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richard lyon
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Location: San Francisco
Registered: February 2002
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Jack Rowan has published 4 stories on Nifty:
Story of Tim
Story of Tol
smith and Sam
Island Summer
I think all 4 are well worth reading for several reasons. They are all interesting and well written. I find it very impressive that one writer can sucessfully tackle such a broad range of subject matter. He is definitely not an "SM writer".
Story of Tol builds on the material in Story of Tim. I found it even more emotionally demanding than Story of Tim.
I think that taking the two together gives a clearer picture of how he is using SM as a literary vehicle to deal with issues of power and trust in relationships. In both stories he is writing about healing. I think that his efforts at this are very effective.
Richard
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tim
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Location: UK, West of London in Ber...
Registered: February 2002
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Got to me in a very personal way. For anyone with unrequited love it has emotional hand grenades in it.
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tim
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Really getting into it |
Location: UK, West of London in Ber...
Registered: February 2002
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Was the hardest story to read I have ever read. There are stories depicting much worse scenes, but Tol was gut wrenchingly difficult.
I read it because I trust Jack. It is too strong for me, yet it came to a satisfactory conclusion. But by no means a read for anyome who has been abused unless they are well healed from the experience.
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tim
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Really getting into it |
Location: UK, West of London in Ber...
Registered: February 2002
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Now here I found myself "at sea". I could be Kip, lovelorn Kip, Kip who finds love. But I was unable to free myself from watching him with an odd kind of horror as the tale progressed.
And yet the story is gentle and not one of horror at all.
Perhaps Kip was too close to who I might have been.
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ien
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Location: Netherlands
Registered: April 2002
Messages: 81
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Jack Rowan
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Registered: January 1970
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In reply to ien: you can find it in Nifty, Gay - Beginnings.
As my other stories have been mentioned:
The Story of Tol: I really would not advise this story for anyone who is disquieted by SM. It's very much for those who are prepared to take a very tough journey through the territory. It discusses abuse very directly, what it's like to be an abuser, and it's about repentance, payment, sacrifice and redemption. Its morality is in many ways very traditional, but the context is extreme and challenging. It is not a fun story and much of it was agony to write. Please, this is a very serious warning: if you have doubts, do not read it. Okay, I read the posts about 'Paint Drying' notices, but since it has been mentioned here (soemthing I would not myself have chosen to do) I can either warn, or not warn. It's my clear duty to warn.
'smith and Sam': genuinely a short story  There's no SM here, but a lot of sadness. No teenage characters.
'Island Summer': another long story, no SM. The two main characters are 18 and 23 years old. It's a love story and a kind of coming-out story, but more it's about growing up and leaving childhood behind.
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ien
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Location: Netherlands
Registered: April 2002
Messages: 81
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I emailed you about it but I haven't been able to find the other story anywhere!
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