Music, Inspiration, Song Story
Song Story for Wife Imprisonment
The Inspiration behind my series about a woman kept in a cage
My latest series on the fabulous publication, Redemption Magazine, has received quite a lot of love. Which has made me happy as it is very transgressive. Even brutal in places. But I am a believer that stories should be told and don’t have to have happy endings or be all sweetness and light. Although, I do like a bit of romance now and then :-)
The plot tells what happens when a guy decides his woman has stepped out of line once too often. So he builds a cage and then locks her in there for an undefinable length of time. She loses track of the weeks that pass by and her mindset undergoes many changes along the way. The main tag for the story is: Stockholm Syndrome.
Stockholm syndrome is an emotional response. It happens to some abuse and hostage victims when they have positive feelings toward an abuser or captor. WebMD
You can find part one here.
When I think about all my fiction, I truly feel it stands up as a good piece of work. Better than The Curse, which is now on ebook.
But… It is a tricky little series. Full of domestic abuse, non-consent, cheating and violence. It does contain many content warnings along the way. Come on, it is about a woman in a cage! But it is also erotic with a well choreographed plot.
I would like to tell you what inspired me to write about a woman who has been imprisoned in a cage.
The Inspiration
I have a weird and wonderful brother-in-law. I wrote a little about him here — or rather, mentioned he used to have his own dungeon.
Both he and my partner are very creative musically and have been in bands together in yesteryear. And my brother-in-law writes the kind of songs that I love but are just that little out there — so never destined to be well known.
Anyhow, a few years ago I went to see him play in Glasgow and he sang this song of his. As soon as I heard it, I knew it had to be a story.
Woman in a Cage — The Song
Written and sung by my brother-in-law…
In my back room below the stairs
Where no one goes and no one cares
I share my pain, I vent my rage
And when I sleep I keep my woman in a cage.
In my back room
I get dressed up like Doris Day
And when it’s time
I climb aboard the Deadwood stage(whip crack-away)
My woman in a cage
You’ll never see a menage like this
on a problem page
It’s just a fantasy
My real life agony Aunt might beg to disagree
Except of course she can’t…
In my back room I make the rules
I make her scream
Until she drools
We’re not in love
She’s on a wage
(I’m twice her size. She’s half my age)
It works for her
It works for me
I keep my woman in a cage
In my back room…
The song is very entertaining and amusing. My story less so… I took the general idea of a woman in a cage and added a few realistic characters. Who, to be honest, deserve each other.
Out of all of that came — Wife Imprisonment.
The final episode will be out on the 28th Feb 2022. But when ever you are reading this — all the series will be found on the page you get to from the link below:
Another Song Story by me
And one by Marie A. Rebelle
