I do love epistolary novels, so I thought I would try my hand at a little one. A newly wed writing to her best friend from her…unexpected? honeymoon, circa the 1960s.

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Dear Jane,

I don’t even know how to write this, but this honeymoon hasn’t been at all what I expected! James is great, don’t get me wrong, I’m so glad to finally be married but we got to our hotel and I was stressed from the train ride, and he totally over-reacted. I told him I just wanted to relax for a bit before we headed for our dinner reservation. He told me now that we were married he wasn’t going to “abide an attitude”! That’s what he said! I asked just what he meant by that and he sat down on the dressing chair and pulled me over his knee and spanked me. I shouted at him that I was going to call my father and he said daddy told him to. Before the wedding.

I was so embarrassed. I hid in the bathroom until it was time to go to dinner and on our way downstairs to the dining room he wouldn’t stop patting my bottom. I hope it never happens again but Jessie, what if it does?

Yours,

Helen

It’s a fair question though, don’t you think? What if it happens again?

-M