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* "Duty" by Uther Pendragon (revolutionary sex) 10, 10, 10
* "Duty" by Uther Pendragon (anon584c@nyx.net). This author has learned to write like a behavioristic teacher. We teachers say things like, "Do you want to read Hamlet or Macbeth next?" Actually, if they had to read at all, our students would prefer to read Stephen King or maybe Sports Illustrated or probably TV guide. But it's best to give them the illusion of control. And so the lieutenant says to the peasant woman, "Do you want me to rape you here in the main square while the men use cattle prods on you, or would you prefer to go inside the house and be my sweetheart? Macbeth looks shorter, and there probably are no cattle prods in the house, and there's no chance of getting out of the assignment anyway, and so she becomes the lieutenant's sweetheart pro tem. The lieutenant is a graduate of the School of the Americas - not the one in South Bend where they play football, but rather the one that the US government operates to train military officers from Latin America. I'm sure some readers will enjoy this story of a[n] officer exploiting a peasant woman as "really great sex." I found it to be a genuinely realistic portrayal of a real asshole. Ratings for "Duty" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 |