Room Three: The Doctor Submits

by Jane Martin

They come to the Institute willingly. They sign the contract. They ask for the rules to be taken away. And then they come to me.

I bind them. Strip away the layers. And leave them exposed, helpless, aching, ready to discover who they really are.

She is a psychiatrist. Calm. Controlled. Trained to read others, to unearth secrets without ever revealing her own. She’s spent her life behind a clinical mask, analyzing every emotion... except her own. But in Room Three, she's about to learn that the mask can blind as well as conceal, and that sometimes submission is the only way to feel free.

Room The Doctor Submits is a high-heat, 5800-word short story featuring consensual power exchange, restraint, and obedience. Intended for mature audiences only.

22 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 30, 2025

About the author

Jane Martin is the pen-name of a playwright speculated to be former Actors Theatre of Louisville artistic director Jon Jory. Jon Jory, Martin's spokesperson, denies being Jane Martin but has directed the premieres of Martin's shows.

Martin has traditionally been billed as a Kentucky playwright. While speculation about her identity centers around Jory, other theories have cited former Actors Theatre of Louisville Executive Director Alexander Speer, former Actors Theatre Literary Manager Michael Bigelow Dixon, and former intern Kyle John Schmidt.

Jane Martin's key credits include Anton in Show Business, Back Story, Coup, Cementville, Criminal Hearts, Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage, Vital Signs, and Talking With... Martin's Keely and Du won the 1994 American Theater Critics Association New Play Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.