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Subject: The Annex Reviews 12/20/97
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Happy Holidays to everyone at the ending of the year! Time is 
short right now, so there will only be one more posting before I 
leave for a much-deserved vacation. I will resume posting after 
January 6th. As to where I'm going for that period, suffice to say 
that if anyone of you is visiting Disneyland on the weekend of 
the 27th of December, you may see me, Lady Cyrrh herself, 
fucking goofy with happiness. ** (Joke at end of reviews.)  


The Stories:

The Choice, Gambler (M/F fantasy)
Trade Show, Wolf Whistle (M/F pickup)
The New One, Tin Chadwick (M/M multi, ritual)
Janet in Training, Chapters 1 and 2, SFmaster (F/F BDSM)
The Palace, Akasha (F/m BDSM)

The Choice [A-/B+]
When posted: 12/9/97
Where posted: ASS, ASSM
Author: Gambler
Address: GAMBLER@UNCWIL.EDU

In this brief fantasy story, a man is enchanted by a sorceress 
who leads him through a dimensional portal for a few hours of 
passion. His mate follows, but the sorceress captures her and 
offers her a choice: either join in the shenanigans, or she will 
keep her boyfriend prisoner forever.

The story was too brief to get a good handle on; it could have 
easily been two and three times the length it was with more 
description of the sexual acts, as the atmospheric erotic buildup 
was promising.


Trade Show [A-]
When posted: 12/12/97
Where posted: ASS, ASSM
Author: Wolf Whistle
Address: zeist@aol.com

A man goes to a dentists' trade show. Feel frustrated by the lack of 
attractive dental hygienists, he goes back to his room to spend a 
lonely night. But in the elevator he meets the woman of his 
dreams, and they have hot sex. He wakes up alone, to find out...she 
was a ghost.

As a ghost story this wasn't very scary, but then, it wasn't meant 
to be...it was more like a comedy of errors told in a slightly 
offbeat style with some unusual elements (those schmoozing 
dentists) which made it different from the run of the mill out of 
town/one night stand story. Some of the metaphors, however, 
were more incorrect than offbeat.  "A different type of 
disturbance overtook me now, a raging passion that coursed 
through me like cheap Mexican food?" I don't know about you, 
but cheap Mexican food brings to mind other bodily reactions 
than sexual arousal. Then there was "I shot my cum inside of her, 
canon-blast after canon-blast." Was a Canon camera meant, 
perhaps? Or was it blasts of religious dogma?


The New One [A]
When posted: 12/12/97
Where posted: ASSG
Author: Tim Chadwick
Address: tchad@gte.net

On the world of the dark chrystal, underneath the light of the 
three moons, the gentle Urru practice the arts of healing while 
the decadent Skeksis emperor lays dying...no, sorry, wrong 
movie. Anyway, in this story a young man is initiated into the 
sacred rites of his people by an elder of his tribe, which involves 
shafts of light from magic chrystals, chakra-like aura reading, 
and ritual prayers...ending with a gangbang by the other 
members of the tribe. A sort of gay New Age Robert Bly myth of 
coming into manhood. This sort of story is always interesting 
even when it's amateurishly done (which this story wasn't, it was 
very smoothly written) and the author states it may grow into a 
longer work. I agree; there is definitely territory here to explore.


Janet in Training, Chapters 1 and 2 [A]
When posted: 12/14/97
Where posted: ASSB
Author: SFmaster
Address: sfmaster@worldnet.att.net

In these two chapters, which are the start of a BDSM novel that 
the author promises to post, Janet Davis enters the service of a 
charismatic mistress to experience erotic fulfillment. Like most 
charismatic mistresses, she has a mansion and a staff of slaves to 
clean it. (No doms live in hovels.) Janet discovers what being her 
slave entails when she's harnessed, gagged, and suspended in 
various configurations for a whipping, with the focus being on 
physical punishment rather than the sensual aspect of the 
lifestyle. 

The story was very readable, and more literate...if not as 
*literary*...than others of its type, and if you want to read some 
enjoyable BDSM without all the frou-frou, then this is it. I 
sneaked a peek at a later chapter, and the storyline eventually 
grows into a murder-mystery with eventual conflict between the 
doms and their subs. You see, there's good D/S, which is about 
mutual participation in power games, and bad D/S, which is about 
doms getting off by irresponsibly abusing those under their 
power...which eventually leads up to a showdown between the 
forces of good and evil which is not that much different than 
contemporary morality tales such as those found in genre 
fantasy novels. It made me wish the whole thing was a movie I 
could pop in my hungry little VCR.


The Palace [A+]
When posted: 12/1/97
Where posted: SSBB
Author: Akasha
Address: akasha@netcom.com

This was one of the most female-oriented BDSM stories I've read so 
far, and I enjoyed it immensely, with a big grin on my face. It 
was unusual in that it depicts a powerful, successful women 
domming young male fucktoys, a sort of role reversal combining 
the couch-dancing adult "gentlemen's clubs" of the 90s with the 
BDSM staple of a powerful, rich dom or domina that tops luscious, 
eagerly submissive young females. Except the subs are luscious, 
eagerly submissive young men.

The story's rationale is that in a near-future America women 
have become the new corporate and political leaders and they 
acquire a man's appetite for convenient, private--and 
*heterosexual*--sexual adventures as well. The Palace is one such 
club where these gals go to unwind. The young male hosts all 
wear different colored bracelets indicating how far on the BDSM 
scale they'll go, and they're for hire by the hour. The narrator is 
taken to the club by two friends as a lark, but she soon grows 
attached to it, relaxing there after work first with Race, then a 
young man named Maus who accepts the worst she can dish out. 
She begins to grow attached to him. But her feelings are dashed 
when she goes in one night and sees him with another, more 
successful woman who has hired him. The story ends with her 
feelings of hurt, with more to come later. 

The emotional D/S underpinnings of this story were similar to 
Torch's slash "Playboy series" that I reviewed a few weeks ago, 
save that this story bravely brought them into the open in a 
heterosexual relationship; the fig leaf of homosex was no where 
to be seen. No points were made or reasons offered for the 
behavior; just the attraction of surrender, pain accepted freely, 
and the thrills it brings to both parties...along with the 
tenderness that underlies even the most hardcore humiliations. 

The author sated that she often writes fragments of things and 
leaves them unfinished, which is too bad, because this is one of 
the most interesting stories I've seen this year. I suspect it taps 
into many women's private fantasies (many more than you'd 
think) and it's a shame to leave it go.


** One day Minnie Mouse calls up Daisy Duck. "Daisy," she says, 
"I'm going to have to break up with Mickey. I think he's gay."

"Why?" Daisy Duck says. "Mickey's a great guy...er, Mouse. He's 
straight as an arrow as long as I've known him. What makes you 
think he's gay?"

Minnie Mouse tells her.

"Wait a minute," Daisy says. "Just because you drop in on him 
unexpectedly and he acts a little silly doesn't mean he's gay."

"You don't understand," Minnie says. "I didn't say he was acting 
silly. I said I dropped in on him and he was *fucking Goofy.*"


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