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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 06:10:04 -0400
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The Annex Reviews, 4/25/02
by Lady Cyrrh (ladycyrrh@aol.com)
Website: http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh 


The stories:

The Revenant of Hargreave Manor (Bill Lemieux): F solo, BDSM, fetish, 
historical, mystery

The Wonderful Adventures of Miss K: Queen of the Road (Brett Lynn): 
TG, cons, humor

Aia's Task (Lazarus): M/F, oral, exhi

The Ebony Horse, Part 3 (S. Gray): M/F, fantasy

My Sweet Prince (Nina Inhertz): M/m, SF/fantasy, yaoi

The Taurus Key (Lady Tempest Yaoi): M/M, SF/fantasy, yaoi

Rite of Spring (Eddie): m/F, teen, wife, mast, first

Movie Review: Y tu Mama Tambien




The Revenant of Hargreave Manor [A+]
Where found: http://www.cnbr.net/revenant1.html
Author: Bill Lemieux

This must be the greatest bondage gear/supernatural mystery story of 
all time. Dilletante Emily Swanson has always known she was different 
from other girls, a differance that is not accepted or even spoken about 
in the polite Victorian society she inhabits. So she pursues her interests 
in leather, corsets, and caning on her own, her reckless yen eventually 
leading her to America and a spooky old house rumored to be haunted. 
Investigating, she finds a hallway containing ten very strange statues:

>>> On each side of the hall were stationed a series of beautiful statues of 
nude women and men, finely crafted of what I at first took to be ebony. 
There were ten of them, five on either side of the hall... On closer 
examination I saw that the sculptor must have been a kindred spirit, for 
his work was both erotic and bizarre. The woman was tall, taller even 
than I and quite thin, with hips like a boy's, yet obviously not a boy, for 
her nude sex was sculpted in loving detail. I noticed that no pubic hair 
had been depicted. Nor was she quite nude after all. She wore a complex 
harness of straps around her body, which circled her small and pointed 
breasts, her neck, head, and waist, indeed, her entire body at many 
points. Small rings were attached to the straps, no doubt used to secure 
the wearer in a desired position, or in place against some unknown 
apparatus. <<<

Going upstairs, she walks through a series of rooms containing many 
strange devices, appliances, and articles of strange clothing which just 
happen to be in her size:

>>>[I found] a pair of tight fitting bloomers, with a high waist and 
obviously close-fitting legs, and it seemed to wiggle and vibrate of it's 
own accord as I turned it over in my hands. But what made my mouth 
turn dry and my blood begin pounding in my ears was what I saw 
inside. A pair of soft rods, phallic in shape, were fitted in the crotch as 
part of the garment. (I was relieved to note that the garment was either 
new or had been scrupulously cleaned.) More over, a wide rounded 
ridge of soft bumps rose from the base of the front rod, and I knew 
instinctively where those bumps would rest... The rods were what gave 
the garment it's strange vibrating sensation. Something heavy and 
loose, (quicksilver perhaps?) was trapped within each one, and they 
wriggled and shook with every movement. When I imagined how they 
would feel inside me, my knees became as rubbery as the bloomers.<<<

What happens next is easy to guess, as she has various adventures with 
the devices, the clothing, and the mysterious inhabitants of the house, 
culminating in... well, I won't spoil it for you. 

The author did a wonderful job in imitating a Victorian tone, veering 
toward plain naughty in a lot of places. I particularly liked the 
descriptions of all the strange devices, most of which, teasingly, were 
never explained. I don't recommend trying to read the story in one 
sitting, as it was pretty long and dense. But broken apart, it was very 
entertaining.



The Wonderful Adventures of Miss K: Queen of the Road [A-/B+]
Where posted: ASSM
When posted: 4/14/00
Author: Bret Lynn
Author Address: iluminati99@netzero.net
Author Website: http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/BrettLynn/www  

Miss K is a most unusual she-male. She is not only feisty, glamourous, 
and quick-thinking, she also makes full use of her male attributes, 
leaving attractive women breathless with desire. Driving down the 
highway with her companion Tracy she meets a female convenience 
store employee, and later a state trooper, whom she serves with aplomb. 
She's also a most polite she-male, given to pleasantries like "Pleasure to 
be of service" reminding me of the immortal Lady Chablis from 
"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" but without the social 
climbing.

Though the writing could have been better (the sex scenes were 
endless) the story was on the whole entertaining and the character 
unusual and appealing. I had the feeling neither she nor the story's 
creator took themselves too seriously.  



Aia's Task [A]
Where posted: ASSM
When posted: 4/12/00
Author: Lazarus
Author Address: lazaruspowers69@hotmail.com
Author Website: http://www.aiasden.com

When Aia receives a note her lover has been kidnapped her first 
impulse is to rush to his rescue. She dolls herself up in sheer black silk 
and stiletto heels, certain... nay, smug... that the reward of her luscious 
flesh will be enough to ransom him. She is somewhat perturbed when 
the captor turns out to be a veritable mountain of a man:

>>>He was enormous, endowed as no man she had ever known... even 
imagined.  Her brown eyes wide in amazement, she looked beseechingly 
at her tormentor, knowing the intentions lying behind his piercing 
eyes, but hoping she might be wrong.  She had never serviced a cock 
like the one standing before  her. Its veined shaft stood rigidly,  
nodding slightly with each heart beat. <<<

Gamely, she tries for a blowjob, then manages to spike herelf on the 
oversized organ... discovering that the plot was a setup by the lover all 
along! To satisfy his own voyeuristic urges, no less. 

I couldn't help imagining a "Run Lola Run" scenario to her plight; it 
would have been nice if the writer had fleshed it out more. But it left a 
succession of nice images in my brain, so who could really ask for more.



The Ebony Horse, Part 3 [A-]
Where posted: ASSM
When posted: 4/2/00
Author: S. Gray
Author Address: sgray113@hotmail.com

You'd think the Arabian Nights tales would be ripe for erotic retellings, 
but in my years on the net I've come across only a few that tried to 
imitated that style. This story (part of a longer series available on the 
author's website) was one of them.

Prince Kamar and Princess Nahar would like to be wed, but problems 
ensue when her father refuses to their union. The impetuous prince 
then carries his bride to be off on the mechanical flying horse of the 
title, but unfortunatly the horse's inventor has plans of his own for the 
princess, and he kidnaps and drugs her to satisy his lust:


>>>The princess whimpered in helpless lust as he began to slide his flesh 
mushroom up and down her moist slit, wetting his dick with her love 
juices...as if dipping a quill into an inkpot, getting ready to inscribe 
something upon her.  She panted as the cock head glided up and down 
her moist crevice, a prelude to the sexual invasion that she eagerly 
awaited.<<<


The day is saved when the real prince returns.

The story was OK, but the prose came off as dry to me, with too much tell 
and not enough show. To be fair the original English translation of the 
Arabian Nights available on www.bartleby.com read the same way... so 
if the author wanted to imitate the dusty, somewhat ponderous tone, he 
or she succeeded. However it only made all the contemporary terms for 
sex organs -- flesh mushroom, hard meat, snatch, etc. -- stick out all the 
more. One or two terms would have been enough, or better yet, some 
authentic Arabic or Persian slang substituted.



My Sweet Prince [A-/B+]
Where found: http://www.fanfiction.net
Author: Nina Inhertz

The Taurus Key [A/A-]
Where found: http://ladytempestyaoi.homestead.com/Tauruskey_pro-
part1.html
Author: Lady Tempest Yaoi

While doing all the reading for Fanfic Nation a few weeks ago I kept 
coming across a subgenre of fanfic called yaoi. Yaoi is a  kind of 
Japanese slash about epicene pretty boys and their romantic 
relationships with one another. Since it derives from manga and anime 
rather than live-action TV such pretty boys, or bishonen, are 
invariably tall, slim, and swooning, with beautiful eyes, long flowing 
hair, and lithe, hairless bodies that are lovingy described over and over, 
and they suffer constantly from unrequited or inappropriate love. 
Though many yaoi fanfics take the form of fan-drawn manga there are 
stories as well, and I thought I'd give them a try. 

Both these stories feature captive princes who become political pawns 
and/or sex slaves, which is a convention of the genre, I guess, as much 
as wifeswapping parties are for regular porn. (Damn! Back to wife-
swapping again.) Like its cousin, and like conventional porn for that 
matter, there are certain assumptions that are givens and never 
explained. Like young men that cry copiously at the drop of a hat and 
always smell like vanilla spice. Um, okay. But if you can swallow that, 
the rewards are yours, with more floating hair, semi-rapes, and 
homoerotic glam than a Storm Constantine Wraeththu novel, which the 
stories strongly resemble in style and content.

"My Sweet Prince" was the more unorganized and over-the-top of the 
two; by all the inserted comments the author is still in high school and 
writing this to amuse herself and her friends. The style was um, unique 
(derived from Gothic novels? Anime subtitles and voiceovers?) but 
literate, and compelling. Here the conquering overlord of the Neptune 
colony catches site of the prince of the title (the ellipses are the 
author's):

>>>Barely the age of nineteen, Celena's beauty was startlingly pale in 
comparison to that of her brother's. A lean, delicate, angular body . . . 
smooth, milk-colored skin . . . curved like a woman, and even walked 
with a slightly seductive sway of his lovely hips. His pale, slender face 
accompanied high cheek bones that gave off the subtlest tint of rogue . . 
. his long, feminine eyelashes with an elaborate touch of dark mascara 
that veiled his eyes . . . lustrous, soulful spheres of brilliant turquoise . 
. 
. pouting lips and an expression only alluded to a fragile, porcelain doll. 
His long, fine hair, a luminous golden color that was pulled back by a 
blue ribbon. He was,without a doubt in my mind, an ethereal beauty.<<<

This effeminate creature is drugged and ravished by the one-eyed, 
steel-clawed overlord, and later finds he's become oddly attracted to his 
ravisher, and his ravisher to him. The story takes a U-turn when the 
prince suddenly runs away to join the political opposition with some 
space smugglers (necessitating another story, which the author refers 
to) and after some sexy hijinks in an intergalactic nightclub he is 
returned by a gruff lone wolf bounty hunter to the ravisher for an 
M/M/M threeway that ends happily. The story was intensely messy, off-
the-cuff, exuberant, and private, and in spite of my aversion to 
imagining cartoon characters, or characters derived from cartoon 
characters, having sex, hot, because it seemed so invested... the author 
clearly put a lot of blood, sweat, and visual plotting into this, despite its 
lack of logic and coherence.

(I like anime very much -- Utena and Escaflowne are perenial favorites 
with me -- but I just can't picture the overstylized characters, with their 
big, big, eyes and tiny chins, having sex. I just can't. If a story succeeds 
in making me imagine them as real people, it succeeds.)

"The Taurus Key" was a more conventionally written piece, which 
meant it was more satisfying in some areas, less so in others. Again, a 
prince is taken captive and forced to be a sex slave, but the twist comes 
when his 'master' turns out to be younger and less confidant than 
himself, and their sexual roles are reversed. The captor/captive roles 
are reversed later as well after the prince is rescued and brings his 
wounded captor with him back to his kingdom, where by mistake he's 
thrown into the dungeon and brutally raped. Much anguish results 
from the combined hurt/comfort and rape/recovery issues, the story 
reading in places like a YA 'problem' novel where the characters learn 
to see themselves as lovable in spite of the negative messages of their 
childhoods. Though the story was better written, it didn't have the 
power to grab me as much as the previous one did... too polished and 
polite, perhaps.

Yaoi certainly isn't for everyone, but if you want something new and 
different in the M/M vein, and like anime, try it out.



Rite of Spring [A]
Where posted: ASSM
When posted: 4/4/00
Author: Eddie
Author Address: nitetimeguy74@yahoo.com

This story was labeled as being 'wife' and as I am a wife, it was of 
interest to me since I assumed it might focus on wife-swapping or wife-
watching or some other sexual activities single folks, by virtue of their 
singleness, don't participate in. What I got was a short, sweet teen story 
reminiscent of the recent Mexican movie 'Y tu Mama Tambien' 
(reviewed below.)

The narrator is a horny 14-year-old who hasn't had much experience 
with girls yet. While babysitting for a friend of the family he watches a 
softcore porn Swedish movie on cable TV and becomes very excited; just 
as he's about to jerk off, the mother of the kids returns home and notes 
his erection. While hubby waits in the car she reassures him:


>>>"Eddie," she said calmingly, "relax.  Go ahead and finish up."  She
glanced down at my cock and gave me a supportive little smile.

The rush of adrenaline from being caught had shaken me, but not taken
away my arousal.  In fact, it had intensified it.  I looked her in the
eye - she had this approving look on her face - and it gave me
butterflies.  I felt like I was outside of my body looking in as I
turned towards the toilet and resumed stroking myself.<<<


So he does, and he comes.

There was only masturbation in the story, not sex, but it read very 'real' 
to me, and so were the actions and reactions of the participants. It 
probably happens much more than people would like to admit.



Movie Review: Y tu Mama Tambien

This Mexican movie, playing now in large cities around the US, is one of the 
sweetest and most provocative teen sex movies I've seen. Tenoch and Julio are 
high school students in Mexico City, young, dumb, and full of cum; they are 
prone to spending their afternoons whacking off on the diving boards of the 
local country club. But their lives change when, on the spur of the moment, 
they decide to take a road trip to a remote beach called Heaven's Mouth... 
accompanied by Tenoch's sexy 28-year-old cousin by marriage Luisa. At first 
the boys cannot believe their luck in bagging such a hot mamacita,,, but as 
it turns out Luisa has reasons of her own for making the trip. The three 
eventually wind up together, sexually, in a hot but abbreviated threeway on 
the beach.

I can't recommend this movie enough. Don't be put off by its being a 
'foreign' movie. The subtitles are easy to follow and the story by turns 
comic and heartbreaking. All the leads were attractive and real-looking 
(when's the last time you saw a teenager that actually looked like a teenager 
in a movie, zits and all?) and the story haunted me for a long afterwards.


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