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“The Secretary” by Mary Gaitskill

I’m sure a lot of you have seen the movie “The Secretary,” featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal as Lee Holloway, the sexually submissive secretary of sado-masochistic attorney, E. Edward Grey, who is played by James Spader.

But, you may have not read the short story, which the movie is based off of, and that’s okay, but you might be missing out.

Unlike the move, it’s definitely not a romantic comedy “quirked up” with BDSM.

http://www.nerve.com/fiction/gaitskill/secretary/index.asp?page=1

“This kind of thing kept occurring all week. Each time, the lawyer’s irritation and disbelief mounted. In addition, I sensed something else growing in him, an intimate tendril creeping from one of his darker areas, nursed on the feeling that he had discovered something about me.”