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This story is short, the pdf is around 70 pages, but that includes blank pages and cover. He calls it a novel, but to me it is barely a novella.I read "No end will be found" - will post my thoughts tomorrow. But wanted to put it out there, so no one else wastes their time on this... thing
It is dedicate to Halina, whoever that is. I wonder how people feel to be dedicated a rape porn story
Review:
Reading this story left me empty. Not shocked, not horrified, just left me wondering "why?". Although I did not read Manhunt, I followed most of the Kiwifarm Reads Manhunt thread, so I am fairly familiar of the depravity level Micah is capable of. This novel hints at his perverted thoughts, but it far too mild to leave me shocked.

The summary is the following: "A young wet nurse is arrested, tortured, tried, and executed for witchcraft in 17th century Germany. " (From Gumroad where one can buy this book).
Here is the problem - this is the book. This is all that happens. The characters are not compelling, interesting, or really have a personality. Two characters make actual choices in the whole story, and they are not explained or make any sense to the reader. You don't get attached to them, feel sad, or get angry at them. Their intentions are unknown and their feelings are irrelevant.
This is how the protagonist is introduced - she is young, but readers are have no idea how young.
There is also no room for horniness or shock, because the sex and torture are very very brief. Those scenes are horrifying, partially due to how badly they were written.
And this (she has just been arrested and being transported to prison)-
Micah is also supposedly a history geek. Yet the torture comprises of a beating, using the rack (or something similar), and taking out fingernails (just mentioned, not described in any detail). I have been to a museum showing torture devices, mainly medieval ones, and those plaques had more of a description than this 70 pages book. [Fun fact - I nearly passed out in that museum (I know, I know ...
)].
There are torture devices of a sexual nature that I think could have been used in this book, or at least he could be more descriptive of the pain felt by the girl. Again, every scene in this book just feels empty. The girl is in pain, but not excruciating pain like one would imagine from the torture, or to create a "horror-like" atmosphere. She has broken ligaments and bones, but also she just rests in the cell after the torture. I believe she is able to walk days later. And taking out fingernails could make anyone shiver, but not if you are a terrible writer.
Another aspect of bad writing is how Micah attempts at this more profound style, where he included interludes describing a witch rituals. I found those too boring to read and only skim read those parts - I strongly doubt I missed any gem. Furthermore, one can feel he tries to give more from this novel. He inserts transition scenes and dialogue that is supposed to be interesting and hinting at something more. It fails; it is just bad.
Bonus --
Breastfeeding fetish:
Men being stronger than women:
The summary is the following: "A young wet nurse is arrested, tortured, tried, and executed for witchcraft in 17th century Germany. " (From Gumroad where one can buy this book).
Here is the problem - this is the book. This is all that happens. The characters are not compelling, interesting, or really have a personality. Two characters make actual choices in the whole story, and they are not explained or make any sense to the reader. You don't get attached to them, feel sad, or get angry at them. Their intentions are unknown and their feelings are irrelevant.
This is how the protagonist is introduced - she is young, but readers are have no idea how young.
Ann stood with her father and her aunt where the grass gave way to muck.
She fidgeted between them, daring glances down at the problem which had distracted her all through the sentencing and execution. The hem of her skirt had caught three brown droplets of pond mud, a stain only a beating would, in her aunt’s eyes, remove. If she could find a moment on the walk back to the village, if she could hide herself among the other children and snatch up a fistful of grass and scrape off the mud before it seeped into the wool... Standing still and doing nothing while the stain spread felt like clasping a red-hot poker between her palms.
Ann held her finger, gilt with honey, for the babe to suck. “Go on,” she said to the squalling bundle in her arms [AN: idk the historic accuracy, but please don't give honey to babies]
There is also no room for horniness or shock, because the sex and torture are very very brief. Those scenes are horrifying, partially due to how badly they were written.
This is one of the main/longest rape scene. It is clearly written like erotica, but it is brief enough to not be too horrifying, but there enough to raise a lot of questions about the author's morals. Emphasis mine for terms that are used in erotica, not when describing rape.
Lantern light went with it. Ann felt dull, but there was heat between her thighs. The master’s fingers found it and her gorge rose as he slid inside her. He had deft hands. They made her quiver. Gave her ecstasy more often than not. Afterward, when he was through, he would abuse himself while she watched, spill his seed in the dirt, and bury it like a dog.
Final rape scene:
Ann woke in darkness to someone tugging at her shift. Fingers tickled at her anus, probing blindly. A warm hand closed over her mouth. “It’s me,” said Linhart, his voice hushed. “I’ve put out the torches. We only have a little while.” She curled in on herself as best she could. It had been three days since her breaking on the rack. She could open and close her hands. She could crawl, given time. Her joints were red and swollen. Her thoughts floated in a hot white haze.
“It could be our last chance.” He pressed against her. “Don’t you want it? I
know you do. I can feel it.”
“Please,” she said. Her innards turned to ice. “Please don’t.”
He stiffened. Silence followed for a heartbeat, and then a sob escaped him.
“I’m sorry,” he said thickly, pulling her close. “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have
said it. I shouldn’t have said it.” He crushed her against his body. He shook with
every shuddering, watery breath, his tears falling on her neck as he rained kisses on her cheeks, her throat, her ears. “I’ll think of something. I’ll get you out of here.”
He fumbled himself out of his hose and into her.
“No,” she said
“It’s all right,” he whispered, pulling out. She heard him spit and felt his
mucus-coated fingers gliding over her sex. “I know you must be frightened, but it’s okay. It’s going to feel good. It’s going to help.”
He filled her again. His hand cupped her breast. He was still crying
He does have some non-porn scenes; but that reinforces the theory that he knows when he is writing porn and when he is not. He could write better, he just wants to write the porn
The men roared with renewed mirth and pressed in close, emboldened.
Fingers pinched and prodded Ann’s buttocks, her arms, her thighs, her breasts.
Someone stuck two fingers in her mouth and another up her right nostril. She
choked, shrinking away, and Kraus gave her bruised and tingling arm another tug to quicken her pace. Blood dripped from her nose where the man’s nail had cut her. The crowd grew bored and fell back to their games and sloth. Ann sucked
in a deep, shuddering lungful of air as the forest of faces and hands thinned and broke, leaving her alone with her captors. She wanted to vomit
And this (she has just been arrested and being transported to prison)-
I have no idea what Micah was trying to convey here. Just WHY?
Ann had seldom ridden and each step the horse took sent a burning jolt up from her anus to her skull.
Micah is also supposedly a history geek. Yet the torture comprises of a beating, using the rack (or something similar), and taking out fingernails (just mentioned, not described in any detail). I have been to a museum showing torture devices, mainly medieval ones, and those plaques had more of a description than this 70 pages book. [Fun fact - I nearly passed out in that museum (I know, I know ...

There are torture devices of a sexual nature that I think could have been used in this book, or at least he could be more descriptive of the pain felt by the girl. Again, every scene in this book just feels empty. The girl is in pain, but not excruciating pain like one would imagine from the torture, or to create a "horror-like" atmosphere. She has broken ligaments and bones, but also she just rests in the cell after the torture. I believe she is able to walk days later. And taking out fingernails could make anyone shiver, but not if you are a terrible writer.
In the middle of the torture, this is what the protagonist thinks, because of course. She is described to be in pain, nothing else is sexual in this scene, just this out of the blue
If Melchior’s fingers had been in her, she would have crushed them.
Another aspect of bad writing is how Micah attempts at this more profound style, where he included interludes describing a witch rituals. I found those too boring to read and only skim read those parts - I strongly doubt I missed any gem. Furthermore, one can feel he tries to give more from this novel. He inserts transition scenes and dialogue that is supposed to be interesting and hinting at something more. It fails; it is just bad.
The forest waited. Pines like teeth. [AN: whatever the fuck this means. This is at the beginning, setting the scene]
Bonus --
Breastfeeding fetish:
I ought to squeeze it out myself and give it to the cats, it aches enough when he can’t drink.
Breastfeeding is a theme of the whole story. I will say that it could make sense with a wetnurse as a character, and given the historic period this is set in. Still...This is the culmination of the action. After she was tortured, she is given a semi-real option to repent. Then this happens:
Ann couldn’t remember the last time she’d stood for her own reasons
under her own power, the last time she’d gone somewhere for her own ends. Her life was a line of servitude, a thousand polished floors and dandled babes and sweltering kitchens stretching from a farmer’s squalid hut to a witch’s wretched cell. For the first time since her capture on the road, milk dribbled from her breasts and stained her shift.
Men being stronger than women:
He bound her limb by limb as she fought him, his lean frame possessed of a terrible strength.
TLDR: this story is nothing. Not horrifying like Manhunt, but creepy enough to want me to have someone check his hard drive. It's not clear whether he wants to write a deep-mature story about the witch trials, a rape porn, or torture porn. He brilliantly succeeds at doing none of these things.
Oh, and this "If Melchior’s fingers had been in her, she would have crushed them." [while she is being tortured]