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Subject: {ASSM} {REVIEW} The Annex Reviews 4/30/03
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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.
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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
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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?"
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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.
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