Official Crime and Punishment 2025 Story Event Support Thread

[iwatchus]

I guess it still is on my author page, but that is not surprising, because usually (unlike yesterday) that updates early in the morning and stays like that.

 

[BryanRichardson]

11th Anniversary is due to be published on 9/22 in Loving Wives.

I’m not expecting that the 11th Anniversary being just two days earlier, Sept 20th, will save it, but it was the Loving Wives story that I wanted to write for Crime and Punishment.

 

[SmilingLez]

I'm not sure if I screwed up something on my submission, but my submission is live as of this morning. I know for Geek Pride event, Laurel managed to hold the release.

Anyway, it's live, so that's happened. The Great Cupcake Caper.

I don't see the crime and punishment 2025 tag. Anyway it was a great story gave you five stars

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

Okay counting down the days until I submit. Thinking of submitting Tuesday or Wednesday

What do you all think?

 

[Actingup]

Okay counting down the days until I submit. Thinking of submitting Tuesday or Wednesday

What do you all think?

"Rules:
1. Write a story which involves a crime or criminal element.
2. Include the text "CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 2025" in the Note to Admin-field. I recommend that you copy and paste the phrase into the box.
3. Submit your story between September 8 and September 19 2025."

The 8th is Monday, so...

 

[Djmac1031]

I have an unfinished story that would be perfect for this if I could come up with a fucking ending.

 

[BryanRichardson]

"Rules:
1. Write a story which involves a crime or criminal element.
2. Include the text "CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 2025" in the Note to Admin-field. I recommend that you copy and paste the phrase into the box.
3. Submit your story between September 8 and September 19 2025."

The 8th is Monday, so...

I submitted mine Monday, and it is pending for the 22nd.
Your mileage may vary.

 

[Actingup]

I submitted mine Monday, and it is pending for the 22nd.
Your mileage may vary.

Well, that's you and @iwatchus with the 22nd as a publication date. So it seems like there's no rush to submit. Then again there's only so many times that you can spit and polish a story....

 

[Voboy]

In the past, the challenges have often featured an odd roll-out in which the official list and promos would go out on the 22d, but some of the stories ON that list had already been out for a few weeks by then.

It's weird. I've stopped going all that early on these kinds of things.

 

[TheLobster]

I have an unfinished story that would be perfect for this if I could come up with a fucking ending.

Would it work if you put the fucking earlier and just write a regular ending?

 

[Dreamerman77]

Sent mine today and it got approved few hours from sending it. Waiting for the publishing day at 22. This was by far my largest work so far. Edited the damn thing for nearly a month...

 

[SmilingLez]

I love this challenge. My emphasis is going to be on the punishment!

 

[Candy_Kane54]

My story has been accepted and will be published on 22SEP25.

 

[Actingup]

Would it work if you put the fucking earlier and just write a regular ending?

Before the Author’s story introduction would suit some of the audience, I think.

 

[TheLobster]

Before the Author’s story introduction would suit some of the audience, I think.

Also known as starting in vaginas res.

 

[SmilingLez]

We all enjoy a good heist story, a murder mystery, a detective novel, a courtroom drama, police procedural, or even a prison romance. Throw in a healthy dose of eroticism and you have the Third Annual Literotica Author's Crime and Punishment Story Event. Bust out your sexiest femme fatale, your hard-drinking detective, your beleaguered public defender, your hit man, enforcer, silver-tongued con artist, drug lord, mafioso, pickpocket or prison yard enforcer and turn them loose on the Literotica Readership.

Stories are to be submitted between September 8, 2025 and September 19, 2025, with a posting date of September 22, 2025.

This event is open to all Literotica authors, whether you it's your first story or five thousandth. All categories are open. The only requirement is that the story must involve a crime, whether it is the planning, commission, investigation, prosecution, or punishment. The only caveat is that while incest and non-consent stories often describe events which would be considered criminal in some jurisdictions, they do not qualify for this event. In other words, a story with incestuous sibling would not qualify, but a story where incestuous siblings commit a bank robbery would qualify.

Rules:
1. Write a story which involves a crime or criminal element.
2. Include the text "CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 2025" in the Note to Admin-field. I recommend that you copy and paste the phrase into the box.
3. Submit your story between September 8 and September 19 2025.

This thread is to pose questions, bounce ideas, see who is participating, and frame them for crimes they probably did not commit. Gentle and increasingly less gentle prods will be sent at odd intervals to keep you on track. Now have fun and write your story about the perfect crime!

Is poetry allowed? Will all works be posted on the 22nd, or just the list of all the submissions? The reason why I am asking is my "Born to Run" prose stayed pending and was not posted with all the other submissions. TIA

 

[BryanRichardson]

Is poetry allowed? Will all works be posted on the 22nd, or just the list of all the submissions? The reason why I am asking is my "Born to Run" prose stayed pending and was not posted with all the other submissions. TIA

These are all good questions, and we don’t know the answers.

I am fairly confident that everything will be posted on the 22nd since a couple of us have reported that our stories are pending for that date. Beyond that I have no answers.

 

[SmilingLez]

These are all good questions, and we don’t know the answers.

I am fairly confident that everything will be posted on the 22nd since a couple of us have reported that our stories are pending for that date. Beyond that I have no answers.

thank you. that is what I figured. since mine is not a story (it is prose and non erotic) and if all submissions post on the 22nd, then i will independently submit my prose the 15th or 16th with the description "Crime and Punishment 2025". this way it won't get skipped.

 

[BryanRichardson]

thank you. that is what I figured. since mine is not a story (it is prose and non erotic) and if all submissions post on the 22nd, then i will independently submit my prose the 15th or 16th with the description "Crime and Punishment 2025". this way it won't get skipped.

Is it already done? Is so Submit it now. It should move to Published 9/22 after some unknown amount of time.
If it publishes wrong you’ve got plenty of time to have Laurel fix it.
If you wait and it publishes wrong there might not be time to fix it.

 

[SmilingLez]

Is it already done? Is so Submit it now. It should move to Published 9/22 after some unknown amount of time.
If it publishes wrong you’ve got plenty of time to have Laurel fix it.
If you wait and it publishes wrong there might not be time to fix it.

that's what i did in the born to run challenge. it remained pending for 2 weeks after the bulk release, so i deleted it, and posted in the poetry forum.

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

Okay Purple Iron has been submitted! I will be away the week secluded from the world on a vacation with MB and our children. Hopeful to come home to good feedback

I think the Halloween event is up next. Ya’ll have a great day

 

[Actingup]

Submitted! Jade and the Unicorn Affair is now staring at me from the Pending list.

By the way, for those who are still working through submission, I wanted to mention a particularly helpful 'How To' essay on HTML formatting from @FrancesScott with input from Literotica Management published recently. It's got lots of good tips in it on what works and what doesn't. I wasn't quite brave enough to use the blockquote (maybe next time), but I have started to use the 'pop out acknowledgement':

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(after a discussion on hyperlinks)

Lit Editor's Note: In the above example of hyperlinks, if you (the reader) click on the link, the new link opens on the same tab. So you need to click the back button to go to the original page. A workaround for the reader is to right click or hold the link (depending on PC or mobile) and "Open the link in new tab".

But there is one workaround from the "writer's" side. You (the writer) insert [ target="_blank"] (there is a space before target) after the closing quote of the URL. Now once you click on the link, it automatically opens in a new tab!

The above example becomes:

Thank you to <a href="https://www.literotica.com/authors/FrancesScott/works/stories" target="_blank">FrancesScott</a> for beta reading my story.

Now you can click on the following link and it opens in a new tab:

Thank you to FrancesScott for beta reading my story.

In other words, this is the format:

<a href="URL" target="_blank">TextHere</a>

Happy hyperlinking! (Don't link outside links please. )

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So in an event like this, we could for example say 'thank you to <a href="https://www.literotica.com/authors/soflabbwlvr/works/stories" target="_blank">soflabbwlvr</a> for organising the event.'

(I did - hopefully it works).

 

[FrancesScott]

Submitted! Jade and the Unicorn Affair is now staring at me from the Pending list.

By the way, for those who are still working through submission, I wanted to mention a particularly helpful 'How To' essay on HTML formatting from @FrancesScott with input from Literotica Management published recently. It's got lots of good tips in it on what works and what doesn't. I wasn't quite brave enough to use the blockquote (maybe next time), but I have started to use the 'pop out acknowledgement':

----------

(after a discussion on hyperlinks)

Lit Editor's Note: In the above example of hyperlinks, if you (the reader) click on the link, the new link opens on the same tab. So you need to click the back button to go to the original page. A workaround for the reader is to right click or hold the link (depending on PC or mobile) and "Open the link in new tab".

But there is one workaround from the "writer's" side. You (the writer) insert [ target="_blank"] (there is a space before target) after the closing quote of the URL. Now once you click on the link, it automatically opens in a new tab!

The above example becomes:

Thank you to <a href="https://www.literotica.com/authors/FrancesScott/works/stories" target="_blank">FrancesScott</a> for beta reading my story.

Now you can click on the following link and it opens in a new tab:

Thank you to FrancesScott for beta reading my story.

In other words, this is the format:

<a href="URL" target="_blank">TextHere</a>

Happy hyperlinking! (Don't link outside links please. )

----------

So in an event like this, we could for example say 'thank you to <a href="https://www.literotica.com/authors/soflabbwlvr/works/stories" target="_blank">soflabbwlvr</a> for organising the event.'

(I did - hopefully it works).

Thanks for mentioning this. My intent in writing the essay was not to accrue views, but to be helpful.

 

[Actingup]

My intent in writing the essay was not to accrue views, but to be helpful.

I know, but I think the 'How To' category should be one of the hottest in Literotica

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

Doing a little celebration dance Purple Iron is now Pending Publication for 9/22/25. Let have a little sapphic fun with embezzlement, lust, love, and a bit of punishment “cebo para tiburones”