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Jun
2010
New Story, Boy from Brazil
1
Jun
2010
Continuing the ongoing ten-episode Yowlerverse series, the latest title, Boy from Brazil, is now up and ready to go. The story is coded M/M, slow. It was doing well as a character study, but it has a weak ending such that I wish I could have come up with something better. Still, it’s a pretty good story and a welcome continuation of the Yowler series. This story is dated to 1986.
4
May
2010
New Bastet story: Backlots
4
May
2010
Backlots, the latest Yowler story, is out. It’s a bit of a coming-of-age story, one of those small-scale shocks that those of us of the male persuasion sometimes have to deal with when we’re young and just figuring out where all the parts go. It’s fairly intense, although it’s sexual content is low. (At least, it was fairly intense for me to write, although it is not biographical.) M/F, mostly masturbation and voyuerism.
I seem to have missed the announcement from last month. In case you missed it, Club Boys was much more my usual speed: M/M, consensual sex, flogging in a public space, a fair touch of intensity and confession. It also has the “why Seattlites seem so fucked in the head sometimes” scene.
3
May
2010
From today’s WIP:
3
May
2010
The story is called Last Will, but I’ve got it in mind as Jessinica and Gwo, after the two main characters:
”But… how will I get back to my sarcophagus?”"You can hire a guide, if you need one. They’re much cheaper than lawyers, I assure you. Good day.” With that, a tophat materialized in vir hand. Vi placed it on vir head and walked down the empty passageway, disappearing around the corner, leaving Jess alone in the airlock cylinder, facing away from a circular door above which read Xajan (TRPV).
“Stick your linear navigator onto an analog scope and suck it!” she shouted at vir retreating back. ”Glider spaz! R-Pento! Barberpole! Block!” She angrily turned to face the airlock. ”Fine,” she said,taking a deep breath. ”Let’s see what mother left for me.
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May
2010
Good News and Apologies
2
May
2010
I just paid my server bill, so it looks like y’all will have me around for another year. Thanks to everyone who contributed even a little bit last year, you helped put me over the top (it costs about $300 a year to keep this thing going). You’ll have access to The Journal Entries and the remaining Bastet stories for some time to come.
In other news, I’m sorry if you sent a comment to the blog and it didn’t get approved in a timely fashion. It seems I’m not getting the emails I’m supposed to. (I’m also having some very weird interactions between this blog and my LiveJournal account that I need to iron out.)
David Mamet to the writers of The Unit:
Our friends, the penguins, think that we, therefore, are employed to communicate information — and, so, at times, it seems to us.
But note: the audience will not tune in to watch information. You wouldn’t, I wouldn’t. No one would or will. The audience will only tune in and stay tuned to watch drama.
Question: what is drama? Drama, again, is the quest of the hero to overcome those things which prevent him from achieving a specific, acute goal.
I suspect “the penguins” is Mamet’s way of writing “the suits.” There’s much more, and I recommend you read it all.