I wish you'd stop publishing this moron.
--MO
04/15 |
Very touching and very real...the sensitivity is wonderful. Not freaky at all...More writers should have this human part of stories, instead of everyone being perfect!
Great story.
--RLH
04/09 |
how many times have you posted this story, nerve? while it's good writing, are you that strapped for quality submissions coming in that you have to constantly regenerate old pieces?
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04/07 |
i've read this before...
--kk
04/04 |
yeee
--gg
11/06 |
i find this story very touching coz my boyfrd has a fake eye too. he was like that when i met him. he has the nicest personality 2 make up for that flaw. he is very sweet, kind, loving, understanding n polite. in this day n age when people r so obsessed wth the way they look, it's important 4 us 2 judge someone's inner beauty,not great looks n high IQ.
--ST
11/04 |
ummm, it was okay, dont see what all the fuss is about. so someone sticks a cock in a woman's eye. she wanted it, yes?
didnt see the usus. emotional connection i'm used to seeing from mr. almond. i'd give it 2 stars out of 4. characters feel a little thinly drawn. except for the platic eyeball, i dont remember a thing about them. i liked "slippy for president much better"
--COX
10/23 |
this is a beautiful story
--mr
10/22 |
Great story! Kudos to Steve Almond for pushing the limits of erotic fiction, and for being willing to risk some readers' discomfort. Although, honestly, I was a little surprised by some of the reactions. I've done this before (sort of, I mean, you can only really go so far), and I still have both my eyes. Why keep touching in all the obvious places, when you've got a whole body to explore? Sigh.
--EF
10/21 |
I didn't entirely grok the paragraph "I was all over the place." Seemed to hint at a certain hand-eye-mouth coordination that I've never considered. Anyone care to elaborate on this troika?
--nzm
10/21 |
thing is i have an artificial eye, it's made of an acrylic polymer, and yes, i insist on people not calling it a glass eye. But i don't use lubricants of any sort , i'm sure most people don't need to unless it's a badly made prosthetic. Also, to have someone touch me there is akin to having someone probe around an open wound, not that it's bloody or anything but it's pretty sensitive. Factually i'd say it's not possible to get all erotic about this but then again perhaps i haven't explored the possibilities. To get it on in that fashion is a bit creepy. Ugh!
--JB
10/20 |
I didn't think that there were that many prudes that visited this site: "perv" "gross" etc. etc....
Cast your stones.
--jr
10/17 |
Can you plagiarize a joke? I always assumed jokes were treated similar to Shakespeare and the Bible...
Either way, I agree with what was said below, great take/elaboration on the joke (if intended).
--rcd
10/17 |
I loved this piece. It's this sort of thing which gives me hope that there are sensitive genius boys out there. Oh, high quality intimacy--what a special gift. Thanks for writing this.
--HB
10/17 |
The act of blinding is has often been interpreted by Freudians as symbolic castration. So there's definitely some interesting symbolism going on in in Bataille's book
.-)
--NK
10/16 |
If we are going to discuss the idea of a knock off, we should start with Georges Bataille Story of an Eye. Excellent book written in the 1930s (French), in which the female character is obsessed with eyes, to the point where two of her lovers kill a priest, after she had sex with him, and they rip his eye out and she places it in her vagina. The eye alludes to a Freudian obsession with knowledge of the womb. So no surprise a guy wrote this. Aside from that the conversation between the men seems awkward, but the idea of intimacy (the touching of the scar tissue and the last bed scene) was nice but a little too late to save this sinking ship.
--ESC
10/15 |
Liked this one. Thank God Almighty, I can see.
--RAR
10/15 |
Ditto sej
--AM
10/15 |
Effectively occult....
--GC
10/15 |
Somehow I don't think you guys get it. I think the author is well aware that this is an old joke, but the humor is that he is writing it up as an erotic story.
Kudos to the writer if that was the intent. I was highly amused.
--CC
10/14 |
Pathetic partial plagerism...what's next, a story about a guy that goes into a bar with a duck under his arm?
http://www.jokefile.co.uk/numerical_order/1149.html
This guy goes into a whore house and tells the front desk person that he wants something different...something weird!
She sends him up to the 3rd floor to see Lisa. He knocks on the door and this beautiful 6 ft. tall red-head answers the door.
He says he`s sorry and that he must have the wrong room (she`s much too beautiful!!!) She assures him that he has come to the right place. She instructs him to take off his clothes and she will be right back.
When she enters the room a few moments later she is naked and very beautiful!! He`s tells her that he is looking for something different and she looks perfect. What could you possibly do different? he asks.
So she removes her false eye and tells him to stick it there. He is very apprehensive at first but she assures him that she has sex thousands of times that way and that it will be the best sex he ever had!!!
So, he sticks his dick in her eye and proceeds to have the best sex of his life. When he`s done he tells her that it indeed was the best sex he ever had and could he visit her again when he is back in town.
Her response? "Sure, I`ll keep an eye out for you!!"
--JMK
10/14 |
This was f\cking funny. Mediocre writing in the opening paragraphs (sorry). But when Jake starts talking, oh man, I couldn't turn away. Excellent delivery, excellent pacing(except for that interruption about the neighbor dragging something across the floor).
--NK
10/14 |
The punchline is "I'll keep an eye out for you" to a very old joke. You guys think this is creative writing?
--jmj
10/14 |
You sick bastard. It's not enough that the Tigers have to endure a whole season of humiliation, you have slam them in a story about an EYE JOB.
--pw
10/14 |
your pale, someone else's warm fuzzy
--sej
10/14 |
This story is just too fucked up for words. Not in the least bit erotic or arousing, just completely fucked up. This criticism is coming from a complete perv. I can handle just about anything as far as erotica is concerned. I can get turned on by a wide veriety of bizarre sexual practices, but this is beyond the pale.
--SH
10/14 |
Oh sheeeeeett! Major props dude. That was the freakiest funniest most erotic shit I ever read. I don't know whether to laugh my ass off or call my girl over so I can put it in HER eye. Great writing.
--JTE
10/14 |
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