The Birth of Horny Town U.S.A.

Okay. I guess there was too much Zinfandel flowing for me to answer Litfan properly. The town I thought he was thinking of is in this story.

It's called Springsview and will show up again in the novel I'll be e-publishing as soon as I get Aviary.com figured out and can make up the cover. It has a sequel that is a work in progress.

For the purposes of Hornytown, however, I think Stella is correct. You want the town that is the background for the Rented Out series. And yes, I will write more but right now I'm heavily involved in furniture building so it will have to wait. Maybe if someone managed to invent the 35 hour day . . .

I had the thought that it could be called Pallusberg, so named for the prominent geologic formation that looks like a granite cock that seems to extrude from the hill in the middle of the valley.
In fact that is the reason for the town's appearance in the maps, being 15 miles off the main road, the only reason people seek out the town is to see "The Pallus of Pallusberg." TO get the right angle you have to pay Clem Hopkins to drive out on his farm to get the correct view angle.

Clem had cut a road along his cornfields and a few parking places just across the stream which is where "Stella", who had traveled to Pallusberg, was viewing the pallic protrusion when a large dusty man came walking to the stream on the other side. He dropped his toolbag and started to strip, his heavily muscled chest and rippled belly got Stella's attention, but she kept quiet and slipped down into the stream bed to get a better look.

The man waded into the stream and got on his knees to wash off the heavy layer of dust that covered his chest and hair.

Stella crept closer and closer to get a better view of this large hunk of masculinity. She didn't count on his being able to see her, she was crouching behind the bushes.
The man glanced in her direction and said, "Come to see the Pallus, have you?"

Stella was mortified, caught as a voyeur, but she thought she'd bluff her way out. She stood and kicked the ground, "Damn, I lost my ear ring." Stella glanced at the man to see if he was buying it. He was just smiling slightly and nodding.

Stella was sure that he couldn't see her brief blush, "I was up on the road and my earring came off and rolled down here." She looked at the ground
"Eh yeah, that what rings do is roll. Do you want me to help you look for it?"

"No, no thank you. It wasn't expensive or anything. What are you doing out here?"

"Clem has me circumcising his Cock, but it got too hot up on the crown. I had to come down to cool off." With that he stood and Stella could see that he had nothing on but a "hard-on".

litfan10 said:

throwing in a college, which I think is a good idea, I lean towards 20,000 - 25,000 as that makes for a good size community but it is not a metropolis by any means.

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So something along the lines of a "land-grant" college town, like Pullman, WA or Moscow, ID rather than more populaous college towns like South Bend Indiana, Manhattan Kansas, or Corvallis, Oregon?

Not that you'd want to set your shared universe's university in a copy of any of those Division one university towns, but the amenities, services, and layout of those towns would be what a small university town could be expected to have -- Basketball arena, football stadium, Athletics field(s) Baseball field/stadium, Olympic sized pool, performing arts theater/'opera house,' etc.

The nature of the university -- other than the obvious "party school" element will have an effect on the character of the town: A&M schools tend to attract more practical minded, down-to-earth "blue-collar" people. Liberal Arts colleges tend to attract less practical "ivory tower" types and a higher percentage of "intellectual snobs." Business colleges tend to attract "White Collar" types. Etc.

Not to forget the Private type of schools. Baptist College, in my home town had very quiet reputation but only 300-500 students.

In a town of 25,000 or so there will be wide range of characters. Neighborhoods, Housing Estates, suburbs. ect.

But little opportunity for a wealthy Lawyer, or Indian gold dealers.

I'm thinking river town, Savanna? No too big.

"No Name City?", I think that's been done?

Ahaha, a baptist college, I love it-- oh wait, I've sworn off the hate speech.

Damn that shit's hard to remember at times...

Who screwed the Postman?

If the story is about "Everybody" in town and is told in scenes/ (Snippets allowed?) then weaving the Cops and the Postmen, delivery boys, in a few hundred words between the action might be effective?

Postman is finding things left for him in the mailboxes of Widow Women of a certain age. The cupcakes he eats and the brownies from Ms. Candell were worth their weight in Acapulco gold, but finding an empty quart of Jagermister, a pair of panties, with a note, "I know your secret, come up and we'll talk about it." in Ms. Horndogs mailbox, took him by surprise.

Plumbers Assistant Homer Jacob, has a good business just "fixing disposal problems" in the Gracy Manor subdivision of Mc Mansions. Funny thing, he never needs any parts?

JackLuis said:

Not to forget the Private type of schools. Baptist College, in my home town had very quiet reputation but only 300-500 students.

In a town of 25,000 or so there will be wide range of characters. Neighborhoods, Housing Estates, suburbs. ect.

But little opportunity for a wealthy Lawyer, or Indian gold dealers.

I'm thinking river town, Savanna? No too big.

"No Name City?", I think that's been done?

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a Baptist, Catholic, or other religious college is a tempting target for slanderous scenarios of hipocritical party animals -- The Preacher's Daughter gone wild stereotype -- is probably going to make simple frat house hijinks like panty raids a bit of a stretch.

Perhaps a formerly gender segregated school (or two) forced to go co-ed -- think VMI forced to accept female cadets or Vassar and Harvard going coed in a virtual merger. (Vassar and Harvard are probably a bit bigger than Hornytown could support, but perhaps a small "teacher's college for young women" merging with a military school for "Remmittance Men?")

A military school for arrogant rich boys who have to be shuffled away from polite company, might also give credence to a wealthy lawyer and/or Indian Gold Merchant where they might not otherwise be found?

Was reading this article about "Cities" and realized that we never placed the period. Most of the story will be "modern Day" I should guess, but "In the Old Days" stories might illuminate the past as well as the present.

Fer Instance,
Mistress Lynn could do a Romance in "53" as "Veteran returns". Not putting out assignment, just thinking she could do a good job of it.

Or Future, perhaps offspring of an MC and a bit character, wrong side of the blanket story? and explain how everyone turned out? Nah too depressing.

Anyway this article talked about the evolution of the City as State, (No not political, except everything effects politics.) How the New ...

The scope of urban ambition today ranges from new business districts to special economic zones to entirely new cities never before on the map. Sitting down recently at a construction site on the banks of the Elbe River, I spoke with Jürgen Bruns-Berentelg, CEO of Hamburg's bold new HafenCity project. A veteran of Berlin's futuristically redesigned Potsdamer Platz, he has resuscitated Hamburg's neglected industrial waterfront and turned it into an efficient, job- and family-friendly island, seamlessly integrated into this revitalized German city. "We've moved from arbitrary to curated urban design," he told me confidently. Just as Hamburg was once a powerful trading linchpin of the medieval Hanseatic League because of its proximity to the Baltic Sea, HafenCity's ample new port terminals look to capitalize on changing trade patterns to capture a larger slice of the massive global shipping market. But HafenCity is also designed to house 21st-century industries. Global companies such as Procter & Gamble have moved their regional headquarters into buildings that are so ecoefficient that their toilets don't use water. "For both businesses and residents," Bruns-Berentelg pointed out, "moving to HafenCity is more than a rental decision -- it's a lifestyle choice." Officials from Rotterdam, Toronto, and other forward-thinking cities are coming to learn from HafenCity, whose residents are in a way the pioneers of urban renewal for the Western world, which doesn't have the luxury of building cities from scratch.

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While Europe looks to the 22nd Century, America is ... Oh me, me!

Yes Jack, if you must.

"We're fucking off!"
No, We off Fucking!

Weird Harold said:

a Baptist, Catholic, or other religious college is a tempting target for slanderous scenarios of hipocritical party animals -- The Preacher's Daughter gone wild stereotype -- is probably going to make simple frat house hijinks like panty raids a bit of a stretch.

Perhaps a formerly gender segregated school (or two) forced to go co-ed -- think VMI forced to accept female cadets or Vassar and Harvard going coed in a virtual merger. (Vassar and Harvard are probably a bit bigger than Hornytown could support, but perhaps a small "teacher's college for young women" merging with a military school for "Remmittance Men?")

A military school for arrogant rich boys who have to be shuffled away from polite company, might also give credence to a wealthy lawyer and/or Indian Gold Merchant where they might not otherwise be found?

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I like the Girls/Military School angle, if this place is in the stick's, so to speak, then it needs a Major industry, besides porn. Something like a Prison? or a NSA/CIA Signals Data Center and there are lots of secretes, not discussed in town.

How about an Ammunition Plant, that was doomed by base closure but reopened after the Wars started. Young farm girls go to the "City" to work in the Ammo Plant. Several lodge with Miss Minerva, who services her passing fancies on her late unlamented husbands, patents revenue, and the gifts from admirers.

Did anyone mention having a diner? Every small town has to have a diner where the locals hangout.

Maybe passed down from mother to daughter. Minerva would be the mother, a feisty older lady, maybe mid 50s who spends a lot of her time these days at the beauty salon, gossiping. Yes, the diner is named after her. It's simply called Minerva's. Her daughter, Joetta (Jo for short, of course) now runs the diner. She's in her early 30s, single, but with a young daughter from a previous relationship.

She's skittish around men because of that past relationship, but secretly has the hots for the town sheriff.

She's a no nonsense kind of girl and doesn't take crap from anyone. Her fiery mass of curly red hair matches her fiery personality. She never has an unkind word to say to or about anyone.

She's her own woman and lives in a small apartment above the diner with her 5 year old daughter, Cindy. Of course, like her mother, she knows just about everyone in town, but she lets her mother handle the gossip. She always serves her customers with a smile and knows everyone who visits the diner by name. She even makes sure those just passing through feel as if they're a part of the town.

That's about all I've got right now.

I might be able to come up with a "chapter" for her once the story starts taking off, but I figured I'd give someone a jumping off point to help with characters. Anyone is free to take over the character of Joetta and make her their own.

ETA: In my opinion, the town should remain smaller with surrounding cities being larger in population, containing like a mall, the college/university, etc. And of course, Joetta would be college educated, maybe an Associate's degree in business, but she prefers the small town life and running the diner.

I'm so excited.

michchick98 said:

Did anyone mention having a diner? Every small town has to have a diner where the locals hangout.

Maybe passed down from mother to daughter. Minerva would be the mother, a feisty older lady, maybe mid 50s who spends a lot of her time these days at the beauty salon, gossiping. Yes, the diner is named after her. It's simply called Minerva's.

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Kitty does Minerva's hair, and she and Margaret have issues with each other. They went to school together, and there might have been an incident with a boyfriend back in the day... either way, the women just really can't stand each other. Kitty tries to keep them apart, but some days it's not possible. And other days, sparks can fly..

I also think the town should be kept smaller.. there are only so many people that can get written about lol.
I have a story I've been writing on for about a year now about a small town.. (the one I live in, lol.) And I've probably got 25 characters that I want in the story. It gets me a little lost sometimes, lol. Of course, I'm just one woman.

Is this a Chain Story?

The Authors' Hangout had produced a couple of Chain Stories in the past.

I contributed to The Literotica Olympics and The Worst Chain Story Ever.

The Olympics was written as a series of stand-alone stories with each of us choosing an event.

The Worst Chain Story Ever was supposed to be a proper Chain Story, with each contributor taking up where the previous story ended. There are missing parts that were never written, and serious errors with continuity, but those faults fit the series title.

A Chain Story can help those in the survivor contest.

Og

JackLuis said:

Was reading this article about "Cities" and realized that we never placed the period. Most of the story will be "modern Day" I should guess, but "In the Old Days" stories might illuminate the past as well as the present.

Fer Instance,
Mistress Lynn could do a Romance in "53" as "Veteran returns". Not putting out assignment, just thinking she could do a good job of it.

Or Future, perhaps offspring of an MC and a bit character, wrong side of the blanket story? and explain how everyone turned out? Nah too depressing.

Anyway this article talked about the evolution of the City as State, (No not political, except everything effects politics.) How the New ...


While Europe looks to the 22nd Century, America is ... Oh me, me!

Yes Jack, if you must.

"We're fucking off!"
No, We off Fucking!

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I could do what?

I am loving what I am reading here! This is great guys.

We need a name for our little town. Now I would really like to keep this place open to interpretation as to where it is as much as possible so all Literotica writers can feel at home here. We have American, Canadian and European writers all coming together here.

It won't be possible to globalize the place especially with police and colleges but as otherwise open as we can make it would be great. All writers should feel free and comfortable to write using this place and people.

So what do we call our horny little home?

litfan10 said:

I am loving what I am reading here! This is great guys.

We need a name for our little town. Now I would really like to keep this place open to interpretation as to where it is as much as possible so all Literotica writers can feel at home here. We have American, Canadian and European writers all coming together here.

It won't be possible to globalize the place especially with police and colleges but as otherwise open as we can make it would be great. All writers should feel free and comfortable to write using this place and people.

So what do we call our horny little home?

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Good thinking, LF! We've also got our Aussie and NZ colleagues too.

So how about something generic but suggestive? Like Prospect Point? Or Port Bedford?

oggbashan said:

The Authors' Hangout had produced a couple of Chain Stories in the past.

I contributed to The Literotica Olympics and The Worst Chain Story Ever.

The Olympics was written as a series of stand-alone stories with each of us choosing an event.

The Worst Chain Story Ever was supposed to be a proper Chain Story, with each contributor taking up where the previous story ended. There are missing parts that were never written, and serious errors with continuity, but those faults fit the series title.

A Chain Story can help those in the survivor contest.

Og

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Hey Og.

I see this place as a wellspring for writers to grab already crafted characters and places and just having fun with them. Since we are making them, I am sure the writers designing characters are going to focus on their own but take advantage of the others that are lurking about.

For example, I am already working on a full story using Lin Fu of the restaurant who I am designing but she is going to Kitty Wells at Shear Pleasure (Emerald Kitten's creation) before hooking up with Darren at the drive-in much to Tiffany's anger (all Stella Omega's creation.)

I also would like to team write another story with another using our home here. I can also see vignettes and chain stories.

I am seeing a bunch of very talented and creative people designing this place and its inhabitants, and then we are going to let them (the characters) go crazy creating a lot of fun, cool stories in the process.

michchick98 said:

Did anyone mention having a diner? Every small town has to have a diner where the locals hangout.

Maybe passed down from mother to daughter. Minerva would be the mother, a feisty older lady, maybe mid 50s who spends a lot of her time these days at the beauty salon, gossiping. Yes, the diner is named after her. It's simply called Minerva's. Her daughter, Joetta (Jo for short, of course) now runs the diner. She's in her early 30s, single, but with a young daughter from a previous relationship.

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The nice thing about college towns, is that they have a lot of pizza parlors, coffee houses, drive-ins, diners, and other places suitable for "hanging out" (and/or letting it all hang out.)

Perhaps Minerva was a hot babe when she was younger and modeled for the scandalously under-clad goddess on Minerva's sign? (Minerva's sounds more like a small "family" restaurant -- possibly featuring "real Italian cooking?")

michchick98 said:

ETA: In my opinion, the town should remain smaller with surrounding cities being larger in population, containing like a mall, the college/university, etc.

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EmeraldKitten said:

I also think the town should be kept smaller.. there are only so many people that can get written about lol.

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A small bedroom community -- as most really small towns are today -- wouldn't be likely to interact much with the college kids and if you've got to commute to get to the venues where all the potential action is, why not eliminate the commute and center the whole universe where the action is?

Just because the permanent population -- not counting students -- is 20,000 or so doesn't mean that all 20,000 people have to be featured in stories; not even as background extras.

JackLuis said:

I like the Girls/Military School angle, if this place is in the stick's, so to speak, then it needs a Major industry, besides porn.

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In college towns, the major industry often is the college.

In most small towns, the major industry once was farming, mining, timber, or the railroad (transport) or some combination of those basics. Improved transportation technology over the last 100-150 years has removed the original reason for most small towns and those that can't convert to a bedroom community for commuters or find some other industry -- like tourism

If Hornytown has any history at all, it will have probably lost whatever industry that created it and survives primarily on serving the college. If there were more than farming in addition to the college, the population would be way more than 20K-25K; probably in the 100K range.

If Hornytown is a "new" town -- a suburb or planned community, like Levittown or Sun City then any industry is going to be secondary to the bedroom community aspect.

Another kind of "new" town is a place like Boulder City, NV; created from scratch to house workers on Hoover Dam, it has survived by adapting to the industry attracted by the dam and as a quiet refuge from the vice and neon of Las Vegas. (Boulder city is a prettty boring place actually.)

"New" towns tend to be less than 60-80 years old and focused on one industry -- much like "company towns" around various corporate operations -- or be purpose built to get home and family away from industry and urbanization. Very few "new" towns are also just "college" towns. New towns with Colleges tend to be much bigger and more diversified than Hornytown is shaping up to be.

Where Hornytown is located -- general region, without specifying any identifying features like State, Interstate number, major riveror other geographic feature, etc -- will have a lot of bearing on the nature of the town and probably on the college.

A small college town in a "flyover" state could be as much as two hours travel from the next nearest source of commerce and entertainment; people would tend to be more involved in local events/politics

The same small town translocated to somewhere east of the Mississippi river (or even east of the Appalachian mountains) would have a very different dynamic because there is almost nowhere east of the Mississippi where you can drive two hours without encountering a population center of 20K or more; thirty minutes would be about the maximum driving time to some sort of alternative commerce or entertainment (if my US road atlas is anywhere close to accurate.)

Locating Hornytown in the high deserts of the intermountain west -- even in a hidden, verdant, valley that isn't desert -- would mean a very different town than moving the town to the temperate rainforests of the pacific northwest or into "Tornado Alley."

The best bet would be to pick a climate and then find that climate zone on a map to place Hornytown's general location. Note that picking a subtropical climate zone is going to exclude most stories about ski-bunnies and picking a northern/mountain climate is going to severely limit the beach-bunny stories.

litfan10 said:

It won't be possible to globalize the place especially with police and colleges but as otherwise open as we can make it would be great. All writers should feel free and comfortable to write using this place and people.

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Putting it on or near the Canadian border relatively near Quebec would be about the most "globalized" you could make any town in North America. That would present a problem of being too localized, IMHO, because that region has some peculiarites outsiders aren't going to be able to duplicate.

litfan10 said:

So what do we call our horny little home?

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I'd suggest some variation of Hornerville or Hornerton; some town founded by a notable 19th (eta: rich) century letch named Horatio "Horny" Horner -- There's a statue of him in the park just down the street from Minerva's restaurant that is almost as scandalous as Minerva's restaurant sign.

litfan10 said:

I am loving what I am reading here! This is great guys.

We need a name for our little town. Now I would really like to keep this place open to interpretation as to where it is as much as possible so all Literotica writers can feel at home here. We have American, Canadian and European writers all coming together here.

It won't be possible to globalize the place especially with police and colleges but as otherwise open as we can make it would be great. All writers should feel free and comfortable to write using this place and people.

So what do we call our horny little home?

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We could always have a few more colorful characters who relocated from "The Continent" or elsewhere and have made their home in this town.

And every town needs a "richie" too. One who's not afraid to flaunt his/her money and has an opinion about everything, even the "bad" things but won't do anything to fix it.

Of course, you could go the other end of the scale with the "richie" and make him/her part of the town's heritage by naming a few buildings after them or even the town itself. And he/she continually contributes and donates his/her time and money to what the town needs to survive and thrive.

michchick98 said:

We could always have a few more colorful characters who relocated from "The Continent" or elsewhere and have made their home in this town.

And every town needs a "richie" too. One who's not afraid to flaunt his/her money and has an opinion about everything, even the "bad" things but won't do anything to fix it.

Of course, you could go the other end of the scale with the "richie" and make him/her part of the town's heritage by naming a few buildings after them or even the town itself. And he/she continually contributes and donates his/her time and money to what the town needs to survive and thrive.

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Another good reason for centering the lil' burg around a small college. You are almost guaranteed to have some foreign born faculty (German biologists, South Asian IT, French art historians, etc.) and some students from other countries putting in their requisite American education before returning home to inherit the ancestral county. And four years at Futter College is a "real education"!

voluptuary_manque said:

And four years at Futter College is a "real education"!

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Fannie Futter's (Fine) Female Finishing School? Sort of the feminine equivalent of the Military school for "remittance men" I suggested earlier. (I haven't figured out what the Ameircanized version of a "remittance man" is, but it is someone guaranteed a "remittance," or income, as long as they don't come home.)

Wow! So many ideas! Give me a couple of days to get them all on paper {so to speak}.

So, a "downtown" area with shops and things. An industrial zone of some sort. A small university as well as a bible college. An apartment complex. At least one park. A couple of neighborhoods. A drive-in. A cemetery and a church/temple or two. A roadhouse outside of town. A trailer park.

Anything else?

Weird Harold said:

Fannie Futter's (Fine) Female Finishing School? Sort of the feminine equivalent of the Military school for "remittance men" I suggested earlier. (I haven't figured out what the Ameircanized version of a "remittance man" is, but it is someone guaranteed a "remittance," or income, as long as they don't come home.)

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Oh, then this is an old town. Fannie's Finishing School merged with Horner Military Institute to form Futter College around 1963. Student body no more than 3,000 and they don't offer much in the way of doctoral programs outside the liberal arts except for a national leader in Human Sexuality? And I really like the idea of putting it in a verdant little valley in the inter-mountain West. It's sort of an American Shangri-La where Erectile Disfunction and Female Libido Loss are unknown. Must be the water or something.

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A small university as well as a bible college.

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I think it is more like a small college instead of a bible college -- although there might be a seminary attached to the college if it was a small catholic/jesuit university. I think people are somehat inclined to the idea of formerly separate gender-segregated schools merging; which would mean a college with essentially two campuses.

There would be more than the minimal layout that has been specifically discussed -- you might spend some time with google maps exploring samll college towns like Pullman, Washington, or Moscow Idaho which are the right size to model Hornytown's availble commerce and entertainment from.

One thing that hasn't been specifically mentioned is a waterfront or riverwalk, which would be implied by JL's suggestion of a bigger town possibly being "across the river."