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"Delane's Trip" by Cirsium (masturbation) 8.5
"Delane's Trip" by Cirsium (barn_owl@rocketmail.com). Guest review by Dave Myers. There are many different breeds of humor in erotica. One of the wittiest is the self-parody, aiming to indicate that your aware your audience is practicing one-handed reading. It takes a good writer to style a story correctly in order to use this to full effect. When the elements of the fantasy are clearly written in as gentle satirical props themselves, then you know you have something good. In this narrative, it helps turn otherwise expectable tricks of the erotica trade (e.g. brush handle love) into great moments. Synopsis: A woman (re)discovers masturbation and then takes a business trip, meeting a kind stranger along the way. The weakest (but forgivable) link in the story is fact that Delane is driven to masturbate through conversations with her sister on the phone. This subplot is very much undeveloped and could have been handled in any number of better ways. Apart from this, the stage is set nicely in the text, and the encounters that unfold are told well. Add this one to the relatively short list of stories out there that have a wry, satirical, self-conscious style. Only a half-dozen or so newsgroup regulars seem to have honed this skill. Rating: 8.5 |