Message-ID: <6819eli$9803101808@qz.little-neck.ny.us> From: Lady Cyrrh Subject: The Annex Reviews, 3/8/98 Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.d,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: Nothing new to add for this week...I've been reading stories like a maniac, if I haven't got to yours yet, be patient. It sometimes takes a while. I have a day career, y'know. The stories: Raven Hair, by Parasol 60 (M/F, Native American, cybersex) Touring with Hanson, Parts 1 and 2, by Dean Lidster (m/m, teen, celeb, romance) Shipwrecked, by Mathis B. Rogers (M/M, romance) Darkside USA, 1, 2 and 3, by Eileen Stone (M/F, inc, mc, rape) Rag Doll, by Leanna (M/F, BDSM, revenge) The Encounter, by Frazier (M/F, BDSM) Raven Hair [A] When posted: 3/4/98 Where posted: ASS, ASSM Author: Parasol 60 Address: parasol_60@yahoo.com This story crossed genres: cybersex, Native American lore, and cautionary tale. And it purports to be true. What else can you ask for? Like Maryanne Mohanraj's "Jinsong" the story is told from transcripts of cybersex adventures. "Mike," a 34-year-old divorced man, meets a woman online named "Raven Hair" who purports to be a female shaman in training. They have discussions about Native American spirituality and sex ("We think enough about hurting the Earth, we don't think that our pleasures are good for her. This is deep wisdom from the Spirit. Smelling a flower, tasting a good meal, and enjoying deep and ecstatic sex are pleasures that make Her happy.") The two then have deep and ecstatic cybersex. Much later, Mike finds out to his alarm that the beautiful young shamaness was a phony; in reality "she" is a 50-year-old man. The realization triggers a nervous breakdown. Whether true or fabrication, or some mixture of the two, the story was very interesting. It wasn't as polished as the Mohanraj tale but I liked it better for the ironies it exposes: they made the story into an examination of the human desire to *believe* in the sacredness of the sex act rather than being a mundane depiction of a New Age stroke session. The Mohanraj tale, by contrast, could be a plot of a "Party of Five" episode. I guess the final axiom would be: Don't EVER take anyone at face value in cyberspace. Touring with Hanson [A+] When posted: 3/1/98 Where posted: ASSGM Author: Dean Lidster Address: dean.lidster@usa.net Website: http://members.tripod.com/~Dean_Lidster Celebrity sex stories are usually about beautiful, unavailable, famous women treated as either sluts or conquests: Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Lee Curtis, The Spice Girls. Something of a male revenge here, I suspect. I haven't seen a male celebrity sex story yet, save for this one about the cute little Hanson brothers from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sacrilege! I fully expected this to be kidporn, so I was pleasantly surprised to find it well-written, fun, romantic, intelligent, AND charming. The story takes place on the road with a pop group, like the Spice Girls stories, but differs in that it's told by a fourteen-year-old teenager, the lover of Taylor, the middle Hanson brother. The two carry a torch for each other, so when the Hansons come to the UK on tour the narrator is sent for to accompany them. There's pizza, rollerblading, shopping in the mall, and hanging out; there's also sex in the trailer in which younger brother Zach joins in, declarations of love, and moments of tenderness. Later it turns out all three Hansons are gay (what are the statistical odds of that happening?) with sourpuss older brother Ike finally confessing his love for a young lighting tech, who the narrator rescues with his rock-climbing skills when he falls from a rig and is knocked unconscious. The story is even more interesting because the foreword indicates it was written by a gay teen who is clearly a fan of the group and very familiar with their background, music, and videos. Everyone enjoys himself, no one's uptight about his homosexuality, and the young rock star's parents are completely accepting of all the doinking going on. Wish-fulfillment, perhaps, but this young man, if he is a young man, writes a helluva lot better than most of the straight adult men and women on the alt.sex hierarchy. Shipwrecked [A+] Author: Mathis B. Rogers Address: Mathis B. Rogers Available from: http://www.o-c-s.com/gaynet/index.htm Like the above, this story dealt with romance and the familial repercussions of being gay in contemporary society...more of a domestic fantasy than a sexual one, though there was a lot of sex (they say "I love you" over 50 times.) Kris, the young narrator, has been living with Brad, his lover, for two years, but Brad's parents haven't realized their son is gay and that Kris is not "just" a roomate. When Brad's family invites the two to spend the weekend on their boat, they reluctantly agree, knowing how hard it will be to keep it a secret. Complicating matters is Chad, Brad's identical twin brother, who has also been asked along, and complicating things further is the freak storm that strikes, washing the boat ashore on a desert isle. (Stop singing the "Gilligan's Island" theme.) The rest of the story deals with the aftermath, the "coming out" of the young couple, and how Brad's parents and twin brother react to this. It's hard not to like this story even if you don't like gay fiction, because the characters were simply so *nice.* I felt I knew them as neighbors. There was even a touch of sly familial sexual humor running throughout: Mr. Peterson turned in his seat and looked Brad up and down as we climbed into the car. "No wonder those shorts had a hole in them, son," he said. "They're so tight that they'll split if you get a boner. Couldn't you find any decent clothes to wear?" "Thanks, Mom," Brad chided, before turning to his father. "You shouldn't talk like that in front of Mom, Dad." Mr. Peterson turned around and adjusted his seat belt. "Why not?" he asked. "She knows what a boner is. Hell, if she didn't enjoy playing with mine, you wouldn't be here." (No, there's no incest!) All in all, a feelgood story with roots in real life. Rag Doll [A] When posted: 2/4/98 Where posted: ASS, ASSM Author: Leanna Address: kalika@main.provost.msu.edu Website: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/2194/ A man comes home from work expecting to fuck his sexy wife, but he has another thing coming. She knows he's been screwing his secretary, so she handcuffs him to the bed in the middle of the act and confronts him with her knowledge while continuing to tease him sexually. Then she tells him she did the same thing to his secretary. By forcing them both to enjoy their respective rapes, she gets her revenge...and then she walks. The story was well-written and quite suspenseful, marred only by the cliches of the genre. The wife has long red fingernails, soft full lips, and long legs. Slut material in porn shorthand, yet she's PO'd at the secretary for being a slut. If I wrote the story, I'd make the wife attractive yet average. After all, who cares if a beautiful women gets cheated on in a sex story? She can always go out and fuck someone else. But this is a minor nit, and overall the story deserves its grade. Darkside USA, Parts 1, 2, 3 [A/A-] When posted: 2/19/98 Where posted: ASS, ASSM Author: KTM Posted by: Eileen Stone Poster address: kmcclure@goldrush.com Shared universe (SU) fiction is a phenomenon that has grown in leaps and bounds since the Net took off. It differs from other net fiction in that a fictional world is created with its own set of physical and social rules, history, and character types, and that world becomes the stage setting for the participant's poems and stories. SU fiction is often serial in nature, one author picking up where another left off, and has its own literary rules and style which can be applied to other genres, such as sex stories. "Darkside USA" is a prime example of SU fiction. The premise is the USA has fallen into anarchy somehow (shades of "The Road Warrior") and thugs roam the heartland. A gang of them (Wolf, Skull, Red, etc....thugs NEVER have polysyllabic names) invades a farm. Thirteen-year-old Robbie witnesses the death of his father and his mother's and sisters' rapes, which causes his first ejaculation. He flees the house and takes refuge in a cave, but the floor collapses beneath him. Dying, he finds an ancient Native American artifact which promises him great power, and when he touches it he is transformed into a good- looking and extremely well-hung adult man with stupendous physical and mental powers. He returns to the farm, blows away the bad guys, and tenderly fucks his mother and sister with the understanding they are under his protection now. He knocks Mom up, and plans to restore the good ol' U S of A by harnessing his sister Sissy's (how Midwest!) latent mental powers. The story continues for seven more chapters. This was typical SU stuff...superheroes, psionic powers, and grand themes of love, destruction and redemption. And there's sex. Not the coy sex you find on the shared universe story newsgroup ("her nipples became twin peaks of delight") but gobs of rape, forced lesbian encounters, mind-controlled incest, and female subjugation. The style was a little stiff in places, and it was all hard to take seriously...but all in all, an entertaining, reader- pleasing read, if that reader likes "The Crow" and Fox channel weekend fare. The Encounter [B+] When posted: 2/18/98 Where posted: SSBB Author: Frazier Address: frazier@tidalwave.net I don't like stories written in second person voice, but I made allowances for this one, because I found the sex hot. A man and woman flirt at a party, but she's only cockteasing. She leaves her scarf behind and comes back the next day to pick it up. The man then involves her in a heated BDSM encounter, which he describes by telling us what he does to her, in the present tense. The narrator went from overwrought ("I'm going to do things to you, you will never forget. You can't escape this, any more than I can. You and I are as one, jaded souls the rest of the world can never understand. I'm going to turn you inside out. I know this is what you want; that this is what you need.") to lecturing ("You know, in the terminology of all this, the one subservient is called a 'bottom', while the dominant person is the 'top'.") and as it turns out the woman planned it all along. She even brought along a change of clothes. Like most second person stories, it was silly at times, but I did enjoy it, perhaps because of all the nipple-sucking. Comments to: ladycyrrh@aol.com Website---> http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh -- +--------------' Story submission `-+-' Moderator contact `------------+ | story-submit@qz.little-neck.ny.us | story-admin@qz.little-neck.ny.us |