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This has to be one of the more unusual serial erotic fiction offerings that I've come across. The author, Hapax Legomenon, is launching a writing project that will end around 2012! Each month a story is added, although not always in sequence. The basic story arch involves a young man writing about erotic fantasies to a woman named Lisa. He and Lisa are not involved, but she is reading his fantasies due to a deal that they struck one day after having an argument about privacy and fantasy. The stories tend to be cerebral stand alone meditations upon the erotic, or silly vignettes. They are not explicit in the least. I think that these stories will be most popular with those who enjoy literary titillation served up with intellectual debate. Some female authors are beginning to answer his writing by crafting stories from the perspective of Lisa. These pieces are under "Unbuttoned Tales", and are a special treat! Even if the stories aren't your thing, I believe you'd enjoy the thought provoking essay "Pleasure Manifesto" which is found at the bottom of the list of 99 erotic notions. - Vamp, Jane's Guide, Date Reviewed: 05/05/2005
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There's something addictive about your prose – i know what Prince Shahryar must have felt while listening to Scherezade's 1001 stories. Love the interludes too. Some of the conversations seem eerily like the ones I have had with my partner. Any word of gratitude would do injustice to the emotions that i have felt, nevertheless, one submits to the limitations of the language and says -- Thank You !
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I am not aroused by your stories, but I continue to read. ..
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If I tip you, will you post something filthier?
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The stories lacks detail. One needs a lot of concentration which an erotic story doesn't need.
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Any stories involving knives?
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Wonderfully done. Dialogue, pacing, setting, characters, premise, everything. While in one moment I'm annoyed that I am so hooked that now I know I'll have to go read every single one written since then, I'm also hoping they're longer, because it's such a pleasure to read. (re Erotic Notion #1: The Deal ).
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I like how you have set this up...this seemingly reluctant woman is primed now to read his fantasies...and he will send them just as they are for him. I haven't read anything else you have written yet, but the premise is delicious. (re Erotic Notion #1: The Deal ).
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Great Intro - a glimpse of two real people and a deal - an exciting deal to explore each other and themselves, with no limiting preconditions. Excellent! (re Erotic Notion #1: The Deal ).
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"The imagination — especially the erotic imagination — prefers dealing with types to individuals" - I love your insights. This insight also makes me wonder if that because sex provokes responses so deeply, it pushes even the most mundane of us clear past types to archetypes. Thus the recurring categories of erotica and porn and the endless hunger for them. Thanks for the ideas. (regarding Erotic Notion #7: The Porn Star and the Choir Boy ).
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I write erotica that no one but me ever reads. I enjoy refining the story and characters until they could just possibly be true . It certainly beats watching the tube or mindlessly wandering the mall, and my characters are more interesting than most people I know . They certainly have better sex lives than anyone I know ! (regarding Erotic Interlude: If It's Not Important...Why? ).
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In Erotic Notion #9: Germs , is the protagonist Tony a man or a woman?
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I can't remember reading any story I enjoyed so much.Thank you so much for sharing it with us and for free. Your work is well worth payment, we who cannot afford to thank quality writers like you for providing your stories. (regarding Erotic Notion #9: Germs ).
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What a great story!! This is such a wonderful development of characters and story line...I have experienced such feelings and happenings earlier in my life (I'm now 60 ). Great job... (regarding Erotic Notion #9: Germs ).
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A neat story. I've never read Portnoy, so I cannot speak to it, but what your characters say rings true, and I love how you have your characters say it too. You've hit on a key issue in socialization. In many ways, women are socialized to be "in" the society, while men are socialized "out" of it. That difference is reflected in the way that men tend to see sex in anatomical or physical terms while women tend to see it in emotional terms. Thus the differences between the two characters. (regarding Erotic Interlude: Alexander Portnoy vs. Carrie Bradshaw).
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Yes... A slick trail of icy fire over the body. Flighty touches to keep it from being too intense. Clandestine visits to all the now antipatory/wary skin. Sometimes, a ice cube snuck into the mouth. (He doesn't know.) With sensual fingertips as he lays in erotic repose, I let him know where we're heading. Eyes closed, he savors the heat of my hands, my body, as I crouch between his legs and lean over him, and in one sure movement, take him deep in my mouth. The expectation of wet, hot environment; the milliseconds it takes for the brain to sort out the intense confusion - ecstasy! (regarding Erotic Notion #14: The Ice Cube).
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I like this one. A lot. Reminds me of Condillac's Treatise on the Senses. (regarding Erotic Notion #15: The Statue).
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It's a beautiful story, highlighting maybe what romance should be. I'm still curious as to why Natalie wanted what she wanted. Was she looking for hope? Does she think she's not good enough for a 'normal' guy? Will there be any more to this? Maybe she could pass a note back through Jill, maybe at some point they could move on to emails. In any case, I like the way the story works in the dark, and leaves the reader with unanswered questions. Thanks for writing it. :) (regarding Erotic Notion #18: Psyche's Revenge).
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I really liked the story aspects of this one. The characterization worked well too. This is a woman I'd like to meet. (regarding Erotic Notion #20: Yes, I'm Beautiful Too).
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12 years ago but so much better than a lot of the shit that gets written today (regarding Erotic Notion #20: Yes, I'm Beautiful Too ).
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I really enjoyed this short story a lot. It really made me think about my own relationship with my wife and the feelings of trying to understand and appreciate even the things about her which are not as intriguing to me-simplistic romance movies, shopping. This is the kind of writing which keeps me sifting through the stories on ASSTR. (regarding Erotic Notion # 21: The Good Pussy, The Bad Short Story).
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The idea that she would play along with you in these little games...she's a keeper. (regarding Erotic Notion # 21: The Good Pussy, The Bad Short Story).
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(Mary's conduct seemed like that of a) Cowardly woman. She didn't have the guts to tell Ted about the conflict when it first arose, didn't have the guts to honestly communicate with him about the changes taking place in her heart, and now takes the coward's way out by writing a flowery Dear John letter that leaves him hung out to dry without any opportunity to communicate, while laughing at his fidelity. Hypocritical, self-centered,dishonest coward. I pity Mario, that kind, honest man. She'll do it again some year, to him. When a man does this to a woman, she hits the roof, then trashes him to all her friends. And women complain about double standards....or why men can't or won't open their hearts. What a crock. (regarding Erotic Interlude: Behavioral Adaptation in the Chapada).
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Great story but my vote is that you find her. Even if this is for your own "selfish motives", she would be in control if a meeting of telephone or even email exchange is possible. Perhaps she is married, with children and your call will/could bring a smile to her because she was remembered and made an impression on you. I think she would be flattered. No matter if there was an ever after or a final period to this story, she would be in charge of how or when it headed, and I believe each person would gain some wonderful feelings from the past. Go for it! (regarding Erotic Notion #25 Elementary School Amore ).
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I really enjoyed this piece. I also find great joy and constant thoughts of bewilderment in the care free days of my youth. Some aspect of your memories seem so universal that I can see how my own reflect them in some ways. Thanks for sharing your words.(regarding Erotic Notion #25 Elementary School Amore ).
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GRRRR i hate it how adults underrate childhood crushes. True love is always the first one. (regarding Erotic Notion #25 Elementary School Amore ).
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You need to track down this girl if for no other reason than to bring some closure to the event. One of the saddest events of my life was attending my 20th. high school reunion and confessing to a former classmate that I had had a crush on her in 7th. grade. She seemed disappointed that I waited all these years rather than telling her in 1978. Our lives may have turned out differently. I resolved there and then that if I ever again developed a crush on someone I would tell her as soon as I could rather than wait until it was too late to do anything about it. (regarding Erotic Notion #25 Elementary School Amore ).
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Here I sit searching for tawdry porn involving young girls... and I stumbled across and read your very very touching story, Erotic Notion #25: Elementary School Amore! I was transported back to those wonderful- innocent but POWERFUL feelings surrounding the first loves in MY young life! Very beautiful!!!(regarding Erotic Notion #25 Elementary School Amore ).
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i want to see this film ... (regarding Erotic Notion #27: Supersex 3000 ).
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ah, nicely done. a good near future sc-fi with a neat little twist at the end. it's even a realistic vision, especially with the ads and whatnot. it would be neat, cheers to the future. i'll have to see what else you've written. oh jeez, 1995, just saw that. thats 9 years ago. in which case i award your foresight all the more for making what seems an accurate prediction even 9 years later. (regarding Erotic Notion #27: Supersex 3000 ).
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Pretending to faint with no bra is erotic. Wearing a skirt and no panties, I sometimes pretend to get nauseated and have to have someone help me sit down and I always give them lots of looks. (regarding Erotic Notion #32: The Kinkiest Thing You can Imagine ).
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When are you going to finish this story? (regarding Erotic Notion #38: Inside the Nun's Dormitory ).
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I would like to read the remaining part (if written). You left it at a very interesting point. (regarding Erotic Notion #38: Inside the Nun's Dormitory ).
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I've often wonderd if ladies give a certain code (like tapping)? (regarding Erotic Notion #44: The Woman who Tapped her Shoe ).
"Any painting looks ghastly if the canvas is too big." Uh oh. For great big paintings on canvas see Cezanne("The Dance" at MOMA is huge), Pollock, Rosenquist("F-111" at MOMA), Basquiat, Rothko, Twombly (at the Menil Collection). Especially the Rothko Chapel. Big and beautiful. Sublime. This big painting is for *you*. A substanceless, phantom "lover" who does not love, and barely caresses. Correggio's Jupiter and Io." It is to your taste.
"I get so sick of reading about socially inept men dreaming of beautiful women." True. I like detailed descriptions of sensation . The words of what it feels like to make contact. Union. In the mind, heart or body. Voyeuristic alienation isn't all that erotic, to me. Too familiar. I also like to read about socially inept men who like and desire women as women, not because of any exceptional appearance. I also like the narrator to be desirable. If I do not like the narrator, if he cannot convince me his pleasures, hungers and person are appealing, who cares if he scores? Why read if he gives and gets so little pleasure? Deprivation is not erotic. You have confused frustration with teasing. But I liked it enough. But no tip. Not this time. (regarding Erotic Interlude: Socially Inept Men Make Me Feel So Horny ).
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this is probably the most painful thing I've read in a long time. It makes me regret ever wondering how men think about these things. I don't think I ever want to be naked with a man ever again. How horrible. (re Erotic Notion #79: Half-Lust ).
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Certainly it is not necessary to provide details coherently... The human mind is great at imagining what is not described... (re Erotic Interlude: Doing Things, Feeling Things ).
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Very nice stories. the repeated theme of the imperfect mate is curious. Most of us married people have had to settle for less than ideal, a lot less. Sometimes a sex maniac, sometimes the not quite trustworthy mate, sometimes acceptable sex in an ideal companion. Maybe the compromise would not be as interesting a story, but a little relief from "Do you love me?" would be the variable that perfects the whole.(re Erotic Notion #99: The First Time, The Last Time ).
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These are exquisite, thoughtful vignettes that individually by turns inspire reflection, evoke startled recognition and collectively offer considerable insight into the tragi-comedy that is the constant human search for connection. Thank you..(re Erotic Notion #99: The First Time, The Last Time ).
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Extraordinary beautiful thoughtful writing.(re Erotic Notion #99: The First Time, The Last Time ).
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This last story rang true with me. After 34 yrs of marriage and 6 kids, this is more like Real Life than erotic fantasy. (I'm the man.) (re Erotic Notion #99: The First Time, The Last Time ).
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My goodness! That's well wrought porn. Thank you for posting your story; it was very sexy, and one of the few ASSTR stories I wanted to linger over instead of race through. I especially liked the thoughts about certain Sundays... (re: Unbuttoned Tale # 1: Death and the Maiden: Le Petit Mal ). From Vicky Vixen
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That was so very well written, wow. I had been looking for something more tasteful than the usual wham-bam-thank you maam tripe, and this is exactly it. (regarding Unbuttoned Tale #3: The First Time ).
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I love this piece. It brought back memories of when just the slightest touch was intoxicating. When carresses and the desire/fear of more was all that was needed for blinding fireworks. I look forward to more. (regarding Unbuttoned Tale #7: Tangerine Magic ).