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"Accepting Gina" by Bernadette (tender ff romance) 10, 10, 10
"Accepting Gina" by Bernadette (bernadette@yahoo.com). Wow! As I completed the first quarter of this story, I told myself that unless this author really somehow screwed up, this was going to get straight 10s. And then it got better. The narrator is a person named Jessica, whose life was altered suddenly when her boyfriend dumped her on the night that her sister (Gina) was killed in an automobile wreck. In an attempt to resume her life after this trauma, she has joined a poetry group, where her major project will be to express herself through a poem entitled "Accepting Gina." She befriends a fellow budding poet named Cassandra, who is from Tasmania. Then she meets Mr. Right, who scares her away because he confesses to her that he is bisexual. Then.... You can read the story yourself to see how it works out. You even get a really good poem thrown in as a bonus. I'll grant you that this is not up there with rape, incest, sodomy, or action adventures; but this is one heckuva good story. This is a tender romance set in a realistic context. It doesn't even have dirty words - just good sex. This story was originally published in a zine called _Art & Love on the 'Net_ and review stories for this newsgroup under the name Green Onions. I don't normally plug web sites; but I visited this one, and it was a very pleasant experience. It's good to see one of our former colleagues make good in the real world, and I hope Green Onions continues to send an occasional story from his zine over to our newsgroup. Ratings for "Accepting Gina" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 |