#302363 - The Elmtown Chronicles Vol 3 Nom D Guerre
The Elmtown Chronicles, Volume III
a novelette by Nom D. Guerre
illustrated by Leon Kurtz
Brand X Publishing
Burbank, California
1988
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Nine years ago, we received a request for The Elmtown Chronicles. We've been looking everywhere, but there's hardly a trace of them. Recently, we acquired Volumes III, IV and V from a gentleman in Florida. We will eventually present the other volumes.
The Elmwood Chronicles is a five-booklet series that focuses on women wrestling. In his forward to the third novelette, Mr. Guerre says, “if the reader starts with Volume III, he will find a work that is complete, in and of itself.”
That proves a fair assessment as the story mostly involves a promoter and two fighters who compete in a big basement in Elmtown for money. Although one of the fighters takes a dreamy excursion to a Minoan coliseum after she passes out, the words and pictures expose a bout, from first fall to last.
Women must fight in the nude. The promoter and town leaders negotiate conditions and terms. They construct a boxing ring with a padded canvas. There are rounds without time limits, ending when one of the combatants yields.
The writing accomplishes a fast-moving story with both external and internal dialog. The author has characters speak in familiar vernacular and makes references to cultural idioms and famous literature.
This time the humiliated Adams approached her opponent tentatively. Sensing her timidity the Corporal thrust out her hand to grasp the blond's blond hair. In a continuous fluid motion, Adams leaned forward and to the left; grasped the brown arm, yanked it downward, and lifted her right knee square into the belly of the bent over Negress. Smith promptly dropped to her knees. Cindy then grabbed her by the hair and slammed her to the floor's padded moving van mats.
Then she pinned each arm between her legs and sat down upon the brown face. What Adams did to the arms was a fair turnabout, as was her position. That is, she had the same control over her opponent as Smith previously did, but Cindy was facing in the opposite direction.
"She's got me now," thought Smith as she watched Adams grip both of her wrists for the final part of the pindown. The only part of her face that was exposed were her eyes and forehead. Adams was looking at Simons, the referee, and didn't notice the fear that bulged out from Smith's eyes. Cindy had to lean backwards to grip the brown melons.
The Negress was now as exposed as the blond had been, but Adams was not in a position to observe it. But she felt it as she felt her. She too took her time to squeeze out her first win and tie the match at one win apiece. Now the Corporal was getting a taste of her own medicine and it was salty, as both fighters were beginning to sweat from the exertion.
While taking their second five minute break, each woman eyed the other with renewed respect. This third fall would go to the stronger or swifter, not the craftier. Smarts had won an easy victory for each fighter. Now they were going to earn their prize money. Pride had not entered into the equation, as these women were in the ring to fight for money. This was no sport, this was economic survival. All too soon, there was that clang again.
They met in center ring and cautiously circled each other. The Corporal faked a jumping leap at Cindy which straightened her up from her crouch. Swiftly going underneath, Smith slammed her shoulder into the blond's midriff and propelled her backwards against the ropes. When Adams rebounded off the strands, Smith turned around and used the stunned blond's forward momentum to force her to fall on top of her back. To help matters along for the flip over her back, she grabbed the blond hair with her right hand and slipped her left arm under Cindy's left shoulder.
This was the leverage needed to flip the hapless girl through the air and send her arching towards a very unhappy landing.
"Got to get away," thought Adams, as she went over the top. Her shoulders and upper back slammed into the padding and she could hear her vertebrae sounding like a breakfast cereal as they went snap, crackle and pop. [Picture Number.: 11 J. After she bounced off the padding, Cynthia tried to roll out of danger. The black python struck with snake-like quickness and Adams found two powerful thighs wrapped around her neck.
"Gotcha," exalted Corporal Punishment.
"Oh sweet Jesus, she's got a killer hold on my neck," grunted Adams. Positioned as she was, the blond was pinned into helplessness. Her left arm was pinned under Smith's butt. Her right arm was pinned under a heavy upper thigh. The decision of what to do with her opponent was firmly in Punishment's hands. Correction, legs. . . .
[Smith's] thighs were covering the blond's chest, consequently they were unavailable for attack. While looking down the length of her helpless opponent's body a light went off in her head.
"Of course, how stupid of me," she thought as a cruel smile slashed across her face. She reached over with her left hand and grabbed a handful of protective golden fleece, burrowed past and gripped with steel fingers, to put it as crudely as Smith's hands: Pussy. Not only did the Corporal put her hands crudely on Cindy's mound of Venus she also put them on cruelly. . . .
Twenty-two soft-pencil illustrations by Leon Kurtz illuminate the prose. His skill delivers pin-up-model quality characters in painful combat. Subtle shading develops feminine contours on firm bodies with flowing hair. Tableaux show grabbing, pinching, kneeing, scissoring, punching, flipping and face-sitting.
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