Ken was down. He’d just been dumped again…

At least Kate had let him down gently. She’d told him it wasn’t his fault, she’d been uncertain of some things, only recently working out she was actually into women, not men, after all.

Ken managed to talk her into coming round for a goodbye drink, just to show there was no hard feelings; he quite understood, he said.

It was only as Kate started to feel very sleepy that she realised she’d been drugged…

Kate had sensations of movement, then someone, probably Ken, undressing her. Then, she felt a sudden, cold pressure around her, then a burst of heat down her back. Something was also pushed into her mouth, then there was a click…

She then felt herself being hauled into the air…

Consciousness gradually returned.

That was when the terror started…

She was gently swinging about six feet up in the air. From what she could see around her she was in some abandoned building of some kind. Also, it was cold. Really cold.

She tried to move but just seemed to start herself swinging more. Then, as she gently spun, something else came into vision.

It was another woman, naked and unconscious. She was hanging, from a chain, in some kind of cage…

Kate was suddenly wide awake, and frantically struggling, mewling into her gag. This woke the other woman…

The two women moaned at each other, completely helpless.

Kate wet herself in shock; she heard the urine splashing on the floor, and realised that she was naked, too, and sealed in a cage like the other woman.

With horror, she saw that they were not alone. Others were hanging there as well. There was six women in all…

Every time a girl dumped him, Ken would drug them, seal them in a metal gibbet with only their mouth accessible for food and drink via a lockable flap with a gag on it.

They were then suspended from a bar running the length of the abandoned warehouse.

At that point, Ken walked in and looked up at them.

“Having fun meeting your new friends, Kate?”, he asked. “Be nice. You’re going to be here for a long time…”

Ken stood on a platform hoist and raised himself level with one of the other women. Unlocking her gag, he started feeding her with a squeezy bottle.

“Please…” the woman whimpered. “Let me die or let me go. Don’t keep me like this…!”

“Come on, Alice”, Ken said, “You know I can’t do that. I love you. All of you.”

Ken started to swing Alice’s gag back into place.

“No, please…!”, she said, but it was no use. Her gag was locked, and Ken moved himself onto the next woman.

He fed them all except Kate, stopping at Josie next to her.

“You’re too new, Kate”, he said. “You don’t need a feed yet. After all, those Gibbets are a set size. Wouldn’t want you to get crushed, would we?”

All six women moaned into their gags as Ken lowered himself back down and packed the platform away.

He left. The only sound then was the quiet creak of the chains and the faint moaning…

Kate lost all track of time. There was a window in the roof of the warehouse, but it was painted over, so it only gave a very subtle difference between day and night. She could just about see her fellow prisoners in the gloom, but she sort of didn’t want to; every time a ray of light flashed off of Josie’s cage it reminded her of the awful situation she was in.

Suddenly, one of the moans changed to a sort of staccato wail…

Alice had snapped.

She had been hanging there the longest, almost a year. Her muscles had atrophied so much she could move around more in her cage, and she’d managed to get the gag out of her mouth.

She cried, she raged, she screamed. Then she went limp…

She’d gone completely catatonic, unable to take any more.

A few days later, on Ken’s next visit, he found her.

He cried and wailed, hugging her cage.

“Alice… my poor baby…!”

He undid the gag and managed to kiss her through the hole.

He then lowered her cage to the ground. Sadly, he gave her an injection. He then hauled the cage to a hatch at the far end of the warehouse. Opening the hatch, he pushed the cage through the hatch. There was a splash…

“Alice, you will be missed…”, Ken said. “At least you won’t have felt anything. The injection stopped your heart first. I do care about you, after all.”

“All of you”, he said, looking up at the others. “I had to do that. Once those cages are shut, they can’t be opened again. You’re in them for life. I couldn’t have had Alice turning up at a hospital in her cage. I loved her too much for that to happen to her…”

All the women, including Kate, were shaking and wailing after hearing the cages were permanent. Ken had real problems feeding them, that day…

Sadly, he left, still mourning Alice. Kate screamed silently into her gag…