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Date: Mon,  1 Jul 2002 13:10:04 -0400
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The Annex Reviews, 6/30/02
by Lady Cyrrh (ladycyrrh@aol.com)
Website: http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh 


Here's the latest round of reviews, three science fiction, and
two from the ASSM Summer Solstice Romance Festival. I'll be doing
more entries next month. I'm very pleased at the quality I've
found.

Now for some news about my website. My Spanish language skills
have progressed to the point now where I will be accepting
Spanish language sex story sites as a service for the Latino
community. The same rules apply as to my other listed sites:
noncommercial or semicommercial only, at least three sexually
explicit stories, easy to search and use, and lastly, with a
minimum of annoying popups and flashing banners. As always, I
look for general porn, fetish, BDSM, fanfic, furry, anime/yaoi,
and any other weird kink you can think of.

(Side note) I am amazed at the amount of anime fanfic that exists
in Latin America... it far outnumbers fics for TV shows, books,
and movies. I can only guess they're being written by young
people, the new net generation. Of the TV shows, Xena is by far
the most popular, followed by The Xfiles, Buffy, and Roswell. The
Trek series are strangely missing; I found exactly one slashy
Star Wars site, also. With native search engines, this ratio
might change. 


So, if anyone has any recommendations, let me know.



The stories:

XWives #1: Sluts Save the World (Jo Jo Jinx): M/F+ cons, SF, watersports, 
humor

Lance Storm and the Slaves of the Hypnotron (Wersgor): 
      M/M SF, mc, immobilization, humor

The Red Temple (Rushlight): M/M Star Wars slash, BDSM, slave

Summer Solstice Romance Festival: Red Revenge (Frances LaGatta): M/F rom, 
bond, D/s, hist

Summer Solstice Romance Festival: Stargazing (Spline Duck): F/F rom




XWives #1: Sluts Save the World [B/B-]
Where posted: ASSM
When posted: 6/19/02
Author: Jo Jo Jinx
Author address: jojo@jojojinx.com
Author website: http://www.jojojinx.com

This story was first in a series. An illustrated version of this
story is available on the author's website. 


The XWives (a spoof of the Xfiles?) are a group of oversexed
housewives with nothing better to do than chase big cocks all
over the world. When news comes to them of an alien invasion
("Their invasion [was]  a thirty year campaign of terrorism that
They called television, radio, and adult internet... to turn the
population of the world into a mass of spineless, low morality,
promiscuous cum sluts") they set off, naked, each wife taking on
a moniker ("Janie - Gang Bang Leader... Connie - Coozy Cunt")
describing her specialty. If this all sounds heavy-handed, it
was. The action starts when the aliens ask to be taught about
Earth sex. Nasal fellatio and alien cunnilingus follow.

This story wasn't badly written, but it was very obvious, and of
the "Cum flying everywhere" genre that was frankly never one of
my favorite story types. The humor was more of the
lowest-common-denominator adult-joke variety than the well
thought-out parodies of Shon Richards, Please Cain, or Felix
Lance Falken, other writers whose science fiction spoofs I've
enjoyed. This story seemed to be trying too hard to be clever and
topical, and the straining showed. I don't think the author knew
anything more than the average person about science fiction, the
Xfiles, or UFO lore, and if you don't have a knowledge of what
you are spoofing, your spoof is not likely to impress.

So, I can't really recommend it for its humor, but if you do like
"Cum flying everywhere" slutwife  stories, give it a shot. 




Lance Storm and the Slaves of the Hypnotron [A+]
Author: Wersgor
Author address: ghamell@hotmail.com
Where found: http://www.mcstories.com/LanceStorm/LanceStorm.html

This SF parody, found on the Mind Control Stories Archive,
handled the spoof elements more successfully. Manly Lance Storm
is a member of the Allied Space Fleet Rocketeers sent to
investigate the disappearance of a spaceship full of Chippendales
dancers. To his chagrin he finds out his partner is Lt. Eros, a
member of an oversexed race calling themselves the Orgasmians.
The two set off and come to a 'rogue planet' where gay Dr.
Sleazor has enslaved the dancers and paralyzed them with his
Hypno-Para-Freeze-Gun: 


>>>>>Meanwhile, in Sleazor's lair of evil, the Nemesis of Space
was relaxing in his favorite hammock, sipping a pink fruity drink
with a little silver umbrella. The Ho Slave who had mixed the
drink stood within arm's reach, holding a tray and waiting
mindlessly for his master to finish. Tall and beautifully
muscled, he resembled the ancient Earth movie star Sylvester
Stallone, although the fact that his mind was a blank made him
look more intelligent.<<<<< 


Heee!

Poor Lance is paralyzed himself and only a greater hypnotic force can save 
him. That force is to be made love to by his partner:

>>>>>He wanted to resist what he was feeling, but how could he
when the alternative was to stay a living statue forever? He
tried again, desperately, to move on his own, to jerk away from
this unsought experience. But, though sweat streamed as if he was
lifting enormous weights, every muscle remained locked helplessly
in place. His arms, legs, torso, all were alive and sensitive,
yet as petrified as solid marble. And now Eros was running
strong, quick hands all up and down his sides, leaning in to
slowly, seductively lick at his nipples, hanging on to one
rigidly outstretched arm for support. Lance wanted to gasp, but
his throat would not obey. He had never had anything done to his
nipples before --- it just wasn't a guy thing! But this
sensation, this unbelievable feeling! The licking turned to
sucking, and Lance instinctively knew that if his tits were not
frozen, they would be standing at full attention!<<<<< 


Everything ends happily when the two defeat the villain and Lance 
acknowledges his homosexuality.

This story was very silly, but loads of fun, spoofing not only
Flash Gordon type movie serials, but the gay guy-seduces-straight
guy fantasy, and the know-it-all but secretly oversexed sidekick
in the mold of Mr. Spock, as slash writers have conceived him.
Recommended, and there are other stories in this series, too. 




The Red Temple [A-]
Author: Rushlight
Where found: http://www.slashcity.org/~rushlight/temple.htm

Though I've known "Phantom Menace" Star Wars slash has existed
for a while I haven't been inspired to re-review it until now,
with the release of "Attack of the Clones." The Phantom Menace is
by far the more slashier of the two movies, chiefly because there
are no main female characters, and the male leads are so very
very pretty. This story was recommended (a 'rec' in fanfic terms)
on another site I thought I'd give it a go.

Obi-wan and Qui-Gon are sent undercover to a Fringe world to
recover a kidnapped governor's son who has been sold into Red
Temple slavery... Red Temple meaning the widespread practice of
sexual bondage that drives this world's economy. In order to
infiltrate this underworld Obi-Wan volunteers to be sold as
slave. Qui-Gon only reluctantly agrees, sensing danger ahead for
his protege as he's put on the auction block. But mixed in with
it is... arousal? 


>>>>>Qui-Gon stared. He had seen his apprentice naked before,
many times throughout their long association together. It wasn't
anything that he had ever really thought about before. But now,
seeing the elegantly sculpted muscles and planes of that hard
body, he felt a stirring inside of him that defied explanation,
and he had the ridiculous urge to look away, as if that would
somehow make it easier on Obi-Wan.<<<<<

Of course it is, because in fanfic there is canon and there is
fanon, or gradually accreted story elements put there by fanfic
writers and accepted by mass consensus, and one of them is that
the older, more experienced Qui-Gon always lusts after his
younger, more vulnerable partner. So the slashing begins. 


This story was written well, but like a lot of fanfic I found the
author was merely skimming along on top of the action instead of
delving into the deep n' dirty. Not necessarily where sexual
matters are concerned, but in the more basic story elements like
immediacy and suspense. I always knew Obi-Wan was going to be all
right, even as he's boffo gang-raped and sent to an S/M parlor.
He even had a female trainer -- a mary sue? -- whose job it was
to hold his hand and guide him through the enslavement process.
Not a lot of tension. (I wonder if the overly restrained, polite
tone of fanfic these days is because of the widespread use of
beta readers.) I was hoping for a surprise ending -- like the
governor's son decides he wants to stay a slave, or the female
trainer turned out to be an enemy spy, or something -- but the
only surprise was that Obi semi- falls for his new Master, and
Qui-Gon has to step in to fight for his freedom. Which in fanon
isn't much of a surprise at all. 


Nevertheless, this was a long, juicy tale with lots of unrequited
longing and a few hot BDSM scenes, and if the pair's later
conversion to the joys of D/s is unconvincing, there's enough
gooiness going on here to keep any slasher happy. 




Red Revenge  [A+]
Where posted: ASSM
When posted: 6/21/02
Author: Frances LaGatta
Author address: lori111c@worldnet.att.net

This story starts out with a bang, in the style of a historical 
bodice-ripper: 

>>>>>She was at once aware that she was buck naked, raw hide bound at 
the wrists and ankles, spread between birch saplings with her private 
parts shamefully exposed to watchful eyes.  Her face flamed and she 
squeezed her eyes tight; her mortification at this dreadful degradation 
knew no bounds.  And her mouth. . . it was full of something she could 
not swallow. She tried to cry out for the Lord to save her, but all her 
pleas came out as muffled, futile noises. In confusion and fear she 
thrashed her russet tresses against the mossy dirt, and suddenly it all 
came back to her.<<<<<

Yes, the virginal protagonist had been kidnapped by Indians
during the summer solstice of 1777 and lies staked out on the
ground as she waits for her fate. A Lenni Lenape brave
approaches, and after some preliminary explorations of her body 


>>>>>... her eyes widened like twin pools of blue appeal as she watched him 
strip away his deerskins, revealing a magnificent form and a 
penis reminiscent of the bull in the pastor's pasture. It swayed like 
the tree limbs high above her.  And she found that the sheer size of his 
manhood did not inspire fear, but instead made her pulse raced with an 
intense craving.<<<<<

Actually, this whole story was pretty damn quotable, the author
having done an excellent job of emulating the tone of historical
fiction, as well as that of American fiction of the late 1770s.
And pretty damn hot, too. The brave put me in mind of the movie
"Last of the Mohicans" -- not the Daniel Day-Lewis character, but
his Iroquois foe. Yum. To top it off, there's some interesting
backstory, too. 


Recommended, and I'll ask the author to give us more stories in this vein, 
please.



Stargazing  [A+]
Where posted: ASSM
When posted: 6/20/02
Author: Spline Duck
Author address: splineduck@hotmail.com
Author website: www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/duck/www

Two old friends, both female, take a break from a boring party to
go lay out on the lawn. One is a pansexual into play parties, the
other a wife dissatisfied with her mate. Side by side, they
regard the stars and reminisce: 


>>>>>"It's such a beautiful, clear night, one of the best. I love
looking at the Milky Way when it's so clear and dark," I said.

"I've always felt peaceful down here at night. The stars look so
near and personal. I like to think about them masturbating."

"Masturbating? Talma, what are you talking about?"

"Well, mostly they're all alone. Some of them are double stars,
so I guess they might be doing kinky things to each other through
the eons, but lots of them are solitary. A few are even multiple
stars: far-out, stellar group sex, maybe."<<<<<

As you can tell, this heats things up for a discussion of
masturbation practices, and how the one friend initiated the
other into self-love long, long ago when they were both twelve.

This was a very good story, always interesting, even as it swung
between sweet naturalism and the exaggerations of conventional
porn (the narrator gangbanged her high school's rival football
team -- twice -- just to spite the boyfriend who dumped her?)
with the sweetness winning out. Maybe it was me, but I wound up
reading far more into these two characters than was there... I
could easily see this story as the start of a longer one, or a
series, perhaps. In any case, the author established character
without hitting us over the head with it. He or she had a way
with description, too (the narrator describes her cunt: "You
know, I like to think of it as my Grand Canyon: shrubbery around
the rim, deep with folds and turns, and moist far in the center")
and even if people don't wax so poetic in real life, it was fun
to read. My only quibble was with the female masturbatory
techniques. I don't know why solo diddling with the middle finger
is so paramount. The index finger has more muscles and is more
dexterous, and is only a quarter inch shorter. Hell, I don't use
fingers at all, in the beginning. I go with my knuckles, or the
side of my thumb. (I can't believe I said that.) And the narrator
is still surprisingly nasty towards the boyfriend who dumped her
so long ago, considering he wasn't even that well-endowed and she
had bigger fish to fry. 


But, I did like this story a lot, especially that comment about
the stars. Two friends, hangin' around and talkin'... who knows
what things will come up. 


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