Examples Of Era In Literature Stories

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Eros in the Song of Solomon

by DeniseNoe on Sep 16, 2017
Reviews & Essays

The rich eroticism of the Song of Solomon "What is THIS type of writing doing in the Bible?" a shocked teen girl once asked when she came across the Song of Solomon. She had not expected to find such explicit, albeit poetic, descriptions of sexual relationships in the Bible. The Song of Solomon has been described as "pornography" but it is really one of...

Possibly the Oldest Profession

by jon.hayworth on Sep 14, 2017
Reviews & Essays

Pornographer: a description we should use with pride At school and in encyclopaedias we learn of the animal images and hunting scenes our ancestors portrayed on their cave walls. There are other human images - the so called Venus's, females whose swollen torsos appear to suggest pregnancy, these are thought to be Fertility images. In Tannahill's "A Histor...

Orientalism and 'Yellow Fever'

by al_Ussa on Sep 16, 2017
Reviews & Essays

"East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," or so wrote the illustrious Rudyard Kipling in his 'Ballad of East and West.' With all due respect to Kipling, however, the two have indeed met, and have been dancing a complicated exchange of goods, ideas and even people for many centuries now. And this cultural exchange applies to almost all...

The Responsibility of Free Speech

by R. Richard on Sep 16, 2017
Reviews & Essays

Free speech does not mean the right to scream "Fire!' in a crowded movie theater. The matter has been decided in courts of law and in the court of public opinion. [It comes under the doctrine of reckless endangerment.] In both arenas, the backers of unlimited free speech have lost. Free speech does not mean the right to physically threaten someone. Again, t...

Silly Parahumans

by Silly Writer on Apr 22, 2025

A collection of stories about Parahumans getting into silly, humiliating, and sexual situations. It can be an accidental wedgie, a bullying incident gone wrong, or a clothing malfunction leaving them nude and embarrassed! It’s a tough job being a cape. You have to look good for the cameras, attracting both male and female attention and the crazy paparazzi. I...

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The Mistress of Holt House

by Sputnik57 on Sep 13, 2017
BDSM

As we all aware, the world in the 1880's was a very different place. Though a great era in the advancement of industry and technology for mankind in general; for womankind the world was much as before. It was still considered that females should 'know their place'- somewhere beneath the male. For some women though, this could never be. Percy Blandish-Wright...

Quest Story Proving Grounds

by majus on Nov 21, 2016
Non-Erotic

Welcome! This place serves as a proving grounds for 'quest' type of stories. Definition of 'quest story' It's a type of story which reader can actively shape - in a simple way. In each new thread published by the author, the reader will be given a number of options, to choose from, which the story can take turn. After all the readers made their choice, the v...

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Writing Horror

by al_Ussa on Sep 17, 2017
How To

An undead fiend slumbers in her ancient tomb, waiting for a foolish mortal to awaken her so she can return to haunt the living once more. On a dark, stormy night, a mad scientist is playing God, trying to create new life out of a blasphemous mixture of alchemy and science. And somewhere in the void of deep space, an alien horror that should not exist waits a...

How To Write Fiction

by AzPilot on Aug 31, 2017
How To

Some hints and helps toward writing fiction effortlessly. * Many folks like to write fiction and some are very good at it. For a few, it comes naturally while others have to work, with varying degrees of difficulty, to get a plausible story down on paper. Many do well at humor because they are usually upbeat, happy and generally funny themselves. I have st...

In Defense of 'Suck'

by JuanSeiszFitzHall on Sep 24, 2019
Reviews & Essays

How can this be? In an era that may be the most tolerant ever, people in all walks of life still use the word 'suck' negatively. As an insult or a denigration, this is not only offensive, but nonsensical. Is it not an inherent contradiction that a person who puts something down by saying that it sucks would also be driven to the heights of pleasure and happi...