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"The Darkness in Exactly Nowhere, Iowa" by Oscar Paco
(nostalgic threesome) 10, 10, 10
"The Darkness in Exactly Nowhere, Iowa" by Oscar Paco (OscarPaco@aol.com). --- I came to an abrupt stop in the middle of this story. "Damn!" I said to myself. "I know the person who wrote this story!" I meant I knew him in real life. But as I read on, I realized I had been mistaken - unless he had really altered the ending of the real-lifestory. Back in my young adulthood, when I was madly in love with a wonderful man with whom I was planning a permanent and monogamous future, I had friends whose outlooks on life differed from mine. As a matter of fact, I suppose it would be accurate to say that almost all of my friends' outlooks differed from mine. Since that time, some of these friends have done the monogamous thing, with varying degrees of success. One of them has done the monogamous thing five times already, with little evidence of success and five children who currently have no resident father. But I also had friends who believed in what we used to call free love - or at least our parents did. They believed their sex organs were given to them so they could achieve and share pleasure, and they saw no reason to limit their relationships to one person. They thought that achieving happiness and making somebody else happy was about the greatest thing a human being could achieve. They would pound the table - actually, the bar, usually - and shout in a whisper, "What's wrong with that?" "Nothing," I'd say. "I just don't believe it would work that way for me." "Well, will it work for me?" some of them would say. "I doubt it," I would answer. "But what do I know?" I guess I haven't change all that much. In my reviews I refer to people like this as hedonists. Twenty years later I have discovered that their current relationships - at least the ones I know about - are just about as stable and harmonious as most of those of my monogamous friends. Actually, most of their relationships are more monagamous than those of my originally monogamous friends. But I'm still certain that I am right about my own monogamous life. It's just so damned hard - but worthwhile - to maintain this one relationship, that I'll be damned if I'm going to risk it in the hope of getting something better. Oh - back to the current story - I'm pretty sure I don't really know these people. The part you men won't like is that in the threesome the guys kiss and make love to each other as well as to the woman. As we all know, the Unwritten Code is that this sort of thing is OK only for women. This is a really good story. I'm going to give it straight tens, even though I think the time perspective is a little bit confusing. I know some of this confusion is intentional, but I think the author could clear it up a little without losing anything. Ratings for "The Darkness in Exactly Nowhere, Iowa" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 |