Writing Journal: Looks like The Adjusters #28 stirred some controversy. Not overly surprising, given what happens in it. I have to say, it was really creepy to live inside the head of a really disturbed man for the week it took to write the Trish scene. On a more pleasant note, I'm about halfway through #32, which starts with the sex scene—in media res, baby—and then segues into the plot, which needs to bring readers up to speed a little bit. I've always found it difficult to write exposition in such a way that it's not utterly boring. We'll see if I can pull it off. By the way, Book III is to be entitled Do You Take This Woman?
I'm way too busy with a project at work, and I've hardly had the time or even the inclination to think smut these last few weeks, as weird as that sounds. So not only will my posts continue to be infrequent, they may be incoherent as well.
I watched an interesting movie last week, where the term interesting can be read in various ways: Little Deaths, a 2011 horror movie that is really three short movies in one, with a sort of unifying theme, namely the union of horror and kink. It has received somewhat conflicting reviews, but if you enjoy weird twisted horror stories with an undertone of sex, have a look. The third story, in particular, I found psychologically fascinating.
Lon Ryden, who illustrates Dr. Faustus's Tales of Gnosis College comics (The Apsinthion Protocol, Study Abroad) has an interesting series of one-shot illustrations under the theme They Want Our Women!. Love them!
I'll leave you with a story—not a great story, but one that's honest in its focus on mind control and incest, Listening To Jack, by Mister Arioch: “Emily’s brother gives her a special set of earphones to listen with.” And poor Emily is soon on her way to become a loving companion to her geeky brother, and she's not alone on this one-way ride. Some nice scenes, dirty aplenty.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
New Story: The Adjusters #28
Here is May's installment of The Adjusters, “DIK-Bash”, wherein the long-awaited party gets underway, and various characters come together, with various outcomes.
Warning: this installment contains scenes that may be disturbing to younger readers.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #28 - DIK-Bash
Daniel was nervous as he climbed the front steps of the Delta Iota Kappa fraternity house right behind Jackson. He tugged at the black scarf with eye holes that he had wrapped over the upper half of his face in the manner of Zorro, and adjusted the heavy sash that crossed his chest. He was fidgeting, he knew, but could not really help it. His main focus was devoted to fighting the sense of dread that was suffusing him since he had donned this pirate's costume and met up with Jackson--dressed as Thor from the current Marvel movies.
The mission for the evening was clear: get in, locate Jenn and Kyra, subdue them with the narcotic-laced needleless syringe he had stashed away in an inside pocket, then get them out of the house to bring them to Doctor Cargyle so that he can cure them. They could deal with Biff and the rest of the sorry bunch afterwards, possibly even saving the other girls. Like Serena. Daniel cringed at the thought that he would not be able to do anything for her tonight, but he swore that he would get her out from under the brothers' thrall before the week was out.
When Jackson was stopped by the bouncer at the door of the house, Daniel stepped up next to him. The large man asked for tickets, which Jackson presented promptly. The bouncer took them, glancing at the fraternity ring on Jackson's finger, and then examined the tickets, running them under a portable light that illuminated thin concentric purple circles hidden in the paper. He examined the tickets for a long time, once in a while glancing up at Jackson and Daniel, sizing them up. He finally handed them back, asked for the two young men to give him the back of their hands, and he stamped them with what had to be an invisible stamp.
Continue reading...
Next month: “The Fall of the House of Cusker”.
Warning: this installment contains scenes that may be disturbing to younger readers.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #28 - DIK-Bash
Daniel was nervous as he climbed the front steps of the Delta Iota Kappa fraternity house right behind Jackson. He tugged at the black scarf with eye holes that he had wrapped over the upper half of his face in the manner of Zorro, and adjusted the heavy sash that crossed his chest. He was fidgeting, he knew, but could not really help it. His main focus was devoted to fighting the sense of dread that was suffusing him since he had donned this pirate's costume and met up with Jackson--dressed as Thor from the current Marvel movies.
The mission for the evening was clear: get in, locate Jenn and Kyra, subdue them with the narcotic-laced needleless syringe he had stashed away in an inside pocket, then get them out of the house to bring them to Doctor Cargyle so that he can cure them. They could deal with Biff and the rest of the sorry bunch afterwards, possibly even saving the other girls. Like Serena. Daniel cringed at the thought that he would not be able to do anything for her tonight, but he swore that he would get her out from under the brothers' thrall before the week was out.
When Jackson was stopped by the bouncer at the door of the house, Daniel stepped up next to him. The large man asked for tickets, which Jackson presented promptly. The bouncer took them, glancing at the fraternity ring on Jackson's finger, and then examined the tickets, running them under a portable light that illuminated thin concentric purple circles hidden in the paper. He examined the tickets for a long time, once in a while glancing up at Jackson and Daniel, sizing them up. He finally handed them back, asked for the two young men to give him the back of their hands, and he stamped them with what had to be an invisible stamp.
Continue reading...
Next month: “The Fall of the House of Cusker”.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Two Organized Revenge Stories
Writing Journal: Nothing much to report. Finishing up the first part of what I've been hacking on for the past month, which if everything goes according to plan—that is, if I can get my act together and revise it—should start seeing the light of day before the end of the month. And then, The Adjusters #32.
I have not been reading a lot lately, but I came across a long long story on Djian Understories which is worth a look—I'm only halfway through, but it's one of my favorite so far this year. It's by Velvetglove, called Best Enjoyed Cold: “A ‘Rape and Revenge’ Thriller in nine Parts.” As the description—short on details—says, a rape-and-revenge thriller. Revenge via rape is an old trope, of course, but Velvetglove spins a dark tale of involved payback that goes beyond the usual ‘I'm gonna take yo girl out back and bone her.’ It's heavy on the psychological cruelty. Be warned. But if it's your cup of tea, go down and go deep. There are some impressively good scenes of abuse in there.
Velvetglove's tale reminded me a much older tale that I've ever only known as Arms, the story of an arms dealer who attempts to double-cross, in a sense, a rich client, and who gets punished by being forced to watch his family being used and abused. Call me sick—others have—but I've always just loved the last scene with Stephanie. (I seem to recall there being more chapters to the story, but I'm not able to retrace them. Also, BDSM Library credits the story to one Nic Romanschak, but I don't know if that's true. If you have updated info, or know of the longer story, please drop me a comment.)
I have not been reading a lot lately, but I came across a long long story on Djian Understories which is worth a look—I'm only halfway through, but it's one of my favorite so far this year. It's by Velvetglove, called Best Enjoyed Cold: “A ‘Rape and Revenge’ Thriller in nine Parts.” As the description—short on details—says, a rape-and-revenge thriller. Revenge via rape is an old trope, of course, but Velvetglove spins a dark tale of involved payback that goes beyond the usual ‘I'm gonna take yo girl out back and bone her.’ It's heavy on the psychological cruelty. Be warned. But if it's your cup of tea, go down and go deep. There are some impressively good scenes of abuse in there.
Velvetglove's tale reminded me a much older tale that I've ever only known as Arms, the story of an arms dealer who attempts to double-cross, in a sense, a rich client, and who gets punished by being forced to watch his family being used and abused. Call me sick—others have—but I've always just loved the last scene with Stephanie. (I seem to recall there being more chapters to the story, but I'm not able to retrace them. Also, BDSM Library credits the story to one Nic Romanschak, but I don't know if that's true. If you have updated info, or know of the longer story, please drop me a comment.)
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Weekend Random Links
Writing Journal: Still writing, and still revising. I should be ready to start The Adjusters #32—the first installment of Book III—next week. Looking forward to it. It takes place a few months after the events of Book II.
The good folks at The Groovy Age of Horror provide us with another translation of an Italian fumetto, Playcolt #11: A Disneyland Ride La Morte (Death Laughs in Disneyland).
The Onion telling us the real truth about why dating ruins friendships.
More humor, this time from Cracked, and this time with an actual lesson to be learned about how modern men are trained to hate women.
I mentioned at some point in the past that Kayden Kross is my porn crush. She still is. And now we have a conversation between her and author Adam Levin in McSweeney's. (There's a second part too.)
It's been a while I haven't pointed you to some classic comics. Today, it's Doctor Doom (Fantastic Four, The Avengers) claiming his right to exercise his Droit du Seigneur. That's one parenthetical story I'd love to see.
I leave you with an ongoing essentially blackmail story by The Thinking Horndog, The Gambling Debt: “Tony Tomaselli owes his bookie a large amount of money—and Crazy Joe Scalese isn't one to sit on his hands and wait for his debtors to show up with cash! Leg-breaking tends to be counter-productive, so Crazy Joe implements an experimental plan that involves not only Tony, but his wife Gina and their two children!” Your good ol' bookie-wants-his-dough-but-will-take-the-wife setup with an interesting development. Have a read, The Thinking Horndog knows how to write.
The good folks at The Groovy Age of Horror provide us with another translation of an Italian fumetto, Playcolt #11: A Disneyland Ride La Morte (Death Laughs in Disneyland).
The Onion telling us the real truth about why dating ruins friendships.
More humor, this time from Cracked, and this time with an actual lesson to be learned about how modern men are trained to hate women.
I mentioned at some point in the past that Kayden Kross is my porn crush. She still is. And now we have a conversation between her and author Adam Levin in McSweeney's. (There's a second part too.)
It's been a while I haven't pointed you to some classic comics. Today, it's Doctor Doom (Fantastic Four, The Avengers) claiming his right to exercise his Droit du Seigneur. That's one parenthetical story I'd love to see.
I leave you with an ongoing essentially blackmail story by The Thinking Horndog, The Gambling Debt: “Tony Tomaselli owes his bookie a large amount of money—and Crazy Joe Scalese isn't one to sit on his hands and wait for his debtors to show up with cash! Leg-breaking tends to be counter-productive, so Crazy Joe implements an experimental plan that involves not only Tony, but his wife Gina and their two children!” Your good ol' bookie-wants-his-dough-but-will-take-the-wife setup with an interesting development. Have a read, The Thinking Horndog knows how to write.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Two Mind-Control Stories
Writing Journal: Still writing. I should have something new to report soon. Oh, and you'll be pleased to know I've started revising The Adjusters #28, although I keep finding things to revise in #29 instead...
RL still somewhat crazy. But I did come across—pretty much by accident, by having a look at the old alt.sex.stories.moderated newsgroup—a new MC story by Cindy Silver Eyes that has some very good moments in it, Principal Power. No official description, but it's the story of a school principal who gets his hands on the Minvari Stone and uses it to control a pretty teacher and her sister. Dark and sinister, the way we sometimes like them.
Speaking of dark and sinister stories, last week I pointed you to a story by Ted E. Bear, and it made me think of those other stories of his that I really like. Here's an oldie but goodie, one that should be read by any fan of the genre, Revenge on My Ex-Boss: “Carl turns a business around, from nearly bankrupt to a really profitable one. His contract calls for him to be able to buy into the business, as long as he still works there, but the boss fires him, before he can buy in. On the way home he has an accident that gives him strange new powers and he uses those powers to extract revenge on his boss and his family. He turns the wife & daughters into slut whores willing to fuck or suck anyone. While they know that they are doing things that they don't want to do, it doesn't diminish their shame and humiliation over what they are doing and how they exposing themselves to everyone.” This story has everything, and more, and with plenty to spare. While the eight parts of the story are available from Ted E. Bear's site, the link I gave you is to a hyperlinked version of the story.
RL still somewhat crazy. But I did come across—pretty much by accident, by having a look at the old alt.sex.stories.moderated newsgroup—a new MC story by Cindy Silver Eyes that has some very good moments in it, Principal Power. No official description, but it's the story of a school principal who gets his hands on the Minvari Stone and uses it to control a pretty teacher and her sister. Dark and sinister, the way we sometimes like them.
Speaking of dark and sinister stories, last week I pointed you to a story by Ted E. Bear, and it made me think of those other stories of his that I really like. Here's an oldie but goodie, one that should be read by any fan of the genre, Revenge on My Ex-Boss: “Carl turns a business around, from nearly bankrupt to a really profitable one. His contract calls for him to be able to buy into the business, as long as he still works there, but the boss fires him, before he can buy in. On the way home he has an accident that gives him strange new powers and he uses those powers to extract revenge on his boss and his family. He turns the wife & daughters into slut whores willing to fuck or suck anyone. While they know that they are doing things that they don't want to do, it doesn't diminish their shame and humiliation over what they are doing and how they exposing themselves to everyone.” This story has everything, and more, and with plenty to spare. While the eight parts of the story are available from Ted E. Bear's site, the link I gave you is to a hyperlinked version of the story.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Some Oldies
Writing Journal: The Adjusters #27 seems to have been well received. I find it interesting that most of the comments that came my way—thanks to everyone that took the time to drop me a note, it's greatly appreciated—were plot-related. Nary a peep about the sex. Which tickles me to no end. On a different note, had an insight today about how to approach Book IV. You'll see what I mean in good time, but while Book III is going to be pretty straightforward, Book IV is going to be challenging, in a technical way. But I may have found a suitable crack into which to wedge my trusty plot-buster.
A couple of oldies to keep you distracted in this first week of April.
The first is by Trukin_fool, here's How to Earn a Promotion. No description I could find, but it's basically the story of a man who's up for a promotion at a company, and who discovers what needs to be done in order to secure that promotion. As a hint, it involves the wife. A nice little tale, with interesting scenes, and much implicit hotness. I love how the wife tries out her shtick on her husband—very well done.
The second is a long tale, by Kathy B. and Ted E. Bear, called Coerced, Parts 1–8 and Parts 9–11: “Charlotte, in doing a friend a favor, by overseeing a party that her friend's daughters are having, in her absence, get's drugged, and does many things that she shouldn't do, including having sex with several underaged boys. As a result, her ‘friend’ blackmails her, and her husband, into forcing Charlotte to become her maid, and, unbeknownst to her husband, she also becomes a sex slave.” Kathy B. started the story, and after Part 8 Ted E. Bear picked it up and continued it. It's a good dark tale of blackmail and abuse, where the abusee ends up torn between shame and pleasure. Some very nice scenes in there—I'm a big fan of the jogging thing. I'm just sad that the story seems to have been abandoned, because I really want to know who found the date-panties....
A couple of oldies to keep you distracted in this first week of April.
The first is by Trukin_fool, here's How to Earn a Promotion. No description I could find, but it's basically the story of a man who's up for a promotion at a company, and who discovers what needs to be done in order to secure that promotion. As a hint, it involves the wife. A nice little tale, with interesting scenes, and much implicit hotness. I love how the wife tries out her shtick on her husband—very well done.
The second is a long tale, by Kathy B. and Ted E. Bear, called Coerced, Parts 1–8 and Parts 9–11: “Charlotte, in doing a friend a favor, by overseeing a party that her friend's daughters are having, in her absence, get's drugged, and does many things that she shouldn't do, including having sex with several underaged boys. As a result, her ‘friend’ blackmails her, and her husband, into forcing Charlotte to become her maid, and, unbeknownst to her husband, she also becomes a sex slave.” Kathy B. started the story, and after Part 8 Ted E. Bear picked it up and continued it. It's a good dark tale of blackmail and abuse, where the abusee ends up torn between shame and pleasure. Some very nice scenes in there—I'm a big fan of the jogging thing. I'm just sad that the story seems to have been abandoned, because I really want to know who found the date-panties....
Sunday, April 1, 2012
New Story: The Adjusters #27
Here is April's installment of The Adjusters, “Prelude to a Party”, wherein several people make plans for the great DIK-Bash.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #27 - Prelude to a Party
"So, did it work?" was the first thing Daniel asked Jackson when the
latter entered the apartment.
Cindy looked up over Radhu's shoulder, giving Jackson a nod, before
turning her attention back to the documents that Radhu had extracted
from the Delta Iota Kappa systems and from Doctor Cargyle's
laptop. There was a wealth of information there, although much of it
was either incomprehensible or of no relevance to them. But the two
were finding it fascinating, having been studying the documents for
the last hour, conferring in hushed tones.
Jackson plopped himself down on the couch, and pulled a ticket out of
his pocket. He flashed a smile towards Daniel. "Yup, got it."
Daniel grinned and snatched the ticket from Jackson's hand. A ticket
to DIK-Bash, held later tonight, at the Delta Iota Kappa
fraternity. The group had brainstormed for a while about the best way
to crash the party—the attendance for this evening's event was
restricted to alumni and a few select guests, in contrast to the later
activities of the weekend-long party, which would allow a more general
attendance. The matter of attendance had led Cindy to suspect that the
DIK girls probably would not be present for those later events—or at
least less so—which had led Daniel to finally elect to go the direct
route, and he had sent Jackson to try to bribe someone for their
ticket. Whatever the cost, had been the motto. Jackson knew a brother
hurting for money, and had figured that brother might be the weak
link. He had been right.
"You'll need a costume," said Jackson.
Continue reading...
Next month: “DIK-Bash”.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #27 - Prelude to a Party
"So, did it work?" was the first thing Daniel asked Jackson when the
latter entered the apartment.
Cindy looked up over Radhu's shoulder, giving Jackson a nod, before
turning her attention back to the documents that Radhu had extracted
from the Delta Iota Kappa systems and from Doctor Cargyle's
laptop. There was a wealth of information there, although much of it
was either incomprehensible or of no relevance to them. But the two
were finding it fascinating, having been studying the documents for
the last hour, conferring in hushed tones.
Jackson plopped himself down on the couch, and pulled a ticket out of
his pocket. He flashed a smile towards Daniel. "Yup, got it."
Daniel grinned and snatched the ticket from Jackson's hand. A ticket
to DIK-Bash, held later tonight, at the Delta Iota Kappa
fraternity. The group had brainstormed for a while about the best way
to crash the party—the attendance for this evening's event was
restricted to alumni and a few select guests, in contrast to the later
activities of the weekend-long party, which would allow a more general
attendance. The matter of attendance had led Cindy to suspect that the
DIK girls probably would not be present for those later events—or at
least less so—which had led Daniel to finally elect to go the direct
route, and he had sent Jackson to try to bribe someone for their
ticket. Whatever the cost, had been the motto. Jackson knew a brother
hurting for money, and had figured that brother might be the weak
link. He had been right.
"You'll need a costume," said Jackson.
Continue reading...
Next month: “DIK-Bash”.
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