SPOTLIGHT

M1ke Hunt

- that's a one (1) in M1ke, not an I. If you need a laugh with your erotica, he's your man.

I conducted an extensive Google Search with regard to M1ke - I wanted to know why he disappeared. I asked others on ASSD that question, fearing that his last story was in some way autobiographical. I'm told that it wasn't.

A list of The Compleat? M1ke Hunt:

She's a Tease - A friendly neighbor and a vacuum cleaner...
The Photographer - My little camera and a couple of friends
The Darkroom - A sequel to The Photographer
A Cousin's Lips - Skinny-dipping with a skinny cousin
The Skier - A nurse helps straighten me out
The Lingerie Salesman - I embark on a brand new career
Feet are Neat - A summer job in a shoe store at the mall
Straight Sex - A self explanatory (if misleading) title
Shorts Stories - Little stories, but then aren't they all?
Women are Stupid - A political manifesto (whatever that means)
Some Things Just Happen - A chance encounter and a long lifelong longing
Four Letter Words - 3 short story contest entries (and not a story among them)
The Wet T-Shirt Contest - With this handy title you need an explanation?
Fucking Celeste - A tribute to the sex stories reviewer
Art Class - An almost all true story about my college daze
The Topless Bar - Finding love in all the right places
Homestead - A science-fiction look at a brief history of time
High Rise - The real me and the real me
And Then I Fucked Her - My commentary on how to write sex stories
Dirty Boys - Jimmy and I learn all about sex (teen, mm)
Drive In - Half-price special: 2-for-1 night
Reluctant Bride - I help her with the wedding arrangements
Young, Dumb-Full of Cum - A non-sex story for sex story spammers
Auto Biography - I'm a rambler and a gambler and a sweet-talkin' ladies' man...
Identical Twins - I make a spectacle of myself, twice!
Under Cover - I expose the phone-sex industry and myself
I am M1ke's Dick - The making of "The Making Of..."

M1ke has a VERY understanding wife!

June's First - The wife's first sexcapade and story
Maria in Maine - My wife and I visit her old college friend
Fun in the Tub - Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
Shelly's Sex Life - Just trying to help a neighbor
Shelly's Trial - And this is what I get for trying to help
The United Way - A couple of friends help a couple of friends
The Swimsuit - What Fun In The Tub could have been
The O'Stikkit Inn - My wife dances with a new acquaintence

You get a lot of laughs with M1ke, but this last story will rip your heart out. Have chocolate available when you read it. You have been warned.

The Night Before Christmas - M1ke's last published story

The really big question is,
"Has anybody seen M1ke Hunt?"

In September of 1998, Baird Allen asked in newsgroup alt.sex.stories.d, "{ASSD} Anyone Know Status of M1ke Hunt?" He publicly observed that M1ke didn't monitor the newsgroup, but just in case, could he drop him a line?

Anne (anon747b) speculated that M1ke had gotten a second TOS violation and lost his account at AOL.

On September 3rd, Baird said "I had a message from him today, on a temporary account that he does not plan to keep for long. He is doing fine, but is too busy to set up a new website right now."

On the 5th, Baird announced that with M1ke's permission, his web site had been reproduced as a subdirectory of his own, the Bear's Den. (Don't bother looking for it, it's gone too, or gone pay.) The title of that thread was "{ASSD} M1ke Hunt's website moves to The Bear's Den".

Fast forward to February, 2000 and we find Uther Pendragon and John Jameson discussing "Re: {ASSM} Mike Hunt - what happened to him?" John says, "M1ke Hunt is still alive and apparently still with a functioning sense of humor. I received a message from him after using him in a cameo role in An Interview with Miss Behavin’ -- complaining that he would never be so absent-minded and just plain lame, he reposted the relevant part, but added one word. His stories are still, for me, the ultimate in erotic humor."

I asked the same question as late as February 2002 ({ASSD} What happened to M1ke Hunt?). I was assured that M1ke was fine, enjoying the status of infrequent lurker, and still considered one of (if not the) funniest writers of humorous porn on the net. That's an assessment I concur with.

With his apparent retirement from active writing or participation in the ASSD newsgroup, M1ke was posted to the ASS Hall of Fame. No nomination was more deserved. (Equally deserved, certainly, but none more.)

Still, the question surfaces like clockwork, once or twice each year:

"Has anyone seen M1ke Hunt?"