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* "High Rise" by Mike Hunt (voyeuristic romance)
10, 10, 10
* "High Rise" by Mike Hunt (MrM1ke@aol.com). You know, Mike Hunt is really great. I wish I had the nerve to say that sentence out loud in a bar. It would be a great pick-up line. I mean, you might get an interesting reply: "Your cunt is nothing compared to Emily Dickinson's." Anyway, Mike Hunt is really great. This time he writes from the perspective of his other self. The easiest way to explain this is that his original self is probably still recovering from the drubbing he took from Taria in her last story. Life gets complicated when you start playing significant roles in stories other than your own! Anyway, in this story Mike starts out by voyeurizing the lady who lives in the apartment in the high rise next to his own in Chicago. When he discovers that she goes online with AOL, he arranges to meet her there, without her knowing that it's him; and then the he who's online counsels the her who's online with regard to her budding romance with the him who she thinks is not online but really is. I think I got that right. It may be better if you just read the story. The basic flaw of this story is the tenuous assumption that two people can deliberately and easily get onto an AOL chat line almost at will in a major metropolitan area like Chicago - IN THE EVENING HOURS yet! Yeah, right. And the Cubs may win the World Series this year. What I liked best about this story was that the woman came with a "whoosh" and a "thunk." Actually, I'm just practicing quoting information out of context: she came _off the elevator_ with a "whoosh" and a "thunk." When she came in the sack it was simultaneously with her lover, but with neither a "whoosh" nor a "thunk." Ratings for "High Rise" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 |