New Story Excerpt - The Nuisance Streamer

Right, I do have something to post on the end of the month.

As a thank you for being patient while I took this month (and a bit) off to get the next collection of short stories together for publication, here is an excerpt of one of those stories.

"A Succubus for Social Justice" is the eponymous succubus tablet story. Someone gets hold of the succubus tablet and uses it for vigilantism in taking down people they don't like. The nameless succubus is quite busy and gets a few 'kills' this time around. I also tried to get creative with her various kills. "A Succubus for Social Justice" has six parts where the nameless succubus takes out different targets, as well as few various interludes and smaller sections dealing with the fallout and repercussions of the vigilante's actions.

In this one, it's a nuisance IRL streamer out in Japan. I think people will find it very easy to guess who the inspiration for the character is, although there are quite a few nuisance streamers running around nowadays. I did um and ah over the name, as it comes very close to violating my strict No Take Thats policy. I let it go as it's not the actual same name and the person who inspired the character is going to be forgotten in a year's time anyway.

The protagonist is racist towards the Japanese, and I didn't shy away from depicting that. In researching what nasty terms the modern yoof might use nowadays I did find an interesting discrepancy in perjoratives between the US and UK. Originally I had him using "Nip" as that is the no-no word for UK people while "Jap" is seen as a milder abbreviation of "Japanese" in the same way as "Brit" is to "British". However, in the US, "Jap" is the much more offensive term, so I switched to using that for this protagonist.

The character is supposed to be American, but there is a chance I accidentally slipped some Britbongisms in. So, if you're American, let me know if the protagonist thinks or says something that feels like inaccurate slang.

Despite the protagonist being a total asshole, he doesn't really deserve what happens to him. The main story is meant to be the usual cautionary tale on vigilantism, not "Hydra writes succubus killing people that piss him off", so don't worry about that. I know "people writing fanfic about public people they dislike getting killed gruesomely" has become a thing, but I personally think that's weak writing and try to avoid it.

I also did get to do some nice research on various red light areas in Japan. Tobita Shinchi is a real-life red light district in Osaka (and the Yakuza will beat the shit out of you if you try to film there). Yoshiwara is the infamous red-light district of old Tokyo and still has some adult premises today. I did take some liberties with the street in the story as I don't think you find street prostitutes on the same streets as the soaplands (although I might be wrong on this).

Yes, I write porn, but I still like to properly research my porn!

I hope you enjoy this little 3K word taster. Work on finalising the collection is going well and I hope to reveal more details throughout October.