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Proposing an SOL Event—a BSFS Festival.
One of the little used features of Stories On Line is the Event. An event is a collection of stories as described here:
https://storiesonline.net/author/events.php
If there is sufficient interest, I’d like to create an event reminiscent of a festival which appeared in the usenet sex stories newsgroups almost twenty years ago: The Bradley Stoke Flash Stroke Festival, or BSFSF for short. If you are interested in contributing a story to the festival, let me know and I’ll send you the invitation.
Once you receive the invitation, you submit your story in the usual way, except that when posting your story you will click on the “Submit Story for the BSFSF Event.”
1. What is BSFSF?
BSFSF stands for Bradley Stoke Flash Stroke Festival. The first such festival ran in November of 2003 and attracted more than one hundred stories. BSFSF stories are supposed to fit on a single computer screen. For the purposes of the festival, this means no more than 18 lines (including title line and any blank lines), with each line containing no more than 70 characters of text, including spaces. BSFSF stories are text only. Because of the nature of SOL formatting, BSFSF stories here may end up having more than 18 lines.
2. Who or What is Bradley Stoke?
Bradley Stoke said at the time of the original festival, "Perhaps more interesting than a stroke story festival would be one which combined the current vogue for flash fiction with stroke."
3. What is flash? What is stroke? What is flash stroke?
Flash is very short short story. It may be poetic, but it is fiction, not poetry, not song, not mattress tags or shopping lists or recipes for eggplant parmesan. Stroke is fiction that is intended to sexually arouse the reader. Successful stroke fiction inspires masturbation and provokes orgasm. So flash stroke is a very short short story designed to sexually arouse its readers.
Okay, how is it accomplished?
A traditional sex story relies on attractive characters in exciting situations with lots of drawn-out tease and ever-increasing sexual tensions. Not much room in flash for long seductive skeins of tease and judiciously gradual increases of juicy tensions—that's not to say foreplay is out the window, but I suspect the flash stroke story might need to rely on powerfully exciting images, ones which continue to resonate in the reader's consciousness, ones which cause the reader to dwell and delve and dig between the lines. Either that or something in the story must hit the reader's hot buttons so expertly that instant climax is inevitable. Instant climax inevitable? You see what the writer's up against?
4. Is the festival open to anyone?
Yes. But because the story is part of an SOL Event, an invitation is required. If you would like to participate, please send me an invitation request. If you know writers who might be interested, please let them know about this festival.
5. When.
Your BSFSF stories need to be submitted on or before December 24, 2021.
It's fall back here in most of the U.S. today, so my story "Fall Back Fuck" uses that as a theme.
We have seven clocks to set one hour back. We'd have one more, but our microwave LEDs have been burnt out for decades, so there's no way to set that and no purpose to try. (Otherwise the 35 year old microwave works just fine.) We'd have eight, now that I think about it, but our grandfather clock has been stuck on 4:33 since the microwave's third birthday. Maybe I should move it back to 3:33 just for fun.
I wonder who here has the most clocks to adjust.
In my little pre-Halloween story today "Cell Phone RIP" the "RIP" shows up as "Rip" in the title. Just so you know. This story is mostly true, except for some stuff.
By the way, this is part of the Best Blowjob Ever collection. If you have written a blowjob story (preferably 1000 words or fewer) which you'd like me to illustrate and post in this collection, let me know.
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Today I posted a whimsical (in my estimation) little (172 words plus title and illustration) story "Caveman Days," and it seems to be one of those pieces a lot of SOL readers either love or hate. (I'm used to that.) Take a look and let me know what you think.
I received more than twenty responses to the question I posed in my blog of the other day: "What is the French word for fuck?" Thanks very much. As I may not have made clear, the question largely had to do with what the duck, Rosa, uttered again and again in the crime novels of Louise Penny. The setting for these adventures is a small town in Quebec, just north of the Vermont border, and the residents speak French (although Penny writes the dialogue in English). Rose the duck says "Fuck" but was that a French fuck or an English fuck?
By coincidence, in this morning's New York Times is an article "A Language Bill Deepens a Culture Clash in Quebec" which touches on this subject.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/09/world/canada/quebec-french-language-laws.html
Apparently there is a new law pending in Quebec that will, among other things, require people to speak French. My understanding of French is pretty much limited to "merde" and "fuck," though I rarely say either word out loud. So if I were to visit Quebec, I'd have to remain silent or risk breaking the law. I wonder how Penny gets by writing books in English?
I'm all for freedom of speech and I'm all against censorship, so maybe I won't be visiting Canada any time soon. And I guess, depending on whether it's an English fuck or a French fuck, Rosa the duck may be in big trouble.
I do like the sound of French. And I know it's the language of love. When crying out in orgasm, do French lovers use French to express their ecstasy? What might be the punishment for slipping into some other language mid climax?
On a slightly different note, yesterday my SOL download count topped 2.5 million. Thanks to SOL and to you for taking a look at my stories.
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