Message-ID: <42211asstr$1051780202@assm.asstr-mirror.org> Return-Path: <LadyCyrrh@aol.com> From: LadyCyrrh@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <48.1c011354.2be1bb1a@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by sara.asstr-mirror.org id h3UNnuGU007141 X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:49:46 EDT Subject: {ASSM} {REVIEW} The Annex Reviews 4/30/03 Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 05:10:02 -0400 Path: assm.asstr-mirror.org!not-for-mail X-Is-Review: yes Approved: <assm@asstr-mirror.org> Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories,alt.sex.stories.d Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: <URL:http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2003/42211> X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Story-Submission: <ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Moderator-ID: gill-bates, dennyw The Annex Reviews, 4/30/03 by Lady Cyrrh (ladycyrrh@aol.com) Website: http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh The Stories: Rivals (Vinnie Tesla): M/F, F/F, cons, oral, exhib, humor It Came (Daphne Xu): teen, nosex, short The Opening (john): M/F, cons, short Female Plumbing Problems (Vulgar Argot): M/F, rom, myth, humor Jena Commits to Six Months, Part 1 (Dave Haugen): M/F, BDSM, watersports, doggirl Rivals [A] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 2/27/03 Author: Vinnie Tesla Author address: vinnie_tesla@yahoo.com Type: M/F, F/F, cons, oral, exhib, humor Burningman is a huge tribal (as in rave tribal, not Native American) festival held every Labor Day weekend in a remote area of the Nevada desert; it's a modern-day freakfest featuring didgeroo players, dreadlocked slackers, performance artists, and lots of casual nudity. For one week everyone turns out to watch and be watched, acting like total asses; then they go back to their day jobs, counting the days until next year's bash. The narrator of this story is one of the return visitors, and this story describes the adventures he has with a female companion at the festival. The oh-so-cool Gen-X duo has a casual on-and-off-again sexual relationship with each other, but at the heart they're really best buds who prefer to hang out together. When an attractive female stranger pitches her tent near theirs they are both intrigued, and make clear to each other they intend to seduce her; thus the rivalry of the title is born. The story was a very good evocation of the strangeness and chaoticism of the festival -- I've not attended, but I've had friends who have, and am also familiar with the peculiar West Coast blend of wheatgrass and weirdness it represents -- and in that it was very interesting to read, as I've known character types like that in real life. But because I knew them, the story got monotonous after a while. Casual no-strings sex done with art and humor is nice, and the author writes it very well. But it also means there's no tension and conflict -- no jealousies, no awkward confessions, no daring moments, no sudden disgusts or heart-racing attraction. Those are the things that interest me as a reader. The story was more of a travelogue with sex, in fact, than a story. A very good and evocative one (and for that I rated it highly) but when all the characters good-naturedly fuck each other without thinking twice, how can you distinguish Amanda from Tanya, or from the topless dancing girl at the next didgeroo booth? I couldn't. It Came [B-] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 4/19/01 Author: Daphne Xu Type: teen, nosex, short It's been a while since I saw a new Daphne Xu story, so I thought I'd read this. I've loved the "Teen Blowjob" series for years, and so expected something similar... deadpan, low-key, shaggy dog, and very funny. Young Tony is on the cusp of puberty and is sleeping in his bed when he hears moaning noises and wakes up drenched in sweat as if from a terrible nightmare. This occurs two more times. I expected there to be some twist, the moaning and gasping a horrorific metaphor for sexual maturity, for example, that would resolve itself in some amusing punchline. So I read this to the end, and stopped, scratching my head. Uh-huh. Hmm. OK, where's the joke? Daphne, did I miss something? The Opening [B] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 4/13/01 Author: john Author address: johndear@softhome.net Type: M/F, cons, short A man goes to the opening of a new show by a married female artist he knows and is apparently very close to, and, it turns out later, infatuated with. Later, at another opening, he decides to seduce her. This was one of those slice-of-life stories, written for a "Thoughts of You" writing challenge; so, I suppose that because it is supposed to be someone's thoughts, the prose is rather disjointed, as most people don't think in a logical, linear way, except when they have some work-related problem to solve. But I honestly didn't know what to make of passages like this: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Two women. Cocktail dresses. Pearls. Discussed the shades of green. Her wallpaper, it seemed. The light. The empty space beside a cupboard. To balance out that godforsaken chair. Patiently awaited time to meet the artist, rustic in her chambray and her jeans. Not knowing all their questions might be answered by the man who stood behind them, listening. How her paint had been applied. How her colours had evolved. The meanness of a life in far off Renison. The temper of her dog. Her recipe for moose. Then spotted friends across the room; moved off for second guesses. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It's evocative, but of what? After a few more paragraphs like these I felt skittish and jumpy, not really in the frame of mind to enjoy a nice short sex story. Nice, I guess, in a literary sense, but I like plots and characters, or something so odd or unusual I don't care if it lacks plots and characters. Female Plumbing Problems [A+] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 4/6/03 Author: Vulgar Argot Author address: vulgarargotREMOVEALL@CAPSinsidejoke.tv Author website: http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/VulgarArgot/index.htm l Type: M/F, rom, myth, humor Software engineer Chris is not having a good day. First he has to solve a complicated problem from a customer, causing him to break a date with a co-worker for the third time; then, when he comes home, the plumbing breaks down in his house. When he unscrews the pipe, lo and behold, the watery form of a river nymph pours out to stand at his feet: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The water was not behaving as water should. Instead, it coalesced into the form of a woman, beautiful and waifish, with a lilly worn in her long brown hair. To Chris (whose full name was Cristopolos,) she looked Greek. She was also stark naked. Chris, too stunned to move, looked back and forth. The first words out of his mouth were, "If this is some sort of elaborate joke, someone is going to need a proctologist to remove this wrench from their..." "Excuse me," the woman said in a voice reminiscent of a waterfall Chris had found once, far back in the woods where no one ever seemed to go, "Are you a god?" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This was a sweetly humorous story, most of the giggles coming from the nymph's maladjustment to the 21st century. She can't figure out why modern men don't pursue her as the Ancient Greeks did, for example (as it turns out improved standards of health and hygiene has made modern females as lovely as the nymphs once were.) But she copes, discovering that modern men have their advantages, too ("Zeus had been a selfish lover, even among the gods. Heracles's breath always reeked of garlic. And Apollo was all tongue.") Soon, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Oneone soon felt her body beginning to be shaken by waves of pleasure that eddied out from where Chris's fingers entered her in orgasmic ripples. She'd felt this way before, but only as a river, never as a woman. "You're so wet," Chris whispered to her. "Of course," said Oneone, giggling, "I'm always wet." >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The story ends on a bittersweet note that didn't really surprise me, but that was the only way it could have ended, I think. Warm and funny, and recommended. Jena Commits to Six Months, Part 1 [B] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 4/12/01 Author: Dave Haugen Author address: dave_haugen@hotmail.com Type: M/F, BDSM, watersports, doggirl Jena is a knockout 23-year-old divorcee interested in playing out her submission fantasies in real life, and Dave is the top who thinks he can fulfill them... and so, like a pig and a pit at a Hawaiian luau, the two meet, exchanging long lists of what they will and won't put up with from each other ("Dave chuckled to himself at the number of MAYBEs in her responses. It was as though she was too naïve to really know what was going to be expected of her if she actually decided to become his slave.") I guess I've been reading too many BDSM slave stories, because I've gotten mighty tired of them, or at least of this particular kind. I call it jerkfic, because the male dom is less interested in a cooperative relationship with the sub where both roleplay their fantasies, and more into asserting stereotypical male caveman status. Right off the bat Mr. Smirking Jerk whallops his 5'2 95-pound sweetie in the face, then puts her in a doggie kennel and gives her a plastic bowl to eat in from the floor. He even goes so far as to have her download porn for him from the internet, sweating diligently over the computer as he relaxes in a La-Z-boy lounger watching TV ("For the next two hours, Dave sat in his lazy boy sipping port as he watched television, glancing now and then at the screen behind the tv to see what porn Jena was surfing and saving. At one point, Dave had her sit in front of him so he could rest his legs on her ass, while she knelt down, continuing to type and surf, albeit uncomfortably.") If you like the idea of this, go to it; but since jerks are readily apparent in real life, I see no reason to read about them. ____________________________________________________ Comments to: ladycyrrh@aol.com Website---> http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh -- Pursuant to the Berne Convention, this work is copyright with all rights reserved by its author unless explicitly indicated. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | alt.sex.stories.moderated ----- send stories to: <ckought69@hotmail.com> | | FAQ: <http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/faq.html> Moderator: <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Discuss this story and others in alt.sex.stories.d, look for subject {ASSD}| |Archive at <http://assm.asstr-mirror.org> Hosted by <http://www.asstr-mirror.org> | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+