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American Violet
by Patricio (Patrick Linney)
(began 2003)
American Violet -- Chapter 1 - by Patricio (10/01/03)
"She ties the rope to her right ankle. She goes to the little curtained cubicle off her bedroom -- her cell, she calls it -- the rope trailing behind her, and fires up her laptop. There's a fragment of a story that she once read in some murky corner of the Internet, she can't recall the address but she's been thinking of the story-writer's pseudonym ever since the man spoke to her at the roadside. So she inserts his name into the search engine: English_Villain."
American Violet -- Chapter 2 - by Patricio (11/05/03)
"She laughs. It's a blessed release, the Flutterfly, the laughter. She straps it on herself, then puts on a simple dress -- yes, of purple -- that she treated herself to earlier in the week. She walks out in the rain, sheltering under an umbrella, playing with the remote control."
American Violet -- Chapter 3 - by Patricio (12/24/03)
"She gets down on her knees. Beneath the rug, set into a floorboard, flush, is a metal ring that wasn't there before. The iron, or whatever it is, is the thickness of her thumb. A perfect, ring-shaped opening has been made in the wood. The ring is heavy when she lifts it; clangs when she drops it back into its place."
American Violet -- Chapter 4 - by Patricio (01/21/04)
"You bastard, you are invading my days, violating my privacy, filling me with fear and foreboding, I hate hate hate this feeling of being occupied by you, of having my entire life ...'Yes,' she says, 'you have, it does,' unsure what questions she's answering. 'I want you, please come home and englishman me, please...'"
American Violet -- Chapter 5 - by Patricio (02/25/04)
"The morning after he colors her hair, there's a note on his Web site, hidden under an image of coiled, silver chain. Violet buys ten metres of cheap, thin silver chain, and several small padlocks. And a quantity of baby oil."
American Violet -- Chapter 6 - by Patricio (04/14/04)
"There is no whip, no, only his machinery, and his words. But there is her scream. It's a glorious scream. His hands shake at her cunt, so great is the volume and intensity. Her body prickles with pleasure. Is it perhaps her own voice that will bring her to climax?"
American Violet -- Chapter 7 - by Patricio (05/26/04)
"He has collected together her sharp knives. He lays them on her body, the two sharpest up between her breasts, the others in a pattern on her belly."
American Violet -- Chapter 8 - by Patricio (06/30/04)
"This is what he asks for, in his first email from England. I miss you. Send me a picture of your cunt each day. With a single word to describe her."
American Violet -- Chapter 9 - by Patricio (08/04/04)
"The pictures of her cunt she sends him become more extravagant. She tugs and pulls her labia into strange formations -- deformations -- and he sends her one-word emails in reply."
American Violet -- Chapter 10 - by Patricio (08/04/04)
"He's transformed all the pictures of her in Photoshop or something into two-tones: violet and white. She stares at images of herself, naked, blind, dangling. She writes to him. Every moment of the day I've been reliving those moments. Don't make me want this. Please do it to me again. Violet.
American Violet -- Chapter 11 - by Patricio (10/13/04)
"Something has changed. Violet dreams of her own torture and delight in the sound-proof room and believes her dreams are memories -- and hopes."
American Violet -- Chapter 12 - by Patricio (11/24/04)
"He's a thief, that's why. He wants to steal in like a thief, because he's trying to steal her reason. He's rigged up new spotlights, in the soundproof room."
American Violet -- Chapter 13 (the end) - by Patricio (12/22/04)
"The days of Christmas have jumbled into a delirium. Violet has heard tell of the twelve comers, coming. Now she hangs by her cuffed wrists, nude, blind, in the cellar, and endures the seven clothes-pins pinching. Or was it nine?"
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