Message-ID: <37777asstr$1028837403@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: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 06:59:00 -0600 Subject: {ASSM} {REVIEW} Peaches and Cream Reviews #8 Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:10:04 -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: kelly, gill-bates 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 and Cream Reviews # 8 To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. --Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian author *** Consummation by Sara H (FF, Rom, no sex, flash) http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Sara_H/www/consummation.htm *** Peaches: This is a tender love letter from a wife to her lover, her female lover. It's full of all the things that poets write about when they are first in love. It might be a little over the top for some readers in its descriptions, but I found them quite beautiful. And yet, I have to wonder if the wife isn't idealizing love just a little, so she can rationalize her longing for a woman, rather than her husband. I think the most poignant line in the whole letter is, "Peter still doesn't know, and doesn't suspect. That's Peter's sweetness and also his weakness." How sad for Peter when this love affair plays out. I give this love letter 4 kisses. *** Cream: This letter paints a good picture of the letter-writer's emotions. I believe every word is from the heart. Yes, Peaches, the woman might be fooling herself a little, or more than a little, and that possibility leads us to one regret I have about this piece: that the letter is not used as part of something larger. I recognize the importance of the letter having been written. People write letters like these all the time and don't send them. I want to know what happens to the letter. Maybe it was never sent. Maybe it never arrived. Maybe the husband intercepted it. Maybe it was received by the intended, and then what is her reaction? This letter does such a good job with the part of the story it tells. But that's just one chapter, and for me that's not quite enough. As a love letter I'll go along with your four kisses. As a story I give it three. *** Peaches: You've raised some good questions that I hadn't thought about, Cream. And yet, as I do think about this more as a story, I'm still not disappointed. It gives away a lot. A woman is lonely, decides to have a brief encounter with another woman, ends it because she's married, but regrets ending it. That's a lot of story. I guess the "what happens after this letter" isn't exactly answered, but it doesn't take too much to fill in the blanks. By the way the letter is written, she sounds as if she's already come to a decision, it's just a matter of carrying it out. Will she? Maybe there's a return letter in the author's hopper somewhere. *** Peaches: 4 kisses Cream: 3 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 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+