Thursday, January 16, 2014

The Alpha Beta Chi Incident.

Nothing shocks him any more. 


























by Dusty Miller





“Hey, soldier.”

“Huh?”

Private First Class Tom Brannigan was walking from his personal vehicle, way out in the lot, towards the gaping maw that was the front of Wal-Mart here in this creepy little northeastern town. He needed some toothpaste, and couldn’t get his favourite brand at the base Px.

“Soldier?”

She really was talking to him. It was a nice-looking young girl, with her head sticking out of the window of a big and shiny white cube van. She was waving and beckoning him over.

Looking behind him quickly, so as not to get knocked over by a car, he went up between the passenger side of the cube van and another big grey pickup truck with a topper on the box.

“Yes?”

“I wonder if you could help me.”

She opened her door, and the van rocked a bit for some reason. In one corner of his consciousness, he heard the door at the back going up, but there was obviously someone else in there. She was in the passenger side after all.

“Yes? So, what seems to be the…” Tom literally yelped when about six young women came around the end of the van, and the girl got out of the passenger door, shoved him out of the way, quickly closed it partially, whipped through the gap and then held the door wide open against the cab of the grey pickup to his right.

“What! Whoa!” The girls grappled with him and pushed.

Now someone inside the cab of the cab was pulling at him, and it happened so fast Tom was halfway up on the passenger seat before he knew it. “Whoa! Hey, hold on!”

Six girls outside, plus the door girl for backup, ensured that the two girls struggling with Tom in the cab won the day. More hands inside the capacious back bay of the vehicle tugged and pulled and clasped as Tom struggled, cursing, babbling in shock, taken totally by surprise and stunned beyond reasoning.

“Oh, my God! No! What—”

The back door was already closed again. He heard the slam of one of the two front doors. He fought for breath as two or three young women sat on him, one of them right on his mouth, arguably to shut him up. 

More young women popped in through the intervening hatch from the front end and the motor fired up. 

Another door slammed. That’s all he knew.

Tom shut up and stopped struggling. The girl’s ass came up enough for him to catch a breath.

“Ladies…please…”

The bum came down again as the vehicle began backing out of the constricted space with a lurch.

***

They had Tom stripped down naked and duct-taped to a pine bench running long-ways in the back. From the brief glimpse he’d gotten, the bench looked like something out of a college changing room.

There were  ten, twelve, fifteen of them, maybe more, bumping and swaying as the vehicle moved along, all standing there laughing and looking down at him.

He stared wildly up at them.

“Why are you doing this?” He shouted in vain even as the girls, all of them appearing to be between eighteen and maybe twenty-two years old, shouted and giggled right back. “Why are you doing this to me?”

Some of their remarks were awful. There was swift movement down at the end.

“Oh, no!”

The first girl’s mouth latched onto his cock, erect and certainly beyond any rational control at this point.

Another girl came up beside his head and carefully pointed at a camera mounted up in the left front corner of the box.

“Smile, Baby, you’re on Candid Camera.”

Then she lifted a leg over his head and sat down on his face. She began to gasp and moan and gyrate. The sweet and not unfamiliar taste and smell of good clean pussy invaded all of this senses as the other girl did her best to polish his member to a new-car shine. He needed to breathe and his vision began to sparkle and twirl around the edges…

The rest shouted and screamed and shrieked and giggled as they passed a bottle. Then they got quiet. They were passing around some kind of glass pipe issuing wreaths of slightly acrid smoke. The only other noise was the whisper of wind and the whine of the tires going down the boulevard.

The only time he saw much was when they changed over.

***

“Oh, God.”

A slender Asian girl mounted him, gazing deep into his face.

“Hi, lover.” She closed her eyes and started to slide up and down his member, then the view was blanked out again by yet another vagina ramming down on his face.

***

Tom had an orgasm inside the third one, this one a cuddly little blonde girl with pouty lips, silky, curling hair and firm, high breasts.

She managed to get her mouth up to Tom’s ear while his face was empty for a moment.

“I’m not on the pill.” She said that with shining eyes and the most serious intent on her face.

He had to say something. Anything.

“Nothing shocks me anymore.”

“You’re cute.” Then she sat up and went to work and another pussy homed in, this time he thought it was the Hispanic girl, tall, leggy and with straight black hair down to her ass.

***

The next one wanted him alone. She was kind of heavy, and he stared up at her. She seemed a little older.

This one was here for the sex, for God’s sakes, and her performance was something to watch. Finally she moaned, thrashed, and the girls, lining up on each side of the bench clapped and cheered as hot sweat dripped onto Tom. The woman collapsed on him, knocking what little breath he had out of him.

His ordeal was just beginning.

***

“So how is he?”

The doctor looked at the Captain.

“Well. He’s certainly disoriented, and physically drained.”

“I see.”

The Captain chewed his lip.

Finally he spoke.

“Do you believe him?”

“Well. I’ll put it to you this way. The patient has weals, welts,scrapes, marks, bruises, swellings…traces of drugs in his system. We have plenty of hair removed, forcibly…that’s when someone pulled the tape off of him. He certainly ejaculated, more than once. We have all kinds of unidentified DNA. Many, many, different samples. So I would say, yes, something happened to him.”

Private Brannigan had been found wandering around in the Wal-Mart parking lot, incoherent, drunk, stoned, reeking of drugs, lipstick all over his face, and his A-Dress uniform remarkably disheveled.

There were some shocked passers-by, but a former military man, thinking on his feet, collared Brannigan. He had called the MPs, and thank God for that.

“Do you think it really happened, Doctor? I mean, just the way he said?” Tom Brannigan was a good soldier, but this sort of thing could put a real crimp in a promising young man’s career.

The Army hated liars. If you went on a bender, own up to it and take your punishment like a man. It earned a lot more respect.

The Captain considered what he knew of Brannigan.

It was hard, but not impossible to believe…it could be true.

The doctor took the Captain over to his personal desk, as evidenced by pictures tacked up on the wall of his wife, his kids and his dog.

He pointed at a camera, already plugged into a port on the computer. He clicked on an icon, leaning over the desk, and then clicked on a folder. He clicked on the first image.

“There it is.” He shuttled through.

The doctor had taken a dozen pictures, making sure he got a good one.

“What in the hell is that?”

“That, Captain…is Alpha Beta Chi, written in lipstick on Private Brannigan’s chest.”

“Whew.”

The Captain thought.

“That really doesn’t prove anything. Ah, does it?”

“No, it doesn’t, Captain. However, there is one point you might consider.”

The Captain looked up from the screen. There could be little doubt, that’s what it was. The Greek symbols were familiar enough from his own college days.

“It’s too good a story to make up.”

There was a long silence.

“Any recommendations, Doctor? Strictly off the record?”

“Who, me? Other than getting my own ass down to that Wal-Mart parking lot, why no, I haven’t got a clue. But my point is this, Captain—if it happened the way he said it happened, why, then, ah, maybe, maybe, it really could have happened. But if it happened in some other way, it seems so much less likely—all of those DNA samples, don’t you know.”

The Captain thought some more.

“Yeah—I hear you.”

He shook his head.

“Wow.” That was it—just wow.

“Anyway, we have Private Brannigan rehydrated, and we got some soup into him. He’s under light sedation—not that he needed much. He’s been all cleaned up. I’d like to keep him here for observation. A minimum of seventy-two hours. That’s mostly for psychological assessment. But, in my opinion, your boy is going to be just fine.”

“Ah. Yes. Good.”

The air was heavy with something unsaid.

The doctor sighed.

“Well?”

“It’s just…it’s just that…” The Captain was hesitant to put it into words.

The only school in the area that remotely qualified as a university was very exclusive.

It was a private school.

Students came from some of the most influential, the richest, and most powerful families in America. He thought the Vice-President’s daughter was enrolled there. He’d seen something about it on TV, or at least thought he had.

He had no idea of how they were going to keep Brannigan’s mouth shut.

The odds were that it couldn’t be done.

Shit.

The doctor had no need to know any of this, of course.


END











Sunday, January 12, 2014

More Than Mere Rutting.

It's about basic human needs and desires.













by Constance 'Dusty' Miller



I hope I am not being too analytical, but I have asked myself the question.

Why write romance? Even worse, why write erotica? Because there’s no doubt that while there is some romance in the work, the focus is largely on sex.

It really is about relationships. It’s about people, and like, how do you go about meeting one?

Where do you start, in some cases? The author is a single mom, and not in high school any more.

The social environment and her circumstances are a lot different now.

A common theme in my stories is two lonely people. Obviously there’s no full stop after that statement. The interesting question is how, or where, they might meet and how they manage to get together. I suppose it could happen anywhere, and probably does.

The writing has some challenges, it must meet all the criteria for the written work. It must have the three unities of time, place and action. It must have a beginning, a middle and an end.

The whole thing started off as a lark, more than anything. I was bored stiff. Life wasn’t that fulfilling or even all that interesting. I put my mind to it and realized that writing westerns was out of the question, as I know nothing of horses and cattle, six-guns and saloons…the list of genres goes on, but one thing for sure: I will never write a cookbook. There would be a lot of disappointed readers if I did, because my cooking is that bad.

I kid you not, ladies and gentlemen.

I was desperate for something different to do. I mean, something really different.

I was looking for some kind of excitement. Oddly enough, I think I found it, too.

I’m not even really sure why I turned to writing at all. It was just one of those things.

Everything on that page came out of my head. It sprang from my imagination. I had to imagine two people, in a certain set of circumstances, and bring them together, in spite of some obstacles, which are part of any genre. In my stories those obstacles usually revolve around simple but rational fears: the fear of betrayal, the fear of actual injury, diseases, the fear of discovery, rejection, heartbreak, abusive relationships, or even just being used and flung aside. And all that sort of thing.

Overcoming all of that is what makes a story.

And yet there is that desperate need to be loved in there too. That’s scary shit for any author. We really do put something of ourselves in our stories.

There is a chunk of reality in any story about sex, or love, and a pretty good sized hunk of me in every story that I write.

That’s an awkward thing to admit. Yeah, any initial thrill, the fear based one, has sort of faded, although you always get it in a story at some point. But now it’s like I’m looking for more things to do, bigger things, bigger thrills.

That’s interesting. The boundaries of the comfort zone have been extended.

My own personal space is now larger in some indescribable way. I never would have expected that.

I learned something about myself along the way.

But yeah, it is weird sometimes to sit there and pound away at what is essentially a kind of written smut.

All of those images began in my head. I think if it was just raw, animal-like sex—totally mindless rutting, then it really would be intolerable.

That’s where the romance comes in. That’s where the love interest comes in—two people get together, and it’s not just about cheating on a spouse, a drunken one-night fling in a motel far from home sort of thing. Lust has its role, I admit. It plays a pretty strong role.

But for me, the story is ultimately about finding somebody. It’s about finding somebody to love, and in any adult relationship sex is a big part of that. Seems simple enough.

Anyhow, I can’t put it any better than that.

If I had an idea like that, I would definitely write it up. We can always use more hot stories. Even then, (the motel room fling for example) I would still try to end the thing on some more romantic terms than mere rutting.

Heartbreak, regret, loss…or just a poignant reminder of the past.

Almost anything; besides mere rutting.

There has to be some beauty in there somewhere or it just wouldn’t be me, would it?


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Monday, December 30, 2013

Sex News Roundup, Dec 30, 2013

Sex News Roundup with Dusty Miller.









by Constance 'Dusty' Miller


Reports of sexual assault in the U.S. military have climbed almost fifty percent although officials say the rate may be steady, and the increase due to ‘heightened awareness and more willingness to come forward.’

‘A string of high-profile assaults and arrests triggered outrage in Congress and set off months of debate over how to change the military justice system. Military leaders launched a series of programs intended to beef up accountability and encourage victims to report crimes.’

‘"Given the multiple data points, we assess that this is more reporting," said Col. Alan R. Metzler, deputy director of the Pentagon's sexual assault prevention and response office. He also noted that more victims are agreeing to make official complaints, rather than simply seeking medical care without filing formal accusations.’ > Yahoo News.

***

Toronto cops have released a photo of the suspect after sexual assault near Jane and Sheppard, a location known to press and public.

‘Anyone with information about the incident or the suspect is asked to contact police at 416-808-3100 or call crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).’ > CP24.

***

A San Antonio woman has been sentenced to 28 years for having sex with her three year-old son.

‘A San Antonio woman is headed to federal prison for 28 years after pleading guilty to recording herself having sex with her 3-year-old son and sending the video to a former boyfriend.’ > Chronicle.

Unbelievable. Nothing really shocks me anymore—except the sheer stupidity sometimes. Obviously some real problems between the ears there.

***

Savannah-Chatham police officers accused of sexual harassment in incidents going back to 2004.

‘New documents reveal at least 16 Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department officers have been accused of sexual harassment within the workplace.

WTOC received the complaints and they date back to 2004, the most recent one was filed this past June.

Some of these complaints were very graphic to read.  In 2008, for example, one officer was accused of making sexual advances while he was supposed to be training a female officer.

According to the complaints, the officer drove behind a church on White Bluff Road and told her he wanted to adjust her vest which led to more physical contact.’ > WOTC

Again, that’s just dumb as well as very abusive towards your fellow officers. It doesn’t say much about your attitude towards women either, and as for the general public, they’re better off without your services.

Suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

***

Sex education in schools ‘will spoilt the minds of children.’ A superior court judge in Andhra Chadesh (a state in India) has said, ‘"Introduction of sex education in high schools (adult education programme), launched in 2005-06, has only spoiled the minds of children in the impressionable age. Parents have a responsibility to bring children back on the right track."

‘Justice Narasimha Reddy, also the Chairman of the High Court Legal Services Committee, further said the collapse of the joint family system has created a sense of insecurity for children.’

‘He was speaking at a sensitisation programme for stake-holders on the "Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012".’

‘Speaking at the function, Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court, Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta, observed that though the Act was passed over a year ago, a lot needed to be done when it came to its implementation.’ >
NDTV

Another nutcase, what can I say, but it’s a different culture and religion and they will take their time about making social progress of any sort. As India becomes more prosperous, pressure for social change will rise, there will be more social mobility and more education in general. It will be an interesting country to watch over the next twenty years.

***

Spain is a sex-pot hotspot, according to an international poll, beating out ‘sweaty Turks’ and ‘lazy Englishmen.’

Hah!

‘SPANISH men have been voted the world’s best lovers, according to an international poll.’

‘And to rub salt into the wounds, England came second-last last – after German men – for being ‘too lazy’ in bed.’

‘Spanish men were considered ‘natural and self-confident’ between the sheets, while Germans came last for being ‘too smelly.’’

‘The top five went – Spain, Brazil, Italy, France and Ireland.’ > The Olive Press.

***
Cyber sex thrives in Greece according to survey conducted with sample of 1,600 people.

The number of people seeking “love” through the internet is increasing. The old traditional flirt has been replaced by chat rooms and social media, with the exchange of messages and photographs. This new trend has been dubbed “cyber sex.”

Recent results of a survey carried out by the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, in which 1,600 people were polled (800 men and 800 women), has indicated that 8 out of 10 men and 7 out of 10 women are regularly visiting websites with sexual content.  Surprisingly, 6 out of 10 of those polled freely admitted to using the internet to meet sexual partners, rather than developing a stable relationship.

In addition, the survey showed that 43 percent of respondents admitted to having had a relationship with someone they met in an online chat-room. > Greek Reporter.

The fact that due to austerity, half of them are out of work might have something to do with it.

Let’s face it, going out is expensive.

***

And that’s it for another Sex News Roundup. It’s easy enough and fun to write.

Thanks for sharing.





Monday, December 9, 2013

Experimental Marketing Machine.

An industry still in the experimental stage.















by Dusty Miller



My buddy says this industry is still in the experimental stage.

My new short science fiction/space opera story, ‘Selena’s Escape,’ is now available for $0.99 from OmniLit.

This is my first title on OmniLit and it will be interesting to see the results of opening up a new platform.

They have distribution to iTunes but that looks like their only outlet so far other than their own store.

I was thinking about that—it’s all an integrated electronic network, with various sales platforms and aggregators talking back and forth.

So a title published from Smashwords by Author A and another title from OmniLit also published by Author A might both end up on iTunes, if the author for some reason or other chose to do that.

A title from Smashwords might end up on iTunes, and a title from OmniLit might end up on iTunes, and yet theoretically they should all end up on the same author page.

Think about some more famous names, i.e., not me.

They have had long careers, and some of their titles are no doubt from different publishing houses.

Yet they should inevitably end up on the same page.

Now, one of the selling points for independent publishing is control.

But a friend of mine put through some price changes over two months ago, using the Smashwords platform, and yet he can still see free books going out the door from where Amazon is price-matching somebody. 

He’s talking back and forth with them all the time and not getting much joy out of it.

All those distribution channels are not, or at least shouldn’t be, end to end in some kind of distribution chain.

They should all be separate and distinct entities, and while Kobo also might distribute to Chapters/Indigo, each channel would ideally be ‘one link long.’ A very short chain.

That way, it really shouldn’t take months for a given title to end up properly priced, with the correct cover, all available titles in all available stores, and all that sort of thing.

As things stand presently, for an author to have maximum control over covers and pricing, they would have to sign up for as many distribution channels as they could separately.

As an example, ‘Selena’s Escape’ has only one cover. There is no way that should ever end up with another cover, but those who update covers have to go and check every single title on every single platform or store, and then changes have to be requested back through the service provider, or aggregator, in this particular case Smashwords.

Once you have a number of titles, opening up a new distribution platform takes time. It requires effort, and you have no idea of what results might come from doing it.

There is a learning curve, and the more time you spend there, the more you should know about how it works, what its potential is, a and how to get the best out of what is basically just a kind of marketing machine. Yet I still think it’s worth making the experiment, and as a new store, I would want to be in there anyway.

I want to be in every new store. That too, will take time.

So that’s why I decided to try OmniLit.

It’s a new store, a new machine and it offers some alternative to Smashwords. You can always publish separately to Kindle, or here in Canada, sign up for Kobo, and do whatever you want to do.

***

Right now, my story ‘Poker Night’ can be read for free on the Justus Roux website’s guest writer’s page.

That was my first sale as a writer of erotic romance, and a big thumbs-up to Justus Roux for helping us out with that one.

That story will be available in January on various platforms. It’s all formatted, I have a cover and everything. 

I have another one in the works, a romantic fantasy that was a lot of fun to write.

The story is presently under submission but the odds are it will be rejected as there about a million submissions a month in this category!

I mean, you have to figure the odds.

If it takes you two years of constantly submitting and re-submitting, and you finally sell your story for twenty bucks, then you have little choice but to wonder what would happen if you had published it on your own from day one—you might have made your twenty bucks in the first three or four months and after that it’s all gravy when you consider the price of a reprint is half of what the story originally went for.  Or you can let someone publish it in exchange for mere exposure.

***

Yeah, my buddy said he was checking his prices on Sony and found a book cover from two and a half years ago, and yet according to him the last time he checked it was the right cover.

Right now, all the staff at all the big publishing platforms are swamped, that’s kind of self-evident.

I think my buddy’s about ready to give up!

He’ll get over it. He just loves to tinker.



END

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Sex News Roundup.

Denial of sex amounts to cruelty.














by Dusty Miller



Man had sex with goat, confronted by his accuser in court. Sentenced to ten years. The goat will be taken home, killed, slaughtered and eaten with relish. (Mirror.)

***

Man dressed up as dog had sex repeatedly with cat.

“A man who enjoyed dressing up as a dog called called Bubblegum Husky has been arrested for having regular sex with a cat…Boise Police Department spokesman Charles McClure said that the charge was 'definitely unusual', adding that his department had handled similar cases only once or twice in his eight years on the force.”

(Mirror.) Yeah, how come the Mirror gets all these stories?

***

Man released after conviction for having sex with ex-wife’s dog.

“A dad-of-three walked free from court today after being convicted of having sex with his ex-wife’s dog…A jury heard he whistled the dog to join him in the bedroom after his ex refused to have sex.”

The four year-old dog’s name was Sasha. I’m starting to see a pattern here in the Mirror’s reporting. It’s not clear whether the dog was male or female. Perhaps it would be best to avoid undue speculation, but the gentleman is obviously rich or Conservative or something to avoid a stiff time in prison.

***

Retired Mountie charged with sex crimes dating back 30 years. (News 95.7.)

***

The pope has established a special commission on child abuse. Let’s hope they decide to stop it, eh?

“Cardinal O’Malley said the new sex abuse commission would be of international composition, consisting perhaps of 12 members, including lay people, members of religious orders and priests. The members will be persons with “competence in the safety of children, relations with victims, mental health, law enforcement” and other relevant subjects, he said.”  (Deacon’s Bench.)

***

Swiss tourist pleads guilty to taking pictures of sex worker, convicted of possession of obscene materials under Zambian law.

“’Your honour, I didn’t know it was illegal in Zambia because back in my home country almost every home you will find such pictures,’ claimed (the defendant.)” (Zambian Watchdog.)

***

Hong Kong cops bust vice racket behind big porn website.

“A vice racket that pocketed an estimated HK$60 million a year running the city's biggest porn website has been smashed by police following the arrest of 114 people in the past three days.”

Site also apparently ran ads for prostitutes, which presumably is illegal in Hong Kong. It’s also probably rampant and the city is still a tourist destination as well as a showpiece for the government in Beijing which would like folks to believe it is becoming more capitalist when it is merely authoritarian and exploitive enough in its own way.

“At the studio in Sham Shui Po, sex workers were offered a free make-up service and costumes such as school uniforms before having photographs taken and videos made, police said.” (South China Morning Post.)

***

Denial of sex without ‘reasonable cause’ amounts to cruelty.

“ Upholding a family court order granting divorce to a city-based couple, the Bombay High Court has held that sex is the foundation of marriage and marriage without sex is an anathema. The court also observed that willful denial of sexual intercourse without reasonable cause amounts to cruelty.” (The Free Press Journal.)

Also from the same paper: man accused of sexual harassment to face all-female panel. Sounds like a fair trial and a quick execution.

And more from the Free Press Journal: Civic Hospitals Still Unsafe for Women.

“Even after 15 females – 12 lab technicians, two nurses and one patient – were assaulted in the premises of Nair and Sion Hospitals in the last two months, no strong step has been taken by the authorities to tighten up security.”

On the other hand, if you’re married and your husband shows up, rather insistent, demanding sex, you really can’t say no or you might face divorce proceedings.

***

I find the whole sex-thing rather schizophrenic.

Are things better now than they were a hundred years ago?

Let’s hope so, but now at least we can talk about such things. In the past, all this would have either been swept under the rug or sensationalized beyond all reasonable measure.

As the process of global villagization continues, we will inevitably move towards more coherent attitudes, across cultural boundaries. That's not to say that public opinion will not play a role, it is in fact the defining factor in what is and what is not illegal, immoral, or not permissible.

It would be interesting to hang around for a couple of hundred years and see how it all turns out.

I don’t make the sex news, I just report on it, ladies and gentlemen.



END

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Coming Soon: Selena's Escape.

Cover design by J. Thornton.




Coming soon to an online bookstore near you is 'Selena's Escape,' by Constance 'Dusty' Miller.

Here' the blurb:

Chauncey Mifflin owns everything in sight, including her. The whole planet is corrupt. Selena has thought long and hard about escape. The only thing she's waiting for is opportunity, but a heart turned to steel and a burning desire for revenge is enough to tip the balance. A short story.

***

The story is science fiction, and I really like the cover.

Thanks, J.

It's easy enough to load that up on Kindle and Smashwords, but I've also been meaning to try out OmniLit, where I already have an account, and possibly iTunes as there seems to be provision for Canadian authors. 

The big thing there is the U.S. 30 % withholding tax. Obviously you don't want to pay that if you're not a U.S. citizen and your country has a tax treaty with the U.S.

Disclaimer: I haven't signed up for iTunes and iBooks yet so this information might change. The only real tip there is not to click 'Apple' (or rather, make sure to un-click) that distribution channel when uploading the book on Smashwords.

Other than that I like to read them again once or twice just to make sure everything's copacetic and hunky-dory and all that sort of thing.


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