Showing posts with label fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fun. Show all posts

Monday, February 2, 2015

Update on The Adjusters #58

It should drop this weekend—a couple of things I need to make sure I get right.

In the meantime, to remain in the spirit of the wife sharing stories I've been pointing out these last few weeks (it's my mood these days, I guess), I'll note that Xleglover has finally pushed the concluding chapter of his long long saga that started back when with He Fucked My Girl and just ended with Life After We. The story as a whole is pretty good, with some delightfully hot scenes—though I admit that it sort of dips there in the middle. And I would have loved to see a bit more dominant behavior from that guy Clint at the end.

If wife sharing's not your cup of joe, then have a look at The Bitch, by Mister NiceGuy: “Boy meets girl. Girl is gorgeous. Boy is a nerd. Boy asks girl out. Boy is rejected. Boy plots revenge. But when he gets the perfect chance to take that revenge, he can't do it. What she gives him, ultimately, is far more worthwhile.” It's so clearly wish fulfillment that it borders on parody, but there's a story, and there's sex, and the grammar is decent. (Yes, I know, my bar is low.)


Monday, September 1, 2014

Games, and an Update on The Adjusters #54

Writing Journal: Editing The Adjusters #54. It should come out in a few days, after I've let it rest a day or two. It was harder to write than #53, but hopefully that shouldn't show too much. Making good progress on #55 as well, but that one flows much more easily. Onward!



There was a comment a few weeks ago on one of our threads that probably would benefit from some more general distribution. The comment announced a new “project” called SelectaCorp. It's not quite a game, but rather a series of interactive slide decks that introduce you to a company that enslaves girls for profit. Go check it out—there are some exceedingly interesting ideas there, and depending on the way your brain works, it can be pretty hot. (I'm on the fence personally: I love the interactivity, but the gaming aspect does not have enough of a storyline to grab me as much as I would have liked.) The project is hosted on Tumblr, so it pays to read it from the end back. Anonymous commenter: thanks for the link.

While we're on the topic of interactive games, I've renewed my on-and-off love affair with Lesson of Passion. Their business is coming up with high-quality interactive sex games, in Flash. Part of the renewal of interest on my part is that their high-flying games have all gotten extensions in the past months: Living with Britney, Living with Temptation, and my personal favorite, Eleanor.

I'll leave you with a story I ran across on Lush Stories. It's The Double Date that Didn't End, by KennethPierce: “Dance with the one that brung ya. Or don't.” The description does not do it justice. Basically, it's the story of a double date where the couples realize that they really want to be with each other's date, and they swap, and then they discover, that well, they still feel something for their original dates. Hot sexiness ensues. And it seems to be ongoing. Highly recommended.

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.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

School Story

Writing Journal: Steady progress on The Adjusters. The biggest difficulty with the installments in Book V is that each is essentially a short story. Which sorts of curtails what I can do. (It's not entirely entirely true, as you'll see, but it's mostly true.)



Busy time at work these days, so I'm not hanging out here as much as I'd like.

But I've got something for you tonight. There was this story that I ran across earlier this year that I've been trying to retrace, and I finally got my hands on it again this week.

It's Oral Exam by Gradprof: “Coed negotiates for a higher grade.” It starts out almost cliché, a student that makes a deal for a better grade in a course (you can guess what she offers) but then it starts just blossoming into a sex fest. It's quite well done.

There's also a sequel—which I haven't read, I believe, since I just discovered it this week. More Oral After the Exam : “The Professor starts a new semester.”

Friday, June 27, 2014

Bits and Pieces

Writing Journal: Still gently slogging through The Adjusters #52 and #53. It's all good, if slow.

Throughout May and June, I'm asking for your input about the sort of kinks you might want to see in The Adjusters.



Sorry for the silence—I was away and also nothing particularly interesting came through my smut feed, except for a few chapters updates to stories that I'm tracking. Might as well get those out of the way.

A new chapter of Ashley's Revenge by TallMarriedMan: “Ashley gives him a gift that she knows his wife never would.” The story is still excellent.

A new chapter of Consequences by Xleglover: “Jen and Mike ‘separate’ and Jen moves in with Frankie.” A straight-up cuckold husband story, one that seems to leave few people unaffected (either in a good way or a bad way), but with some pretty interesting ideas and scenes. Xleglover is a bit of an acquired taste, and recently his stories do sometimes seem to spin without going anywhere. This one is no exception. But I still enjoy it. (Though I wish it went darker than it undoubtedly will go, more like Husband's Fantasy Backfires.)

Finally, a new mind-control story, The Coin by Ryansstory: “Ryan discovers that no good deed goes unrewarded...” Four chapters out at the time of this post, and it seems to be headed in a dark direction. A man finds a coin that gives him mind-controlling powers, but it's not entirely clear that the coin isn't actually controlling him. I'm looking forward to see if it goes anywhere.

Sunday, June 8, 2014

A New Chapter by GrantLee

Writing Journal: Excellent writing week, followed by a crappy writing weekend. Easy come, easy go, I guess. I did get started on The Adjusters #53, since there's no reason why it cannot be written in parallel with #52. And because we haven't had an installment this month, here's a (still raw and needing much editing) first stab at the beginning of #53, as a sort of preview:

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

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 on the West Coast. She was unhappy, and was letting herself go, and it had become almost embarrassing to be seen in her company.

When he realized that his then wife had become a liability, that she was a problem, he formulated a plan and enacted it without hesitation or pity. It had been a simple matter to hire a handsome out-of-work actor to seduce and sleep with his then wife, all the while having a private investigator follow the couple and document the affair in exquisite graphic detail. Armed with such incontrovertible evidence, suing her for divorce was a short and easy affair. James obtained custody of his son and managed to leave his ex-wife with hardly anything through a carefully orchestrated strategy of claiming great mental distress and public embarrassment. His wife’s lawyer did manage to obtain a one-time lump payment for relocation that James almost contested but in a show of magnanimity decided to let go. That the lump payment turned out to be less than the fee he had promised the out-of-work actor but never paid due to the poor fellow’s deportation proceedings back to Canada—his visa had expired a year prior, something that had not escaped James’s careful screening of potential candidates—proved almost poetic, something that James might have appreciated had he had any fondness for poetry.

“Welcome to Family Counseling Services,” said the pleasant young woman behind the reception desk, looking up at him with a blindingly white smile. “How may I help you?”


Throughout May and June, I'm asking for your input about the sort of kinks you might want to see in The Adjusters.



From out of nowhere today came a new chapter of Madison's Lesson by GrantLee: “Madison Benedict bent at her waist...” It's the story of a poor mother and ex-wife that is coerced into sex by, well, pretty much everybody, it seems. It's really good. But updates abysmally slowly.

At the other extreme, here's a weird but entertaining story, Alex in Pornoland by SirSinn: “Alex wakes up to a different world after an accident.” Warning: incest, and large artificial breasts.



Sunday, June 1, 2014

Weekend Random Links

Writing Journal: Put in a solid 1500 words into The Adjusters #52 yesterday, up to about 8500, and I'm still nowhere near the fun stuff. Writing is slow, folks, at least if you're me. (Though writing this short blurb made me think about #52 for a few seconds, and I've had what may well be a very intriguing thought... Let's see if it survives the night.) Oh, and by the way, next month's installment: “Intermezzo: Daniel Malcolm”

Throughout May and June, I'm asking for your input about the sort of kinks you might want to see in The Adjusters.



A bunch of random links to herald the coming of June.

John Kovalic nails the massive difference between good writing days and bad writing days.

Spying with Lara is a wonderful webcomics series I just discovered (and I'm late to the party, so this might well be old news to you all) and that is supremely well and done, and both sexy and funny.

Sexy times with the Miami Dolphins cheerleaders.

Oglaf might just have given me an idea for a short story.

Fascinating results of a survey by Bluebella (a lingerie company) about what men and women consider the perfect male and female body.

I know How I Met Your Mother is over, but here's an oldish article about what the author calls The Canonical Bisexuality of Lily Aldrin. (Peek around the site when you're done: The Toast is a fantastic little site with both fun and sad stories and will make you a better human being.)

Said Energizer is a videographer that does some pretty amazing work with beautiful sexy models. Here's a sample: For MEN.

A scanlation fumetto from The Groovy Age of Horror: Storie Viola 14 - I Tre Desideri (The Three Wishes).

If you're here only for the smut, here's today's selection. College Cathouse by DaviBlack: “Guy watches his girlfriend and her friend at a party.” And the girlfriend starts pimping her friend out, and the guy gets in on the action as well, and soon they have a nice little business going with lots of kinky sex. You're welcome.

Friday, May 30, 2014

Introspection

Writing Journal: Writing away on The Adjusters #52. Nothing particularly interesting to report. Except perhaps that I had a tidbit of insight for Book VI that has me reconsider one of my subplots.

Throughout May and June, I'm asking for your input about the sort of kinks you might want to see in The Adjusters.



Still somewhat reeling from last week's events in Isla Vista, California. It's nothing new, sadly, but the document that the killer left reads like bad fiction, and is altogether depressing. The one (only?) bright spot to come out of those events is the #YesAllWomen movement that with some luck opened a few people's eyes. Though I had to avoid like the plague most comment threads on the topic, because man! you can really see the filthy crud rising up to the surface.

Every time something like that happens, it forces me to think about my own role in the grand scheme of things. I mean, I spin tales involving misogynistic characters whose contempt for consent and agency is extreme. I know, I know—it's all fantasy, it's all fiction, but fantasy and fiction do not occur in a vacuum, they are embedded in a sociological context, and worse, those stories actually are part of the sociological context and help form it.

It's something I struggle with once in a while. Not the part about having dark fantasies—I've read enough psychology to not be particularly worried about that. But sharing them, in the way that I do, it has an impact. And I just don't know what that impact is.

I don't have answers. Just more questions. So I'll just keep reflecting about this.

In the meantime, let me close with two stories, one for whichever mood you happen to find yourself in on this rainy Friday night.

The first is a happy story where all is essentially rosy and loving and sexy, Beauty and the Geek by Frozenhero1: “The rumors were true; the geek was hung.”

The second is a dark depressing story where everyone is a bastard and the sex is... well... special, A Study in Scarlett, by AMoveableBeast: “A man follows the sway of a stripper's hips into depravity.”

Monday, May 19, 2014

A Long Love Story

Writing Journal: One scene of the three I have planned for The Adjusters #52 written. It will need to be revised massively, but the foundation is there. Now I get to play with Calypso a little bit.

Throughout May and June, I'm asking for your input about the sort of kinks you might want to see in The Adjusters.



On the road this weekend, so not a lot to report, but I'll leave you with a long story I ran across a while back that I rediscovered a few days ago. It's a sweet love story with a lot of hot sex. A bit heavy-handed with the armchair psychology at times, but the characters are pleasant, so that's forgivable. And unlike many of the things I'm attracted to, the author stays away from any dark theme. (Disclaimer: I'm only halfway through it, so for all I know, things go south in the second half of the tale...)

Ann: A Love Story, by Mimaster: “Long road to Ann begins at Dawn.” (The title is a pun.)

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

A Story Site I Didn't Know About

Writing Journal: Started writing The Adjusters #52 after fleshing out the nine stories that will make up Book V. The idea for Book V, as I mentioned in the past: independent stories giving a snapshot of what our characters are up to. Loosely inspired by the “A Day in the Life” installments from Book II. Except different.

Throughout May and June, I'm asking for your input about the sort of kinks you might want to see in The Adjusters.



Last week I ran across a story site that I had never seen before, which is not necessarily surprising in and of itself, but it's actually a pretty good site, and that's the surprising bit: Lush Stories.

Supposedly, they have more than 27000 stories. The site navigation is a bit of a pain, I'm sad to say: it's busy, and browsing the stories is something of a slow process, but I did find a bunch of stories I enjoyed without looking too hard. Here's a sample of what caught my eye.

Erika the Sex Slave by HotStuffPriya: “18 year old college student Erika becomes a sex slave”

Ashley - The Office Fuck Bunny by Happy9: “Ashley becomes the office fuck bunny, hired to fuck clients.”

Good Girl Gone Bad by Kali_Urriah: “This good girl discovering her inner slut.”

The Escort And The Dirty Substitute by Dancing_Doll: “One night as an escort leads Alison into a spiral of sexual depravity that awakens the whore within.” (There's also a sequel, The Escort And The Dirty Conscience.)

If you check things out and find a good story on there, feel free to let the rest of us know.

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Girls Next Door

Writing Journal: Grrr. After having written a good three-quarters of The Adjusters #51—which as far as I'm concerned has acquired the subtitle “That Big Stinking Pile of Crap Exposition”—I'm probably going to ditch a good 3000 words of it because it did end up being a confused mess, or so says my storytelling sense. If I'm lucky, I might be able to push the “deleted” scene into Book V, but I fear that doing that will lead to some jumping back and forth through time, which is painful. In other words, I'm unhappy. I'll survive, of course. But in the meantime—unhappy.



Ran across a nice little story on Literotica, Ashley's Revenge by TallMarriedMan: “Ashley has had enough of his meddling wife.” A very cute and dirty story about a girl next door that gets it into her head to seduce her neighbor to get revenge on his wife. And she succeeds admirably.

That story reminded me of an old story that I loved way back when, and after spending a good half-hour searching for it with all the Google Fu I could muster, I bring you the classic Call Girl Cheerleaders (Part 2, Part 3), by Richard Bissell: “A guy falls into a relationship-for-money with a high school cheerleader that soon grows into a group thing that then flowers into a romantic relationship between him and the girls.” Wonderful long story with hot sex galore and nontrivial emotions. As I said, a classic.

Monday, March 3, 2014

Update on The Adjusters #49

ETA for The Adjusters #49 is Wednesday night. Thanks for your patience.

In the meantime, have a gander at Rd75000's A Daring Reporter: “Newscaster decides it’s time to make some changes.” Fun little story with lots of exhibitionism.

Monday, February 3, 2014

Update on The Adjusters #48

Work-crunch delaying this month's installment. Gah. Stupid bills that need to be paid anyway.

I expect the installment to go up Wednesday night.

In the mean time, check out The Tease Down the Steet by Red_Jakal: “Rich meets Stephanie.” And Stephanie likes to tease. Really likes to tease. A cute story, which might even be ongoing. (The two chapters were posted two years apart, so I don't have great hopes, but hey, who knows?...)


Saturday, January 18, 2014

Looking for a Mother-Related Story

Writing Journal: Well, I thought I was done with The Adjusters #48, and have started on #49, but then I realized that a scene was missing, so I'm adding it in. Which gives me a bit more time to figure what the sex scene in #49 ought to be, because I have no clue right now. On the flip side, I had a revelation about the last scene of #51 (and of Book IV). It had been staring me in the face, and I just saw it a few hours ago.



I got a request from a reader who's looking for a story, and I'm passing it along in case one of you can find it somewhere. (I couldn't, and it doesn't ring a bell either.)

The story's title is Model Mom, and the author one Joan Masgal. Here's the description that I was given:
It is a story about a son who convinces his mother to model on his motorcycle for him, she ends up regularly fellating him, she later goes to drive him home from a party and ends up in the hot tub in a lesbian relationship with his girl friend.
(The story at some point was found in Kelly85's stories on ASSTR but it's no longer there.)

If any of you know anything about this story, please leave a comment below, or contact me. Thanks!


In the meantime, here are some other stories with motherhood themes that I plucked from my list of stories that I've enjoyed at some time or another, not all of them incestual:

My Mother's a Porn Star! by Lovecraft68: “Bobby's obsession with porn leads to a startling discovery.”

Bad Teacher by Hetup: “Blackmailing my best friend's mother.”

She Is Mine And I Want Her Back by Caesar: “Realizing that his wife is cheating on him with her own son and that his son is using some kind of drug to turn his mother into his sex slave, he wants her back.”

Future Shock by TryAnything: “18-year-old boy seduces his mother with science.”

Sunday, January 12, 2014

A Note About Process

Writing Journal: I'm almost done with The Adjusters #48. It's surprisingly breezy, that one, even though it's Jenn-centric. (Yeah, yeah, famous last words, I know.) And I have #49 and #50 essentially laid out, so that's looking positive as well. Installment #51, which is the planned conclusion to Book IV, is still a bit fuzzy in my head—there are three directions I can take it into, and I'm not entirely sure which one will get me where I want to be further down the road—but I trust by the time I get to it things will have gelled.



New year, new goals. I'm not particularly big on New Year resolutions—I tend to think grandiose, while what I really should work on are details—but the main thing I want to get back to this year is fix my process.

(By the way: you all noticed, I hope, the modified blog layout. Slightly nicer fonts, and what I find to be an easier-to-read color scheme. If something's off, please let me know.)

Process. I've used that word a few times in the last few months, mostly in the context of lamenting how broken mine was. Time to explain, in case it's not clear what I'm talking about. So, sorry folks, a bit more writerly navel-gazing.

Writing's not hard, I keep telling those foolish enough to ask. It just becomes so when you start thinking too much about what you're doing. At least, that's the case in my admittedly limited experience. My way around thinking too much is process: just write a little bit every day, day in, day out. 500 words a day is not difficult. They don't even have to be good words. If you can do more, great. But 500 is enough. After ten days, you have 5000 words. Twenty days, 10000 words. You can do the math.

But writing daily requires a certain form of discipline, at least at first. Eventually, it becomes a habit, and when you've reached that point, it's like a train on well-maintained straight tracks: it's effortless and everything goes smoothly. Mess up the process, though, and the train derails. And when the train's off the tracks, it's freakin' tough to get it back on. That strained metaphor is basically my last October/November/December. I got off the train tracks, and it took a while to get back on. The Holidays helped, strangely enough.

So 2014, at least for now, is all about make sure I remain on the tracks until I hit that long straight.

But enough about me...

Our story this week is a little epic that I believe I knew about a while ago, but had completely forgotten about. Our First Female President, by Harry Berg: “Candace Williams, beautiful and highly intelligent but also shy, self effacing, devoutly religious, and sexually inhibited is seduced by the devil. This novel length story blends themes of religion, political corruption, and sexual debauchery as Candace progresses up the ladder of American politics. Side-bar stories that rely on great historical events add to the texture of human debauchery and lust that always accompany the acquisition of power and wealth.” This is a little epic—I'm only a fourth of the way in, and it has pretty much everything. Definitely worth checking out. It's on BDSM Library, sadly, which means that formatting has a 50/50 chance of making you want to gouge your eyes out, but still.

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Update on The Adjusters #46

Grrr. Sorry for the delay, folks. I wanted The Adjusters #46 posted this weekend, but I realized while revising that one of the scenes doesn't work so well, and I'm rewriting it. So it might be a couple of days still. Your patience, which I swear I'm not taking for granted, is very much appreciated.

Here are a variety of longish stories to tie you over.

First, a blackmail story with a nontrivial tone-in-cheek tone (I know, weird), The Weather Girl, by Fortunata: “Huge breasted woman abused by TV executive.” Actually a good read, with some very good moments, despite the somewhat eye-rolling description.

Second, pure sexy fun, The Video Store, by Edharian: “Employees find ways to pass the time at the video store.” No angst, no darkness (at least until now), just people enjoying the boinking.

Third, fun with an edge, Fantasising about Emma – Donor, by ArrowThroughTheHeart: “Her boyfriend's infertile. I'm not.” Basically a cheating story, from the point of view of the guy in love with a girl that happens to be dating someone else. The setup is hot, and the sex is hotter.

See you in a few days!

Thursday, October 24, 2013

A Fun Sexy Story

Writing Journal: Still writing, don't worry. Just a bit more slowly than I would really really want. More details in the coming days. I'll get to your comments over the weekend, promised. Lots of interesting stuff there to respond to.



This is just a quick note to reassure everyone: I'm still here. Looking back: wow—no posts in September and October so far. Sorry about that. It's not even that things have been particularly busy since the crazy weeks at the beginning of September. I've just been... I don't know... blah, I guess. I've cocooned. Spent some time refreshing the internal emotional reserves. You know, that sort of stuff.

Anyway, here's a fun happy story about people having sex to tide you over. It's SpotInTheSand who writes Brad's Road Trip: “Brad gets ready for his trip by making a new friend.” Long story, hot sex, plenty of beautiful perverted girls.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Another Update on The Adjusters #44

Folks: I'm going to beg for your indulgence and your further patience. This week is turning out to be insane with crises that need to be handled right away. So I may not be able to get The Adjusters #44 out until this weekend. I hate that as much as you do.

Here's a story to pass the time. By Scottishmeat, consider Anal At Last: “Finding himself single again, he meets a girl.” A nice meaty fun story, with nary a moment of darkness, but lots of hot sex between kinky people. And the title does suggests what the protagonist's main kink is.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Stories at the Opposite Ends

Writing Journal: Started out on The Adjusters #44, temporarily titled Awash. That one should be straightforward to write. Now, if I can get it and #45 done this month, then I'll be in a good spot for the rest of the summer. I also finally nailed a plot hole in Book IV this afternoon that had been bugging me for a while, so I'm happy. It looks like Book IV will take us to #50, if I can resist my urge to overcomplicate things.



Happy Independence Day if you're in the US. If not, well, happy fourth day of the month of July anyway, as arbitrary as that may sound.

Over at the EMCSA, Thrall has been posting a new story called Sleepwalkers: “The battle for an empire grows desperate after a leading Resistance figure is brainwashed.” A very interesting story. As I wrote elsewhere, this is a sci-fi story with erotic mind-control elements, as opposed to an erotic mind-control story with sci-fi elements. I'm really keen on seeing where this goes. It's induction heavy, and the sex is not quite the kind I usually go for (it's very subdued), but the mind-fucking is pretty hot. Read it if you're into dystopias. Also: Thrall has some posts about the background on her stories and behind-the-scenes discussions, the kind of stuff I love reading about.

At the complete opposite end of the spectrum, I ran across the stories of Mark Singer over at Literotica, which are fun light romps without a lot of drama to them, but that are basically sex, sex, sex—in some case, blow jobs, blow jobs, blow jobs. Case in point, Jennifer: “High school guy gets a shot at his dream girl.” That dream girl, Jennifer is young, beautiful, loves to tease, and has a pretty intense addiction to sucking cock. What's not to like?

Monday, May 20, 2013

Thoughts on the Charlie Stories

Writing Journal: I'm done drafting the first two installments of Book IV of The Adjusters, except for the sex scene at the end of #41, and it's showing me some things that seem to work and some that don't. And I've got about 3/4th of the story line for Book IV nailed down. I'm just not sure how it ends—well, I do know how it ends as far as setting up Book V and within the larger story line, but not so much the arc-specific threads.



So it's been almost three weeks now since I've posted the second half the last Charlie story—Charlie and the Convent of Oblivion—and a consensus seems to be emerging from the comments I've received so far. Basically, those that came to the story from the perspective of The Adjusters were a bit disappointed (possibly too strong a word) and felt that the story distracted from the main story line and that it might have been better to just get on with Jenn's adventures directly; while those that came to the story independently of the serial liked it better (when they got past the god-awful first section).

That's very good to know. Usually, I don't question too much how stories are received. Some work, some don't. I'm okay with stories not working when I've tried to do something different, and sometimes they don't work not because of anything I've done, but just because somehow, the story didn't quite come into the world at the right time or in the right place. I don't really lose sleep over it.

The Charlie stories are a bit different, though, because I would like to know whether I should continue with the idea. See, my original thought—before actually trying it out on the world—was for those stories to be a way to tease the reader, giving them a glimpse of what was coming down the pipe, but without actually revealing enough to spoil the story. But it's not quite working out as planned: the last story was a bit too long to serve as a teaser (it was freakin' 30000 words longs... Yes. I count them) and all in all it might just be too distracting to be effective. And I'm not basing this solely on readers' comments, but also on my own sensibilities looking back on it. Don't get me wrong: I like those stories. I'm just now sure they work as I intended them to work within the larger picture. So I don't know. Right now, I'm leaning towards not having further Charlie stories within the serial. (Thankfully, they're not actually required by the plot after the second one—I know, because I create the plot!)

On a different topic: last weekend, as you may have noticed, I've reposted the first book of The Adjusters in the new HTML format that I'm trying out for posting stories. Mostly, it's to get the UTF-8 encoding for quotes, em-dashes, and accents, and to get italics. No one's reported any problems, so I'm continuing to convert the rest of my stories as well the rest of The Adjusters.

Stories for this week? Nothing particularly caught my eye, but I did notice that Bluedragon seems to have a new entry in his An Ordinary Sex Life series: An Ordinary College Sex Life 3. I haven't started reading it yet, because it's a bit like getting into a new volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, namely you have to remember a boatload of backstory. But I feel I should let everyone know, since it is a pretty good series.