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Hi everyone. 

This is my second posting since my return, and I am in the middle 
of cleaning up my website links. Several sites seem to have 
vanished or won't connect anymore. If anyone can give me the 
latest listings for Tom Bombadil, Shelby Bush, The Asian Sex 
Stories Archive, Agincourt's Star Trek Page, Anne018, Brother 
Cadfael, and Cyntil8 I would appreciate it.

Again, I am surprised at the sheer numbers of stories that are 
being daily to ASS and ASSM. I am discouraged too, as many seem 
to be multi-chapter epics that are only so-so, which is not good 
news for a reviewer with a limited amount of time and patience. 
Whatever happened to short stories?

There is also a new reviewer on the scene, Rogue Reviews, which 
gives a terse recap of the story and a summary, along with links 
and a grade. Helpful if you want the nitty gritty without all the 
sarcastic sneers and witticisms I put into the act. This person also 
doesn't seem to go into detail about their supposed personal life, 
which is nice. I may begin posting links--on my web site only--
in the future, but keep in mind these are only for ASSM stories, 
and half of what I pick comes from other newsgroups. Speaking 
of which:

ASS = alt.sex.stories
ASSM = alt.sex.stories.moderated
ASSB = alt.sex.stories.bondage 
ASSG = alt.sex.stories.gay
ASSGM = alt.sex.stories.gay.moderated
SSS = soc.sexuality.spanking
SSBB = soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm
ASCEM = alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated

The stories:

Quest, by Marc Tremaine (M/M dark fantasy)
Douglas and Penelope, by Gordie D (M/F rom, incest)
Serpentina, by Anonymous (F pedo, incest, bestiality)
Chapter 4: Bound for Good, JR Gord (M/F hogtie, tickling)
The Dancer, by OscarPaco (M/F, oral, erotic dancing)
The Darkness in Exactly Nowhere, Iowa, by Oscar Paco (M/M/F 
rom threesome)


Quest [A+]
Where posted: ASSGM
When posted: 8/3/98
Author: Marc Tremaine
Address: tremaine@mindspring.com

This story contained the most poetically described male sex I've 
seen since Davis Trell's work, and there was a lot of it. Two 
knights on a quest to kill dragons meet in the backwater inn of a 
decaying empire. One is old, experienced; the other young and 
idealistic. The two men share a strange attraction/repulsion 
toward each other, which is complicated by the secrets they hide. 
They wind up in bed, and there's fucking, sucking, a semi-rape, 
and rimming. I wonder if the author was trying to make some 
point about the anonymity of gay (male) sex, because though the 
characters have physical sex readily enough, they were unable 
to connect on an emotionally intimate level, even though they 
wanted to. There's a reason for that, given later in the story; but I 
couldn't help taking it as symbolic.


Douglas and Penelope [A]
Where posted: ASSM
When posted: 8/5/98
Author: Gordon D
Address: GordonD103@aol.com

Told in alternating male/female viewpoints, this story chronicles 
the romance and sexual awakening of the titular couple, who 
meet at Oxford and marry. She's a virgin and he's experienced, 
having done it with his Aunt Joan (!) before, along with scads of 
"needy" girls who throw themselves at college athletes. But she's 
different. He respects her. The two have sex on their wedding 
night, she thinking naive virgin thoughts about teaching him a 
thing or two (fueled by a copy of "The Joy of Sex") while he 
intends on instructing *her.* 

The story was nicely done, though it really didn't say anything 
new. I found myself wanting to hear more about Doug and Aunt 
Joan. Now there's a story.


Serpentina [C]
Where posted: ASSM
When posted: 7/30/98
Author: Anonymous
Address: Unknown

This story may get the 1998 Cyrrheal Award for most weird, or 
maybe for most dumb. I wonder if the author was on drugs when 
he or she wrote it. A five-year-old girl is given an albino python 
as a birthday present and names her Serpentina. She bathes with 
the reptile, and there's long, loving descriptions of what happens 
when the snake explores her genitals and eventually her uterus, 
where it emerges from a tear in the organ and takes a road trip 
around her intestines. This is just too bizarre, as A. The snake is 
described as being as long as the girl, say three feet; and B. A tear 
in your uterus, or any kind of internal bleeding from your 
uterus, hurts like bloody hell. I know, because it happened to me. 
The rest of the story consists of variations on this theme, with 
Mom and Dad eventually joining in with Li'l Sis, and the snake 
eventually exiting from the narrator's mouth while its tail still 
protrudes from her twat.

The story was repetitive, boring, and I lost interest in it very 
quickly; my guess is that unless you really dig snakes 
penetrating little girls, you will too.


Bound for Good [A+]
Where posted: ASSB
When posted: 7/26/98
Author: JR Gord
Address: dave@dsmags.demon.co.uk
Publisher's address: http://www.silvermoonbooks.com

In this story--which seems to be a novel excerpt from a 
legitimate publisher rather than a story composed expressly for 
the net--a model poses for a writer to get him in the mood for 
producing erotic fiction. Said posing consists of her being 
hogtied in white cotton rope and suspended over dozens of 
tickling ostrich plumes, which gets her goin' like a geyser:

"In glorious Technicolor he saw the intimate close-up of her
jewel like nipples straining against encasing rope, her breasts 
bulging and flexing within the network of confining cords criss-crossing 
her chest. A second later he would be privileged with the 
unforgettable image of her tight clenching roped thighs pumping madly and 
squeezing those delicious smooth, perfectly formed love lips, squeezing the 
drops of love juice from those demanding mounds of pleasure; soaking 
the taut bisecting rope in a syrup of liquid arousal."

This was the best hogtie/tickling scenario I've read--not that I've 
come across that many--and though it had a certain blandness to 
it which is endemic to professionally published erotica, it was 
also very hot. This posting was one of about a dozen BDSM 
excerpts from Silvermoon Books, all of which were also well done.


Exactly Nowhere, Iowa [A]
The Dancer [B+]
Where posted: ASSB
When posted: 7/31/98
Author: Oscar Paco
Address: oscarpaco@aol.com

I picked these two stories at random and later saw they were 
written (or posted by) the same person. Having already read 
them, I decided to review them both.

"The Darkness in Exactly Nowhere" (posted as "Exactly Nowhere, 
Iowa") was an excellent stream-of-consciousness story about a 
threesome that may have been or never was between a married 
couple and a young man named Colin, who insinuates himself 
into their life by falling in love with the narrator's wife. Though 
the sex was well done, the emotions of the husband were given 
the emphasis. He even joins in at one point with a blowjob. Yay 
for him!

In "The Dancer," a young woman reflects on the experience that 
caused her to take up exotic dancing (a visit to a strip joint and a 
performance for her boyfriend). According to the author it's a 
sort of quasi-religious rite and not the sleazy, patently bottom-
line occupation it really is. I found this premise unbelievable, 
despite the fact the story was well written; the author also fell 
into the trap of overdescription, perhaps to hide the fact there 
wasn't much of a story there. The excess words wound up 
obfuscating (Hmmm, now there's a word, boys and girls, 
obfuscating) the story instead of enhancing it, and I never got a 
clear picture of exactly how unique the protagonist's style of 
exotic dancing was: 

"...where the others were made-up and painted and false, she 
moved inside her body with respect and awe, surprising even 
herself some nights; and classic where the other girls were 
sleazy, she never relied on thrusts and shakes when gesture and 
suggestion promised more than exposed.  Naturally rhythmic, her 
dances unfolded like mini-epics, simultaneously complex and 
straight forward, compact and complete in ways that only the 
religious understand." 

Okay, but did she shake her moneymaker or not? If you can 
understand exactly what she did by reading this, then you'll 
probably like the rest of the story.


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