I took another sip of coffee and instantly

I took another sip of coffee and instantly regretted it. My pits were soaked through already. I needed food but there was none around. Okay. Just remember the three basic points.

“Talkin’ out of turn? That’s a paddlin’. Lookin’ out the window? That’s a paddlin’. Starin’ at my teacher's sandals? That’s a paddlin’."

He stared into space, remembering that painful time.His therapist waited, encouraging catharsis. The paddling, the abuse, the subsequent fantasies about teachers...very disturbing.

"You need to get over this," his therapist said at last. "Go to a school tomorrow and see if you can talk to a teacher without bursting into tears or asking them to spank you." He

'd played too many anime visual novels and was titillated by school. Dialogue options flanked his vision. He chose: "Yo, shrink, you don't make me shrink." Wrong choice, W-R-O-N-G.

After a sharp intake of breath the shrink declared, "I have a diploma from the University of Needles in Peanut Studies. I am over-qualified to address your school-based neuroses

, but I'll give you a bit of free advice: Stay out of the teacher's lounge. Things 'happen' in there that no one should ever discover." The shrink's patient whimpered & nodded. "I

got a lot to say to you about this teacher's lounge. Why it's a travesty. Almost beautiful in its sinister unwholesomeness. It's-" The shrink stopped. The patient slumped over.

At first he wasn't sure what the man was up to; his face was contorted by pain, maybe fear, and his eyes were fixed on a spot above the shrink's left shoulder. Turning around, he