A princess and her maid conspire to create the bruised and sleepless effects of a pea in the bedding with the help of the maid's flogger. Contains sexual situations.
Originally published in Like a Thorn: An Anthology of BDSM Fairy Tales, ed. Cecilia Tan and Sarah Desautels.Cambridge, MA: Circlet Press, 2009. Also available in A Taste of Mercy (Rookery Creek Media, 2013.)