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Subject: {ASSM} {REVIEW} The Annex Reviews, 6/29/03
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 04:10:05 -0400
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The Annex Reviews, 6/22/03
by Lady Cyrrh (ladycyrrh@aol.com)
Website: http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh 



The Stories:

Triad (walt9899): M/M/F, rom, oral, threesome

Ponygirl (drewwlong): M/F, F/F, BDSM, slave, cons, pony, 
    hist

Escape from Chattel Acres (Not An e-Mouse): M/F, BDSM, 
    slave, tort, lact, pierce, canib, snuff, extrm

Bearded Man, Bearded Lady (Hypatia Kosh): M/F, Star Trek



Triad [A+] 
Where posted: ASSM 
When posted: 06/19/03 
Author: walt9899
Author email: walt9899@hotmail.com
Type: M/M/F, rom, oral, threesome

Anna is a college student spending her semester break in 
a town by the sea. A conservative girl in real life, she 
somehow winds up with not one, but two, summer lovers, 
one a rugged, bearded bartender, the other a slim, 
artistic leatherworker. She enjoys passion with one, and 
then the other, until the night when both men surprise 
her in her apartment, revealing that they have found out 
about her double life. And that far from being angry at 
her, they are intrigued... and that each wants to learn 
the particular sexual skills the other has, as they 
advance on her together:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Sean ran his hands up and down the outsides of her 
thighs.  "Are you thinking about fucking us?"

She felt Kevin's breath in her hair, his hands now 
tweaking her nipples, and Sean's hands closing around 
the inside of her hips, and said, "I can't figure out 
what I'm thinking at the moment."

One of Sean's fingers slid up the inside of her leg and 
got where his tongue had been unable to get: inside her. 
There was no teasing at the entrance, no exploratory 
nicety, just the sudden welcome penetration of his 
supple, leathercrafting finger slipping inside her to 
the last knuckle.

"Oh," she moaned softly, and Kevin's fingers worked her 
nipples as Sean's finger worked inside her.

"The reason I ask," said Sean softly, "is because your 
pussy is so wet."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Later there's an outstanding scene where one man tutors 
the other in the perfect cunnilingus technique using the 
protagonist as his teaching tool. I felt the story was A 
work up to that point -- excellent without being 
outstanding -- but that passage pushed the grade towards 
an A+. The writer has a such a good hand with sex scenes 
that I was surprised (and delighted) at his or her 
skill, which doesn't happen too much these days, as I've 
read so much of this stuff over the past seven years.

The story didn't have any silly humor, wicked satire, 
whips and chains, slimy aliens or barbarian warriors, 
but it was intelligent and adult, a realistic -- but not 
so realistic as to distract us with the author's eye for 
realism, if that makes sense -- tale of contrast between 
two different lovers, from a female point of view. In 
fact, it was one of the most female stories I've read -- 
by which I mean a female would gain the ultimate reading 
enjoyment from it. Which is quite an accomplishment if 
the writer is a male, as he seems to be from the name.




Ponygirl [B] 
Where posted: ASSM 
When posted: 06/08/03 
Author: drewwlong@hotmail.com
Author email: drewwlong@hotmail.com
Type: M/F, BDSM, slave, cons, pony, hist

I usually dislike "You are there" stories, the ones that 
are told in second person ("You are beginning to feel 
very wet. His fingers touch your pussy and you moan") 
but every once in a while I find one that does a 
reasonable job of getting me hot without making me 
cringe in embarrassment or laugh out loud. In this story 
the "you" is the sub female of a D/s pair in an 18th 
century European state, and she goes out for a night on 
the town with her master:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You reach out and feel his hardness through his velvet 
crotch. He removes your hand, kisses it, and whispers, 
"Later you will feel it."  He returns his attention to 
your thighs and sex.  You don't know what to do with 
your hands.  He will not allow you to do anything.  You 
rest them on the leather seat.  He makes a game of 
seeing how far down your thighs he can draw your 
wetness.  By now your knees are far apart.  You feel 
warm and flushed and enjoy the coolness on your legs as 
your fluids evaporate.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The local color was very good for one of these stories, 
which tend to be on the dull side, with evocative 
descriptions of carriage rides, silk stockings, and 
decadent nobles. Everything was going well until the 
middle, when, out of the blue, the "you" is handed over 
to a hastily introduced countess to serve as her 
ponygirl, with nary a peep of protest from the you or 
her dom. The charming 18th century flavor was lost (one 
of the characters even says "OK" -- for shame!) and the 
writing declined in quality too, so I'm guessing another 
writer either took the story over, or embellished on it. 
Too bad, as the first part had a lot of promise.




Escape From Chattel Acres [A-] 
Where posted: ASSM 
When posted: 06/18/03 
Author: Not An e-Mouse
Type: M/F, BDSM, slave, tort, lact, pierce, canib, 
snuff, extrm

Back in the 3/23/03 reviews I did a crit of "Chattel 
Acres," a newsgroup story posted back in 1999 about 
captive females treated as cattle. It was a supremely 
dystopic slave fantasy where nothing good happened (the 
females were pierced, branded, milked, and eventually 
slaughtered for food, or entertainment) that was 
nonetheless very readable. Perhaps my review sparked 
some interest in the series, because this author has 
written a sequel that seems to be a female response to 
the extreme chauvinism of the original (described by the 
author as "Grizzly stuff!")

The heroine of the story is a failed sharpshooter, 
gymnast, sometime model, and actress who falls into 
cowhood through a phony job offer. Feisty and cranky 
(and also annoying) she is treated the same as all the 
other captives, who are too passive or browbeaten to 
question their fate. But when it comes time for the 
protagonist to be slaughtered, she has an ace up her 
sleeve. I'm not going to reveal it, though it was 
unbelievable unless the victim had a penis the size of a 
cocktail wiener. Nevertheless, she's quick-thinking and 
resourceful, eventually escaping the slaughtering barn 
and flagging down a news helicopter that just happens to 
be flying overhead.

I was pleased that someone took the time to write a 
sequel that redressed the injustices in the original, 
but to my taste it lacked the grandeur and scope of the 
first. Which I suppose is a problem in trying in redress 
an original: it's just not the same. A darkfic has to 
stand alone. It loses its power when things are turned 
right in the end, no matter how much a reader would wish 
otherwise.

Still, a good try, and someone had to do it.




Bearded Man, Bearded Lady [A] 
Where posted: ASSM 
When posted: 06/18/03 
Author: Hypatia Kosh 
Author email: berli@lycos.com
Author website: http://hypatia.slashcity.org/slash/slash.html
Type: M/F, Star Trek

I haven't paid much attention to Trek fics in the past 
few years. Younger writers, the ones who have the time 
and energy for the fast-paced world of net-based fanfic 
writing, are more interested in Buffy or Lord of the 
Rings, and the rise of IM, chat rooms, forums, 
specialized mailing lists, and self-posting archives 
have let even the more obscure fandoms come into 
prominence. Star Trek, I'm afraid, has been left a bit 
behind in the dust. Even the once-grand 
alt.startrek.creative archive site has been neglected 
lately, and the series itself is in decline.

Nevertheless this was a short, well-written story that 
was more porn than fanfic, and you don't have to be a 
Trek fan in particular to enjoy it. It's about a young 
Deanna Troi's obsession for men with beards, and 
frankly, any SF heroine could have replaced her, or any 
real-life heroine for that matter. It's a fetish you 
don't see too often, from a female perspective that is; 
even in slash, the male love objects are shaved clean. 

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