Before I comment on the story, a preliminary matter. This story was written on inspiration from the writings of Jane Urquhart, a.k.a janey98@hotmail.com, who is my favorite writer of erotic short stories. If you haven't read her stories, don't bother with mine until you do. She's much better than I. She has her own site here on ASSTR, http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Jane_Urquhart/www
 

Early in 1998, I was looking through ASSM, and I found a story called Janey's February , by Janey. The story was terrific. It referred to a predecessor, Janey's January , which I had missed. Not knowing about dejanews.com at the time, or any other ASSM archive, I wrote to Janey both to compliment her writing and to ask if she could send me January. Janey was most gracious in her reply, telling me about dejanews and making some other comments which seemed to invite further correspondence. So off I went to find January, perhaps my favorite story of all that I have ever read, and found more than I bargained for. When Janey the character plopped herself into Steve's lap, I fell in love with her. The action was so endearing in context that I was sucked into Janey's world. I wrote some more effusive praise to the author, and she again responded in a way that seemed to encourage me to continue to write her.
 

More correspondence and more stories followed, and then she published a parody of fan mail that caused me to ask her whether any of her readers ever sent her fantasies involving her. She said no, and then jokingly invited me to try. I thought it would be a hoot, so I thought about it. My first thought was a romantic seduction, but unfortunately for me, BitBard, then known as Sandman, had just written Bolero , in which he romantically seduces Janey, and I was scared to compete with his talent. Besides, he portrays himself as tall and handsome, someone Janey could fall for. I'm shorter than Janey, and nothing to write home about. So I decided I needed a gimmick to get the girl. Hence the bet. After that, the story just happened.
 

Much to my surprise, Janey said it was good enough to publish. I demurred, but she was very encouraging. So I published.

Janey then published the Official Denial on ASSD.  BitBard chimed in.  I responded.  It was fun.  That exchange is here.

I have subsequently regretted publishing for two reasons:  nobody does Janey's world as well as she does, and mine suffers by comparison, and it really isn't kosher to kidnap someone else's character, even if you give it back.  Janey was nice about it, but Janey belongs to Janey.  That 's one reason I assigned the rights to this story to her.  It is used here with her permission.

Miles