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"Car Cricket" by Nick (car chase sex) 10, 10, 10
"Car Cricket" by Nick (nick@cassandra.demon.co.uk). This is an auto-erotic story. That's my humor for the day: this is actually a story about a very sexy car chase. When I first heard that this was a car-chase story, I figured it was going to be a flop. What can be sexy about driving around in a fast car? Well, for one thing, the language helps - for example, allusions to stallions and to highways "parting above the city like a pair of thighs." In addition, I could almost feel the driver's lust as he chased the woman across the highways of England. Does the Queen know her subjects do things like this? This is the first story that I have reviewed that used "dopplered" as a verb. The story really does need some more details at the beginning. We get a very vague start-up and then unrelated, intense action - with a reference back (I think) to the beginning at the end of the story. The author was probably trying to be deliberately mysterious, but it irked me. As the policeman says at the end of the story, "Lose our concentration a bit, back there did we sir?" Ratings for "Car Cricket" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 |