The 6th Annual Literotica Award Nominations: Most Literary--Genre Transcending

[Laurel]

In this category, please nominate the story that you feel was the most literary - the one that is so well-written that it would stand alone as a literary work. Story must be currently on Literotica, and must have been submitted during the year 2004.

One nomination per person, please.

 

[Gryffindor]

The Way You Say My Name

I have to nominate The Way You Say My Name....I'm very much in awe of the talent that the author has. I think that anyone could enjoy this story, no matter what genre it is placed in, and could easily one day be found on a bookstore shelf.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

My nomination will go to The Screening by CharleyH, a gorgeous reading, with the subtle and the devastatingly powerful side by side; a beautiful construct with an amazing attention to detail, where every image fits, and every word has a reason.

 

[impressive]

I nominate BlackShanglan's "The Private Diary of Alexander Pope"

EDITED: I goofed. This story was posted in January 2005. So, I'll throw my nomination to ABSTRUSE's Restoration.

 

[RimPig]

THAW IN WINTER

I nominate THAW IN WINTER for Most Literate Story - Genre Transcending. Without doubt, it is one of the best stories that I have ever read.

 

[cloudy]

I nominate Restoration, by ABSTRUSE. Without a doubt, it is the best story I've read here on Literotica.

 

[minsue]

I nominate BlackShanglan's "The Private Diary of Alexander Pope"

Ditto

 

[GingerV]

Ditto

Is there such a thing as a tritto? Oh hell, put me down for a "me too."

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I nominate Restoration by ABSTRUSE. Very few storys on Lit have moved me the way this one did.

 

[matriarch]

I nominate Restoration by ABSTRUSE. Very few storys on Lit have moved me the way this one did.

Ditto.

 

[Guest]

I nominate Restoration, by ABSTRUSE. Without a doubt, it is the best story I've read here on Literotica.

yep. me too.

 

[CharleyH]

When I think of the term genre transcending, I think of those writers who push beyond the conventional models of porn, and create their own signature story in the same way as a film auteur. Genre transcending to me is a writer who goes beyond, a writer who experiments and a writer who does it exceptionally well. There are only a handful of writers who do this on Lit, and it is for this reason I nominate:

Lauren Hynde's PLASTIC LOVE (mind control)

although Black Shanglan's CAMLANN, A.D. 539 (letters) is an exceptional runner up in my op.

 

[Angeline]

I second Charley's nomination of Plastic Love by Lauren Hynde. Her prose is a force of nature. Look at this excerpt:

A practised seen-it-all-and-found-it-too-dull-for-words look, ornamented with an expression that should render the formula:

x = y·(A+B2) + z·[(C+D3)·E4] - rn·(F+G2)

where

x = Probability of getting some;
A = I've noticed you and I like it;
B = I've noticed you've noticed me and I know you like it;
y = Doubt: Do you like me as much as I like you?
C = I don't need you at all;
D = I want you now!
E = I know you want me now!
z = Doubt: Do you want me as much as I want you?
F = You're making the first move;
G = I'm making the first move;
r = Doubt: Are you ever going to make a move?
n = Relative importance of r.

Small gestures, looks, details: Alex strained to take it all in, through the noise, through the smoke.

The techniques used to lift cigarettes to their mouths, for example, could be of the utmost importance, due to its influence on the marker signals of A, B, F and G.

If these motions were to be imperfectly executed, the result would be an aggravating cloud of smoke left hovering about their eyes; the instinctive movement to wave it off alone could seriously compromise the aforementioned variables, as well as reinforce z in an uncontrollably exponential way.

'That's it! They're definitely looking this way!'

'Nah...' (Extremely high value of y)

'Look! Just take a good fucking look at them! Man, I'm telling you: this is it!' (Impressive control over E)

'Keep dreaming. They'll be with someone. There's no way women like that would look twice at you.' (Introduction of an endogenous variable, due to the increasing value of n; were it to reach any value above 2, the entire performance would be irreparably jeopardised)

'Fucking hell! They're coming this way!'

'What?' (Escalating value of F)

'Come on, let's go over.'

'Eh?'

'They're gagging for it!'

That passage to me is no less literary than something Kurt Vonnegut would write. So um that's why I nominate her.

 

[WickedEve]

I second Charley's nomination of Plastic Love by Lauren Hynde.

And third.

 

[jjcakin]

Most Literary

Most Literary to me was The Mirror an introspective look at her self like none other, by mandywilluk2000 link
http://english.literotica.com:81/stories/showstory.php?id=161127

 

[summerwino]

Velvetpie's tribute to Agatha Christie's detective, Poirot, in the celebrity category.

I have watched the shows on Bio channel and she has elegantly captured the essence of the show and the characters are richly done as well as a great plot.

 

[Guest]

In this category, please nominate the story that you feel was the most literary - the one that is so well-written that it would stand alone as a literary work.

I nominate Gauchecritic’s Gliding (posted June 2004 under “Exhibitionist/Voyeur”) as an exceptionally refined literary piece that distinctively transcends the label of erotica. It is a first-person narrative of a 63 year old woman rediscovering her sexuality—inspired by a single word her mother used to describe a particular sensation.

The prose itself glides in a sharply honed harmony as the protagonist, Helen, comes to understand all nuances of the word, from noun to verb, manisfestation to execution. The language is often poetic, sophisticatedly attuned to the content and temper of the whole. Many sentences and phrases are like gossamer on the tongue if read aloud.

After rereading the story I imagined it being performed by a fine actress (Judy Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins?); something similar to Alan Bennett’s “Talking Heads” series of monologues. (I recommend a reading of the Public Comments which support the content of this nomination.)

Here are some sample paragraphs:

from p.1:
The late afternoon sun takes refuge behind a single early arriving cloud, to darken the scene momentarily as a sudden gust freshens my skin, robbing the sweet sweat of its warmth, to instantly harden my softening nipples and bathe my hard won show of reddened embarrassment with its cooling balm.
. . .
As I writhe on my fingers, with juices greasing my palms and the wooden seat I snake my free hand to my belly, between my loose flopping breast and the skin on my ribs. I lift my wrist to bring my breast upwards and let the stiff nipple slide quickly across the buckle of my watchstrap. Oh God.

from p. 2 (the climactic ending):
Now I begin a bucking, sliding motion with my hips, driving those three fingers in to the centre, to pull back and out, capturing hair and stinging delight. Once more I move my free hand towards that unknown spot. I drive the index finger into my quimmy on the forward motion of my buttocks and then slowly and very deliberately start to pull it upwards through the hair and fat lips there. I am almost in agony at this self-torture. Here. I'm certain it was here. It can't be further than this. This is where it—FUCK.

As the stars begin to slowly, languorously, fade into blackness and my constituent atoms make their wending way into re-alignment, stupefied, I try feebly to sit up on the sliding wood of the chair. After three weeks have gone by, in slow motion, I pull my fingers from between my legs and—OH FUCKING HELL.

And the final paragraph, a dearly won picture of a lyrical ending befitting the music of the whole:

Two busy-still-busy squirrels, a magpie with a silver foil treasure and a woodpigeon are my only audience as I dance from end to end of the wooden floor on my old woman's legs and young girl's gliding feet.

Gliding

 

[doormouse]

"Snapshot" by MadMike

 

[cookiejar]

Velvetpie's tribute to Agatha Christie's detective, Poirot, in the celebrity category.

I have watched the shows on Bio channel and she has elegantly captured the essence of the show and the characters are richly done as well as a great plot.

I second this, I also am a Poirot buff and Velvetpie's characterizations were dead on. A well thought out plot added to the mixture. It was the first time on Lit I was knocked back by such pure talent.

 

[MLyons]

I'm no expert on this stuff, and Lord knows I don't even come close to reading everything submitted here.

Of those I HAVE read, I'm really quite torn.

To heck with it, it's all so subjective anyway.

I'm nominating Technoslut's story : From Whence The Lily Blooms

It's deceivingly smart, very sexy, and very unique--a quiet and underrated gem, in my opinion.

Close honorable mentions would go to CharleyH's The Screening and BlackShanglan's Meer Kass

All of them are worth a read if you haven't had the pleasure.

 

[ElPila]

I hereby nominate "Plastic Love" by Lauren Hynde. Yaay.

 

[shereads]

The Pillar in the Garden

Dr. Mabeuse's earth day contest entry. Read it and feel like the most important creature alive, at the most remarkable moment in time.

"We're reduced to this: tangling our limbs and joining our bodies, the only language we have to describe this ineffable joy of being here in this garden, and alive."

http://english.literotica.com:81/stories/showstory.php?id=136935

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Black Shanglan's Meer Kass, hands down. Brilliant.

 

[vogueboy]

Yeeyahh Baby Yeeyahh

My nomination will go to The Screening by CharleyH, a gorgeous reading, with the subtle and the devastatingly powerful side by side; a beautiful construct with an amazing attention to detail, where every image fits, and every word has a reason.

I second this nomination.

A great read.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I also nominate Black Shanglan's Meer Kass. This is probably the best written story on Lit.