Message-ID: <531.repost$980813050114@qz.little-neck.ny.us> X-Archived-At: From: Subject: The Annex Reviews, 8/5/98 Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Path: qz!not-for-mail Organization: The Committee To Thwart Spam Approved: X-Moderator-Contact: Eli the Bearded X-Story-Submission: X-Original-Message-ID: <59954c07.35c9237e@aol.com> X-Is-Review: yes 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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