Posted by Reshma.
After I finished that joint story with Rajah, Story 99 in Volume 7, Rajah went on to do a story himself. It was Story 112 The Second Rabbit Hunting story. I was talking to my sister Shandra and she suggested that I try writing one myself too.
‘Ok,’ I thought. ‘Why not? I’ll try one myself.’
A week later we were at the writer's meetings discussing this part of Volume 8. They wanted to build it up a bit more. Susan and Allan had already completed Story 113 My Night with Hansini and Amita about the seven-way orgy down by the river. The question was asked, ‘While all that was going on, what was happening back in camp?’ The original intention had been not to do anything here but now we realised there was a chance for one or two extra stories.
Ayaka wanted to try something with Mike and Katrina. I was unsure what, as in the stories before this they had just written that Katrina was tired and sore, well and truly fucked actually. When Ayaka said she had an idea, Anne allowed her to run with it. Then Shandra suggested me. There were four people left, two Indian men and two European women. Anne invited me to see what I could do with them. I wasn't sure what but it was obviously going to be some kind of foursome.
When we wrote Story 99 my sister and I had swapped husbands for the night. See Story 99 Part B Background. That was still on my mind and I still thought it was rather sexy. When I talked about it with my husband he had suggested that it might have been fun if we had done it together so he could watch me and I could watch him. I knew what he meant, one of his favourite stories was Ayaka and Kim’s Story 92 Four by Four-some. So finally a plan was beginning to take shape in my mind.
By then Ayaka was well into her story with Mike and Katrina. Before I started mine, I asked her how she was beginning her story. We sat down together one afternoon and she allowed me to read what she had done. She began with the three men sitting by the fire drinking beer and talking. We both knew this was where my story should begin too. I copied that from her story, making a few changes to fit with mine and that became my beginning.
Ayaka was writing her stories from a man’s point of view and when we got together to make sure our stories fitted together she suggested I try doing the same too. Now that was something different to try, writing from a guy's point of view, so I decided to try. I had to get feedback from my husband a couple of times but I think, in the end ‘Joseph’ tells a good story here. Ha! Ha!
Here is the final result.
Yes Reshma, "Joseph" did do a good job.
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