Stories Repositories

Okay, so maybe, maybe I'll stay on BlogSpot for a while longer. But I'm going to have to change the layout of the blog, because it's really getting on my nerves. So expect at least some cosmetic changes in the next few weeks. Not especially looking forward to the CSS hacking involved though. Yuck.

Meanwhile, one of the things I wanted to do with this blog, aside from publishing my stories, was to showcase and provide link to the good smut (at least good in my opinion) that is out there. There's a lot of written smut available online, but finding the good stuff is hard. For instance, to find the classics, one either has to know about them, or hang out around forums enough to get initiated. So if I can somehow spread the joy in my own little way, I'll be happy. I've been collecting links to interesting stories on Delicious, but the result has been somewhat messy. Probably because I haven't gotten around to tagging everything consistently.

The first thing to know about, of course, are the large repositories of written smut that are out there, and that hold the vast majority of good material. Some are general content, others cater to more specialized interest.

Literotica is one of the oldest repositories around, and many writers of more mainstream erotica have actually started there. There's still plenty of good stories on the site. The interface is somewhat baroque, unfortunately, although it has gotten better recently, linking the different chapters of the same story, and also providing a little recommendation system assigning to every story a 'you may also like' list of other related stories -- it's hit and miss, but a nice try.)

ASSTR is the grand-daddy of all stories repositories. It was initially started as an FTP site to archive the stories posted on the USENET newsgroups alt.sex.stories and alt.sex.stories.moderated. It holds a lot of stories, many of them a few decades old at this point. Aside from allowing authors to host their stories, it also has evolved into hosting a set of disjoint repositories maintained by various people, which they call collections. It is definitely worth exploring. One of my favorite collections on the site is Ol' Joe's, which collects most of the classic stories. Another interesting repository on ASSTR is of course the EMCSA -- the Erotic Mind Control Story Archive -- the go-to place for mind-control stories.

Storiesonline (SOL) is a recent favorite of mine. It contains a lot of good material, and it has a very nice interface. The site does require registration, but you can get a free account that lets you read up to seven stories per day. Paying gets you a higher reading limit (one hundred stories per day), but most importantly it gives you the ability to maintain a library of bookmarked stories, including a watch list for ongoing series. I highly recommend you check it out. There are a couple of authors that publish exclusively on SOL that I'll spotlight in the coming weeks.

If you're into the slightly edgier stuff, then the BSDM Library is the place for you. Its content is wildly unequal: some very good stories, some abysmal stories. There's exceedingly extreme material on there too, so be warned. Also, the interface will make your eyes bleed -- although given the theme of the site that may in fact be intentional. There are a couple of authors on the site that are personal favorites of mine and that I'll spotlight in the coming weeks.

Somewhat related to the BDSM Library, but with a quality filter, is Dijan's Understories. Many of the stories on Dijan's site can be found elsewhere, but they are collected together by theme on this site: blackmail, mind control, rough fantasies, humiliations. Not for the faint of heart.

Some repositories of stories are just fun to browse. For instance, the Television Sex Stories Archive, which archives erotic fan fiction pieces featuring your favorite TV characters. Quality varies, generally hovering towards the low end of the scale, but if that's your kick, this is where most of what's produced ends up.

Somewhat more mainstream is the xNovel site that pertains to archive " ...adult novels from defunct publishers such as Greenleaf Classics, Liverpool Library, Beeline Novels and Heatherpool Press -- for free!" There's a lot of excellent stuff in there, although after a while it feels much more formulaic than the really amateur productions. As an aside, there was this "author", called himself TheEditor, back in the USENET days, that would post what I presume were text conversions of published novels, among other things. You can find the stuff on ASSTR, just search for "TheEditor". They used to always have a quote at the beginning along the lines of "I am not the author. I don't have the talent. I can only be the "TheEditor", which I always thought was a nice touch.

There are many others sites, of course, for more specialized fetishes. Breast augmentation fetishes, or big cock fetishes, or miniaturization fetishes are three that come to mind.

How about you? Where do you go to find your smut? Let me know your favorites in the comments, and we'll check them out.