Some years ago I wrote a short series about the adventures of Lizzie Baines, a New York girl who marries a soldier on the eve of the Korean War and is transplanted to Louisiana to live with his family while he serves abroad. While there she has to deal with some very quaint and challenging Southern customs until her husband returns from war.
It was inspired by a very short missive I once read on this subject; its funny how such things can grow in the mind. Funnier still LSF have now published it as a novella and it is now available.
If you are interested the publishers blurb runs:
Lizzie is a young woman who is in love with George, a serviceman. After they are married, Lizzie finds herself living with George’s mother and sisters Marey and Janey. The discipline regime in the Baines household gives her a stunning realisation of how infractions are dealt with in this family as she watches Marey and Janey receiving a switching whilst bending over the couch. It isn’t long before Lizzie feels the impact of Ma’s hairbrush, and later a very stingy switch. Lizzie realises she is seriously enjoying watching the many spankings in the household – but when her husband returns home, it seems he has plans to discipline her himself. Spankings are just part of life in this household.
Available here.
