Message-ID: <37691asstr$1028592603@assm.asstr-mirror.org> Return-Path: X-Original-Path: news.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Peaches and Cream X-Original-Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 10:39:31 -0400 Subject: {ASSM} {REVIEW} Peaches and Cream Reviews # 5 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 20:10:03 -0400 Path: assm.asstr-mirror.org!not-for-mail X-Is-Review: yes Approved: Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories,alt.sex.stories.d Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation X-Story-Submission: X-Moderator-ID: gill-bates, kelly Hi! We're Peaches & Cream. We're just two ordinary Joes who like reading and romance. Recently, there was a Summer Solstice Romance Festival on ASSM, and it caught our attention. We started discussing the stories and our reviews were born. Our format is simple: one of us starts the review, the other chimes in, and then the starter finishes it off. Because this is all about romance, we'll be scoring with 0-5 kisses. We'll be posting a review a day until we finish the stories that were submitted, beginning with the Flash stories. There is a website devoted to the festival where you can find all the stories we will review. http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Rui_Favorites/www/RomFest Peaches & Cream Reviews # 5 You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. --Sam Keen *** Construction Workers by Father Ignatius (MF rom) http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2002/36894 *** Cream: Michelle and Tanya are chatting on the telephone, lamenting the construction whose dust has ruined Tanya's summer garden, but at least there are those construction men to look at. The women formulate a plan to get one of the good looking men into the house for something to drink, and then: >"And then I tell him just what kind of juice and >he makes love to me, with a certain casual >brutality." >"What if he didn't satisfy you?" >"I send him back outside to round up >assistance." I like the irony, the reversal: these women aren't for the moment interested in the traditional romantic encounter, candlelight and courtship and the long slow swoon of love--been there, done that, perhaps, and what has it got them? What they seem now to want is the stuff of guy porn, a quick hot half-dressed fuck. While the women are talking, it's easy to imagine one of the laborers chatting with another as he closes his lunchbox: "Did you spot that bird in the house over there? The one with the sweet tits? Shit does she looks hot for it. I'd like to go up there and fuck the fucking crap out of her." "Yeah, right." "Don't worry, Bud, after I was done I'd put in a good word for you. I'd share." Actually there's not much to the plan, but fittingly(except that the story appears in a sex story group), there's even less to the sex. Not much in the way of porn props besides a pair of construction boots, but the stuff there is really counts. Craftsmanship. So we have little sex, less romance, and still this is a brilliant and funny story of sex and romance, though if you're looking for either heat or tenderness you'll almost certainly be disappointed. I give it 4.8 kisses. I don't know why I don't go all the way and give it 5. Got to save myself for something, I guess. *** Peaches: I agree with your take on this story, Cream. It's great irony. I remember a Coke (or was it Diet Coke?) commercial where the women rush over to a window at a certain time to see one Lucky guy remove his shirt. Lust in sixty seconds. This story is the same premise. It gives us just as much as that commercial did. It's interesting. It's fun. It's sexy and definitely one you don't want to miss reading. However, romance? I might have to quibble a bit on that interpretation. It doesn't make me think of people in love, only people in lust. There's nothing wrong with good old-fashioned lust with a new millennium twist--women discussing men like meat--but it doesn't have that hearts and roses feel to it. Therefore I give it 4 lusty kisses. *** Cream: Right, right, right ... I did not mean to suggest that the relationships in Construction Workers are romantic in any sense. But the story is about romance, not just by virtue of being in the Rom Fest. It is the ending, I think, that gives it this spin, and it's the ending, which makes this more than a Diet Coke commercial. *** Peaches: 4 lusty kisses Cream: 4.8 kisses -- Pursuant to the Berne Convention, this work is copyright with all rights reserved by its author unless explicitly indicated. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | alt.sex.stories.moderated ----- send stories to: | | FAQ: Moderator: | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Discuss this story and others in alt.sex.stories.d, look for subject {ASSD}| |Archive at Hosted by | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+