The Norwegian

Ongoing

12 Chapters53,281 words219 min read

4.8 (71)4.8 out of 5 stars from 71 ratings

Slave Narrative Master & Slave Non-Con Slave Auction Pony Play Conditioning

A love story told by the dog. A seaman sold for a crime he won't call small, grateful to the master who ruins him. Every cruelty arrives pre-forgiven.

Chapters

Stand and Display

2,595 words11 min read4.54.5 out of 5 stars from 15 ratings

Nine men, hosed and oiled along the auction rail before first light. The Norwegian has worn his collar nine days, and has already decided it is a thing he earned.

Beauvert

3,441 words14 min read4.74.7 out of 5 stars from 9 ratings

He is given a name on the road north, the way a dog is taught a sound to come to. At Beauvert they take what is left, and the man in the harness ahead of him meets his eyes.

What Is Required

4,275 words18 min read4.94.9 out of 5 stars from 11 ratings

Every new slave at Beauvert is caned on his first night. Not as punishment, there is nothing yet to punish. The bench goes out while he is under the razor.

The Discerning Eye

3,385 words14 min read4.74.7 out of 5 stars from 6 ratings

The Master comes down to look over his ponies. Thirty bulls go still at his nearness, washed and oiled in the early cold, waiting to see which of them is chosen.

The Answering

4,021 words17 min read4.84.8 out of 5 stars from 4 ratings

Boyd makes slaves the way a joiner works green wood, by knowing where a man will split. He has a season to take the Norwegian's own say-so off him.

The Finding Out

6,722 words27 min read4.84.8 out of 5 stars from 5 ratings

A body can be taught to open on a word, on the beat, in a row of twelve. The man teaching it keeps his head up and goes on talking about the mill.

The Coming Back

5,311 words22 min read4.94.9 out of 5 stars from 8 ratings

The schooling was never a thing with an end. Boyd comes back on his own interval, and there is a boy in the box that night who has just found out what he is.

The ShaftsBack the work →

3,702 words15 min read

A free man's whole weight rides down the traces into his chest and the road goes by under him. Nobody in the street turns to look. A cart is not worth looking at.

His Own HourBack the work →

5,182 words21 min read

The word comes at the end of an ordinary day. He is washed twice and shaved and made ready, and he goes up the back stair happy.

#10

The Matched PairBack the work →

5,381 words22 min read

A closed van comes up the drive and two boys of nineteen come out of it, matched to a hair. The stable knows what that means before the doors open.

#11

Sound StockBack the work →

3,768 words16 min read

They send Jack out to be bred from, and he comes back on a cart in the evening and lies down. What is wrong with him has no name in that place.

#12

The RowsBack the work →

5,498 words22 min read

Two thousand men working in silence behind a belt of trees, and the wind is all a visitor hears. He had run past those rows for years without once looking in.