Download or read book The Dirty Thought That Slipped Out Alpha Male BBW Student Teacher Discipline Erotica written by Miranda Cruz and published by The Red Spot Press. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader Advisory: This story is for mature audiences only and features intensely erotic situations, sexy alpha males and BBWs, taboo teacher/student relations, discipline, spanking, humiliation, submissiveness and dominance. All characters are 18 or older. Chrissy doesn't know why she started the rumor about Professor Simmons, her young and handsome literature professor. Maybe it was a plea for attention, or maybe it was just a way of making a long-hidden fantasy become slightly real. But whatever the reason, the rumors have made their way to the Dean of Student Affairs Mr. Munson himself, and when Chrissy is called down to the office on a Friday afternoon, she finds out he's heard a lot more. Once past the initial mortification, she can admit she's probably earned the spanking she'll get, but did he really have to tell Professor Simmons about the whole thing, too? Surely he'll find his own ways to settle accounts, and all Chrissy can do is wait and see which method will leave her more sore. Excerpt: The ensuing silence was awful. After daring the initial glance towards Professor Simmons my eyes had stayed locked on a spot on the floor near the leg of the desk. I could feel him considering me. "Won't you say something, Professor?" I finally blurted. "I'm trying to understand you, Chrissy." "What's to understand? I shouldn't have said - I just made a mistake." "What did you want?" I struggled with the question. "I guess I just sort of liked the idea of it, to tell the truth," I said finally in a very quiet voice. "I'm just so incredibly embarrassed, Professor." He blinked in surprise. Then he started to laugh. "Is that what it was?" he said. "I thought I saw something in the way you looked at me, and it made the lie all the harder to understand." He closed the door of the office and stepped into the room. "But then again, if you knew the headache ... what a stupid thing." "I'm sorry." He loosened his necktie and ran a frustrated hand through his dark hair. Even though it was wildly inappropriate given the situation, I couldn't help but find him even sexier angry than when he was calm and collected. He seemed simultaneously capable of anything and yet in control. I got the sudden and very strange insight that he had probably been the type to get into a lot of trouble when he was younger. He turned back to look at me and caught me staring. His eyes locked to mine, freezing me in place, and I watched a faintly appraising look come into his face. "Well what are we going to do about this?" he asked. The question sounded rhetorical, so I watched him without answering. "Tell me," he said, walking over to lean against the desk only a couple feet from me. "What is it exactly you told people I did?" Notice: This title includes themes and passages that have been adapted from Jessica Whitethread’s Naughty Rumors with full consent of the original author.

Download or read book My Student s Upper Hand Alpha Male and BBW Student Teacher Discipline and Humiliation Erotica written by Miranda Cruz and published by The Red Spot Press. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader Advisory: This story is for mature audiences only and features intensely erotic situations, sexy alpha males and BBWs, taboo teacher/student relations, discipline, spanking, humiliation, submissiveness and dominance. All characters are 18 or older. If she's being honest, Katie Beckman sometimes enjoys jerking around the male college students in her classes … but when she goes too far with her bad marks, she finds out there's someone in her class who won't get pushed too far. Robert, an undergraduate after completing his military service, has discovered a dirty little secret that Katie will do anything to keep from getting out into the open. He's willing to keep this secret between them, but he wants to be sure that still gets the punishment she so very much deserves. Excerpt: "I'm going to punish you, Katie," he explained, his hand undoing the zipper and allowing the skirt to open and fall to the floor. I clutched a hand over my panties. "You don't seem to be grasping that reality. It's either me or the Chair of your Department. Which one do you want it to be?" I stared at him, caught in an impossible place. I had no one to blame but myself. Why had I done it? And now I was completely at his mercy. "Well?" "You," I whispered. "Me? You want me to punish you?" I grimaced, trying to think of some other option. "Katie? What's it going to be?" "... Yes." The smile returned to his face. "That's a good girl. I thought you'd see it my way. It just took a little explaining. Now bend down and pick up your skirt and hand it to me. I'd hate to let it wrinkle down there." The deep crimson blush of humiliation was rising in my face as I stared at him, paralyzed. "Katie," he repeated, pointing at my fallen garment. I slid my back down the wall until I felt the rumpled fabric in my hand. I stepped out of it and rose with it draped from my limp fingers. Robert held out his hand for it and I gave it to him. He folded it with care, placed it on the desk behind him, and then turned back to me. He eyed me up and down, evaluating the woman standing before him. I was supposed to be the authority figure, but how fast the tables had turned. I felt the blush in my cheeks burning hotter than ever as I felt his eyes roving my trembling body. Other, more conflicted and confusing emotions were playing about inside me as well as I noticed the slight quickening of his breath and the desire in his eyes. Notice: This title includes themes and passages that have been adapted from Jessica Whitethread’s Disciplining the Teacher with full consent of the original author.the original author. Reader Advisory: This story is for mature audiences only and features intensely erotic situations, sexy alpha males and BBWs, taboo teacher/student relations, discipline, spanking, humiliation, submissiveness and dominance. All characters are 18 or older. If she's being honest, Katie Beckman sometimes enjoys jerking around the male college students in her classes … but when she goes too far with her bad marks, she finds out there's someone in her class who won't get pushed too far. Robert, an undergraduate after completing his military service, has discovered a dirty little secret that Katie will do anything to keep from getting out into the open. He's willing to keep this secret between them, but he wants to be sure that still gets the punishment she so very much deserves. Excerpt: "I'm going to punish you, Katie," he explained, his hand undoing the zipper and allowing the skirt to open and fall to the floor. I clutched a hand over my panties. "You don't seem to be grasping that reality. It's either me or the Chair of your Department. Which one do you want it to be?" I stared at him, caught in an impossible place. I had no one to blame but myself. Why had I done it? And now I was completely at his mercy. "Well?" "You," I whispered. "Me? You want me to punish you?" I grimaced, trying to think of some other option. "Katie? What's it going to be?" "... Yes." The smile returned to his face. "That's a good girl. I thought you'd see it my way. It just took a little explaining. Now bend down and pick up your skirt and hand it to me. I'd hate to let it wrinkle down there." The deep crimson blush of humiliation was rising in my face as I stared at him, paralyzed. "Katie," he repeated, pointing at my fallen garment. I slid my back down the wall until I felt the rumpled fabric in my hand. I stepped out of it and rose with it draped from my limp fingers. Robert held out his hand for it and I gave it to him. He folded it with care, placed it on the desk behind him, and then turned back to me. He eyed me up and down, evaluating the woman standing before him. I was supposed to be the authority figure, but how fast the tables had turned. I felt the blush in my cheeks burning hotter than ever as I felt his eyes roving my trembling body. Other, more conflicted and confusing emotions were playing about inside me as well as I noticed the slight quickening of his breath and the desire in his eyes.

Download or read book Curves and Teachers Bundle BBW Teacher Student Power Play and Discipline Erotica written by Miranda Cruz and published by The Red Spot Press. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader Advisory: These stories are for mature audiences only and features intensely erotic situations, taboo teacher/student relations, sexy alpha males and young inexperienced BBWs, discipline, spanking, humiliation, submissiveness and dominance. All characters are 18 or older. Curves and Teachers Bundle contains three stories: My Student's Upper Hand If she's being honest, Katie Beckman sometimes enjoys jerking around the male college students in her classes … but when she goes too far with her bad marks, she finds out there's someone in her class who won't get pushed too far. Robert, an undergraduate after completing his military service, has discovered a dirty little secret that Katie will do anything to keep from getting out into the open. He's willing to keep this secret between them, but he wants to be sure that shee still gets the punishment she so very much deserves. Professor's Discipline Joanna Michaels has always found ways of weedling what she wants out of the people around her, and when she arrives in college it doesn't look like that's going to have to change. But her easy ride runs out when her professor Peter Andrews notices her flirting with a classmate only to copy his course work. The handsome professor decides it's time to teach her a little personal responsibility and maybe show the flirtatious young woman just what a man who actually knows how to handle her charms looks like. The Dirty Thought that Slipped Out Chrissy doesn't know why she started the rumor about Professor Simmons, her young and handsome literature professor. Maybe it was a plea for attention, or maybe it was just a way of making a long-hidden fantasy become slightly real. But whatever the reason, the rumors have made their way to the Dean of Student Affairs Mr. Munson himself, and when Chrissy is called down to the office on a Friday afternoon, she finds out he's heard a lot more. Once past the initial mortification, she can admit she's probably earned the spanking she'll get, but did he really have to tell Professor Simmons about the whole thing, too? Surely he'll find his own ways to settle accounts, and all Chrissy can do is wait and see which method will leave her more sore. Excerpt: "I'm going to punish you, Katie," he explained, his hand undoing the zipper and allowing the skirt to open and fall to the floor. I clutched a hand over my panties. "You don't seem to be grasping that reality. It's either me or the Chair of your Department. Which one do you want it to be?" I stared at him, caught in an impossible place. I had no one to blame but myself. Why had I done it? And now I was completely at his mercy. "Well?" "You," I whispered. "Me? You want me to punish you?" I grimaced, trying to think of some other option. "Katie? What's it going to be?" "... Yes." The smile returned to his face. "That's a good girl. I thought you'd see it my way. It just took a little explaining. Now bend down and pick up your skirt and hand it to me. I'd hate to let it wrinkle down there." The deep crimson blush of humiliation was rising in my face as I stared at him, paralyzed. "Katie," he repeated, pointing at my fallen garment. I slid my back down the wall until I felt the rumpled fabric in my hand. I stepped out of it and rose with it draped from my limp fingers. Robert held out his hand for it and I gave it to him. He folded it with care, placed it on the desk behind him, and then turned back to me. He eyed me up and down, evaluating the woman standing before him. I was supposed to be the authority figure, but how fast the tables had turned. I felt the blush in my cheeks burning hotter than ever as I felt his eyes roving my trembling body. Notice: These titles include themes and passages that have been adapted from several works by Jessica Whitethread with full consent of the original author.

Download or read book Professor s Discipline Alpha Male and BBW Student Teacher Discipline Erotica written by Miranda Cruz and published by The Red Spot Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader Advisory: This story is for mature audiences only and features intensely erotic situations, sexy alpha males and BBWs, taboo teacher/student relations, discipline, spanking, humiliation, submissiveness and dominance. All characters are 18 or older. Joanna Michaels has always found ways of weedling what she wants out of the people around her, and when she arrives in college it doesn't look like that's going to have to change. But her easy ride runs out when her professor Peter Andrews notices her flirting with a classmate only to copy his course work. The handsome professor decides it's time to teach her a little personal responsibility and maybe show the flirtatious young woman just what a man who actually knows how to handle her charms looks like. Excerpt: "You know, Professor," I begin, "I understand why you have me cleaning the classroom. I'm really learning a lesson. But as for talking to Tom, I really don't understand why that's so necessary. How do you know I don't like him?" I find myself blushing deeper crimson. "I mean, he's not the single most handsome man I can think of," I say, "but a girl's gotta take what she can get, right? Sometimes I just get lonely, don't you?" I wince slightly as I hear the last words come out of my mouth. That may have been taking it too far. "That's a very interesting perspective, Joanna," he says in a neutral voice. "But surely if you cared about him you wouldn't be manipulating him into giving you his work when he clearly didn't want to." I let out an exaggerated sigh. "But Professor," I say, "is it really that simple? Sometimes you need something from someone and you're in a position to offer a sort of trade, right? A little affection to help get someone off the hook?" I've definitely warmed to my audience. This all has to be having an effect. He sits back and considers me for a long moment, taking me in - all of me. The blush in my cheeks deepens still further as I find myself increasingly self-conscious. "What are you doing, Joanna?" he asks. "Why do you think it's appropriate to act this way? Or dress this way?" He makes a vague gesture. I draw back slightly. This isn't the reaction I expected. "Like what, Professor?" "You - playing the slut to get what you want. Do you think I'm some kid who'll go weak-kneed if you smile at me with your ***s hanging out?" "What are you talking about, Professor?" I ask as innocently as I can, my heart beginning to hammer. He seems angry. It occurs to me I could get in legitimate trouble for this. "What am I talking about?" he asks. "I'm talking about this." He grabs the loose flap of cloth of my partially open blouse and shakes me by it, inadvertently pulling apart the other buttons in the process. The garment falls open. If it weren't obvious enough already that I'm not wearing a bra, it's pretty fucking obvious now. I look down and then back up at him in shock, forgetting to cover myself. He draws in a sharp breath as my sudden nakedness catches us both by surprise. Notice: This title includes themes and passages that have been adapted from Jessica Whitethread’s Caught By My Professor with full consent of the original author.

Download or read book I Love Jesus But I Want to Die written by Sarah J. Robinson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.

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