Forum: Lost Stories

I just re-read both Service Society and Reset Manifesto. I'm starting to think RM may be the best story on site.

I'm starting to think RM may be the best story on site.

Definitely in the top 5. Most of Lazlo's stories are well worth reading. Other top 5 'contestants':
Refusenik's Human Phoenix and Human Man
gwresearch's Magestic and K2
Ernest Bywater's Survivor and Survivor: Moving On
There are more very good stories on SOL that jump high above the average.

Definitely in the top 5. Most of Lazlo's stories are well worth reading. Other top 5 'contestants':

Refusenik's Human Phoenix and Human Man

gwresearch's Magestic and K2

Ernest Bywater's Survivor and Survivor: Moving On

There are more very good stories on SOL that jump high above the average.

gwresearch has just taken his stories down :( I knew I should have downloaded K2 yesterday when I started reading it

gwresearch has just taken his stories down :( I knew I should have downloaded K2 yesterday when I started reading it

That's a shame, very good stories lost from SOL. He must have removed them shortly after my post. Just send him an email at gwresearchb-at-aol.com and you can buy it directly from him while avoiding the crooks at amazon. I bought all of Magestic and K2 that way. You can find his site searching his name Geoff Wolak.

damn that sucks... woulda liked to download them too...sadly I never saw any mention he was going to do so :(

Does it give a reason for the removal?

For stories removed by the author it never gets more specific than "Deleted at author's request"

Which is what it says for gwresearch's stories.

That's also most of the current list.
There are a couple removed for inappropriate content (mostly age rule violations)

The Richard Jackson Saga bu Banadin removed for "mistakes"

One older version of a story removed because it was reposted.

Al Fangor had a bunch of stories "Deleted for Plagiarism"

one removed for being a teaser.

And then there is:
Washing Her Sins Away by Stevew "Deleted because incomplete and Irrelevant" whatever that means.

Washing Her Sins Away by Stevew "Deleted because incomplete and Irrelevant" whatever that means.

I believe that reason is used when a very short 'Incomplete and Inactive' story is up to be archived.

Does it give a reason for the removal?

My Library - Removed
"Deleted at author's request"

Fantasy Flight: Book 1

"Fantasy Flight: Book 1 by Dead Writer
Author's Description:
Joe Johnson is a techie who knows how to sell his company's software, but is ever cursed by bad luck in his travels. Karma gives Joe a little break on a typical, well at least for Joe, crappy, delayed, problem filled flight from hell.
Size: 266 KB (54,464 words)
Genre: Fiction
Sex Contents: Much Sex
Tags: Ma/Fa, mt/ft, Ma/ft, ft/ft, Fa/ft, Teenagers, Consensual, Fiction, Father, Daughter, Cousins, Niece, First
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Review by richardshagrin
Reviewed: 2015-03-09

This story has lots of sex, mostly with young girls, and has a theme almost any airline traveler can agree with, airlines are a rip-off scheme to provide the worst service for the most money of any travel method you can think of. There is a sort of dreamlike feel for lots of the story. The hero/narrator is pretty sure he is in some kind of drugged hallucination or dream during much of the action. I kept reading to try to figure out what was going on, and I am not sure I understand it even having completed the story. I guess I am going to have to read the sequel. We haven't even met the villain of story yet, although we have met a lot of his relatives. This may not sound like a recommendation for you to read the story but do it anyway. I don't recall reading anything like it elsewhere on SOL and you owe it to yourself to see if you like it.

I am going to give the plot a nine, if I can't figure it out it has plenty of twists and turns. Once again, the action is so fast I didn't see any technical problems, and I guess I will give it a ten. The alternative is reading the story over again to look for errors and I am too confused to do that if I don't have to. I rated this a "good" story and that's an eight. Did I mention the sequel is in progress?

Plot: 9 | Technical Quality: 10 | Appeal to Reviewer: 8"

Now ya have to have a damn passport just to board a plane to go to the next state! What a crock!!

Possibly it might be Flying with an Angel ... Rodosteele

Mauidreamer's recommendation is found at https://storiesonline.net/s/44948/flying-with-an-angel and is by Rod O'Steele

I have vague memories of another story

Tajod's The Gold Digger (on BtFH) possibly? It's the one I thought of for the OP, but a few things didn't match - the flight is snowed in, the guy swaps his multi-room suite for a room or two as a favour to the hotel, the girl is returning 'home' (a squat) after not getting a job as she won't put out for the owner, she's mixed up in the drug scene - the job was trying to break free of it.

The second, I'd identified it as probably one of LZ's, but even reading the descriptions didn't identify it before it was answered.