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kerrsutherland
We can agree to disagree on that one. In every iteration that I've seen it, including a long time membership to the RR Google group, the hook of a Role Reversal story has to do with a shift in the power dynamic. In your story, a slave owner spanks their slave while the daughter is forced to watch. That's a linear power dynamic, not a reversed one. There might be some gray area if the daughter had been the one to report her mother for punishment, but in your story the daughter is still in the same position of power at the end as she was in the beginning; bottom of the totem pole.
For a thought experiment, let's re-reverse your story. The mother is forced by her slave owner to watch her daughter punished for the mother's crime.
Nothing changes. Same world, same dynamic. Not a reversed dynamic or role.
Well, from the perspective of the enslaved woman's teenage daughter (Sabrina), this story involved a 'role reversal' of sorts, since her mother (Cheryl) was the main authority figure (although originally a rather ineffectual one) to her. Surprisingly seeing Cheryl being so severely butt-blistered by her owner (Teri), who was none other than the girl's own teacher, like a naughty ten-year-old, that had to be stunning for her, who had known nothing about that owner-slave relationship.
Also in a sense, Sabrina was spanked by Teri for Cheryl's failure to bring her up properly, which led to her (Sabrina) cheating in her class. Cheryl clearly understood that Teri would hold her primarily accountable for her daughter's misconduct, and indeed the slave was punished first and far worse than the girl.
Then at the story's conclusion Cheryl was back in her maternal disciplinary position, and performing it much more strictly, so from Sabrina's point of view her mother's role had 'reversed back' at the account's end.
So to me there was a 'role reversal' and then a 'reverse back' in this story, albeit it was only in terms of the teenager's personal perspective on her mother's status... --C.K.