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"Auto-Erotic / Harley" by SR (sexual vignette) 9, 9, 6
"Auto-Erotic / Harley" by SR is difficult to type, for it's not a conventional story. Hell, it's not a conventional anything! It's hard-edged, distant, aloof, and swaggering. One gets no closer to the players than to a chrome and neon flash, a rumble in the night. The style and words are designed to make you stand back, to give way to a harsh and arrogant superiority. Just feel these words: "Vicki on the sidewalk with her red satin hotpants and black leather jacket. Platform heels -- two-fucking-inch thick platforms with five-fucking-inch heels. Her calves flexed like steel tendons with each step; her tight thighs shone like molten gold. Those legs went on forever. Pulled every guy-eye in each place she passed, from the pasty-faced storekeeps to the pimple-faced shop-boys, tracking her down the street past their pleated glass storefronts." There's a rawness and a power in this vignette that is compelling and offputting at the same time. I find myself drawn to the power and put off by the alienation. As I said, it's difficult to type. It's easier to say what it's not. It's not soft, or romantic, or seductive, or teasing. Oddly, it's not erotic, although the sterile images are there. Ratings for "Auto-Erotic / Harley" Athena (technical quality): 9 Venus (plot & character): 9 (Evokes strong emotions) BillyG (appeal to reviewer): 6 (Don't like the emotions evoked) |