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Subject: The Annex Reviews, 1/15/99
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Where is ASSM? What is going on with it? I used to get a lot
of my material from that newsgroup. If it's gone, I'll have
to work a lot harder. Can anyone out there give me the
scoop?
The stories:
Justice Club: Part 7 - The White Queen
by Yenoc and Superhero (M/F, F/F, mast, mc, BDSM, best, superhero)
Kind of Blue, by Tiramisu (M mast, bond)
Cotten Dresses, by P.D. James (M/F, mast, teen)
Chambers Conference, by Marc Tremaine (M/MMM, law)
Tight Security, by Nick (M/F, cons)
Justice Club: Part 7 - The White Queen [B-]
Where posted: ASS
When posted: 1/8/99
Author: Yenoc and Superhero
There's always a certain guilty pleasure to be found in
trash, and this story was trash, plain and simple, of the
hypnotized-women-thoroughly-degraded-in-a-strip-club
sort. The degradation is for the benefit of men, or one man,
who orchestrates the performances via his skill at mind
control. I can't tell you how many times I've come across
this scenario. In this case the women are comic book
superheroines, which is again par for the course, and the
acts are on the sadistic, doggy, and lesbian domina side. The
White Queen, the nominal heroine of the story, is inspired
to masturbate by all the shenanigans: "Her right hand
fluttered up and cupped a ripe tingling breast and she
squeezed the hardened nipple, feeling it leap into even
greater erection at her demented caress."
The author(s) of this story seemed to be bored with plebian
words like labia and vagina, preferring novel creations
like cuntlip, cuntal furrow, cuntal channel, cuntal heat,
and wildly stretched cuntal hole, apparently not realizing
the word cuntal doesn't exist. (For porn, the accepted
colloquial adjective in cases like this is pussy.) But the
main problem with a story like this is it's so pointless. A
bunch of women are fucked, degraded, and turned into sex
slaves; big deal. There's nothing new or novel about it,
nothing gets resolved, and there weren't even any comic
book fisticuffs, bombs about to go off, or hair-raising
rescues. If you like hypnotized-woman-thoroughly-
degraded-in-a-strip-club stories you might like this, but if
you don't, I'd strongly recommend you pass.
Kind of Blue [A-]
Where posted: ASS, ASSM
When posted: 12/20/98
Author: Tiramisu
Address: Tiramixu@yahoo.com
This piece was more of a haiku than a story, a short mood
piece about a man who binds himself to his bed and
fantasizes about his lover teasing him sexually. The neat
thing about it was that apart from the mention of "my tie"
the narrator could have been male or female, and the lover
male or female, which could have made it one of the few
truly ambiguous sex stories I've read.
Cotton Dresses [A-]
Where posted: ASS
When posted: 1/10/98
Author: P.D. James
Address: pdmichael@hotbot.com
This story, which I'm guessing takes place in the 50s, is
about a young man's sexual initiation by his aunt, brought
about by his love of the loose-skirted, tight-bodiced cotton
dresses on the female form:
I've always loved cotton dresses. All of the women wore
them where I grew up. Soft clingy dresses that molded
around the thighs when they walked and swished with the
movement of their hips. You could never tell whether they
had pants on or not because the cotton kept their secret.
He gets in trouble with one young girl when he touches
her breast, which leads to tension between himself and the
aunt who is taking care of him. But they talk their troubles
out in a frank discussion about masturbation, and then--
surprise!!--she shows him a thing or two with her hands:
'I've never watched a young guy jerk off,' she confided.
Her soft hand slid beneath my balls, holding them like fragile
crystal. 'Is that what the guys call it now? Jerking off?'
'Yes,' I hissed.
This story was explicit but sweet, a little unstructured, but
with lots of nostalgia for an earlier, more innocent time.
And then there are those cotton dresses. I'm fond of
wearing them myself.
Chambers Conference [A+]
Where posted: ASSGM
When posted: 1/11/98
Author: Marc Tremaine
Address: tremaine@mindspring.com
The last story I read by this author was "Quest," a fantasy
about two warriors and the dragons they hunt. It won a
Cyrrheal Award, and deservedly so, but this story was even
better, and about a world no less exotic: that of law. In a
small-town courthouse (with a decidedly Atticus Finch
flavor) a court battle is being fought. The narrator is a
smartass lawyer from the big city, and he and the
distinguished local judge are constantly duking it out on
the floor. After one too many objections the judge calls
him into his chamber for a private conference, which I
guess is normal in courts of law. But what a surprise the
lawyer gets when he finds the judge's two aides, one of
which is the judge's son, ready to fuck him, and the tall,
distinguished judge joins in later himself.
This story was as gleefully perverted as "Santa and the
Brewster Boys" and gave no quarter at all to the dignified
positions of those in the law profession. If you're one of
those people who are convinced lawyers are out to screw
everyone, well, you're right. After you read this, I
guarantee you will never watch "Perry Mason" or any
courtroom drama with a straight face again.
Tight Security [A]
Where posted: ASS
When posted: 1/11/98
Author: Nick
Address: nick@cassandra.demon.co.uk
If this story has a theme song, it would be the Beatles'
"Eleanor Rigby."
A fat. balding security guard barely looks up from his
newspaper when a cleaning lady comes to vacuum. But
when she lets him know she wants to have sex, he's more
than eager. Afterwards she wait for a kind word, a final
touch. But he has nothing to give. The pair go on their
separate ways, the encounter heartbreaking for the
insignificance of it all.
This story is the second story by Nick I've read, and it's a
great improvement over the first, showing a writer who
has found a unique voice. Altogether, a thoughtful
exploration of the quiet desperation of everyday lives.
Comments to: ladycyrrh@aol.com
Website---> http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh
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