The Panty Raid

I just finished a new short story, only 3 chapters and just short of 15K words. I posted it on ASSTR today, and I'll probably post it on Literotica (if it'll allow it) tomorrow.

It's called The Panty Raid, and its been percolating in my head for quite awhile. The idea to write this story has been bothering me for about a year now. I didn't really want to do it, but it wouldn't let me go, so here it is. It's a pretty dark tale, and parts of it kind of make me mad.

The event that inspired the story is over 30 years old, and was actually not very exciting. I had heard or read somewhere, that some guys at my old alma mater had pulled off a panty raid, and mentioned it in passing to a female friend. I recall being amused about it. She quickly disabused me of the notion that it was just good clean fun. With prejudice. Seems some friends of hers were victims of some pretty rough treatment during a college panty raid, and that the rumor mill spoke of multiple sexual assaults, as well.

Family Values

Some of you may remember that I've been working on a short story for the Swarm Cycle, which is a set of stories in a collaborative universe created by the Thinking Horndog. Well, I finally finished it, and it's called Family Values. I posted it last night on ASSTR, and I may or may not post it on EWP or Literotica.

It's shorter than I thought it would be, only three chapters (about 12K-13K words), and the character development was somewhat of a surprise to me. Let me know if you like it.

It's FICTION, dumbass!

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An FTP experiment...

In the two or three years I've been posting to ASSTR, I've never used the FTP site. The reason is simple: I wanted more control over the stories than uploading plain text files, or Word documents, to an ftp site would allow. I could have solved the problem a long time ago, except that I always felt that the cost of Adobe Acrobat (full version) was much too high to justify buying it for that purpose.

Recently though, I had the good fortune to come across the PDF995 software suite, from a company called Software995. The suite contains utliities for creating, signing, securing, and encrypting PDF documents, and all of the elements are available via free download. The freeware version has the usual annoying popups, but hey, it's free! If you dislike the popups enough, you can get rid of them for less than twenty bucks.

I've decided to use the PDF995 suite to test the demand for ftp downloads. I've created a PDF document will all four chapters, plus the epilogue, for Breakdown, and before I go to bed tonight, it'll be posted on my ftp site. I'll watch the download statistics to see if there's enough demand to continue it with the other stories.

New Galen Story!

I've finally finished the first chapter of the long-awaited sequel to Breakdown - a new Galen Cuvier story, titled Homecoming? I posted the new chapter today.

The addition of the new story caused a need to reorganize several parts of my ASSTR website (naturally), so today's updates are more massive than just posting a story. Galen has gone from being the main character in a single story (Breakdown), to being the central figure in a universe of stories (The Life and Times of Galen Cuvier). And yes, it's likely that there will be more Galen stories after Homecoming? is finished.

Phantom updates on ASSTR

Sorry about that. Nothing for it though. Changing the links to my blog, on my story pages is probably going to cause several of these.

Moving day is over!

Well, hello again.

I've finally gotten fed up with the restrictions that MySpace placed on my blogging. I write stories. Some, perhaps most, of my stories describe sex acts in more or less explicit terms. This means that many, perhaps most, hosting services classify my stories as erotic stories.

For me, the only reason to have a blog in the first place, is so that I can let my readers know about the status of my stories. That includes not only which stories are actively being worked upon, and where they are in the creative process, but also live links to websites where they can be found, like ASSTR, Electronic Wilderness Publishing, and Literotica. Simple things like that. Every time I tried to make these links available in my blog on MySpace, the censors redirected them to the MySpace login page. Not very helpful.

Anyway, I've now migrated the blogs that I'd previously posted on MySpace to this site, and I'll be changing the links on my story pages to point here for my blogs.

For my readers: thanks for your patience. Please bear with me a little longer. For everyone else: read my stuff! You can get to it at the above links.

QM