Well… THIS story will end with BOOK THREE – I mean, the story I’ve been telling.
But it occurred to me that the Great One’s “compulsive call” to Kansas reached as far east as Maryland (the soldiers felt it), and using that as a radius, that leaves about a third of the country to the west that DIDN’T “hear” it – around about the Rocky Mountains westward – because they were out of range.
And Dog knows, if there’s cracks for weeds to grow in…
Anyway, that’s the kind of thinking that leads to BOOK FOUR and beyond.
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Oh, also, I realized that my mental image of Rugby Boy has been based on Meatyhenri from Twitter and Instagram. He’s significantly more bearish than the muscle studs we’ve been talking about, but he’s young enough that he fuels some major daddy/boy fantasies for me with Snake, and a lot of ruggers I’ve seen pictures of have a similar bulky frame. I like to imagine this is him before his reunited with Snake, and started getting that cum-induced muscle growth.
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Okay – in fact, I see Rugby Boy as being a little “softer” too, so that image works just fine. I’d want him to be shorter than Snake, tho.
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Rugby Boy as a beefy little fireplug of a sub whom Snake towers over is perfect. I love it. It doesn’t hurt that “beefy little fireplug” describes my dream body. So there may be a little bit of self-insert going on here.
And Book Four being a sequel/spin-off series is so intriguing. It would be a chance to answer the question of how Book One would’ve panned out had the Hosts been allowed to just keep doing their own thing. A Symbiont civil war between Great One Bowden’s forces and a ragtag band of free Hosts based out of the West Coast would be awesome!
It really does seem as though the appearance of a Great One throws everything into chaos…
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A line I wrote today:
“The Great One may’ve been an all-powerful alien from another universe, but He was also a guy who’d never been outside West Virginia before.”
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That sounds suspiciously like something is going to blow up in the Great One’s face…
ANNOUNCEMENT:
I finished the first draft of Book Two today – I glanced at the clock and it read 4:20, that’s how I knew I was really done. Then I did a word count. 2999 words – not quite the 3K I wanted for each chapter, but close enough.
Well, maybe I’ll add some stuff in the second draft.
I can’t believe the whole thing is written! Book Two is complete at 12 chapters, 82 sections, and 44,359 words. Nearly three months of writing (eight days shy). Woof.
In kind of a daze.
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I always get this sense of anticipation whenever a creator I follow announces that they’ve put the final touches on a work they’ve been releasing episodically. We’re coming down the homestretch. Can’t wait to see how it all finishes up.
I haven’t put the final touches on it by any stretch — I just finished the first draft. I’m an exhaustive re-writer.
One of my writing teacher’s favorite maxims was “writing is re-writing.”
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I reread the updated posting of book one. I noticed our Masterful Gardener pruned back his creation and removed the Irving Nebbish branch of our erotic growth. I don’t question his decision because he has a great control and influence over our libidos.
I did connect closest to Nebbish. While I find joy in helping others in real life. Maybe it’s my straitlaced boring life that is waiting for something amazing to happen to the unremarkable. With my quick wit sarcasm and shit stirring I could picture myself introducing a plant to a prison or monastery. That’s the thing about fantasy, it’s an escape that Absman has painted for us.
In the erotic stories I’m drawn to I root for the villains or the double cross of the villain. This was seen in King Rex series. (The end of book one had me excited about the Marvel universe and a possible take over by Venom another orgasmic symbiote.) An earlier work in Last Metamorphosis we saw the slave turning the tables on his master. Absman mentioned his love life at the time influenced the ending. I pictured Tom in the story subjugating the other men that went through the morphing process as his slaves.
I’ve been a faithful reader of our great gardener all the way back to The Evolution Forum and other sites that have housed his masterpieces.
We thank him for sharing his fantasies with us that twist and influence our own.
He’s a man that his words allow us to picture Bradley as the great one and maybe our erections are just as hard simply by looking at a picture of a plant.
Thanks for the stories. Can’t wait to turn the page.
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I honestly needed to do a double-take at the picture of those pitcher plants. Those things are uncanny.
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That’s true – good eye. Yeah, I did pull that weed. Couple reasons:
- it was almost all entirely “tell” not “show” – I’m glad you liked it, and I’m glad it triggered fantasies for you, but it was sloppy writing. It was all “and then he left plants at the prison” – speculative, philosophical, unnecessary…
- There are times in Book One – mostly those editorial interruptions – where I feel I’m rambling. At that moment in the story, I was running out of ideas and trying to fill word counts. It reads so much better without it.
- There were easily a hundred people (not including the prisoners) that he transformed. That gave me WAY TOO MANY Symbionts to deal with in Book Two.
It was just easier to cut all that stuff.
I can’t quite recall where I initially read Pollination: The Series. It was either on MCStories or the NCMC. Either way, I don’t remember that episode. It must’ve been removed some time ago.
I removed it only before publishing it on the GSS – where I did a little editorial gardening.
The “Irving Nebbish” vine was part of the second Editorial Soliloquy in chapter 9.
Another publicity shot of the Variants:
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While Rugby Boy is definitely my favorite of the new characters, I can’t deny that I would love to fall into the Variants’ clutches…
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@ParadoxBear – thanks for checking out KING REX 2 (“The Horde”) – another sequel checked off the list. But what I noticed about it – and the reason I bring it up here – was that it was 12 parts and just over 41K words.
POLL: BOOK TWO is 12 parts and just over 44K words.
Hmmmm…
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You are nothing if not consistent in chapter count, but it seems your individual chapters are getting longer and more involved. More for us to enjoy!
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