Initial Concept from Yahoo Groups
Chapters 2-8 by Vestiphile & McK

[AKA: 'Boots of the Dark Mistress']

For those of you who don't know the old adult.collapsingfiction.com lore, "Dark Mistress" was inspired by something that came a few years earlier. In the old Yahoo groups, a bunch of us passed a thread back and forth--each of us tacking on our fetishes and our own fantastical story twists, and it became this.

If the latter chapters seem more consistent than the earlier ones, it's because over time this 5-author document became a 2-author document. Armed with our notes about what we wanted to see--regardless of how off-the-rails...we pretty much went there. 

A couple years later, I found Darkside--who told me I wasn't allowed to indulge my fetishes and wander around half-cocked with my characters if I actually wanted to write a meaningful story.

I mean...the fucker's right, but nyyyyyyyyeh.

This draft spirals to a much different breaking point than the revision. Is it a shame it never went any further? Perhaps. But there WAS always an alternate chapter 10 I wanted to write for the Revised Dark Mistress that ends a little differently.

This is a little rough, and it starts a bit silly, but I've had enough people ask about it that I'm pleased to share it again here.