Rejection

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I submitted the following story and was rejected. I'm new to writing erotic fiction (this is my second story) and definitely new to Literotica. I'm not sure what I did wrong that made it not fit for publication. Do they reject stories on quality alone? I know this isn't the best thing I've ever written but it's not horrible. Help me out!


A MIDNIGHT DREAM

I am drunk. Thomas is drunk. Dannie is slobbering drunk, which never takes much. The other 12 or so people in my living room are drunk as well. I lucked out this year and got a single with a huge living room, full kitchen, wall-to-wall windows, full views of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the ideal place to throw a party. The price of admission is always vodka/rum/beer or weed to share. But we are never very good hosts. As it invariably happens, by eleven Thomas, Dannie and I have left the others and settled into the kitchen. As cool as it is to throw parties, other people mostly just bore us. I am sitting on the counter next to the window and Thomas is sitting across the stove from me. Dannie is flitting around the kitchen and falling all over. She’s wearing a black tank top with a mesh back. I can see her hot pink bra over the top and through the net. Her chest is just this side of being too big and it heaves as she lurches and jumps as she plops herself on the counter.

She lays across the stove, her back arched and twisting, her legs over mine, and her head in Thomas’s lap. I don’t have much of an opinion on feet, but according to Thomas, Dannie’s have a spectacular arch. She has great calves and amazing thighs, thick and muscled from years of playing soccer. Her waist is tiny despite the fact that her three major food groups are bagels, candy, and alcohol. Her hipbones curve away, widely, from the waist and her ass is beautiful, knead-able, exactly balancing her chest. I know there are other things I like about her – emotional things, mental things – but I’m too drunk right now to remember them. And anyway no matter how well I describe her, it’s never enough.

Dannie had started out the night with a sweatshirt over her top. I oscillate between wanting to protect her by telling her to put it back on and wanting to get her drunker so she’ll take more off. I’m half her sister, half her stalker and there really isn’t a middle ground. It fucks with my head. She fucks with my head. With friends like her, who needs drugs?

Dannie fingers a cigarette out from Thomas’s cigarette case, lights it, and inhales some smoke. She turns towards me and breathes the smoke into my mouth. It takes all my concentration to – I don’t know – to something. Maybe it’s the alcohol and the drugs, and maybe it’s the sleep deprivation of sophomore year but Dannie is magical. My own naughty little pixie. She takes another drag off the cigarette. This time I’m ready. I make sure the brief wrenching moment that our lips touch lasts as long as possible without being too apparent. She takes a third drag, repeats and then turns towards Thomas for the next round. Her legs are once again sprawled over me.

She knows how much self-control it takes for me to keep my hands off her, or well, only somewhat on her. She knows because as subtle as I am, I’m pretty transparent and as naïve as she is, she’s not an idiot. And if all that wasn’t enough, our roommate last year had screamed at her to not take my side just because I had “a lesbian crush” on her. I had stood there, shocked, sure something would change between Dannie and me, and said the only thing I could think of, “I’m not a lesbian,” which was true. I liked both kinds.

But nothing had changed.

I’d call her a prick tease but I don’t have a prick.

Dannie’s legs push down against my lap as she lifts her torso up to get to Thomas’s lips. I try to focus my attention on the city lights and the water out the window but before I can focus on anything Dannie suddenly yells, “It’s too hot in here,” and arches her ass where it rested half on the stove half on the counter and slips off her jeans. She was wearing a matching pair of hot pink hipster panties that were over spilling with her ass cheeks which broke out in goose bumps as they made contact with the cold countertop.

Now my hands don’t know where to go and I leave them to hover above her thighs not sure how she’d react to me making contact with naked skin. I have a flashback of the first day of freshman orientation when I had met her. She was wearing an off-shoulder tube top lime green and yellow mini-dress. We had had a brief conversation before our first floor meeting. She had walked in late, every male and most female eyes on her, and decided that since there were no empty seats left she’d come and sit in my lap. As if it was the most normal thing in the world. As the weight of her thighs pushed had into mine and she ground her ass into my pelvic bone to get a better hold I had wondered if she could smell how wet she had suddenly gotten me. And just like right now, I had had no idea what to do with my hands; whether to put them in her lap or on her naked back or around her waist. And just like today I had just let them hover for the entire 45 minutes.

Lost in thought I don’t notice as Dannie starts to come towards me with another puff of smoke in her mouth. This time she uses my hovering hand to anchor herself as she pulls herself up. Her mouth pushes into mine and she blows her smoke into my mouth and makes the barest of contact with her tongue and my lips before she lies back down dropping my hand in between her closed thighs. I can feel the heat coming from her crotch. It comes in waves pleasantly burning my hand. Dannie squirms moving her ass further down so that my hand is less than an inch from her pussy. I wait as she repeats the blowing of smoke into Thomas’s mouth and the next time she squirms just as she is about to break contact with Thomas’s mouth I can’t help myself I squeeze her pussy lips and hear her stop mid-motion and moan. Thomas looks at me questioningly and then he sees my hand. He kicks the kitchen door close and settles down on the counter still staring at me with Dannie’s head in his lap. Looking him in the eye I slip my hand into her panties and slip a finger onto her clit. Thomas takes the opportunity to put a hand down her top and massage one of her breasts. Dannie is dripping wet. I guess her teasing turns her on as much as it turns on the two of us.

Thomas continues to massage her breasts with one hand and I see him playing with her dark pink nipples still staring at me. I am slowly circling her clit and I see Thomas head towards me over Dannie’s squirming torso. I meet him midway and he immediately and furiously sticks his tongue into my mouth. We suck on each other’s lips biting and sucking as I just as furiously start to pump my finger in and out of Dannie’s pussy while my thumb circles her clit. I feel my own legs close and squeeze together. Thomas’s tongue fights mine in my mouth and Dannie’s small moans turn into pants as her breathing gets heavier. I can feel her pussy tightening around my finger squeezing pushing at me so I put in a second and continue to pump in and out. I can feel a slight bead of sweat running down the back of neck and suddenly I’m hot too. Keeping one hand on Dannie’s boobs Thomas uses the other to squeeze my left breast and I moan into his mouth and redouble my pumping into Dannie’s pussy. Her breathing is coming as short pants now and after a few minutes her panting turns to small guttural utterances and then after pushing on my fingers of a few more seconds I feel her relax.

Hearing her cum, Thomas and I break our kiss. Dannie leans up off of Thomas’s lap and stares at me, not quite smiling but looking smug nonetheless. She reaches towards me and I think she’s going to kiss me, a real kiss this time. Instead she connects with my neck and starts to suck on it, pushing me back against the wall with a hand across my throat. She sucks on it for a few minutes breaking capillaries with her teeth and bruising the flesh before disconnecting with a large plopping sound. Then she hops off the counter, puts her jeans back on and walks out of the kitchen.
 
Malice, Hi,

As far as I'm aware, and from reading what's posted, lit doesn't operate a quality filter.

I can't see from reading your story where there are grounds for rejection. What were the reasons given?

Sure, I think there are some edit probs, but that's not a rejection issue. The drugs? Well there a load of stories posted that include a fair old toke on quality nanja, so I don't see that as a problem.

Drinking under 21? Surely not. We take our over 18 sex rule seriously but a keg or ten, between friends, is surely not an issue?

I can't see why you have a problem. Have you got any more explanation why your story got rejected?
 
Rather than having folks speculate, Malice, quote the reason you were given for the rejection--which will be in the form of a question--and which, could or could not, as Elfin noted, be relevant, if a program has scanned your story and registered that there might be a question. (This is why the rejection is in the form of a question).

After know what it was rejected for, we can give you a better answer on how to get the story beyond that.
 
still confused.

Rather than having folks speculate, Malice, quote the reason you were given for the rejection--which will be in the form of a question--and which, could or could not, as Elfin noted, be relevant, if a program has scanned your story and registered that there might be a question. (This is why the rejection is in the form of a question).

After know what it was rejected for, we can give you a better answer on how to get the story beyond that.

okay so explain this to me...like i said i'm new on here....where does it give me a reason for why they rejected me? all i can remember is something very vague about, "are you sure you spell checked properly?" is that the question you are referring to.
 
"are you sure you spell checked properly?"

Welllll. That's a reason and it's given in the form I told you it would be given in--the form of a question.

If that's the only reason given, I don't see a problem with what you have posted here. The next step is probably to resubmit it and put a note in the note box given to the effect that it originally was rejected for spelling, but that it has been spellchecked and you don't see where there are sufficient spelling problems for it to be rejected. The note will ensure that a human editor reviews it this time.

Incidentally, part of the reason for review here is that the Web site owners claim the right to control what gets posted to the Web site. If they have rejected something, they (at least yet) don't want it to be posted to their Web site. But by posting it on the forum, you have circumvented their control mechanisms and posted it to their Web site. (So, don't be surprised if they are ticked about that--although I'll bet they won't notice their control has been circumvented.)
 
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The blue letters that say "not accepted" are a link that will take you to the rejection notice. It will tell you why your story wasn't approved. You can also click the blue "pending" when you've submitted a story and make any changes you want (like you caught a last minute bunch of typos). Just be aware that when you do, it drops to the very end of the list.
 
I had the same thing happen with the second story I tried to post here. They approved the first one. The second was a sequel with the same character, nothing in it that I could see to explain why it was rejected.

The only reason given was the stock message, check the story length, spelling, etc, (which were both okay), and the suggestion, would I like to use the services of a volunteer editor.

All of which pissed me off to quite a large degree and in a fit of petulance, (I don't think I'll ever grow up!), I deleted the story.

It made me wonder about the process used to accept or decline a story. Does anyone physically read them? or are they scanned with some kind of software for readability and length and spelling? And if they are scanned somehow, does the software allow for the differences between British and American english?.

I read somewhere recently that one of the universities over here used some kind of software to scan students essays for readability, plagiarism, whatever. And they scanned stories by Hemingway and Faulkner and according to the software neither writer would have passed the exam or made the grade.

It would be interesting to know how the stories are selected.
 
You can scan something for spelling and length, I don't know of any machine that scans for "readability". If it exists it's probably worthless. Scanning technology is still pretty dull. There are newer search engines where you just copy/paste a questionable passage from your student and you can usually catch them at their game.

It's interesting, the rejected story posted on a message board. I've never seen what happens when a story with underage sex gets posted here after being rejected.
 
gracias.

Thanks for all of your help. I'm going to do as it was suggested above and resubmit with a note. I honestly didn't mean to circumvent anyone's authority and i hope they are not pissed off. thanks again.
 
I had the same thing happen with the second story I tried to post here. They approved the first one. The second was a sequel with the same character, nothing in it that I could see to explain why it was rejected.

The only reason given was the stock message, check the story length, spelling, etc, (which were both okay), and the suggestion, would I like to use the services of a volunteer editor.

The minimum length is 750 words of story (titles, notes, or whatnot not inlcuded). So even if the length was okay for the story, it did not conform to the site's minimum guidelines. Literotica does not publish flash fiction.

Spelling errors are trickier. This rejection is based on whether or not the errors were noticed. So are punctuation errors.

All of which pissed me off to quite a large degree and in a fit of petulance, (I don't think I'll ever grow up!), I deleted the story.

It made me wonder about the process used to accept or decline a story. Does anyone physically read them? or are they scanned with some kind of software for readability and length and spelling? And if they are scanned somehow, does the software allow for the differences between British and American english?.

I read somewhere recently that one of the universities over here used some kind of software to scan students essays for readability, plagiarism, whatever. And they scanned stories by Hemingway and Faulkner and according to the software neither writer would have passed the exam or made the grade.

It would be interesting to know how the stories are selected.

A human being approves/rejects every story and poem that is posted on this site. Software only counts words and underlines spelling errors, which the person then decides if it's an actual error or an inentional one (like going to vs. gonna).
 
I'm probably a bit late with this, but I rather liked the story. I didn't plan to read through to the end - I was just curious about the rejection initially - but I did because you kept me with you. I liked the style - the dense, close and slightly hallucinatory description which is always threatening to go out of control but never quite does. There's certainly a lot worse writing posted on Literotica.

I did notice a spelling error (" ... As the weight of her thighs pushed had into mine ...") - but that wasn't nearly enough put me off. It's an obvious slip, not a sign of illiteracy or even sloppiness.

I've just done a word count and it comes out at 1,490 words, well over the 750 word minimum, so length can't be an issue.

I think you must have been unlucky to have the story rejected. I hope you've resubmitted it.

- polynices
 
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