These sixteen prize-winning stories are the cream of the crop from Palmprint"s adult discipline fiction competitions, with authors from Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, USA and Wales. Plus a bonus story by Sarah Veitch.A bare bottom served up for punishment will always give the discerning reader an erotic charge, and there"s no shortage of such reluctantly-exposed flesh in this collection. In a diverse range of settings and themes, most of the miscreants are female but two males are also soundly taken to task.L"Ancien Regime by Michael Redbrick; Goddess by Tulsa Brown; Way Out West by Suzee Moon and Stan Strap; A New Understanding by Pearl Jones; Cat Fight at the Lucky Seven by Stan Strap; Disobedience a la carte by Kit; Disobedience, Passion and the Unjust Whip by J.D. Jensen; Broken Vows by Ruby Kola; The Mercy of Strange Men by Aimee Nichols; Lessons by Alicia Wag; Beloved Birch by James Baron; The Key to the Unknown by Sarah Dean; Think Pink by Bruce Anderson; Rubious - The Colour of Rubies by Mark Ramsden; Come Here by Katharine Tyler Brooks; How Not to Manage Debt by Jean Roberta; Hard Times by Sarah Veitch.