Amorous Goods

[jaF0]

This is going to significantly shorten the title of your piece.

I didn't realize they'd set that limit. Not good. Maybe need a re-think.

 

[jaF0]

Opened the draft to see if there were any issues. Don't forget to follow the directions that the title starts with "Amorous Goods: ". This is going to significantly shorten the title of your piece.

Sent that to Laurel. Reply was:

If the title doesn't fit - have them put in the Title Field:

Amorous Goods: [see notes field]

Then in the Notes to Admin field, have them write the full title.

We will place the full title in the Title field.

 

[bettiezyx]

Sent that to Laurel. Reply was:

Cool!

 

[Master_Vassago1]

Can multiple stories be submitted, all with the same theme but built out in chapters to span multiple categories as well?

 

[jaF0]

I'm not an Admin, I just came up with the story idea and created the event. As such, I can only answer in that area. AG is a story event, not a contest. There really aren't any rules as far as multiple submissions or chapters as long as they follow the AG event concept. Remember that many TV series' had multi-episode story arcs which might be where you're going.

If you're planning on entering the Halloween Contest, you'll have to read up on the rules for that which is separate and not my area.

 

[Lovecraft_Lore]

Where is the store or Mansion located Can it be somewhere like Salem Massachusetts?

It feels more plausible than having people buy books of Pure Evil from a truck stop somewhere in rural Nebraska.

 

[HarryHill]

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I think a lot of that is up in the air for some. I have some out of the box ideas going because a story needs hero's as well as well as villain's and a good bit of uncertainty in the story line for the hero's imo.

Unfortunately my hero is on the far side of the wiperverse and will need a bit of luck to find the purveyor of naughty artifacts. Fortunately he finds an object with a label on the bottom reading 'Amorous Goods' and an astronomical address. I'll leave it there for now.

 

[AlinaX]

The mansion had not always been a house of ill repute. Indeed, its architecture was a hotchpotch of styles, the eighteenth century mansion of George MacArthur, who had made his fortune in tea, blended with the late nineteenth century renovations and extensions of Charles MacArthur, who through extravagance and wild adventures squandered much of his family's fortune. The last MacArthur, James, invested in molasses import, but lost heavily during the war in Europe, and the 1919 disaster was the final straw.

The mansion was sold, but for a fraction of its worth. When built, the mansion had been remote and had commanded a view across the city, but the city had grown to encompass and intrude upon the mansion's grounds, and the view it commanded in the early twentieth century was of the flourishing red light district. It was with a degree of inevitability that the mansion found new life as a brothel, and one that had by-and-large avoided major scandal and weathered numerous crackdowns on the sex work industry by the city and government.

I posted this previously - Boston rather than Salem, but hey.

 

[Wilks]

Boston

For sure

 

[OldHideki]

Trying to get a start on the story.

We don't have a town, or the name of the mansion, or the name of the shop. The next three paragraphs are roughly edited, but give a generic background for entering the shop. Does this work for anyone else?

It was Friday afternoon, and Susan insisted on having a mini vacation. We took the afternoon off, packed up, and left for parts unknown, at least from my side of the story. So here I was driving two hour to some weird town that I had never heard of, and checking into a strange hotel that was defiantly not a Holiday Inn. The Amorous Inn was the name of it, and I have to say the room was clean, but there was a strange smell. The room was red, and the large round bed was comfortable, but what got me was the large round mirror on the ceiling. This was some sort of Love Hotel.

We had gotten to the hotel at the earliest time for check in, and now Susan wanted to check out the town. It was a bit run down, and I had to wonder about the shops. There were several liquor shops vying for our business. There was a candle shop, filled with all sorts of strange candles. I mean, who sells black candles? The scent shop was interesting, but the occult shop was just weird. The smoke shop was definitely making use of the change in legal marijuana. The businesses seemed to be set up to make this town the romantic getaway.

Then Susan dragged me into a Lingerie Shop called Vikki's Delights. One quarter of the store was bra's and panties and a few nightgowns, and then there was a doorway that said, 'You Must be 18 or Older to Enter' that led to the other three quarters of the store. Susan went right past the front of the store, and into the back. The back was more a toy shop than a lingerie shop, but it did cater to clothes for serve many sexual fantasies, especially leather goods. It really was not the place that you would want to take your daughter to be fitted for her first bra, if you didn't want her looking at the 'Wall of Pleasure' in the back of the store. I was taken back by the sheer number of vibrators they stocked. I finally caught up with Susan, where she was talking the lady behind a large glass counter. Vikki was her name.

Does this work as a setup?

 

[jaF0]

We don't have a town, or the name of the mansion, or the name of the shop.


Does this work as a setup?

I envision more of an antique shop with goods that evoke wondering what they're for.

 

[AlinaX]

Defiantly.

 

[jaF0]

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YY10DaPu1B4/VsSzRRuX6sI/AAAAAAAARpg/YNyI1JbWVZw/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/Friday%252Bthe%252B13th%252BThe%252BSeries%252Bcomparison%252B08.jpg


https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z6bptDavR18/VsSzREEpIqI/AAAAAAAARpc/FN0TnT-Tsqs/s1600/Friday%252Bthe%252B13th%252BThe%252BSeries%252Bcomparison%252B19.jpg


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Ph3qOubtRYE/SsTJqlakiYI/AAAAAAAABbw/-uC39f-lIp0/s400/curiousgoods.jpg

 

[jaF0]

While the first picture doesn't really fit our mansion theme, it shows the filming location of the series to help set the tone. The second picture could well be the library or conservatory of a mansion.


Your large glass counter, could be the large marble table.

 

[OldHideki]

I was thinking about describing special items in the glass case, and possibly having a banner saying Amorous Goods behind the counter. The counter could be marble, and there might be shelves behind the counter. The idea was that Vikki was the only one who could get to the goods. A customer could not just pull one off the shelf. This was the elite part of the shop.

 

[OldHideki]

As for the description of the town, I was thinking of a run down town, where sex had been used to revitalize the town. It would attract odd people, and cater to strange fetishes.

Somewhat like Pleasure Island in Pinocchio.

 

[OldHideki]

rewrite of the opening.

I am starting from the middle of the second paragraph. I have changed the name of the shop, and tried to give a better feel to what I saw in the images.


There was smoke shop that was definitely making use of the change in marijuana laws. As for the bar we passed, I not sure I wanted to know what clients go to Loretta's Fill Dirt and Frozen Yogurt. The businesses seemed to be set up to make this town the romantic getaway. When we reached the center of town, everything looked a lot nicer. The two and three story businesses had fresh coats of paint. Most of the stores had tall ceilings, with large transom windows to let the light in. There were gas lights along the square that had been converted to electric. It looked like the renovations were to take the town back to the roaring twenties.

Susan dragged me into a Lingerie Shop called Amorous Goods. One quarter of the store was bra's and panties and a few nightgowns, and then there was a doorway that said, 'You Must be 18 or Older to Enter' that led to the other three quarters of the store. Susan went right past the front of the store, and into the back. The back was more a toy shop than a lingerie shop, but it did cater to clothes for serve many sexual fantasies, especially leather goods. It really was not the place that you would want to take your daughter to be fitted for her first bra, if you didn't want her looking at the 'Wall of Pleasure' in the back of the store. I was taken back by the sheer number of vibrators they stocked. I finally caught up with Susan, where she was talking the lady behind a large marble table. There were odd things on the shelves behind the lady. Vikki was her name.

Better?

 

[CaffeineFetish]

We don't have a town, or the name of the mansion, or the name of the shop. The next three paragraphs are roughly edited, but give a generic background for entering the shop. Does this work for anyone else?

It was Friday afternoon, and Susan insisted on having a mini vacation. We took the afternoon off, packed up, and left for parts unknown, at least from my side of the story. So here I was driving two hour to some weird town that I had never heard of, and checking into a strange hotel that was defiantly not a Holiday Inn. The Amorous Inn was the name of it, and I have to say the room was clean, but there was a strange smell. The room was red, and the large round bed was comfortable, but what got me was the large round mirror on the ceiling. This was some sort of Love Hotel.

We had gotten to the hotel at the earliest time for check in, and now Susan wanted to check out the town. It was a bit run down, and I had to wonder about the shops. There were several liquor shops vying for our business. There was a candle shop, filled with all sorts of strange candles. I mean, who sells black candles? The scent shop was interesting, but the occult shop was just weird. The smoke shop was definitely making use of the change in legal marijuana. The businesses seemed to be set up to make this town the romantic getaway.

Then Susan dragged me into a Lingerie Shop called Vikki's Delights. One quarter of the store was bra's and panties and a few nightgowns, and then there was a doorway that said, 'You Must be 18 or Older to Enter' that led to the other three quarters of the store. Susan went right past the front of the store, and into the back. The back was more a toy shop than a lingerie shop, but it did cater to clothes for serve many sexual fantasies, especially leather goods. It really was not the place that you would want to take your daughter to be fitted for her first bra, if you didn't want her looking at the 'Wall of Pleasure' in the back of the store. I was taken back by the sheer number of vibrators they stocked. I finally caught up with Susan, where she was talking the lady behind a large glass counter. Vikki was her name.

Does this work as a setup?

It's serviceable, but it doesn't gel with the connecting motif. For the paragraph we're starting with at least.

 

[CaffeineFetish]

My take

This is the template I'm working with. Amorous Goods is inherited by Vikki No name, who to me is an expositional character. Her uncle had strange tastes to say the least, and stranger things to sell. Vikki is also an aspiring...something, so that's a jumping off point for her. To be the expositional character, she has to have the knowledge and authority to be exposition for the various goods in the shop.

I'd peg Vikki as an amateur (or not amateur) historian or archeologist, annoyed that family obligation is putting her career on hold. Ideally, someone enters the shop, looks around at the items (this is where the message board could really come in to help tie this together, by playing homage to other writers items like "She walked down a narrow aisle created by two shelves, gliding her finger along the ivory frame of a hand mirror." and the hand mirror while not your item, is someone else) before finding the one this story is about. Vikki then explains what it is, which creates expectation and interest, but more importantly, narrative context or thematic context.

Really remember what "Amorous" means. Strongly moved by love, especially sexual love. These items stir those feelings.

 

[HarryHill]

..
I'm going to try to slip in the back door on this challenge.

Down Ship:

A ships week later the hangar was cleared of all but the hundred or so bins filling Harry's cabin by the creative Mr. Thaycher. Prime bean plants were found in many cabins and dispatched below with orders to carry on, but we're going to talk about this later. Awards and penalties were held both aboard and below, contests settled, planet, booze, Bridget's title/description perused, not settled. Farewells to those left to nest behind, Crewman Stubbs, Nonny, Blynd, Sallybot, and two hundred thirty souls safe from the perils that Hoochie would face 25 wiper seconds down spiral where the only clue to the origin of the destroyed Nissan Star-Tripper was a strange artifact labeled 'Amorous Goods', followed by astronomical notations indicating it was close.

 

[Omenainen]

Wrote mine already. It’s short and silly, so I’ll probably put it in the humor category. Never thought I’ll write anything like that but here we are.

My shop was a “new shop at Main Street”, but I can make it be at a mansion if that’s important.

 

[Ruffus_Goodman]

Count me in

I got a nice story to contribute.

Just have a few things I didn't get from the official announcing (here: https://www.literotica.com/s/coming-soon-amorous-goods-a-lit-anthology-series) some keypoints:

- how can we "standardize" the main series characters? I mean, is there a way we can review at least Vikki's cameos in our stories?
- Also, maybe I missed something, but it seems the Vikki's by herself in this, as opposing to the original trio.
- this is an offtopic, but since it's my first story, I sure am embarassed that I may screw up. My story framework is already laid down (nice pun there), but involves black guy rapist on action and being arrested. Moreover, for my special item, I prepared a religious background so it could evolve the mystery further.
Is there a problem to characterize this scenes involving religion or race? Also, the stupidest of questions, but I nicknamed the guy "Dog". Afterwards I seriously doubt this nickname will be allowed by the editors...

Also, thanks for all the info, you guys rock with these ideas

 

[jaF0]

1. - how can we "standardize" the main series characters? I mean, is there a way we can review at least Vikki's cameos in our stories?


2. - Also, maybe I missed something, but it seems the Vikki's by herself in this, as opposing to the original trio.


3. - this is an offtopic, but since it's my first story, I sure am embarassed that I may screw up. My story framework is already laid down (nice pun there), but involves black guy rapist on action and being arrested. Moreover, for my special item, I prepared a religious background so it could evolve the mystery further. Is there a problem to characterize this scenes involving religion or race?

1. That's been done to an extent earlier in this thread. 'Vikki' has a basic outline, but is deliberately generalized to allow author flexibility ... to an extent.

2. Dylan has also been generalized. The others really haven't as I was hoping others would jump in and agree on something. There are a couple of thoughts posted on who they should be.

3. Not sure how to respond to that.

 

[jaF0]

My shop was a “new shop at Main Street”, but I can make it be at a mansion if that’s important.

No real 'rules' but for story line continuity ..... well, you get the drift.

 

[OldHideki]

Shop on Main Street works for me. I have named the shop Amorous Goods, and it is a lingerie/sex toys store with a special counter in the back. I know initial description was that of more like an antique store, but my vision is a run down town that has been revived by presence of the new shop. The shop has attracted an eclectic lot of patrons, and side businesses have started to spring up.

It wouldn’t be unusual if the waitress at the restaurant was a cross dresser, for instance, and that ‘love potion’ that you just swallowed to attract a mate, suddenly puts you in an unusual position.