Thank you very much, especially Wolf and Max for your responses. And forgive my belated thanks.
It's hard to overstate how important the K-town series was to ticklephiles in the days of usenet.
It was our version of Game of Thrones; we looked forward new chapters just as devotedly.
I love this comparison. And I can imagine the febrility of waiting for the next release. It was the same for me when I was awaiting the next Vellicatrices Unlimited from FTKL.
It was based on a series of stories that I turned into a book, then 2 books, then 3. I started writing them in 1993. That's right. 1993. Crazy shit huh? They were first introduced on the usenet alt.sex.fetish.tickling and others after that.
They were originally written for a friend of mine in Florida who may or may not be part of this forum. We lost touch a while back. The idea was based on fantasies I used to have riding the bus home from school and imagining that the bus was traveling thru an imaginary town where tickling was the main theme of all their social circles and everyone was a ticklephile.
Thank you very much. That is indeed quite the thing you have invented there. Hence it's importance: it was not just a series of stories, it was a concept, a universe. Nowadays we'd say a franchise, on par with Marvel and co.
I remember you mainly for the Shannon stories (I believe the name was Shannon), that American girl who lives on the countryside and gets tickled by pretty much everyone she knows. It was quite bold in its unabashed straightforwardness and its poor heroine living in a hell of poking. It could have been more sexual and a little more extreme in the depictions of her many misfortunes, but it was quite good. Was that series part of the Kitteltown universe?
I found your stories in your archives, but they are very messed up. The TMF once more demonstrates how awkward a platform it is for stories, and because of the length of your work, it is all the more difficult to make sense of it. Give me a few weeks to copy everything into something that more closely emulates a book's format, and read them, then I'll be able to tell you what I think. Any advice on methodology? Do you have any one part which you like more than the others, or one that you are the most proud of?
So far, my favorite story of yours is hands down The Mystery of Megan, published on TFTA #1. Okay, FTKL's stellar artwork certainly contributes to its awesomeness, but I especially like the rather extreme side to it, combined to its eerie atmosphere. I was on the edge of my seat during the whole time.
Thank you guys for taking the time to answer my question. I now see what Kitteltown mattered so much. I'll read it with great pleasure.
