Newsgroups: alt.sex,alt.bestiality,alt.sex.bondage,alt.prose,alt.angst,alt.sex.stories,alt.sex.stories.d,alt.sex.motss,alt.sex.masturbation From: elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg) Subject: The Journal Entries, Spring Edition! Message-ID: <1993Apr6.040548.8815@nwnexus.WA.COM> Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service +1 206 382 MAIL (382-6245) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 04:05:48 GMT Lines: 112 For those of you who have no idea what's about to happen, hold onto your seats and let me give you a welcome to: THE JOURNAL ENTRIES OF KENNET R'YAL SHARDIK, ET. AL. AND RELATED TALES. What the Hell are these things, anyway? Well, they're (mostly) erotica that I've been writing for over three years now, off and on, as a series of incidents and encounters in the life of my hero, Kennet Shardik, as well as those around him. As the joke about the The Journal Entries goes, they're usually science fiction, usually vanilla, usually straight, and usually furry. "Usually" means that more than half the series fits the above description, but since there are almost exactly 100 stories now (and they're not SMALL stories; the average story is 4500 words) that means only 51% of the stories meet that description. The rest are gay, bisexual, s/m, incestual, paedophilic, "bestial" (involving sentients, but sentient centaurs, cat'taurs, panthers, and/or dolphins)... you name it, it's here. And, yes, all 457,063 words here are mine (remember when a 1,000 word essay made you faint? Think about 450 THOUSAND words...). I've written them all in my spare time. Welcome to the Journal Entries. Enjoy. For those of you who are familiar with the Journal Entries, welcome to the latest round of the Massive Repost. There are (right now) five new stories on the boards: Vence Waking With The Rain. Anger Wings over Rhysh and a story called "Changing Bodies, Changing Lives," which I did not write, but am including here for reasons that are clear when you read the introduction. That doesn't seem like a lot, but I've discovered that when you become a senior your free time goes *way* down. The other reason is this thing: Amanda-Sphere.doc AskTheRat.doc Ayna.doc Chris_1.doc ConvincingEtta.doc EmbersOffer.doc Han.doc KittyDragon4.doc Letters.doc Native.doc Nsmlt.doc OnIdasShore.doc OpenSys.doc Planetfall_01a.doc Planetfall_01b.doc Planetfall_02a.doc Planetfall_02b.doc Planetfall_03.doc Planetfall_04.doc Planetfall_05.doc Planetfall_06.doc Planetfall_07.doc Planetfall_08.doc Planetfall_09.doc Planetfall_10.doc Purpose.doc Rad.doc Razing.doc Ritach1.doc Roman1.doc Roman2.doc ShardiksRevenge.doc Terrorism.doc Travellogue2.01.doc Travellogue2.02.doc Travellogue2.03.doc Trianna.doc Tylia.doc That's what my Works-In-Progress directory looks like right now. Thirty-Eight stories, five of which I consider "unfinished" by themselves, the rest of which I don't want to release because I'm either unhappy with them or because they don't make any sense without some previous material that I have PLOTTED but not written. *Sigh* The disadvantages of writing the fun stuff first, while it's fresh in my mind. There are also four stories, "Letters to Nickolai 1 and 2" and "Letters to Jofuran 1 and 2" that I've not included in either set; the timing on those is kinda hazy, but they should be done by the time Travellogue I is being posted. "Terrorism," BTW, isn't smut. That's not a total suprise; I've written non-erotica before. "Terrorism" is *horror*. I wanted to see if I could use what few descriptive skills I had to describe something other than sex. Trouble is, I have no villian yet, and no coherent reason for the absolutely perfect (IMHO) graphic death scenes I managed. Why does it seem to take a lot of time between reposts? Well, first of all, after every repost I get lots of corrections from people. All I have here is a dictionary; no grammar checking at all. So I often miss "they're" for "their," "piece" for "peace," ect. I'm a touch- typist; my brain stores sound-patterns as finger-patterns and never bothers to check the spelling in between. So, inevitably, many of the Journal Entries get edited in small ways for spelling errors, missing words, incorrect grammer. And, because I'm lazy, I don't output an ASCII copy of the Entry to the Archives disk, because then I have to do all the stuff that it takes to make the Entry nettable (like attach a header and a copyright; edit the document so that there's a double-space between paragraphs, stuff like that). I finally went out and wrote STREAM; it's a C program that loads a file from my word-processor and outputs it in a nettable format. Like the original process, it's not perfect, but it reduced the time it takes to render the stories from a week to six hours, and you can't beat that with a stick. (Stream is for the Amiga and works with Scribble!, Platinum!, or Word Perfect 4.2-4.3). So I'm pleading laziness. *Gryn*. Hey, they're my stories; I'm allowed to be lazy. So, anyway, welcome to the repost, and I'll see what I can do about getting some of the WIP stories ready in the next two weeks. Elf !!! p.s. BTW, this below is QUITE serious. If you don't beleive me, as a certain BDSM magazine in San Francisco. Or an SF club in Kent, Ohio. -- The Journal Entries of Kennet R'yal Shardik, et. al., And Related Tales are (c) 1989, 1992 Elf Matheiu Sternberg. May be freely distributed by cybernetic media; hardcopies are limited to single printings for personal use.