Amorous Goods, A Literotica Anthology Series, Season 4

[Small_Island]

Thanks, I'll have a go. If it there is a sense of it being a little 'off' from what has gone before I can only apologise...

I touched on the idea of a UK shop being an older store that Uncle Ludwig emulated in North America (post #66). In the story I'm doing for this year, (hopefully done in time) I wrote this to open the door for a mash-up.

"While most of Morgana’s trip [to Europe] had been for her own pleasure and purposes, the London stop had been directly related to Amorous Goods business. Apparently, there was an English version of the occult shop there that had gotten a line on one of the possibly dangerous items that Dylan himself had sold in his early days at AG."

 

[HordHolm]

I touched on the idea of a UK shop being an older store that Uncle Ludwig emulated in North America (post #66). In the story I'm doing for this year, (hopefully done in time) I wrote this to open the door for a mash-up.

"While most of Morgana’s trip [to Europe] had been for her own pleasure and purposes, the London stop had been directly related to Amorous Goods business. Apparently, there was an English version of the occult shop there that had gotten a line on one of the possibly dangerous items that Dylan himself had sold in his early days at AG."

I've been somewhat obsessed with an old Peter Cushing film called From Beyond the Grave, in which he is the proprietor of an antique shop selling, yep, cursed/blessed objects. It's an anthology film and the moment I read the premise for Amorous Goods I had the flash of this film (released in 1974). I don't think I've really got the vision of the shop from the film down in my text, but a bit of difference is a good thing. It's based on Chetwynd-Hayes short stories, which is always a treat, and of course the original was 'Horror' (though amusingly cheesy in reality), but the best thing about it is the sense that the shop has something of a personality. If I can convey anything of this sense, and the 'British-ness' of the film, I'll be pleased.

 

[Small_Island]

Here are a few details I'm adding this year about characters and AG. If they ring a bell with you, please do feel free to use them. (Have to admit, it felt good when some other writers adopted Morgana Delacroix. ;-)
I'm finally giving Dylan a last name since I haven't come across one yet (sorry if I missed yours). LeMay. I was thinking Dylan Gallion since the TV character's name was Ryan Dallion, but I just didn't like Gallion. So, I decided to give the nod to the actor who played Ryan: John D. LeMay. Dylan was a U.S. Navy Quartermaster who was a Lieutenant when he separated. His expertise in logistics is a key reason Vikki asked for his help with AG.
Dylan's 'cousin by marriage' relation to Vikki is on their mothers' side, while Uncle Ludwig's blood relation is through Vikki's father. Her parents are both deceased.

The AG mansion is three stories, with a large basement and a sub-basement with a vault for the most dangerous items in the collection. Here's a paragraph about the place and the cousins' place in it.

"Monday morning, Dylan and Vikki were drinking coffee and eating bagels in the old mansion’s expansive kitchen. The cousins had taken up residence in ground floor quarters that had been used by the live-in cook and butler and whomever else they had on staff back in the 19th century when the tycoon who’d built the old pile had wanted to live like an English Lord. Dylan wondered if the greedy bastard had begun spinning in his grave when his empire crashed within five years of his death and his glorious mansion had been sold off, only to become the fanciest bordello in the tri-state area."

I'm feeling better I'll actually have my entry finished on time this year and look forward to reading yours.

 

[secretLace]

I just got an idea!
Nice now lets see if I manage to rouse my creative juice. "The pendulum swings" is the title and in this episode David, a young man has his eyes out for the MILF next door.

 

[Small_Island]

I just got an idea!
Nice now lets see if I manage to rouse my creative juice. "The pendulum swings" is the title and in this episode David, a young man has his eyes out for the MILF next door.

Always gonna cheer for the juices to flow. ;-)
Thought you might like to know that the AG Class of 2020 included: The Pendulum, https://www.literotica.com/s/amorous-goods-the-pendulum by sparkwood.
A demon-haunted pendulum guides a man into a life of vice.

Probably won't bump up against your story much, but thought you might want to give it a read to see if there's any overlap you can avoid or enhance.
Good luck, hope the story writes itself.

 

[jaF0]

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...rotica-halloween-story-contest.1595951/unread


Remember, these coincide. AG stories can be part of the Halloween contest.

 

[jaF0]

Curious about the Goods .... (snicker, snicker ... )


Have any AG stories won or even been nominated for any of the contests or awards?

 

[HordHolm]

Curious about the Goods .... (snicker, snicker ... )


Have any AG stories won or even been nominated for any of the contests or awards?

A teaser then... a mutoscope (a 'what the butler saw' machine) plays a central part in my story.

 

[Small_Island]

Read, re-read, and re-re-read, that's the mantra, right? I was on edit #8, really thinking it was the last check, when I finally recognized a massive foul up. My young couple went to hers for a session for the first time, but I wrote the whole thing as if they were still at his. Doh! Got that ironed out, but definitely going to let it sit another day before the (hopefully) final read through.

 

[HordHolm]

For better or worse, my submission has just been sent. It is entitled, 'Seen in Sepia', and will be in Exhibitionist and Voyeur.

 

[jaF0]

Yeah, I was going to do something overnight to announce Go Time, but I fell asleep I guess.

 

[Rustyoznail]

I flagged it over on the Halloween thread, so who knows what will happen?

 

[joy_of_cooking]

I'm working on one! Abused child shoplifts a haunted knife which, when it cuts people, feeds their life force to a demoness.

Plot twist: kid's a cutter.

Further plot twist: the demoness likes him and instead of sucking his soul out becomes a kind of mother figure to him.

Cue very strange, mostly chaste, mostly incorporeal relationship with one JOI scene (after he turns 18). I'm 13k in and halfway through my outline.

(Yes, I have an outline this time!)

 

[jaF0]

^^^ That would be a cursed item Vicki/Nikki and company would pursue, seeking to recover and lock in the vault.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

I was planning for their shop to be where the kid shoplifts. Not permitted?

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Apologies, I haven't watched this show so I'm a little unclear on the concept. I thought they were selling these objects to get rid of them?

 

[Rustyoznail]

I think the idea is they sell "safe" objects, but I've used the concept some things don't reveal their power until the right person holds them.

 

[Lovecraft_Lore]

Apologies, I haven't watched this show so I'm a little unclear on the concept. I thought they were selling these objects to get rid of them?

The dead former owner was doing that. They were buying them back and or recovering them. Like the A-team or many other shows of the era, the plot sort of falls apart if you think about it too hard.

 

[jaF0]

This is why I stressed from the very beginning a few years back the importance of watching at least one episode to get the feel and premise of the show and concept.

Louis traveled the world and collected goods knowing some of them were cursed, recording it all in a manifest. But after his death, when Micky and Ryan took over, they did not. With the help of Jack, they begin to find out about the cursed items and that some of the dangerous ones have come up missing. Possibly sold, possibly taken by some other means. But they know they have to be recovered and secured forever. The show details those recovery efforts. That's a one paragraph over simplification of a rather complicated story line.

AG builds on that by allowing authors to tell tales of 'amorous' or charmed items that do good things as well as the cursed ones.

Yes, in general, it's an antique type store where items are for sale. But they don't always realize some items are cursed or charmed until after the item is gone. The knife thing could be one of those. They find out from news stories of odd happenings and check the manifest ...

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Ah, my mistake. I read a few of the previous entries, which all showed people obtaining items from this store, and went from there.

It's fine. I'll publish my story without entering it into this challenge. It'll relieve me of a deadline anyway.

 

[Lifestyle66]

This is why I stressed from the very beginning a few years back the importance of watching at least one episode to get the feel and premise of the show and concept.

Louis traveled the world and collected goods knowing some of them were cursed, recording it all in a manifest. But after his death, when Micky and Ryan took over, they did not. With the help of Jack, they begin to find out about the cursed items and that some of the dangerous ones have come up missing. Possibly sold, possibly taken by some other means. But they know they have to be recovered and secured forever. The show details those recovery efforts. That's a one paragraph over simplification of a rather complicated story line.

AG builds on that by allowing authors to tell tales of 'amorous' or charmed items that do good things as well as the cursed ones.

Yes, in general, it's an antique type store where items are for sale. But they don't always realize some items are cursed or charmed until after the item is gone. The knife thing could be one of those. They find out from news stories of odd happenings and check the manifest ...

I wrote my "Amorous Goods: The Anklet Pair" last year after searching through other A.G. stories from the previous years for common descriptions of the characters and store front.

I think my story somewhat kept to that general theme of recovering the more dangerous items. Watching the TV show might give the overall feel of the series concept. But it might have helped to have one base story or writers guide to provide a more consistent background for the other stories. I didn't know which stories to read from the previous two years to know which ones best fit the intent.

In any case, I got caught up with my own vision in that first story and wrote a follow-on story, "Amorous Goods: The Anklet Pair Pt. 2", taking my two "victims" on their own journey into a scifi war-of-the-worlds behind the scenes where it shows how the objects are being created/cursed. My two previous victims are the MCs and have taken on the task of assisting the A.G. store owner Vikki and her witch advisor, Morgana.

I'm now well into another follow-on story, 'A.G.: The Magic Lamp', which should be ready in 2-3 weeks, with those former "victims" now assisting in tracking down an object, still trying to fight the war-of-the-world cursed-object creators.

 

[Small_Island]

Up and running. Thanks for keeping things rolling, jaF0.
https://literotica.com/s/amorous-goods-scar-tissue

 

[Rustyoznail]

Better late than never, and I'm in. "Amorous Goods: The Rockabilly Travelling Pants" will hopefully go live in a day or so.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Whoo Hoo! Mine's up in I/T!

Amorous Goods: The Rockabilly Travelling Pants

And yes, I did get the idea from a movie I've never watched.

 

[Small_Island]

Whoo Hoo! Mine's up in I/T!

Amorous Goods: The Rockabilly Travelling Pants

And yes, I did get the idea from a movie I've never watched.

Great story! Wonder how Vikki will take the news of the airman's sacrilege?