Last Chance to See

I was looking through my output for LS over the years, and decided that it could use a bit of pruning, so I'll be removing some of what I think are my weakest entries. Most of them are half-baked competition entries, some shitty poetry, and a couple of 'seemed like a good idea at the time' stories that probably needed a bit more thought before I started working them out on the page. Anyway, here's the list of what I'll be deleting at the end of the month:

• With Interest (part 2) - A sequel that didn't really go in an exciting direction. Decided that the first entry works well enough as a stand-alone piece

• I Don't Mean to Cause Alarm - My first attempt at erotic poetry.

• Christmas Carol - A play on the old Dickens plot for a Christmas themed competition.

• Cumming Together, Parting as Strangers - Another competition, another bad poem.

• The Research Assistant - Competition story that needed more room to develop than was allowed.

• Giving Feedback - Another competition story that ran out of room before it really took off.

• Smashing Pumpkins - My latest competition story, a micro. It took me about 15 minutes to write it, and it wouldn't be the most heartbreaking thing I can imagine to allow these handful of sentences to vanish into oblivion after the competition is judged.

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Smashing Pumpkins - My latest competition story, a micro. It took me about 15 minutes to write it, and it wouldn't be the most heartbreaking thing I can imagine to allow these handful of sentences to vanish into oblivion after the competition is judged.

But if you actually make the top ten? Might not want to make a decision on this one until Friday. 😋

Win or lose, in my opinion it's not my best work, so it's gonna go.

And they're gone. Did you miss them? Trust me, you didn't miss much. But I've still got plenty of much better stories published here, if you really want to read my work.

I understand why you'd do that, but I also think it is a shame to delete the evidence of your progress as a writer.

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I understand why you'd do that, but I also think it is a shame to delete the evidence of your progress as a writer.

Or maybe I've just increased the value of any copies of my stories floating around now that they're officially out of print. Could be setting myself up for a lucrative 'reissue' ten years down the road. In this case, that's not too likely, though, and I wouldn't really count those stories/poems as "progress."

However, if you do want to see where it all started, this was the first erotic story I wrote (and the second I published to this site): https://www.lushstories.com/stories/straight-sex/sincerely-for-the-first-time. After that you can read the rest of my work to see how my LS writing career unfurled from there.

About time to thin the herd again. Here are four more stories I'm not too fond of:

Across the Tracks: Killing time, waiting for a train, a flirtatious game with a stranger. The concept was promising, but it didn't quite come together the way I wanted it to.

The Highway Girl: This was a competition story about picking up a damsel in distress by the side of the road. Wasn't really feeling inspired by the comp theme, if I'm totally honest.

Early Arrival: Picking up my brother's girlfriend from the airport and bringing her home to discover him cheating and a whole bunch of awkward trash-talking and competitive cheating ensues. I was going for something that isn't really me, and I think it shows. It's my latest attempt at a one-sided dialog, but it kinda sucks in my opinion, so it's gonna go.

Won't you be my neighbor [Part 6]: I'd wrapped up a five part series that I was satisfied with, and then for some reason thought I'd extend the story into a new arc. But I haven't really made much progress beyond this one extra entry, and it's not doing anything for the series, so I'll take it down and return to a tidy five.

I'll delete them some time around the end of September. If you've got any curiosity about them, go read them before they're gone. Or save yourself the time and don't. I promise, they're not that good.