each other in low whispers, kick their heels in boredom, nothing to do but wait… I drowse into tormented semi-consciousness.
At last the officer comes back. He takes hold of the thumbscrew, I yowl, it hurts horribly. He unscrews it, pulls it off, wipes it lovingly with a polishing cloth, puts it away in its neat little bag. “Thankyou, comrade,” I whisper. He looks up at me, with a wry smile, releases the clamp holding my wrists, then lifts my throbbing right hand, bows his head, and kisses it. “It was my pleasure,” he says, with an Ivan-like wink.
The guards unlock my ankles and draw me back off the beam. As I stand, swaying dizzily. “Take her to the Pits,” the officer tells them, then to me, “You can have a little time and space there, to consider the implications, before you make a serious allegation against the Deputy Premier!”
They take hold of my arms, spread wide, their other hands groping my tits and my bum, as I’m walked on unsteady legs out of the torture-kitchen, along a passage, and down some stone steps, a long, steep flight, into a cellar. A flickering neon-strip light’s switched on. There seems to be nothing much down here, bare stone walls. But in the floor, in a line along the centre, are metal grids. Some are shut down, others lying open.
I’m walked along to one of the open ones, hear shuffling sounds, a low moan from below one of the closed grids. “Get in!” orders my guard. I look down, a concrete-lined box about a metre square, I kneel on on knee, lowering my other leg down. I glance back at my guards, appalled, terrified. “In!” they yell, and, with a kick and a shove, I topple in, down onto my knees on the rough base of the pit.
At once, they swing the grid over and slam it shut above me. I hear their departing boots. The light’s switched off. In total darkness, I become aware of my living grave. The grid’s too low for me to stand or even kneel up, the walls too narrow for me to stretch out, even across the diagonal. I can only sit, crouch or curl up on the bare concrete.
Feeling around with my torture-ravaged hands, I find a tin bowl and beaker, and a hole in one corner of the base, I guess what that must be for, feel sick with disgust and humiliation. It’s a crime to keep an animal like this. I’m less than an animal….
My fingers and thumbs are still hideously painful, my bum acutely sore to the least touch, contact with the steel of my manacles keeps hurting me there. I lie on my side, knees tucked up, a foetal ball. I start to cry.
So this!! Just getting caught up and am just in total shock at this work! Eul you are truly a special writer and I hope you never stop gracing us with your incredible work!And nobody in the known universe writes as realistically as Eul!!
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“So, Alisa, we meet again,” says Beria, in his soft, sharp-edged tone. I lower my eyes, tighten my grip on my still sore bum, I’m shaking like leaf. “Yes, comrade,” I answer quietly. I sense his eyes scanning me, instinctively tighten my shoulders, spread my knees slightly, displaying for him my female assets. “You are still a fine young woman, prisoner Innokentaya. It’s a pity you choose to make things hard for yourself.”
He gestures to my guards, they unlock my wrists. “Come here, let me see what they’ve done to you.” I walk round the end of the huge desk, still unsteadily, as if I were on a ship at sea, feeling the softness of the carpet under my bare feet, even a childish fear that I’ll be punished for spoiling it. He beckons me to stand right up against his knees, as he turns his grand chair towards me.
“Show me your hands, Alisa.” I hold them out, my fingers stripped of their nails, still tipped with scabbed and oozing blisters, my left thumb hideously swollen. He grips them, feels my shudder of pain and terror at his touch, he tut-tuts, releases them, I drop them by my sides. “Their methods are so crude, so primitive. The MGB must be properly trained in up-to-date procedures, like the CIA have been learning from their ex-Nazi friends.”
He waves me away with a back-flap of his hand. “Go. You are in urgent need of a wash. You can have one now, clean yourself up, have a good rest. Then you’ll be able to help us.”
He nods to the guards, they lead me away, out through the big door, across the landing. They unlock a door on the other side, direct me in, shut it and lock it again behind me. I look around, astonished, mystified. What’s all this about?
It’s like a luxury hotel room, furnished at least as comfortably as the one we stayed in for May Day, and rather more tastefully, in delicate pastel colours. There’s a large single bed with a traditional Kazakh embroidered cloth for a bedspread, a soft armchair, a low table, a dressing-table and chair – it’s equipped with brush and comb and body-care materials in bottles and jars.
In a small chest of drawers, I find a supply of clothes, girls’ clothes, all in my size. Hardly glamorous, they look like Young Pioneer issue, just missing the red neckerchief – white knickers and bra, pale blue blouse with flap pockets – military-style – a dark blue, box-pleated skirt, white plimsolls, but all good quality fabric, and brand-new.
But I hardly dare touch them with my filthy, suppurating fingers. I look to my left and see a glass door which gives access to a bathroom – a spotless white bath with a shower-fitting on the gleaming taps, wash-basin, proper w.c., a cupboard with a range of soaps, shampoos, lotions, even feminine hygiene is provided for, and there are some medical supplies, a pot of disinfectant cream and some elastic stick-on plasters which are just what my fingers and thumbs need if they are to mend, a small (much less than lethal!) supply of aspirin.
The floor’s tiled, the walls freshly painted in pale greenish blue, but the wall by the bath is one enormous mirror, and when I see the creature in it, I’m sick with shock – hollow-eyed, sunken-cheeked, face parchment-white, hair a gorgon-mop of greasy serpents, body a crazed map of bruises, scars, weals, with seas of mud and rivulets of sweat among great islands of purple. If this is what Beria considers a fine young woman, he is indeed a man of strange tastes.
I’m not fooled, there’s some game being played, some devilish scheme he’s dreamt up to torment me. Of course I’ve no option but to play along with it, and anyway from where I am just now a bath’s as close to heaven as I’m likely to ever get.
I run the taps and discover that, unlike most taps in Moscow, the hot one produces hot water, plenty of it. As I watch the bath fill, it occurs to me that the mirror (now beginning to steam up) is probably one of those one-way jobs, Beria’s all too likely watching me through it, masturbating frantically. I chuckle to myself at the thought – let him enjoy!
I lie in the warm, soapy water, not too hot, my tortured skin stings cruelly in so many places, but rubbing soap over me is so delicious, both cleansing and erotic. I empty out one bathful, full of filth, and run another, lie in that one simply luxuriating.
Then I draw round the shower curtain – the mirror can still see me, of course – and rinse my hair, after three vigorous shampoos, it’s beginning to feel a bit more like human hair again, less like tarred ship-rope. There are three big, soft, warm towels hanging on a heated rail, I cuddle myself in them, spend a long time first treating my wounds, especially my fingers and thumbs, with the antiseptic cream, then trying other feminine aids and tittivators more for my self-love than for any good they might do me.
The scents, toileteries and cosmetics in the bathroom and on the dressing table are the most expensive kinds from Paris and New York, you can’t even buy them in GUM. Beria sends schoolgirls to the gulag for wearing stuff that’s cost them a hundredth of the price these goods would fetch on the black market.
When I finally exit the bathroom, I find someone’s been in and left a tray with salad, fruit, cold meats, cheese, bottles of soft drink. I eat gladly, drink even more so – though cold water from the tap is what I get and enjoy first and most of all. Then use the sparkly clean flush toilet.
I’m still naked, I seem to have got used to being nude, it’s my natural condition. And anyway, Beria said I should rest, I’m ready to sleep. I pull back the bedspread and find a little white nylon nightie waiting for me on the pillow, I put it on, do a twirl in front of the dressing-table mirror, it’s pretty, just bum-length.
And so to bed, between soft, glistening white linen sheets, on the plumpest downy pillow my head’s ever rested upon…
“Then you’ll be able to help us.” What the hell’s he on about? Fuck it …
A good moment for some music
The end/beginning works well in context too