Excellent stories all around! Congratulations to the podium winners, the runners-ups, and all who entered.

This is a must-read!

I just saw this. Drop by my office and I'll get on my knees and congratulate you properly.

I feel your pain. Here's a naughty bits reference: https://laurelclarke.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/sexy-thesaurus-romance-erotica-words/

Please check out my surprisingly-popular series Love thy Neighbor.

8 chapters, of hot, sexy, reading and, hopefully, something for almost everybody.

Uber-mega-slut-with-a-brain (hyphenated, so it is technically one word)

Getting into the Yuletide spirit

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OK, I wasn't thinking of it that way, but yes, if I can get through one new story a day I will be hard all week.

Like mom always says, "a hard man is good to find."

Seriously though, the quality of the Noir entires is top-notch

BDSM? Big Dumb Stupid Me?

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And spankings. Somebody please write stories with spankings 😊

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/spanking/love-thy-neighbor-part-4-spit-roast

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Wow, there ended up being a total SIX last-minute entries for me to catch up on. Stunning. It's going to be hard to get work done this week.

Oooh, yummy. I like it hard!

The entries for this competition are all top-notch. The judges will have a very difficult time getting their top three. Well done, everyone.

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True!!! Between him and Krystal... whew!

Did somebody call me?

My opinion is that having the same characters does not necessitate a series. To me, a series is a complete story broken up into digestible bits. I have several true stories that feature my friends and husband, but they are a continuing story, they merely involve the same people.

A lot of artists and photographers online detail their rights of use somewhere on their sites or in the notes for their pictures. Typically, if you avoid the pay-for-use pictures, you'll be fine. But, common sense and respect for the rights of others rule the day.

The dimensions for a cover picture are optimally 512X800 pixels (but, they show roughly half-size on the computer screen). The authors or their friends make their own. I use an old version of photoshop, but one can use any graphics editor.

Please keep in mind that story pictures cannot show any genitalia, nothing hardcore, and need to be allowable for use (no copyrighted material).

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sadly, i think my entry is officially dead.

NNOOOooo! You must write it, complete it, and let us see your genius.

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Above all, I would have wished that one or the other of our authors would have taken a look at the text before hastily submitting their story to the Noir Erotique competition... 😉

As an author, one of your accused "hasty-submitters," I personally challenge you, Lynkeus, to write one and show all of us authors how it's done.

congrats! I helped a little, as well. I'm thrilled if somebody even bothers to read my stuff, so happy for you.

The Enquirer?

Masturbated in my bed this morning as soon as I woke up, once more with one of the flowers he left for me beside my breakfast in bed. Then, I masturbated in the shower with my womanizer and the shower head, once more while getting dressed for work, once on the way to work, and twice more in my office, today. Tonight is date night, so I'm sure there's some love other than self-love in my immediate future.

Easy one, today

My inner self, today

Same as always

Easy, today

I sort of like mine, at least enough to keep them as they are. I just wish they were either a B-size or a C-size. I'm just shy of a C-cop, more like a C-minus, and it fluctuates depending on how active I've been or how many extra calories I've stored of late.

Pretty much sums it up

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Me: I'm in the Top Two of the competition!

Actually, I found your story to be well-written, engaging, and your factual research is evident. I really enjoyed it, even if you did steal my idea! 😜
Seriously, everyone, if you haven't read Mojavejoe's story, you simply must!