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"Seat of Power" by Jay Croft (Celestial follow-up) 10, 10, 10 "Seat of Power" by Jay Croft (paladin_cs@email.msn.com). This is another follow-up to my "Review" of DG's "Call of Desire." In this case, Rose has hung up the phone and has gone to watch "Bonanza" on the Family Channel to get my debauchery out of her mind. {For those of you who don't know, "Bonanza" was an American "western" series of about 30 years ago, which focused on the life of Hop Sing, a Chinese cook and housekeeper whose wealthy employers were constantly either getting amnesia or falling in love with women who died during each weekly episode.} At this point we are treated to a flashback, when Rose and her cousin Martha were eleven-year-olds taking a shower together. Martha had accidentally pushed her finger up her own ass a little and had groaned pleasantly. When Rose questioned her, Martha challenged her to "try it and see" how good it felt. At this moment in her sexual awakening, what Rose really needed was a better command of English grammar. Try WHAT and see? Into whose asshole should Rose have inserted the finger in the next hundred words of the story? Overwhelmed by the grammatical ambiguity, perhaps, they try both of the above. However, Rose's childhood sexuality is quickly terminated by Sister Mary Tight Ass, who assures her students that touching oneself in the shower is a perversion. Seeking redemption after all those years, Rose visits me {Celeste} the morning after the phone call. The bitch has recorded her conversation with me, and she threatens to turn the tape over to the school authorities unless I help her resolve her anal fixation. Although I'm a bit miffed at first, eventually I discover that Rose isn't such a bad person after all. In the end I am happy to lend a helping hand. As you can well imagine, that previous sentence has a double meaning. Unlike the previous story, this one doesn't match up quite so well with my real-life personality or with the persona I would like to convey in fiction about me. For example, I don't often drink wine in the morning or have anyone or anything named Skye living in my house. B-cup or small C, indeed! Vibrators and dildoes in a shoe box under the bed! Wouldn't it be better to keep them on the shelf in the headboard, right behind the massage lotions? I'm kidding! This is another very good story. I am not certain how this story would do as a stand-alone, but I certainly did enjoy it in the context of my own story. Ratings for "Seat of Power" Athena (technical quality): 9.5 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10