Now this one is awkward. I think she has misunderstood the intention of the 'real life' category as this is a spanking story contest and surely the category in which the story is entered has to reflect the core interest?

However that said, it's a nicely written account of the kind of 'bratty' bad temper that should justly lead to a damn good spanking and as such I can't fault the style. The build up was 90% of the story and the spanking over jeans almost an afterthought to qualify it for the contest.

I think it would have been better for the author to have chosen a different category..maybe the 1000 words…for she has enough background to build up a good 'head of steam' to justify the spanking…then let rip with a good spanking scenario in the middle which would really have been a good scenario with the right balance.  Well written but, I feel, badly assigned to category.

I suppose that really tight bluejeans, if they prevented the spankee's buttocks from bouncing in response to swats from a hairbrush, might intensify a paddling in that manner. Normally denim is a considerable insulator though, meaning that bare-bottom whacks would hurt a lot more than those applied to the seat of jeans–my experience anyway.

This story left me wondering which party actually deserved the spanking more, the woman for being short-tempered under stress or the man for failing to wake her up on time as she'd asked (and presumably trusted) him to do. His supposed semantical defense of his negligence didn't impress me since "make sure you were up" means "wake you up if you weren't already up on your own," which the guy failed to do.

However, the domestic disciplinary relationship shown here is clearly one-way M/F, as demonstrated by the man calling his partner "young lady" when he was annoyed by her attitude, so that explains why the woman would be on the receiving end of the punishment when there was shared responsibility for their conflict–even if the man actually seemed to have committed the more serious offense in contributing to it.

On the technical side, there's occasional shifting between past and present tense in this story (as early as the first two sentences) which to me throws off the narrative flow a bit. Finally if the spanking part of the story is a fantasy, then I'm uncertain about describing it as "Real Life" in terms of category since in this Contest the spanking aspect is obviously quite important. I can think of plenty of RL situations in which a spanking could've reasonably occurred although it actually didn't, but if I add the unrealized potential spanking to the narrative is it still a RL account? Strictly speaking, I'd say it's not.

Otherwise this is a pretty standard and straightforward spanking story, the first-person insight into the female narrator's thoughts and feelings is its strong point…

This story made me giggle a bit as I have been in that position of the "oh crud I am dead meat because of and fill in the blank" myself on more then a few occasions.I do agree with the author getting spanked with any wooden implement hurts more when your wearing a pair of jeans. The spanker seems to spank a bit harder and the sting seems to last longer for some reason.

The story was well written in my opinion and I often take things that happened in real life in some way and build them into a story so for me that did not deduct from the story the fact that an actual spanking did not happen. I do think I would have liked to know if she made it to the interview on time or not. But I think that is just a quirk with me perhaps

Somebody got out of bed grumpy.  Not a lot of the sensuous details that I like, except for mention of how tight jeans were at the end.  Feels true to life, and might be an interesting lead to a longer, fuller piece.