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Date Posted: 20:54:16 08/15/25 Fri
Author: Curious
Author Host/IP: 49.196.179.60
Subject: (SFFR) The Holdout (MentholMan) - A Review
Warning - This Review Contains Spoilers
The Holdout (MentholMan) - A Review
Part One - The Author
The author is known to have written only two stories, the incomplete 'How Smoking Used To Be'(1) and this one, beyond that nothing is known other than what is contained in their fiction.
Part Two - The Holdout
The story was first published in 2021 as part of volume 96 of the Noble Leaf Library.(2) Correspondence with Nick, the Noble Leaf Librarian indicates the story may have been published via the Smoking Fetish Kingdom website and then subsequently removed. In the story a man named Robert describes his remarkable home town.
Part Three - Comments
This story is a first person perspective narrative description of a smoking 'Shangri-la', this is the same concept author Kaitlin Bringhurst used in 'When In Smokersville'(3). Less fantastical versions of the concept appear in the fiction of BlackLungLover(4) and Richard Ralls(5). In this authors take on the concept, the unnamed town is this way due to a deal between the town's founders and a Native American deity.
While an interesting concept, the execution is not as it should be, firstly, even allowing for the fact that the story is being told from one characters perspective there's a 'sameness' to the adult characters in the early part of the story.(6) There's also a sense that the authors perversions came close to running wild(7), fortunately he kept them under control, but enough leaks through to give a good idea of his fetishes makeup.
The story closes with long section in which the narrator describes the town as a bastion of 'freedom' which the author disturbingly conflates with COVID-19/Anti-Vaccine conspiracy theories. There is also the irony that the townsfolk have in fact enslaved themselves to a supernatural entity that feeds off their pleasure, the exact opposite of 'freedom' but then the narrator earlier in the story admits to being fooled by those older and wiser than they.
This is a case where I think the author would have been better served completing their first story, rather than throwing their energies into this. Not recommended.
Notes:
1. The story is found in the 91st volume of the Noble Leaf Library, the review can be found in the 20th volume of the Consolidated Smoking Fetish Fiction Review.
2. Information provided by Nick the Noble Leaf Librarian indicates that he believes the story may have been published on Smoking Fetish Kingdom at one point but has since been removed.
3. The story is available on Amazon. A review can be found in volume 30 of the Consolidated Smoking Fetish Fiction Review
4. Unnamed in 'North and South', the location is quickly and effectively sketched out as a place where the domination of the local economy by tobacco farming has resulted in anti-smoking laws/initiatives being honored in the breach. The story was reviewed in volume 11 of the Consolidated Smoking Fetish Fiction Review.
5. Called Denshire in 'Nevermore', beyond the fact the location is smoking permissive no details on the locations history is provided, the author may have planned to include this information in the novels unwritten sequels. The story was reviewed in volume 29 of the Consolidated Smoking Fetish Fiction Review.
6. The same phenomenon can be found in the third chapter of SStoryman's 'How Could She Say No?'. The story was reviewed in volume 22 of the Consolidated Smoking Fetish Fiction Review.
7. This is what happened with Smokesingdance's 'Smokers Island' resulting in a disturbing read. It's review is in volume 30 of the Consolidated Smoking Fetish Fiction Review.
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