F/M Story Challenge 2016

I was sure this would be the contest that I'd finally actually enter. Unfortunately, I just couldn't get my story written in time.

Ah well. Still hope to share it in the near future.

Speaking of the SSS short story contest, I was a reader and one of those few volunteers for quite some time, as well as being a moderator during the uprising and the Amy coup. Yeah, I was pretty well involved. The last I heard from my old friend, Alex Birch, was a plea for help in the contest as I had been a participant for many years but at that point in time, I just wasn't interested in SSS anymore and am sad to say I turned my old friend down. One of my many regrets in life.

Still, this may be one reason I tend to comment because when praise is due, praise should be bestowed, regardless of orientation or prejudice. Sometimes a good story is breathtaking whether there is spanking or not. If I take the time to read, I feel I should at least say something nice if I liked it. In the LSF, I can be selective. As a reader/judge for SSS, I couldn't be.

Oh man, the stories I could tell about the old SSS if anyone was actually interested.

It looks like 38 entries - which is a decent number.

I'm sorry you thought I was giving clues to any story I might have submitted. Should I want to do that I would create some sock puppets on other boards and use them to post the title of the story.

And no, I didn't send in a story today. To be clear, I'm not the author of:
Hospital Appointment
The Best Laid Plans
Footsteps On The Stairs
The Mother-In-Law Supper
The Boyfriend
The Circle Of Pain
Cry All You Want, or
Women Who Cane

which are at the bottom of that list.

As to the rest of the stories, I wrote them all. Or maybe I wrote none of them. Or maybe I wrote between none and all of them. Who knows?

Thirty-eight seems a reasonable number - a little less than in the previous challenges, but then the theme was perhaps a bit more restrictive. I'm looking forward to reading them all!

After some initial negativity, 38 entries is more than we'd hoped for and probably a good reason to feature another F/M challenge next year. Thanks to everyone who took the time to write something.

I've only just started to read the entries and already I'm in favour of another F/M challenge.

I do hope people who don't normally read F/M will still read and vote on the F/M challenge entries. After all, the F/M crowd always participate in the M/F challenges, so do please reciprocate. Even if this orientation isn't your bag, there are some very well written and original stories amongst the entries, well worth reading.
Many thanks to all who have made the effort to write something.

Damn it all, that's eight "last minute" (okay, technically "last day") Challenge entries, or 21% of the 38 overall.

So does Miss Thrashbottom discipline authors for procrastination in this type of situation?

Well, at least she can't do so until the 28th of this month, otherwise she'd be indicating who had produced the stories in that grouping, so the offenders' posteriors are safe for another three weeks.

Of course, given the spanking gender orientation of numerous writers of F/M literature, some of them would undoubtedly be looking forward to a hard-hitting, pants-down trip across the lovely lap of the beautiful 'Miss T.'

Actually, 38 entries strikes me (pun not intended) as a pretty decent output for this kind of Challenge, especially since I believe it's the first one wherein gender orientation has been the defining (and thereby limiting) topic characteristic...

--C.K.

I am certainly enjoying the stories so far. 3 down; lots more to go!