20 March 2009

Chained to the bed, a real story

Lying on an old bed made of iron, Elaine was almost in tears, on the verge of screaming, in despair. She and her partner-to-be, Clocou, were in a typical cheap tiny bedroom in a motel in São Paulo city. Different from The United States, motels, usually situated next to the motorways, are used by lovers who rent a bedrom for four hours to "have fun". Red cotton sheets, mirrors on the roof and on three walls, smell of eucalyptus coming from the sauna in the bathroom, clothes everywhere, a dim red light next to the double sized bed. Suddenly Elaine shouted after looking her reflection in the mirror on the roof, as if she had woken up and smelt the coffee. That was reality, not a fantasie. She hadn´t any control of the situation. Just her short boyfriend. Fantasies have a price as everything in life! Elaine should now that. Anyway, he (now ex-partner to be) was smilling to her. She had had a phantasy in which her partner chained her to the "love bed" due to the fact that she wanted to be controlled by him. After telling him, a month ago, he accepted gladly the challenge buying the chains and making her fantasies come true. So, after listening to her shout, he was puzzled. "What had happened?" he thought, "It was her wish!". Nevertheless, when Elaine got chained, she thought that he would take her and the bed to the river and throw them there. "How, on earth, could you imagine that a 5,09 ft man could remove you and the double-sized bed to a river using a motorbike?" I asked Elaine, this week, when she told me. In fact, she really imagined, at that time, that he could do that. Maybe, Freud or Lacan´s theories could explain "her imagination".I have already read that we have phantasies as a play of a imagination.Besides, we don´t want to make true all our phantasies.Anyway, fantasies are good for our imagination, when we write, when we create anything we want.However, we should be careful to make them true.

8 comments:

Midlife, menopause, mistakes and random stuff... said...

You are a gifted writer and have a very poetic way with words my friend :)

Steady On
Reggie Girl

The lady in Red said...

Thanks Reggie, as I wrote it is a true "tragic" psicotic story but I tried to write it in a funny way.

Best wishes,
Rosana

Dave King said...

I thought I'd commented on this, but seems I must have done something wrong. I like the story, it's pace and style. They carry it forward admirably.

The lady in Red said...

Thanks, Dave.

Tom Atkins said...

Tales with a moral, and well written to boot, are a rarity. Well done!

The lady in Red said...

Thanks, Tom!

KIM-QOAS said...

A good story with a great lesson:-)

The lady in Red said...

Thanks KIM