Saturday 28 March 2020

Sunday 1 March 2020

The Promotion (a short story outline)

Not sure if I'll ever get round to making this into a comic book story, but I have a number of short stories which shed light on certain aspects of life in Amazonia after the revolution (for those who are interested) This is one of the first ideas I had many years ago and after a couple of recent conversations with other Amazons, just felt like mapping it out...so here goes..
In the Amazon Nation, after the revolution, a civilian society runs in parallel to the Amazon society. The structure of this civilian society is similar to what we know today in the west, except laws and rules are skewed in favour of females. For example; there is a policy for ensuring that most businesses are owned or run by females. As you can imagine with the male dominance of the previous regime, this is a long and gradual process. Companies are monitored for their HR activities and given quotas for female promotion. There are severe punishments for those companies that fail to meet their targets.
Anyway, the story is about Anna a young graduate from an elite female only university. Anna is also a part time Amazon soldier (as most young women are in Amazonia) and serves with a reserve unit. She has been working at a merchant bank for just over a year and is selected for promotion. Nothing too unusual about that in this new climate, except this puts her in conflict with male colleague and team leader - Greg. Greg has been with the bank for 5 years and is furious that he has been passed over in this way, despite his greater experience and length of service and despite being fully aware of the Amazon government policy to promote females. Anna's promotion is announced at a department meeting, in front of everyone. The humiliation for Greg (who was widely expected to get the role) is intense. Anna beams as colleague after colleague rushes over to congratulate her. Anna has gone from being one of Greg's underlings, to being his boss with immediate effect.
Greg struggles to hide his feelings and cannot bring himself to congratulate Anna, or even speak to her. He storms back to his desk red-faced. Anna wastes no time in assuming her new role. Having attended an Amazon education facility and been through basic Amazon training, she has no difficulty becoming all at once confident and authoritative. She calls her first cell meeting as the new boss. She is a super smart, intelligent woman and she has many ideas about improvements she wishes to make.
Although Anna's promotion, on the surface is received well by most of the team, Anna can sense that not everyone thinks it was a good or fair move, especially of course Greg, who reluctantly attended the meeting after several requests and sat at the back of the room arms folded, looking down. Anna knows only too well that Greg is going to be a major obstacle to her success in this role. She never really had much respect for him or his management style previously, but some in the team (mostly men) were loyal to Greg and now it seemed obvious that he was going to try and make life very difficult for Anna in future. As the meeting ended and everyone left the meeting room, Anna turned to the window and pondered the situation. Tapping her pen gently against her lips she decided on a plan of action to nip this problem in the bud.
Later that evening Greg is at home alone and just getting ready to turn in early for the night after the emotionally draining day, when there is a knock at the door - Who on earth can it be at this time of night? Greg, perplexed makes his way to the front door and opens it abruptly - half in annoyance. To his surprise, there stands Anna wearing a beige coloured raincoat and black leather boots. He looks her up and down.
"Anna - what are you doing here"? he exclaims
"I think we need to have a little chat don't you"? Anna replies
"Ok, come in" Greg nervously beckons her in.
As he walks down the hallway, his heartbeat quickens as he gets a strange sense of foreboding. With Anna a few paces behind him, his mind is spinning - what is she doing here - has she come to apologise or make peace or what??? Little did Greg know, nothing could have been further from Anna's mind. In the open plan kitchen area of Greg's apartment, he turns to face her.
"So why are you here"?
"I know you are pissed off about not getting the promotion" Anna starts.
Greg relaxes a little, as he senses a conciliatory tone and anticipates an olive branch of some sort.
"But you need to understand that they gave me the job because I am better than you" Blurts Anna, confidently
"What"? utters Greg taken aback by the sudden change in tone and outrageousness of the statement. He is so flustered that he struggles to form words.
"What....You...what"?
"That's right" Anna continued as she moved towards him. "I am your superior and the sooner you start to accept it, the better things will be for you" Although a couple of inches taller than Anna, the sporty, rugby playing Greg knew she was an Amazon reservist, together with the confidence with which she was approaching him, he could not help but feel intimidated.
"What the hell"? blurted Greg, still reeling from the audacity.
"You are not going to be a problem for me, do you understand"? Anna shouted aggressively as she fixed him with a steely gaze raising the temperature of the situation still further. Greg could feel goose-bumps start to form all over his body and his heart started to pound.
"How dare you come to my house.......Umphhh.? Greg started, but was cut off mid sentence by a leather clad fist slamming into the side of his face. He went down like the proverbial sack onto his own kitchen floor. Anna meanwhile calmly unbuckled the belt of her raincoat and started to unfasten the buttons as she looked down at her fallen prey. The coat swung open revealing that she was not fully clothed underneath, but had on a black one-piece swimsuit, typical of Amazon training attire; she was dressed for action. A dazed Greg looked up at her through the fingers of his hand holding the side of his face, he now understood what Anna was here for, and that he was in serious trouble. Anna then removed the coat completely and slung it hurriedly over a nearby couch, revealing her awesome physique. There she was, hands on hips in all her glory. The light bounced off her well toned shoulders and arms. Her long straight brown hair fell across her face slightly as she looked down at her hands to adjust her gloves, like a boxer preparing for a fight. She was an impressive sight to behold.
Anna had faced this kind of confrontation countless times before. Greg had never. He'd seen Amazons in action, arresting men in the street, but he'd always managed to avoid this kind of attention and had certainly never been on the receiving end, although that was about to change big time. Anna waited for Greg to get back to his feet, he was still in shock. With a flick of her hand she swept her hair out of her face and launched herself at Greg. Still groggy, he tried desperately to defend himself and even fight back, but even as he gradually regained his composure and his fight instinct kicked in, he was no match for Anna. She repeatedly and expertly overpowered his best efforts, wearing him down in pretty short order. What followed was an orgy of violence and humiliation, including all manner of choke holds, scissor holds and prolonged face-sits. An ordeal that altogether lasted over an hour.
By the end Greg was an exhausted, sobbing wreck, with his apartment trashed. The poor guy never had a chance. As she finished up, Anna stood over him and with undiminished fierceness warned him with pointed finger, that if he gave her any trouble at work she could always come back and do this again. Then she demanded that he report to her office at 9am the following Monday, or else. With that she put on her coat and left, slamming the door behind her.
None of the other passengers on the subway home could possibly know where Anna had been that night or what she had done, she was just a sexy young, smartly dressed lady, probably on her way back from work or a date. She smiled innocently at people getting on the carriage as if she wouldn't hurt a fly. Inside though she had an enormous sense of smug satisfaction at having put a senior male colleague firmly in his place. She slowly rubbed her knees together as she relived the best moments of her fight with Greg, she was still getting off on his humiliation. For her it wasn't quite enough to beat him in the work place, she knew she had to break him completely. She knew there was nothing Greg could do now except be an obedient employee and she felt on top of the world.

Anna's training and education had taught her to fear no man and to meet threats head on, needless to say, she never had any trouble from Greg...
The End
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