Oh man, you guys, did I ever have fun with this one. As a reminder, the prompt for this story was for the Teaching Her A Lesson universe. If you have not read it, it's free to read here, with art and expansion material in its own collection.
specifically that Mr. Canon crashes for a weekend at Isa and Candy's house, with other characters popping in for shenanigans. If there's a regret I have about that series, other than math jokes, it would for sure be that I didn't spend enough time playing around with Isa and Candy. It's a sort of medium dark tale, with happy chatty Cassie on one end, manipulative sociopath Taylor Stern on the darker end, and what she did to Isa and Candy defining the farthest reaches of that darkness.
So this story centers Isa as our protagonist, and... boy howdy. It's got fun, it's got degradation kinks for days, it's got squabbles, heart, all of it. I honestly picked the title because I thought it would be the name that would piss her off and thus turn her on the most.
It is also (wait for it) a Maybe Part One! No spoilers (I guess apart from that), but as I was nearing 20k words with a LOT more to say and do and June quickly passing me by, I remembered... oh yeah, we get to do this every month! So, if you come to the end and feel like you want to see it keep going, don't worry -- I'll be putting "Stephy's Hole Part 2" on the July nomination list myself. Because I already have the story going and an outline in place, I won't take any more specific nominations than that for it (though feel free to theorycraft), but I felt like this was enough for a good start and a satisfying installment.
Also note that [tomorrow once I've rested] since this is a significant piece set in the THAL universe, this will be added to the Ice Bear Library and the Teaching Her A Lesson collections, too.
If the voters will it... more to come.