Thus far, of course, I have used this blog to do pretty much what I want, which is (1) post about women and girls whom I find attractive, and (2) post episodes from stories I have written.
Posts about women and girls whom I find attractive was not the original purpose of this blog, but a time comes when you feel so strongly about some person or other than it simply has to be put out there! I do more of that sort of thing in the companion blog to this, Helen, to which there is a link at the top of the website. I haven't been doing this for a while because of all the work that I put into getting the three stories I first published on Smashwords ready. But I often watch a movie, or see something in the news or on the Internet, and for a brief while I have an unbearable crush on someone, and I have to post something desperately worshipful in the worst possible way. Only having work to do, and classes to teach distracts me from this imperative.
Posting my stories here is more frustration than anyone should have to endure, both setting it out, and reading it. I look at these stories, all in frustrating reverse chronological order, and I think to myself, this last episode looks like crap to anyone reading it without having seen the earlier chapters. Context is everything, as far as any story goes, and a story has to be written very carefully if it is to be read in reverse chronological order. (It has been done, and brilliantly, but that was not the intention with these stories.) So I'm going to put the stories in Smashwords, for a nominal cost, all of them assembled into a few self-contained novels, which I plan to publish at around a dollar or two each.
But this blog could be more a place where I write about the stories, and my attitudes towards the characters and the stories, which really have no place in the books themselves. (Piers Anthony has written a fascinating book, Bearing an Hourglass, about a person who becomes, briefly, Fate (or possibly, Time). It is one of the books in the series Incarnations of Immortality (or something on those lines), and Fate sees time in reverse chronological order, so as to facilitate the coming into being of events that have been established already in the distant future.
At any rate, this is probably the best place to give an inventory of the stories that I have begun, and most of them, never finished! (I understand that there are individuals out there who find it difficult to get started with a plot, and have no compunction about stealing a story from another writer. if you're one of those, feel free to steal the plots, but I would be grateful if you credit me with the idea for the story!)
Helen. This is a story (episodes of which have been serialized in Helen, another blog) about a girl who is adept at singing, the violin, art, dancing, and, well, Tennis. While this story was started, semi-consciously, for the sake of company --for many months, Helen was my only companion-- subconsciously I made it all about a girl who could do everything. In that sense, Helen is an extension of myself, though I want to make it clear that I can't do many of the things Helen does, and none of them as well as she can! But I'm frustrated to be surrounded with people who keep saying: Oh, I can't do that sort of thing. Jeeze; why not? I can't stand it when I sit at a piano and doodle on it a little, and someone looks at me with sheer envy! It didn't cost much to rent a piano; it was, like $30 a month, which I could afford with even my grad school stipend of, like $900 a month. So get a grip, all you young parents out there. Give up the frikking Cable Service, and rent a piano for your kids.
Alexandra is an amazing story; it is set in a planet far far away, in the distant future. Ships from Earth have colonized this Earth-like planet, and now it is thousands of years in the future of the landing. (Countless Science Fiction stories have bases very much on these lines.) But, from here on, the setting may as well be Earth, set in the late 1700s. There is a twist: in one continent, there is a larger-than-usual proportion of citizens who are homosexual, and, get this: two women can use a certain type of gadget to get one of them pregnant. So female-female couples can have kids, with no additional expense.
Alexandra is a young girl, of about 18, who finds herself Queen of one country, Norsland, but is immediately faced with invasion. She has just been married to a princess from a neighboring nation, but the young couple gets separated during the war that follows, and half the story is about how the young princess helps the war effort, while Alexandra is in hiding in exile. When the war comes to an end, the young couple find that they have become different people from when they were first married, and they cannot continue the sham that their marriage has become, but neither can they face the thought of a formal divorce.
Jane. This is a story of a girl who finds herself a porn photographer. She has been "straight" all her life, but now she begins to be attracted to her models, until she completely falls in love with one of her models, and then finds herself established in a semi-permanent menage-a-trois with her lover and yet another girl. At about this point, I had a change of heart, and instead of pursuing the entirely erotic possibilities inherent in the setup, I found myself examining some of the psychological relationships between Jane and some of her more interesting models. Disaster strikes, in the form of the AIDS epidemic, and 9-11, which were the backdrops against which the story was begun, and soon Jane finds herself all alone, with both the other girls dead. But Jane is an artist, and before things go to hell completely, Jane manages to paint and sell prints of an erotic painting that becomes wildly popular on Ebay.
In the second part of the story, Jane meets a fashion model called Gillian, who wants her portrait painted. Gradually Jane puts her life back together, finding work, in addition to being a portrait painter, as a makeup artist for fashion modeling, and later for movies. She also creates a fictitious character called Scorpia, which is a role she plays at Metal Fetish gatherings. Pretty Wild.
Jana (I'm obviously partial to these two names: Jane, and Jana.) Jana is a girl who grows up in a nomadic nation in a sort of desert belt in an alternate Earth. She is put in a troop of militia, who function like a cross between bronze age Texas Rangers and border guards. Jana's troop take into protective custody a young man and his older companion, who are later revealed to be a prince of a neighboring nation, and his tutor. She is assigned to return them to their home, in the process of which, the young fellow falls in love with her.
Jana finds herself asked to remain in the country of the young prince, and finds herself emotionally involved with not only the prince, but his sister, as well. After many adventures, Jana returns home, and accepts a post as the leader of another squadron, just in time to have to deal with a massive invasion of robber hordes across the border.
Prisoner Maia, a princess of a city state in an alternate Earth, is taken captive, and into slavery in a barbarian land ruled by a king and his twin daughters. Maia earns the trust of the two princesses, and finds herself being trained as an elite guard. She is also the focus of the sexual attentions of one princess, but falls in love with the other twin.
Maia's beloved is sent to marry a neighboring prince, and Maia is part of the honor guard that conducts the Princess to her new home, after which she returns. Graduating from training, she is just in time to witness the sacking of their capital city by a strange tribe of giant warriors. The King is killed, and Maia and the (unmarried) Princess escape into hiding, accompanied by two other slaves, a couple. The princess tells Maia that she is no longer a princess, but is Maia's servant, and over the next few days, as they continue their flight from the invaders, she begs forgiveness for sexually harassing Maia. After many adventures, they come to Maia's homeland, now overrun by yet other unsavory elements, and now the princess must help Maia restore something like stability to her homeland.
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