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"Diary of a Voyeur" by J. Reynolds (voyeurism & exhibitionism)
10, 10, 10
"Diary of a Voyeur" by J. Reynolds (cepheus42@hotmail.com). This author made one of the most common mistakes that occur on this newsgroup: he posted the story without title in the textfile and with his name only at the very end of the story. I downloaded the story; but since it was a long one, it was identified simply as 49f46c77.txt. By the time I went to read it, I no longer knew what I was reading. It's surprising how many authors do this - and how many readers simply ignore otherwise good stories simply because they're not labeled correctly. The point is this: always put the title of your story and your name and e-mail address at the beginning of the actual textfile that readers will download; do not assume that this information will be available just because you think it is listed on a title line - those title lines disappear and cause inconvenience when stories get downloaded. Having said that, I'll add that this is a very good story. As its title suggests, this is the journal of a man who likes to look at women, resorting to such strategies as arranging furniture so that his secretary will be positioned for proper observation, peering through binoculars, hanging out in the mall's food court with a newspaper as a prop and perhaps a duffel bag concealing a video camera, and riding escalators at just the right distance to see a woman's panties - or the absence thereof, as sometimes is the case. His imagination is also quite active, and he also gets hard and shoots his wad at what I would consider to be awkward times. But then the story takes an unusual twist - or several unusual twists, as fantasy merges with reality and the hunter becomes the prey. To find out what that means, you should read this story. Ratings for "Diary of a Voyeur" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 |