Explorations: Emily's Return to Smith's

That was when I heard Susan laugh for the first time. The sound was like quicksilver, and I did not want it to end. "You are sweet, aren't you? Yes, I definitely have the advantage of you, don't I--and that's without you even knowing what our custom is when we greet girls in your position!"

"Susan!" said Mrs. Smith. "That's simply cruel of you! Think of Emily's feelings." Now she was our governess, it seemed, helping us learn the most basic social graces. There was something delicious in being returned that way to my girlhood. "Mrs. Wilkes," Mrs. Smith continued, "Lady F--- (to whom you have not yet to be sure truly been introduced, which is the pert thing's own fault!) is referring to a naughty custom that the girls of the great drama have in greeting one another when one of them happens to be placed as you are placed. I don't think you would mind it so much, and it is not explicitly in contravention of any rule currently in effect over the two of you, so I am willing to permit it, but it would rather spoil Lady F----'s intentions if I were to tell you more, so I will ask you whether you are willing that Lady F---- should greet you as a sister of the drama."

I was of course afire now to know what this greeting was, and no less eager to be considered a sister of this noble personage. "I am willing, Mrs. Smith."

The 30th book of Explorations tells in parallel the stories of the middle of fantasy-Emily's night as a performance reward for three of her husband's junior colleagues and the much sweeter tale of Victorian Emily's return to the establishment of Mrs. Smith, trainer of submissive brides.

This book of Explorations contains fiction elaborating the following sorts of fantasy that you may wish to avoid: Mf, MMMf (no sex among the men), Ff, watersports, a**l, spanking. It's intended for over-18 audiences who, like me, are interested in exploring the lines between pleasure and pain, dominance and submission, and fantasy and reality. All characters depicted are consenting adults.

The Explorations series is a unique take on BDSM above all because of the strong individual voice of Emily Tilton herself, manifestly shaping the fantasy-elaborations of the series. Because Emily is interested in helping herself and others understand how BDSM can be lived within a mostly vanilla existence, the way most of us have to live it, Explorations has a unique element that Emily hopes will set it apart and make it useful: Emily has created a fantasy-version of herself (keeping to the tropes of the genre she knows so well, fantasy-Emily is an eighteen-year-old virginal bride with a self-abuse "problem"), whose fantasies and "realities" are the central subject of the stories of Explorations--but the real Emily also keeps her authorial, real voice in the margins, explaining and analyzing, and revealing from time to time the much more mundane, real version of the things Emily has transformed in the story of her fantasy-self. This doubling of the "I" in the first-person narrative of Explorations makes the series worth exploring all on its own. Come for the hot D/s, spanking, anal action. Stay for the exploration.