To more fully enjoy this story in living, breathing HTML, please visit our website at: /~vivian Now offering over 140,000 words of pure prurience! -------------------------------------------------------- Jasmin (preface) by Vivian Darkbloom Gentle reader, supposing such a thing still exists: If you're eager to tear into the story, go. If you're worried about what you might find there, this preface might help. This story is a romance (more loosely defined than some might like) and a swashbuckling battle between right and wrong, with some hopefully entertaining scenery and good laughs on the way. You might also find that it causes you to engage mental faculties in unexpected modes. Sure, there is sex in this story, of varieties that will probably never find acceptance in a NYT bestselling novel (unless I'm reading the wrong bestsellers); but will hopefully satiate the hard-core stroke-seeking lurker, which is why it finds its home at asstr.org. It's my first effort at an extended, blatantly sexual story, in the science fiction genre. It's pretty typical pulp, quite frankly, with the usual cliche sort of gadgets and devices and so on one has become accustomed to encountering in such narrations. Well, along with my usual stuff -- older man has wet and wild sex with a nice young lesbian, couched between veiled allegorical social/political commentary and satire. If you were guessing that I seek to blur the line between literature and pornography, you would be right. At first, I put the all the codes in the heading of each part. But that's a little scary, and not really accurate. Some of the sections don't have any sex at all. The most extreme sexual activity flashes by so fast you almost might not even notice it. Plus, representing the summary of the story as a set of boxed-in categories doesn't really do it justice. On the other hand, it seems fair to warn readers of sexual activities they might hope (or fear) to encounter. So, here is a list of official asstr.org story codes: Mg(g) scifi rom oral anal ws On the other hand, the only serious complaint I've received so far in this venture was on account of political content. Hint: Jesus was a "liberal." If this idea squicks you, cease immediately. From everything. As for the rest of you, I truly do hope you enjoy reading it! ~~Vivian ____________________________________________________________ the story _______________________________________________________ For more stories, please visit our site: /~vivian