THE BONDED SERVANT
Chapter 8: My Descent Into Hell
Perhaps you don't see it coming or argue with friends that "it can't happen here." But darker things have occurred in history. Freedoms fall away and hatred and bigotries rise. This story, inspired by Thomas Lodge's excellent The Attendant series, brings us to the year 2030 when very religious extremists have taken over the government and courts of many states. In many ways, America is becoming like many other countries in the world where being gay is a sin and even a crime.
Today, just days before my 21
st
birthday and the threat of lifetime enslavement by my former family, it seems I have two jobs. One will be this morning at 8 and the second later in the afternoon. My father, who I no longer can call my father, will pick me up at one after I have served lunch and take me to the second job, collecting my wages which will be taken from me and put into James' college fund. He is pretty elated, renting me out double in one day. Pretty sick, my suffering will underwrite the brother whose life I saved.
It seems that "Job" for bonded servants is a euphemism in our town for being pimped out to horny men who are thrilled to have an obedient subhuman pink triangle faggot to do with what they want. I have been introduced to whips and handcuffs, electric shock nipple clamps and objects I do not even know rammed up my butt - which the men tend to call my pussy. All this somehow continues below the radar in this Bible-thumping city.
How did this happen? I wanted to protect my kid brother from being enslaved as a dangerous pervert, for in our state, homosexuality is punishable by prison or, if you are "lucky," someone will take you in as a bonded servant. I know that years ago, slavery was abolished and homosexuality was no longer punishable with prison, but that now seems long ago, a brief moment when the world seemed to be more civilized. Our state has brought us back to a time of religious zealotry when gay was worse than murder.
In my case, my father made me his bonded servant, which kept me out of prison, and now I serve him and my tuned-out mother as well as my sadistic kid brother who uses me as a cum dump. I loved him and protected him - that's why I am enslaved rather than my brother who is the gay one in the family - and yet it seems he always resented me, even hated me. I still cannot believe that, but after he pissed in my mouth and eyes, laughing the whole time, and made me crawl behind him like an animal, any connection I imagined we still had evaporated. That truly broke my heart as I am completely abandoned in the world.
My now former father thinks that I clean and scrub and do laundry in people's houses when, in fact, he is unknowingly pimping me out to perverts. Or. maybe it is not so unknowing anymore. But could a father really subject his flesh and blood to such humiliating suffering?
I am six feet, a once upon a time college stud who now spends his days being sprayed with cum and piss. Yes, our morally upright, church loving, patriotic town brands gay men with the pink triangle of shame and a transmitter locator embedded in their arms. I guess in the minds of our good citizens, if you turn your cheek the other way and don't look, fucking and sexually abusing a gay bonded servant does not count as homosexuality. If you tried this abusive crap on a woman, you would be hauled off to prison, if not lynched. But we who are branded are no longer seen as human, so anything goes for these God-fearing people! Try to make sense of that one.
That is my life, even though I must be the straightest bonded servant in town. But it will soon be over. I am turning 21 when I either agree to be a bonded servant for life - a euphemism for slavery -or get thrown into the street to be arrested for vagrancy and indecency. I have decided to take a third path, one of my own choosing. I will be brave and strong enough to end the hell into which I have been tossed.
In the back seat of the car (I am not allowed in front or to drive as that would infer that I am a real man), listening as always to my former father's invective, my brain is dulled. His words no longer bother me, they flow over and are gone. I have heard him describe me with hatred for months and his words mean nothing since my ego and sense of self have long vanished.
We arrive at a building site with hard hat laborers hauling material into an unfinished building. My father checks the address, confirming that I really was hired to work at a construction site. He sticks his head out the window and yells out to the man who seems to be in charge: "I am here to deliver your bonded servant, where is he supposed to work?"