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"Barley Legal Teens" by Bronwen (Romp in the Country) 10, 10, 10
"Barley Legal Teens" by Bronwen (bronwensm@writehand.clara.net). Unless you look at this title carefully, you'll miss its point. Usenet has generated an elite coterie of scholars known as spammers - dysfunctional dullards who post vast quantities of useless and inappropriate messages in newsgroups in such a way as to demonstrate their pathetic ineptitude while annoying the regular users and disrupting the newsgroup as much as possible. On a.s.s. these simpletons post vast quantities of wannafucks and advertisements about supposedly free pictures of naked women allegedly engaging in explicit sexual activities and nubile teenagers who want to lose their virginity to people who will talk to them on the telephone. Astute observers have resigned themselves to this sort of foolishness, and most of us simply ignore the spam or filter it out. Lord Malinov tried a more creative approach with his Spam Contest in the Fall of 1997. The idea was that authors had to incorporate spam into their stories. The contest drew some good stories, and I'll repost my reviews of several of them. Back to the present story - the title focuses on the fact that spammers typically can't even spell their titles correctly. The original spam title was supposed to refer to BARELY legal teenagers - as in just beyond jailbait. Bronwen has seized upon this literary peccadillo and has written a story about teens doing it in barley fields on a small island just off the coast of Europe. This is a wonderful story, and I won't risk ruining it by trying to summarize it. Just let me point out that although it may be LEGAL - albeit barely legal - to do it with barley, it's a bit risky. In my opinion, those other blokes had it right when they recommended strawberry fields forever. Ratings for "Barley Legal Teens" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 |