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* "Connections: Kirsten [1974]" by Peter V. Principle (infidelity)
10, 10, 10
* "Connections: Kirsten [1974]" by Peter V. Principle (an347524@anon.penet.fi). The author says that "Connections" is a series of essentially true accounts, although in some cases names, dates, places, and other minor details have been fudged in an attempt to retain some degree of anonymity for those involved. In this episode the narrator is on a camping trip with three women and a man. They are sleeping in a pitch dark van - packed in like sardines, with his sleeping bag opening toward his friend's wife. And so he pulls the moral equivalent of an adolescent yawn in a movie theater: he moves his hand into the chasm between them, just to see if she is interested in responding. She is. Matters escalate. Can anyone else tell what is going on? Would anyone else in the van be able tell what is going on? Maybe not, assuming the others all lack the ability to both detect sounds and to detect odors - or assuming the friend's wife is dead. I've tried; I have concluded that I cannot reach orgasm undetected in the same room with other people unless there's a partition ( front seat vs. back seat of a car will do) or unless the others are sound asleep (as in the case of children sleeping on the floor next to our bed in a motel room). I've tried it on both the fucking end and the listening end. I've been as quiet as a church mouse and so have the people who have tried to evade my notice. It doesn't work. Can't be done - - unless the others are thoroughly distracted by something else, such as a really good movie or a sermon in church. Hmmm... I guess that means it CAN be done. Never mind. Anyway, they just pet that night; but they get together for real sex shortly thereafter. He comes; she doesn't; but she's happy; and as time goes on she learns new things. This isn't a story with a real plot; it's what lit teachers used to call "a slice of life." This approach sometimes give a greater impression of being "true" than a story with a "better plot." Ratings for "Kirsten (1974)" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 |