you made me sad. and yeah, seriously, i think it would be hard to judge these things - i was every asked, i would probably turn it down, cause it's hard to separate that stuff, sometimes. (next time, i make the bribes bigger - apparently, you can't get much for $1 these days...).



Come and sit on Auntie Stephanie's lap and I'll tell you where you went wrong, Sweetie......

xx SF

(I'm going to rot in Hell.....)

I'm cancelling that transaction! Can't trust anyone these days when offering bribes...

FUCK All Y'All... I've never talked properly to Curly Girl in my life!!!!!! (And I might never talk to Clum or Sprite again...) I don't know Annie and I don't know Tashetgo...

SERIOUSLY... The competitions are High End WORK... Like I said, we've all watched these writers blossom... SOME are personal friends of mine... That CAN'T enter into a decision about quality or placing... YOU JUDGE THE PIECE... ("It is the tale, not who tells it...")

(Personally, I never look at who's written the piece... TO BE HONEST, I was surprised that 'Pre-Ejaculation Man' was written by my friend Callum...)

COMMENT:

CONFESSIONS OF A PRE EJACULATION MAN.

(I LIKED this... Very funny. But I don't come to Lush just to laugh. Even given the subject. I come here to come. There's a balance. One thing I WILL say about this one is that WOMEN might dig it... ("Aren't Men Crap? How I wish I didn't simply LOVE sucking his cock....") But, Priapic Prince that I am, I didn't quite get it... That said, a funny, brilliant and engaging piece...)





Now, I post these observations so that possible future competition entrants can see how we DISCUSS and consider the work and argue merit. (I may well get into trouble for doing so...)

There is A LOT of too-ing and fro-ing before a decision is made.

But we take the work seriously.

Because that's what it deserves.

xx SF

I judge a lot of Lush Comps...

(Nicola: "Well, you do fuck all else...")

AHEM... And this one was the toughest I've done. I'll include a quote, since it's after the event, that I sent to my fellow judges in the course of our deliberations:

"To judge BETTER writers than me is a real trial. ALL OF THESE PEOPLE ARE AT LEAST AS GOOD AS MY BEST. (Some are quite a bit better.)"

And one more quote from our discussions:

"Jesus, Nic, the standard at the top end is getting fucking ridiculous on Lush! I'm especially impressed at how some of these writers have developed in the time I've been reading them here."

The judging panel, (and it changes all the time,) take the competitions VERY seriously. When the standard is this high, one finds oneself in the HORRIBLE position of trying to OBJECTIVELY rank one writer against another, and IT'S SO DIFFICULT!!!!!!

For the first time ever in my Lush judging career, my first choice won! (Congratulations CG!!!!!)

Entrants should know that A GREAT DEAL of discussion and discourse happens in the course of competition judging. It can indeed get quite heated!

TWO out of my top three got placed. (Three out of my top four were placed.)

EVERY STORY I READ DESERVED AT LEAST AN EP RIBBON. EVERY ONE made me think, "Ah FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!!!! HOW GOOD IS THIS!!!!!"

As a regular story mod I think I can say that we occasionally deal with 'work that needs work'...

The competitions properly showcase THE VERY BEST OF WHAT LUSH STORIES ASPIRE TO, and it's my honour and pleasure to read such quite fantastic work.

To EVERYONE who entered, thank you for your talent. To the winners, YOU DESERVE IT.

(I LOVE this fucking place!!!!!)

xx Stephanie.

Not really.

(When I asked my Mom this she looked at me and sighed and said, "yes!")

xx SF

I pick it from my teeth.........

xx SF

PORN IS GONNA END!!!!?????!!!!!! OH JESUS!!!!!!! ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

xx SF

Shades of Antony And The Jonsons?

(I like it.)

xx SF

(Not as good as Jamie T, mind.....)

I voted a (2).

I consider myself straight, yet I have had sex with other men. I've never had A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP with a man, and indeed, the handful of men I've been sexual with would ALL have defined themselves as straight and yet...

Things happened...

In my own case, I confess that ACTUAL SEXUAL CONTACT with another man never really aroused me in the visceral way that a woman invariably does, BUT THAT SAID, I did experience a desire to pleasure another pretty person, and I did. And I enjoyed it and I have no qualms about talking about it.

So, am I really bisexual?

Well, no, I don't believe I am. I AM someone who will surrender to a sensual whim if I'm in that moment. I DO find some men almost INEXPLICABLY attractive, Not Necessarily Sexually so, but obviously that element is there. To this day, John Cameron Mitchell makes me flutter nervously and though I've no desire to fuck him... (AT LEAST I DON'T THINK SO!) I do think he's GORGEOUS and I wish he was a friend of mine!!!! (Laughs!)

I DO think it's so much easier, given the society we live in, for WOMEN to confess these explorations of feelings than it is for men. Not one of my girlfriends has EVER been remotely bothered by the fact that I too have sucked cock. SEVERAL of my male friends have been totally shocked and indeed threatened by it. I don't really understand why that is.



xx Steph.

(Just realized that I just totally compromised myself since I work here under a GIRL'S NAME!!!!!! *Laughs!*)

A little under Three Minutes to read it properly... (And it needs an edit!!!) Laughs!

xx Steph

It's D J A N G O. The D is silent, hillbilly.

*Giggles* (Buz was taking the piss, Felix!!!!)

xx SF

Shauna closed her eyes and moaned as she felt the fingers of her husband's three bosses explore her trembling body. (Bosses? Partners now, she dimly registered.) She could feel a pair of hands knead and pinch her full breasts, and despite the shame she felt at exposing herself like this, her nipples hardened and elongated under the rough, impatient, caresses. The pleasureable sensation...

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After just one glass of champagne at the Club I told my brand-new husband that I needed to go upstairs to our honeymoon suite and fix my make-up. “You’re perfect as you are, my dear,” he said, his eyes twinkling with pride and giving him the look of a much younger man, “but go if you must. Just don’t be too long…” He resumed talking to his guests. Well, our guests. I could tell how proud he...

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Lady Dorothy’s War (Episode 1) (A story set in England during 1944) Bugger, bugger, bugger!” cried Lady Dorothy Brooks as she peeled her riding johdpurs down her slim thighs in the master bedroom of the Manor House in Little Bedford, Lincolnshire. Undoing the button tops of her garter belt she tossed first one and then the other silk stocking across the bedroom, before stepping out of...

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Lady Dorothy’s War (Episode II) A serial set in England during WWII *In which we learn how Lady Dottie lost her virginity…* By the time they had both climbed into the spacious rear of the Bentley, Lord Henry Brooks had already removed his dress jacket and was pulling at his trouser belt. Their lips had been locked together from the moment he had stopped the vehicle and his hands were by...

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Lady Dorothy’s War (Episode 3) A Series Set In England During WWII We last left Lady Dorothy Brooks secretly collapsed in a stable-stall with her hand in her knickers as a the sluttish servant girl Daisy rushed past attempting to settle her semen soiled underwear… As the pretty, (and now frankly perspiring) Lady Dottie removed her other hand from her mouth she could hear the fumbling...

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I can't make you better, But I could try, If you'd let me... I can't dry your tears. But only 'cos I haven't got A handkerchief... And I can't make you laugh, And I'm trying, (Please stop crying...) But I can wait, And we might date? When the sun rises again. You need a friend baby, And I was thinking maybe, You'd let it be me? Let it be me, Baby... Let it be Me....

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(The studio is costing 140 dollars an hour. We've been here two days and so far we haven't recorded a note. The drums are wrong, the ambiance is wrong, the fucking room is WRONG...) After another argument, I leave in a flutter of linen and leather, my hair dampening in the rain as I hail a cab. My hotel is four blocks away, but... Fuckit... I stop the cab at a store on the way. I arrive at...

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We encore with the new single, 'Lush' and three thousand Japanese voices join me on the chorus as Fromme strikes a guitar hero pose at center stage. "You know I love so much, (Lush, Lush, Lush, Lush,) "I know you love it when I push, (Lush, Lush, Lush, Lush,) "Yeah baby girl I need your touch, (Lush, Lush, Lush, Lush,) "'Cos lovin' you is simply lush, (Lush, Lush, Lush, Lush...)" ...

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Hotel Rendevouz (This is a Lush Stories Site Story. If You're reading this on another Site This story has been STOLEN!!) “Send her up,” I told the receptionist on the ‘phone. I rise from the bed and check my appearance in the miror. The charcoal grey suit looks sharp over my Cedric Hoff white shirt. My pale blue silk tie sets off the pinstripes. My long dark hair falls around...

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