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This bit should go without saying, but just in case. Saint Clare stories contain corporal punishment of fictional children. School girls. Fictional children are the only sorts of children who should be spanked. This is porn/erotica, not parenting advice or possible pedagogy. You’re welcome to start any comment with “I don’t believe in spanking children,” though I assume that’s the case. Me neither.
While You Wait for Inez…
Wouldn’t you know it? The bell has gone but Inez isn’t quite ready. She’s gathering her notes, straightening collar and tie, and revising her opinions, always a painful process.
While you wait, this is your chance to explore the Saint Clare back catalogue. Saint Clare’s School for Girls stories don’t begin with Inez — she’s only the latest bright spark to walk its drafty halls. Many of these earlier tales date back more than 25 years, and span the decades between the late 19th to late 20th centuries. Some are tidy and well-edited. Others are not. But they all belong.
From Pablo and Mija’s Treehouse on Saint Clare stories:
The fictional St. Clare School is a place very near and dear to Mija’s heart. It part of a space she’s had since childhood and exists largely in her mind. Prior to these stories, most of it hadn’t ever been shared with anyone. It has a long history, however, and the stories in this collection aren’t written in any sort of serial fashion. Characters change and time moves forward and backward so only the school itself is a constant.
Mija’s vision of St. Clare is roughly drawn from both her Catholic girls’ school in the United States and her imaginary vision of a British girls’ school – though the setting will seem more British than American. It also comes from her reading about schools in Britain and visits to Scottish museums and uniform shops.
Most of all it is an imaginary female space, so the stories will revolve around schoolgirls and their relationships with each other. And spanking too, of course. St. Clare School is nothing if not traditional.
I’ve cleaned the ink off a few blotters, pressed my kilts, and opened the archive. They’re not meant to be read in any special order.
Here they are:
The first of the St. Clare stories, inspired by a trip to Aitken and Niven in Edinburgh. A daughter’s transfer to St. Clare and the shopping trip for her new uniform becomes a lesson in the discipline her mother ‘felt’ at both home and school.
The second of the St. Clare stories. A new girl’s attempt to win friends at St. Clare through gifts of sweets lands her in painful trouble as she painfully learns that true friendship must be earned.
The third of the St. Clare stories, co-written with my dear friend, the ever-bratty MollyB. It’s a tale of friendships between girls and women as two field hockey players are made to pay OTK for an intimate transgression.
It’s wartime, complete with rationing, and someone’s not taking care of her knickers! How wasteful. Poor Fiona wants to curl up with a novel and takes a few short cuts to get more reading time. Unfortunately, this doesn’t end well for her. Written for one of the last SSC‘s.
Mariana writes to her friend Vera about a visit to their headmaster’s study and a very painful waking up!
This is more parental (or at least paternal) than the other St. Clare stories, but the school is still there (though maybe in not-so-central a fashion). It reflects my daddy/daughter-ish vein of stories
A short St. Clare story written for the 2001 SSC. I’ve always been fascinated at the power that prefects and the like were given over other girls at school – including the power to punish their peers
Not a timeline. Not a canon. And the curriculum is always in flux.
Some of these stories contradict each other. Some characters have changed their names. One or two staff members appear in two places at once. No one agrees on the colour of the prefects’ blazer. And frankly, some of the punctuation and spelling is shameful.
I’m calling it “curriculum reform.” Because continuity is for *boys’* schools.
One more note…
Yesterday I posted a short companion piece — “Saint Clare School Justifications or A Few Explanations for the Inconsistencies That Are Absolutely Not My Fault“on just this topic. It offers excuses, background, mixed in with a bit of girls’ and women’s education (Written in best handwriting, naturally.)
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