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"Better?" by Losgud (adult incest) 10, 10, 10
"Better?" by Losgud (lushgod@hotnomail.com). Don't you just hate it when you have to attend the wedding of a second-cousin you've never met? Not if you're a character in an a.s.s. short story, you don't. In an a.s.s. story you invariably meet a sexy cousin who is already a kissing cousin and wants to escalate the relationship. In this case the lad, whose sex life lately has been limited to the bra ads in the Sunday paper, comes home for the wedding of a distant cousin, and he's not even invited to the reception dinner. Fortunately, his previously alienated sister is in equally dire straits, and they become reconciled. At times I personally felt that the story was a little slow - perhaps too much build-up for the sex; but then at other times I felt that the build-up was really great. I was most annoyed when the narrator seemed to be dwelling on petty events within the family - like his urge to screw up his father's TV remote control or his need to spend lots of the money that his mother had hoarded. I suppose that's because these feelings of extreme negativity within a family seemed foreign to me. Once the sex got going, however, I was able to set aside my grievances. It was good to see a brother and sister happily reconciled. The title is an elliptical sentence: "Better?" - meaning, "Is this better?" Now why would anyone give a story a title like that? I guess you had better check. Ratings for "Better?" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 |