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"The Cruelest Month" by Hawkeye (relationships) 10, 8, 8
"The Cruelest Month" by Hawkeye. --- This is a follow-up to "April Showers," to which BillyG gave high ratings back in CR 272. I'll repost that review. Both stories are a part of Hawkeye's "Seasons," and somebody named doogiewoodburner has reposted all seven stories in this series. Good Doggie! In this episode Sam is trying to have a long-term relationship with Lisa, but he boinks Julie again in the shower one fine Sunday morning. The title refers to the fact that "breaking up is hard to do." Or, as T.S. Eliot more aptly put it in The Waste Land April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Of course, the previous story in this series {April Showers} was a play on the words by the more popular but less known poet who wrote April showers Bring May flowers. I've come to two realizations. First, the reason college tuition is so high is that college guys spend so much time in the showers with the hot water running while they masturbate or occasionally play sex games with their lady friends. Second, although this story is not all that good as a stand-alone, the overall "Seasons" series is an excellent story of a young man's sexual odyssey. So if you read this story at all, read it in the right order with the rest in the series. And thanks again, doogiewoodburner. Ratings for "The Cruelest Month" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 8 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8 |