IMHO "Miss Berkeley's Voyage" is the best whipping story ever. I discovered this site while looking for more of your stories, specifically the continuation of "State Of Emergency" that you posted on the Girls in Merciless Peril site and was delighted to discover that not only had you posted the second part of "SOE" here but also this story and several others I read here for the first time. I had contacted you and complimented the story when it appeared there, and am glad to do it again on this site.
There are many things I love about your stories. They are very well written: the characters are typically distinct and vary from sadistic and sociopathic to decent and sympathetic, and you get inside their heads and let us experience their range of emotions in a completely convincing way. The interrogations you narrate "SOE" and "Liberty" et al. are detailed and intelligent, again, completely convincing. You draw out every last bit of dread and apprehension that a victim would experience while contemplating her upcoming ordeal. For me, that is every bit as appealing as the punishment itself. And one other thing that sets you apart, and that I particularly enjoy; your victims never experience that "fire in their loins" bit while undergoing their ordeals. They never discover their "true submissive nature" and revel in their subjugation and torture as 99.9% of victims in this genre do. If that were the only virtue of your writing, I would thank you.
I've been meaning to write a companion piece, a sister piece, if you will, to "Miss Berkeley's voyage, featuring Mina, Laura Berkeley's younger sister, who missed the ship Laura departed on and took passage on another. She too runs afoul of the ship's captain and is punished in similar ways. I don't pretend that a story I write would be as good as one of yours, but it would allow me to present a few of my own personal preferences. Actually, I'll probably never get around to writing it, not least because this story is so well done, and I think is, if not the final word on whipping stories, the best one, but would you have any objections if I did?
This is Mina Berkeley:
in faux eighteenth century attire
(Nina Dobrev as . . . Whoever she plays in "Vamp
ire Diaries.)
And this is Mina after being stripped and shorn, before being clapped in shackles and brank and force marched to the whipping frame: