Purple Tornado [A+]
Where posted: ASS, ASSM
When posted: 4/4/98
Author: David Lawrence
This story was part fiction, part memoir, and details what
happens when the narrator meets a beautiful golf-playing
female oddball who's constantly pushing the societal
envelope:
"I find other women do not like her, despise her in fact,
mostly. She has few true friends, though she is incredibly
friendly. The price you pay, I suppose, when you make your
own rules and flaunt the unspoken and unwritten rules of
others, however innocently. True freedom is an ugly sight to
the self-enslaved."
The story then gives an overview of their capricious affair.
I couldn't quite call this a sex story, as the sex acts weren't
given the emphasis--the play of personalities was. Still, it was
well-written and unusual, a little "purple" in places
(prosewise that is) but making up for it in its exuberant prose
and wry, sweet nostalgia. And I loved that title. If you want me
to review your story, it helps to have an unusual title. "A Day
at the Beach" or "Underage Babysitter" just doesn't cut it.