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[Recommendation at the The Control Panel by Remy, September 2003]
It amazes me how you can build up so much tension and so much excitement in the love scenes.
[sileas, Letter to the author, January 2003]
Reviews below: Debt Price | Eternally Divided | The Fool | Night Shadow | O Most Unthankful | Pleasure | Puppets | A Sexual Minority Speaks Out | The True Master | Twenty Thousand Gold Stars | What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets | General Recommendations | Other Writings by Dusk Peterson.
[Dusk Peterson] has produced the outstanding jewel [of MAS-Zine #2] in "Debt Price," the story of a young terrorist in a medieval world of lords and peasants who is sentenced for his crime to a brutal form of sex slavery at the hands of his victims . . . The story is one of tallying one's karmic debts and paying them off; it also explores the justification for extreme punishment and why it may or may not work, and the relative nature of guilt and innocence. [Homoerotic] more in its subject matter than its sex scenes (which are brutal and not really played as erotica, skirting sensationalism without quite falling in) it's a very dense, fascinating read.
[Review by Lady Cyrrh at The Annex Reviews; skip down to "Peterson")]
I have read Debt Price, haunting and wonderful, sad and comforting, the child that is warped and shaped into a vessel of pain by the person that has been shaped by pain, forgiven by pain, reborn out of pain.
[Bluesky, Letter to the author, June 2003]
A beautiful, erotic tale . . . Peterson is a writer with vision and scope.
[Pam Hollier, quoted on the reviews page of MAS-Zine]
Other reviews:
Brief review by beatrice at Slash Cotillion.
Brief review (skip down to "Peterson") by meniteau.
Brief recommendation by David Nunes da Silva.
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I was born and educated in Italy, where students of the 'liceo classico' had to learn by heart whole chunks of Latin, Greek and Italian literature, and had to study the whole of the Divine Comedy at University. . . . Your story is delicately written, in the spirit of the original, and is very moving.
[Dr. Mirna Cicioni, Senior Lecturer, Italian Studies Program, Monash University, Australia; Letter to the author, June 2002]
I have NO background in the classics. (Virgil is just a name to me, sorry). . . . LOVED the description of Dante behaving like a bumbling groupie!
[Nancy G., Letter to the author, June 2002]
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My goodness, this story has stayed with me for two days now. I like the simple "journal" format, that starts off almost lighthearted. . . . But it begins to hit hard fast, and by the end I had a lump in my throat that comes back whenever I think about it.
[Glass Houses, Post to e-mail list, April 2002]
I adored the tonalities of it. It ranges from greys to very dark shot through with flashes of light. Beautifully done – angsty and edgy and just wonderfully written.
[Briony, Letter to the author, April 2002]
Delicately done, such that the reader is drawn deeper and deeper in to the situation, just as our unlikely hero is drawn to his destiny.
[Smara, Post to e-mail list, April 2002]
Im Stil eines Tagebuchs verfasst. Eine Gruppe von Räubern plündert ein Dorf und einer von ihnen macht einen Jugendlichen aus seinem Dorf zu seinem Bettsklaven.
[Recommendation by mllesatine (skip down to "Fool".]
I once had a literature professor who demonstrated how "The Great Gatsby" is the perfect novel. Every chapter is carefully constructed; the pacing is perfect. I think this is probably the condensed version of the perfect slavefic. Just wonderful.
[Recommendation by pierrot_dreams at orig_slavefic.]
Other reviews:
Brief review (skip down to "Peterson") at Haven's Dark Slash.
Recommendation (skip down to "pretty story") by Kahlan Amnell.
Recommendations at orig_slavefic.
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"Night Shadow" at del.icio.us.
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I have been a fan of the Arthurian legends since I was an older child. At first, it was just that, a child's appreciation for tales of wonder and magic, for bold knights and fair damsels. As I got older, of course, my understanding of this lovely and complex world grew appropriately, but I was no less appreciative, quite the contrary.
And now, I have your lovely story to add to my lifetime's worth of words and images linked to Arthur. [It is] most welcome. You write beautifully, with such gentle assurance, your characters real, solid and textured and fully dimensional. . . . I will always be grateful to you for sharing this vision of these characters.
[Raven, Letter to the author, March 2003]
Very powerful and engrossing but also sort of sad and melancholy particularly the tenderness between the two [main characters].
[Emma, Letter to the author, May 2002]
What a magnificent story, touching, romantic, brave, bittersweet, perfectly balanced.
[Nigel, Letter to the author, October 2003]
Beautifully written, and firmly placed historically and mythologically, and heart-breaking.
[Review by kenovay at Panfandom Slash Recs.]
Other reviews:
Review by kateelvellon at The Mists of Avalon LJ.
Brief recommendation by Bellona at Templum Bellonae.
"O Most Unthankful" at del.icio.us.
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This was incredible, a slow dawning with bursts of sudden wakefulness, it was intense, vivid and stark, and yet, contained a gentleness that couldn't be missed.
[Raven, Letter to the author, February 2003]
Other reviews:
Brief reviews at AdultFanFiction.net.
Recommendation by madlodger at Golden Nuggets: Original Slash List (skip down to "DuskPeterson").
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A reporter is invited to witness an amateur mediation between a 15-year-old rapist and his 13-year-old victim. I can easily believe this as a real newspaper piece, and I don't think the story would have worked as well in any other form.
[Review by Bellona at Templum Bellonae]
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[To fellow readers.] Please remember to put down anything you are drinking. I refuse to be responsible for ruined keyboards. . . .
[Brief recommendation by amykb.]
Brief review by Jess.
Brief recommendation by mental switch.
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[Comment to Dusk Peterson.] As a reward for the sheer awesome of this, you have just won a harem of beautiful dark-skinned Persian slaveboys skilled in the erotic arts of the East.
[Recommendation by pierrot_dreams at orig_slavefic.]
Recommendations at orig_slavefic.
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[In other writers' stories] the whole 'tab a into slot b' thing just gets extremely repetitive and boring. It is an art to be able to suggest without a lot of detail – in many ways the emotion is more important than the act itself. . . .
Initially I thought the story would be just a variation on the D/S theme, but it was so much more, as it was a story of ideas and the way they can take hold and shape civilisations.
[whitecrow, Letter to the author, April 2002]
Finally someone who is good at writing stories which appeal to my quirky intellectual mind and deliver the goods (so to speak). Extremely satisfying.
[Anne Blue, Letter to the author, May 2002]
Other review:
Brief review by hanks_lil_pit (skip down to "upside").
"The True Master" at del.icio.us.
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Story of the Year: Twenty Thousand Gold Stars. . . . No excuses or apologies are made [for the characters' actions], simply an honest, objective exploration of the human character, and the resulting masterpiece is powerful enough to change my perspective of the world . . . I beg you all to give this story a try, despite the sensitive content, because here is a story about love, about friendship, about forgiveness and acceptance and understanding, and I guarantee it will send your world lurching, as it has mine.
[Review by e-witness, with follow-up comments by other readers]
WHAT SLAVES DO WHEN THEY AREN'T CLEANING TOILETS (Accessibility Information for truetales.org)
Hot and amusing all at once.
[Brief reviews at the truetales blog]
Having done website design, I practically fell out of my chair laughing when I first read that story.
[Recommendation by Maureen Lycaon]
Other reviews:
Brief review by AngstPuppy.
"What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets" at del.icio.us. (Amusingly, the first recommendation is by a gentleman who works for the World Wide Web Consortium.)
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Additionally, I find your writing to be smooth and flowing, evoking sharp images but without those sharp edges that cut the reader and force the intrusion of outside thought. . . . Your writing consistently allows me to remain immersed in the world you've created.
[Christy, Letter to the author, April 2005]
Don't ever expect Dusk to avoid a topic because of current social taboos, but do expect the ethical aspects of actions to be explored.
[Recommendation (skip down to "Dusk") by Parhelion]
A truly superb original-fic author, whose tales of dominance and submission, slavery, and sometimes even prisonerfic and rape have a distinct moral bent. (What the heck does that mean? You'll have to read to understand.)
[Recommendation (skip down to "Dusk") and another recommendation (skip down to "Dusk") by Maureen Lycaon]
He has a realistic and sarcastic tone to his works, with this edge of sweetness underneath.
[Recommendation (skip down to "Dusk") by LitGal]
Dusk writes beautiful Master/slave fiction. Her writing is truly some of the best I've read.
[Recommendation (skip down to "Dusk") by Kimberly Powell]
Outstanding original stories. Fascinating look into the human psyche.
[Recommendation by Aesthetic Kismet]
Dusk writes some amazing stories, filled with angst and pain, but also with love and compassion and understanding.
[Recommendation (skip down to "Dusk") by Nigel Puerasch]
Other recommendations:
Recommendation by Obiness.
Brief recommendation (skip down to "Dusk") by Kestrell at Blind Bookworm.
Brief recommendation (skip down to "Dusk") by Cobalt Jade.
Brief recommendation (skip down to "Dusk") at Slash Cotillion.
Brief recommendation by kenovay.
Brief recommendation by Mychael Black in an interview at Fallen Angel Reviews.
Brief recommendation by frahulettaes.
Love in Dark Settings at del.icio.us.
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