It's funny how stories tend to get away from you. I came across two things last night that I guess I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. On Crystal's Cyberboard, there was mention of a TG story site I'd never heard about and clicked on the link. On the site were the first two installments of "The Relucatant Girlfriend" which they never asked if it was okay to post. I guess it's not a big deal since I was still credited and at one time, those stories were on at least six different sites including one translation into French.
But the thing that surprised me was two sites I found, one with Bing and one with Google, of my very first TG story "Wish Lash" (I've recycled the title and the story here on BC bears no relation to that first story) which was only posted a zillion years ago to a BBS called Feminet. Amusingly, it's listed as Erotica, which it isn't. One site has no credit associated and the other has the name I used when posting to Feminet.
I guess it doesn't hurt having it floating around out there, but what do most of you do with wayward stories?
Melanie
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Hmmm.
Any chance your original "Wish Lash" might find a home here (even if under a different name?)
I haven't had a wayward story yet. But if I did, I'd leave a trap for it... some fresh lingerie still in package, under a net with an invisible laser trigger. **Sigh**
Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
-Thomas Shadwell
I might...
I might post it here, if I can find the file. One part of the story was removed at someone else's suggestion which causes some confusion (to me anyway) in part of the story. That removed part is looong gone.
Melanie
Anything by you
Is very welcome here Melanie ^^ I'm a big fan of your work too :)
Sephrena
Asteroides in Cyber space
I am sorry that this is such a blatant problem in our modern world. But it would appear that things just float around in cyber space like asteroids in empty space never having a home or finding rest in deletion. I only wish we could hover up all the little bits and bytes we no longer want flying around.
Huggles
Michele
With those with open eyes the world reads like a book
I still miss Feminet
The BEST BBS site for our crowd in the USA that I was aware of. There were a few others, but just like BC is now, it was the place to go.
**sigh**
{{Hugs}}
The reluctant girlfriend
You may not have seen this, but I once called your story "The Reluctant Girlfriend", "The Velvet Underground" of stories, because, to borrow from Brian Eno, "while the first Velvet Underground album may have sold only 30,000 copies in its early years, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band.".
Given the preponderance of teen-themed tg lit on this site, I guess that makes you Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Mo Tucker and maybe Nico (for the glamor factor) all rolled into one. :)
Congratulations.
not as think as i smart i am
The very few stories ...
... I ever posted were removed years ago by me but I think their ghosts still lurk ethereally in the shadows. Of course they never achieved anything like the status of Melanie's in fact the only thing 'reluctant' about them was reader's enthusiasm and my writing :)
Translation into French ... now that's an accolade I'd treasure.
Robi
Once it's on the *Net* you've lost any practcal control over ...
whatever you posted.
But other than copyright violations unless it was a real turkey -- IE an embarasment to you now -- then this is a kind of immortality.
Now, if anyone finds some of MY stories anywhere other than the few sites I posted to, that would be proof of the end of civilization as we know it.
-- GRIN --
BTW I very much enjoy your stories, Ms Brown.
Any chance The Brain Jacked Chronicals will ever have a book 2? But you did leave it at a logical stopping/resting point so it's not really an orphaned tale. Just one that IMHO deserves a continuation.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Funny you should ask...
I'm currently working on the next installment.
Melanie,
I have read and enjoyed your stories. Hope you find the wayward story.
May Your Light Forever Shine
I google searched the title
and came up with a couple of hits that were not this site or any site tied to it. Only a couple seemed to be your story. There was a ton of pointless links that had nothing to do with your story.
Lost/kidnapped stories
Two or three years ago, one of our authors found a site, a pay one I think, that stories from various authors here on it. I think it was some sort of fetish porn site. I think that they had my "Desert Princess" on there. I was rather flattered. I can't remember, but several authors wrote them and complained.
G
Now that sucks
because if its a pay site, it means that someone is making cash for your work and you are getting nothing. Like the guy who stole the stories from a writer here last year and had them on Amazon, claiming it was his own work.
That was Tigger
it was his work that was stolen.
Lost/kidnapped stories
Two or three years ago, one of our authors found a site, a pay one I think, that stories from various authors here on it. I think it was some sort of fetish porn site. I think that they had my "Desert Princess" on there. I was rather flattered. I can't remember, but several authors wrote them and complained.
G
At least they're not claiming your work.
A year or two ago I ran across a book on Amazon that seemed really familiar so I copied a random chunk of text (without names) and pasted it into a search bar and it eventually matched something written by Bob Arnold probably five ot ten years before he died. I tried reporting it but I doubt anything came of it. Maybe his daughter decided to publish it or licensed it out or something but I doubt it.
I figure once something is on the internet it is practically impossible to redact. That said, yeah there's a lot of stuff that has disappeared. It is just that the harder someone fights to remove something the tighter others will be holding on to it.