Saturday, August 23, 2014

Weekend Update

Writing Journal: Almost done with The Adjusters #54. I didn't quite manage to make it standalone, which is a tiny bit of a bummer. But maybe in the coming week I'll get that flash of inspiration that let me close off the installment without dangling too many threads. But irrespectively of that, it's good to spend some time with Cindy again. The girl is a breath of fresh air.



The most relevant thing in my world this last week—because I don't live anywhere near Ferguson—is that we lost two members of our team at work, so things are going to be rock 'n' roll for the next few months.

(Fact is, all of a sudden, it's like I'm back in college, contemplating the upcoming Fall semester and its unwelcome work load.)

The way it will impact you is that I may not be here quite as much. My plan is to drop by on weekends and point out stories I've run across, as usual. The Adjusters should be unaffected, aside from the odd delay when posting might be pushed to a weekend. I'll keep you informed, as I try to do.

On a happier note, here are the stories that are making me happy this week:[1]

Mail Order Mind Control by Caesar (on SOL): “Lonely mom discovers her son wants to drug her, she makes a difficult decision.” Contains incest, but the story itself is well done (as are most Caesar stories) and the sex is hot.

Dangerous Heels by Captainhappy: “Psychology experiment with sex, hypnosis, and a twist.” Weird and a bit confusing, but good.

A discovered a new (but old) author, Evals22. His stories all revolve around the same theme, a housewife that gets turned on by submission and humiliation, and usually not through her own husband. The stories are well written, and they have a definite beginning, middle, and end, and they are hot to boot. (Especially if you like degradation sex with a cuckold bend.) I particularly recommend: Bead Slut, Companion Fare, Therapy, Wife Writer.


[1] shamelessly stolen from a fave radio show.

Friday, August 15, 2014

Two Inoffensive Stories

Writing Journal: I've been happily hacking away on The Adjusters #54 until recently (as well as bits of #55 which is rather unproblematic), but I didn't like where it was going. Part of the problem is that I'm setting up a thread that I want to pick up again in Book VI (and Book IX, believe it or not), and it somehow didn't gel with what I thought Book VI would do. So I've spent the last few days fleshing out Book VI, to make sure I knew where things where going, and now it's time to change what I've written in #54 accordingly and go from there.



Two fun stories for the weekend. People having fun and some hot sex, with very little drama or angst.

Just what the doctor ordered.

Melissa, Our Roommate by Shapeshifter37: “Their sex lives change after her friend moves in.” Complete.

Caught On Cam... Er... Uhhh by Wanderingpen: “A worn out relationship ends, a new one emerges online.” Ongoing.

Monday, August 11, 2014

New Story: The Adjusters #53

Back from traveling. Man, it's nice to be home. Thanks for your patience, folks.

Here is August's installment of The Adjusters, “Intermezzo: Family Counseling Services”, wherein we discover a business model.

As usual, comments welcome.

I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)


The Adjusters #53 - Intermezzo: Family Counseling Services

James McGregor—Jim to his employees, Jimmy to his close friends—did not hesitate to cross the threshold of the nondescript building in East Los Angeles.

Whatever else one might say about James, and one could say many things about James and not all of them heartwarming, being prone to indecision was not one of them.

When James ran into a problem, James stopped long enough to determine the extent of that problem, formulate a plan to solve said problem, and then enact said plan. That approach had served him well for the previous twenty-five years, from the time he wrestled control of Electro Manufacturing Incorporated away from his then father-in-law and grew it into the largest industrial control panels manufacturer on the West Coast.

That approach had served him well years later when he determined that his then wife—the daughter of the father-in-law in question—after a solid fifteen-years marriage that had yielded two sons, was simply not worthy of being the wife of one of the most successful businessman in Southern California. She was unhappy, and was letting herself go, and he found it increasingly embarrassing to be seen in her company.

When he concluded his wife had become a liability, that she was a problem, he formulated a plan and enacted it without pity. It had been a simple matter to hire a handsome out-of-work actor to seduce and sleep with her while a private investigator followed the couple and documented the affair in exquisite graphic detail. Armed with incontrovertible evidence, suing her for divorce was a short and easy affair. James obtained custody of his sons and left his ex-wife with hardly anything. The one-time lump payment for relocation that his wife’s lawyer did manage to obtain turned out to be less than the fee James had promised the out-of-work actor but never paid due to the poor fellow’s deportation proceedings back to Canada—his visa having expired a year prior, something that had not escaped James’s careful screening of potential candidates—an anecdote which James would have considered poetic had he had any appreciation for poetry.


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Next month: “Intermezzo: Cindy Caprese”.