The Trekkie
Taylor was from a farmhouse in the Midwest and she was pretty with strawberry blonde hair but very shy and mousy. She looked like Chloe Sevigny and she hung out with the nerd patrol in the TV room and watched Star Trek with the brainiacs almost every night.
Long Island raised Jewish Princess Fern didn’t know what compelled her to sit next to Taylor. But the lights were pretty dark in the TV room. Fern was feeling frisky after a long night of partying at the campus pub. She let his hand fall on top of Taylor’s. No one could see. Taylor didn’t say a word as she grabbed Fern’s hand.
It was thrilling. No one else in the room knew what they were doing. When Fern tapped Taylor’s leg to follow her out of the TV room as she got up, Taylor didn’t make a move.
Not until Fern left the TV room and went up the stairs toward Taylor’s hallway. Five minutes later Taylor followed.
Taylor looked Fern in her green eyes, smiled widely and slowly opened the door to her own room on the girl’s hallway—and they didn’t say a word.
Fern ran her hands over Taylor and slowly kissed her.
Taylor seemed frightened at first but then quickly and hungrily made out with Fern, tasting the beer and cigarettes on her breath. They were both so naughty now and Taylor loved it.
Fern felt Taylor’s perky tits and cupped her tight ass.
Taylor started to get undressed quickly and before Fern knew it, they were fucking on a fluffy blue rug on the dorm room floor.
Licking each other’s wet, candy-flavored pussies. They still had not said one word to each other.
But Taylor moaned loudly and scratched Fern’s arms and back as she came.
Taylor was a real hellcat in the sack and the coolest part was they never said one word to each other…they didn’t have to.
When they saw each other the next day in the TV room they ignored each other. But later that night, they repeated the previous night’s ritual. As Fern left, she noticed Taylor’s nerdy friend Paula smiling. Obviously, their secret was out of the bag. The later sessions would never match that first time…which was like the first Star Trek…far superior to later incarnations.
The Publicist:
Brad met Brandi, the publicist with wavy, blonde hair at a music event and then took her to Cirque du Soleil. Brandi was a divorcee and she loved to be told what to do. Brad treated her like his own personal fuck slave and she loved it. He would make Brandi beg for him to fuck her in the ass and then he would tell Brandi how her female co-workers would like to join in. He ordered Brandi to lick their pussies and assholes. Brandi loved the dirty talk and Brad loved smoking some doobie before she came over.
“Get on the bed now and pull down those pants so I can fuck your ass like the little bitch whore you know you are…”
“Yes master, thank you…”
”Shut up and get those pants down bitch.”
Brad’s cock was never harder than when he would go through these B&D scenarios with the publicist. They engaged in phone sex all the time and Brad discovered that a lot of women love to be humiliated. Even though he revered and respected women… when it came to hot and dirty sex…why not? They were both adults… and the dirtier he talked to Brandi the more she loved it.
”That’s right…your girlfriends are all watching me fuck you in the ass you little whore…now they’re turning around so you can stick your nose in their ass cracks and lick their assholes…you’d like that wouldn’t you?”
“Oh yes master, you know I would…”
“Of course I know you would…get to it”
Brad usually just fucked Brandi in the ass…while he did it she would finger her clit. When she left to go back to San Francisco …Brad would miss her. Brandi was a cool chick and a great fuck…and as publicists go…she was one that Brad could actually tolerate…
”Next time my crew wants an exclusive interview…you better fucking make it happen or I’m going to make you suck their cocks while I pound your ass…you understand what I’m saying you stupid fucking publicist whore?”
“…yes master…you’ll get the first interview every time…”
“You’re damn fucking right I will! Now take it in your ass you little bitch…”
“Oh yes…oh my god… yesss”
“Take it you bitch…”
“Oh yesssssss, thank you.”
“That’s right, thank me for it you fucking publicist cunt.”
“Oh yes, master I’m a stupid fucking whore.”
”I know you are, bitch…take it up your ass …that’s right just like that…”
It would go on like that every time until they both came and then they would laugh and smoke a joint and then Brandi usually went home.
The cosmetics executive:
Once Stephan got a taste for the B&D games he found there was no shortage of women that liked to take part. Cindi, the cosmetics executive with the short black hair and pale complexion, was a friend of that hot co-worker Shelly who worked in the women’s dept.
Cindi was a set-up and she was totally game to be told what to do. Stephan made Cindi agree that if she was going to stay over at his apartment that she would follow his orders and do what he said.
There would be a safe word and he tied Cindi’s legs and hands up with a robe belt and tie.
Then he blindfolded Cindi, kissed her beautiful naked body and then put plastic laundry clips on her nipples.
Cindi’s pussy was slick and she was moaning like a woman possessed.
Stephan looked down, took another toke of a joint and admired the beautiful, writhing executive stretched across his sheets…he slid a vibrator onto Cindi’s pussy and she started to moan even louder…
”That’s right you’re such a good little slave that I’m going to make you come…but I want you to remember that your pussy and asshole and mouth are my property…”
”Yes, they are master”, Cindi moaned.
Stephan was glad Cindi remembered that she was supposed to always refer to him as “master.” The candle was originally there to drip on her…but instead he dipped it in the jar of Vaseline and slid the wick end slowly and wickedly up Cindi’s inviting asshole.
“That’s right you little slave bitch…suck on that candle with your asshole like you’re sucking on a lollypop…and don’t you dare let it slide out of your asshole.”
“oooooh….ahhhhh…ooooohh…oops…I’m sooo sorry master…it slipped out of my asshole by accident, Cindi gasped apologetically.
“SMACK!!!…now, don’t let it happen again slut…now, slide it right back in…” her pale white asscheek now had a bright pink handmark.
“oooooh, yessssss, master…thank you so much.”
Stephan jerked off on her back after Cindi came from the vibrator and that was the first of their many “play dates.”
After a while Cindi wanted a relationship and Stephan wasn’t the guy for that. But he always kept a candle and laundry clips in his kitchen drawer in case Cindi would occasionally decide to reach out for an impromptu booty-call.
The Blonde:
Porsche was blonde and she had been introduced to Ben by Manfred. There was some instant chemistry…but Ben didn’t act on it until months later when he used the aspiring actress for a TV modeling segment.
Manfred had said he had fooled around with her, but Ben doubted it and Porsche confirmed that too.
She was Italian and she looked like that blonde from Raging Bull…Kathy Moriarty…Ben discovered that her thing was getting spanked and phone sex. Ben was glad to oblige…
”Porsche I know you are in the bathroom right now…let me hear you…I want to hear you go to the bathroom…that’s good…now wipe yourself off and go into your bedroom and pull out that dildo I told you to buy earlier…did you remember to tell the clerk that you needed a big dildo so your master could fuck you in the ass for being such a nasty little slut?”
“…yes master,” Porsche replied.”
”You’re lying you little bitch I can tell by your voice”
“…no master I told him…I have the dildo right here”
“…you are a lying bitch…and you know what happens to lying bitches don’t you?”
“No master, what?”
“…they get fucked in front of all their co-workers…next time I call you in the office,I want you to finger yourself under your desk…do you understand me?”
“…yes master I do”
“…good girl…who owns your mouth, pussy and ass?”
“…you do master “
“…say it then…”
“My mouth, my pussy and my ass belong to you master…”
“Good girl…now stick that dildo in your pussy…”
Porsche started to gasp. Before long she was moaning into the phone…“oooooh…..ahhhhhh.”
”you want to lick your girlfriend’s pussy don’t you?”
“..Yes master..unghhh…oooooh.”
“You are a dirty little lesbian whore aren’t you?”
“..yesssss… master…uhhhhh”
This girl was hot all right…Porsche did play around with her girlfriends on occasion and if Ben hadn’t been seeing someone else at the time he would have really enjoyed fucking Porsche.
They kept meeting at parties and they kept trying to slip away to a private room so Ben could give her the spanking he kept promising her on the phone…but something or someone always seemed to bust it up before Ben could lay a hand on her delicious ass.
The best he could do was give her a pinch.
One time, they were in the elevator going down with other people in the car. Ben asked Porsche to hold his drink as well, then without anyone watching, Ben non-nonchalantly slid his hand between her legs on top of her pussy. She was wearing panties but for twenty seconds she stood there blushing as the other people in the elevator paid no notice. Ben whispered in her ear…”that’s mine… isn’t it…” she whispered back a breathless little “yes.”
Adam Kluger With Artwork by Dreck
Saragun Springs 
I rarely read a review of material appearing in this mag that is negative. I find that Saragun Springs is a real “community” of artists who support one another’s efforts to create, well, art. But that can be a two-edged sword. By not being critical, one risks seeming supportive of work that one does not in fact like.
Leila issued a warning: if you don’t approve of this content, then slip in a Disney flick. But I wanted to give the writer, whose work I’d briefly scanned in the past, a chance, and not dismiss pornography out of hand. There is a definite market for porn and I recognize its value in terms of being an alternative to acting on the sordid impulses that porn itself inspires.
But that said, porn is porn, a benighted artform which almost always has a male perp and a female victim, writ large. Foremost among the elements of porn are debasement, humiliation and abuse–of the female. This can change, with the occurrence of gay sex-themes. Perhaps unfettered sexual dominance is a natural feature of our makeup.
I am an undeterred believer in the First Amendment. If you anticipate a caveat, you are not mistaken. When a so-called artform serves to diminish a large segment of our population, is it a good or even tolerable thing?
I did not like this series of stories, not did I appreciate it. I felt that it catered to our lowest common denominator. I think that this sort of thing is important to a free society, but that it reflects negatively on the management of this magazine to showcase it. It’s true, the editor didn’t endorse the content, but good taste would seem to forego displaying it. I love almost everything about Saragun Springs, but this, not so much.
Given a choice between arbitrary censorship–and isn’t it always arbitrary–and the presence of this material, I would choose this work every time. I’ve given this writer a fair shot, but in future I’ll know better.
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Bill
You may say as you please. But I think you are wrong. Still, all right. But I cannot help but feel that you have taken advantage of the allowed freedom .
Moreover there may be many things about you that have been given a pass that people have found objectionable.
I intensely dislike negativity in comments because it is unfair to the artist. This is not the real world. He cannot deal with the situation personally.
Perhaps I am annoyed because you read the warning, proceeded then complained anyway. There’s something, I think, wrong in that.
Leila
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Leila,
There may indeed be objectionable things about me that others have given a pass. But that has little to do with the issue at hand. I wanted to give the artist in question a chance to wow me with what, from previous readings of his work, I felt would probably be pornographic.
Are you saying that I should either say something good–or nothing at all–rather than anything critical? “Comments” then become “blandishments.” And work that I think merits a compliment–practically everything else on the site–is adversely affected by being lumped into the same bin as the porn we are discussing, via tacit approval. The 800-lb. gorilla in the room remains at large: is porn a negative?
There are some bigger issues than cultivating a community of like-minded writers and artists. I could’ve remained silent, gotten my stories published and offended no one, maybe. Perhaps it’s not up to me to save the world from porn. But if I won’t speak out, then who will? Civil rights never would’ve gotten off the ground more than a half century ago without white freedom riders.
And here’s where I most disagree with you: this is all the real world. An artist can’t put his work out there and get approbation and critical acclaim while at the same time skating on possible criticism. You can’t reasonably expect to have it both ways.
I enjoy having intellectual dialogue, but maybe this isn’t the place for it. Perhaps now you’re recalling why I was banned from your other zine. bill
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Bill
You should look in the mirror first BEFORE you start casting stones at others from your high horse and your ridiculous soap box.
Your character Madge from your story “The Novel” is nothing but a masturbatory fantasy. And I was offended by the way your character “scratches his dick” (almost the exact words used). If you really felt that it was necessary to tell your reader that your character’s genitals were itching, there are much more graceful and less offensive ways to do so. Then again, since that information did not really contribute to the story in any way whatsoever, you probably should’ve revised it out of the story, even though I know it probably gave you great pleasure to write those words and foist them on the rest of us.
You were given a very clear CONTENT WARNING in large letters, so if you felt the need to proceed after that warning, you should have restrained yourself a little more.
It’s also not true that all “porn” is women being treated like dirt. Much porn these days is MADE BY WOMEN and some of them make a very good living at it. I do not look down on these women, the way you obviously do. Some of them are actually quite beautiful and lively and I wish them the best. I know that the porn industry is dangerous; but this whole society is corrupt, after all. Save your soap box rants for something more important next time. And look at your own fiction a little more closely. Your work has a tendency to be masturbatory and offensive. But we still gave you an open forum and did not censor it in any way.
Dale
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Hi Dale,
And here you and I have been getting along so well…I don’t know why you stoop to ad hominem attacks when I am attempting to hold an intelligent dialogue. I didn’t attack Leila, nor did I attack the author of the work in question. I attacked the subject matter and the wisdom of publishing it on an excellent site.
It doesn’t matter who creates the porn–man or woman, Black or white, gay or straight–the sad fact is that porn diminishes women dreadfully. And this is not just my soapbox. Why do you think I would speak out, knowing my history with your other magazine; I had nothing to gain.
Simply because I disagree with the editors does not mean that I disdain them. I merely pointed out that publishing this series of vignettes was poor judgement. Please accept the criticism as sincere and not emasculating.
There is a difference between depicting adults engaged in a sex scene and individuals engaged in hard-core porn. If you say this is okay, then where does it stop? Bestiality? Child porn? Prison rape? Just because there is a market for a commodity does not mean it is a positive. There is an avid market for cigarettes, rotgut whiskey, irresponsible gambling, even heroin, but its marketability doesn’t make it a good thing.
Surely you don’t hold that anyone who dares disagree with you is your enemy–do you?
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Bill
No: I do not consider you an enemy, and if you needed help, I would probably even do what it was in my power to do in order to help you: depending on what the issue was.
So I do not consider you a personal enemy; but in this context, I DO consider you an intellectual antagonist, another name for which probably is “enemy.” Intellectually; NOT personally.
It is not your criticisms themselves that truly offend me, it is the arrogant, condescending, and ill-informed tone that bothers me most.
I, like Leila, do not feel like it’s fair for a commentator to ignore a content warning and then SPOUT OFF about how egregious the content is. It’s breaking the rules of the game.
The difference between today’s material and bestiality or child porn is a HUGE ONE, a massive one, and an all-important one.
The characters in today’s stories are all CONSENTING ADULTS. Animals and kids are not CONSENTING ADULTS.
The women in today’s stories are also wealthy, high-powered professionals in some cases. And most important of all: CONSENTING ADULTS. If you don’t think there are consenting adults who act this way, you’re wrong. THESE STORIES ARE REALISM. (I am not one of them, but I appreciate their freedom to “be themselves.”)
The next step is not child porn or bestiality. To say so or even think so is very, very weak thinking, and a very, very weak, destructive argument.
All the characters in these stories are realistic. AND THEY ARE ALL CONSENTING ADULTS.
Dale
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Bill:
I ask you to take very close note of what I said about CONSENTING ADULTS and REALISTIC CHARACTERS.
Dale
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Adam
You should expect the full run today.
I honestly do not know if this is porn or not. I do not know if we will get in “trouble”–ha! I don’t give a fuck. All the language I see must be more offensive than nekked ladies and an unvarnished POV!
Leila
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Adam
This work is certainly not for everyone but neither was much of the work of ANAIS NIN (a woman, a very strong, independent, genius woman), HENRY MILLER, CHARLES BUKOWSKI, DH LAWRENCE, and/or JAMES JOYCE !!!!!
Dale
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To repeat:
This work is no more graphic or pornographic than many things written and published by ANAIS NIN or JAMES JOYCE, especially Anais Nin: a genius woman.
DB
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…ANAIS NIN, HENRY MILLER, JAMES JOYCE, DH LAWRENCE, BUKOWSKI…
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TO ALL WHO ARE WONDERING:
This work is within the tradition of the five writers cited above…Not for everyone but it has a content warning on it! And if you’re really offended and you kept on reading anyway, pay closer attention to all the mainstream TV shows you watch!
DB
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To Any and All Who Are Reading This:
These characters are all CONSENTING ADULTS and REALISTIC CHARACTERS.
REAL ART is about pushing boundaries in all kinds of different ways, INCLUDING REALISM ABOUT the varieties of HUMAN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR.
The intention of this work is NOT pornographic, it is ARTISTIC. There is a difference, and it is a massive one.
Dale
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Bill mentioned this controversy to me so I read it. Since my feud with Leila, I usually ignore anything from her publications. Something about my inability to sub to her since there were no instructions on how to do so, followed by her personal insult towards me sent to Bill.
I’m out again. Commented because it involved my frequent co-author.
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Doug
I do not know you personally, so I of course cannot speak about the rest of your life, but in this instance, I can tell you one thing with absolute certainty, and with zero doubt: you are not remembering things correctly. And your interpretation of what happened is mistaken and misguided at best (mean-spirited at worst).
Dale
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DWB
Awesome way to put it! Now I have to read this. I found the artwork to be quite good.
CJA
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I am angry. I thank Dale for standing up for Adam and now myself, and now I have seen enough.
This has devolved into insults. I have no idea what or why Mr. Hawley thinks what he thinks but he has a right to it. But I have my rights, too. And nothing further on the topic will be allowed.
I find much of what has been said to be an insult to the site’s generosity and to Adam, Dale and myself. You said what you said, it is allowed and yet Mr Tope and now Mr Hawley appear to want to make trouble. I find that unworthy of them and tedious.
Nothing of of a similar flavor will be allowed on this site. Anything further that is an echo by the same persons will be blocked.
I have been nothing but giving to the submitters. I have overlooked much. But I will no longer tolerate this. And if the object was to locate my darkside it has been accomplished.
Frankly, I find this “controversy” boring and endless. Fortunately, I can end it.
Time to move on.
Leila
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