Return of New Beginnings?

It's been a while since anyone submitted a query. Hint hint. Meanwhile I've had a couple inquiries about openings. One trouble with openings is that by the time a good continuation comes in, the person who sent the opening may have forgotten all about it. Perhaps a new system is in order, whereby the opening is posted, and both feedback and continuations may be sent as comments. Eventually a continuation gets "chosen." We can try it with this opening that just came in:



Despite my longing for a goddess the hunt was my favorite part of the game. I had enjoyed plenty of evenings as the hunter but now preferred women come to me. They would tap me on the shoulder or pinch my ass and steal me to a reserved corner. My skills with women were sharp, they competed shamelessly for my attention.

The most populated orgy of the year did not begin until the third night of the summer solstice party. My guests arrived masked for the reputations of politicians and aristocrats had to be guarded. At sundown house servants lined candles in glass domes along the carriage drive. Hundreds of Thomas Chippendale canopy beds surrounded by lanterns framed my estate. Many stood at windows and marveled at the panorama when they arrived.

We lived for those nights, and during the revel of seventeen sixty-two I was rendered immortal.

The opening ceremony began the way it had for centuries. All we knew was that it was a tradition to establish order to lustful chaos. The thirteen goddesses waited for us, and I anticipated their presence with yearning.