"Somewhere on the Circle of Life" by Tooshoes (tooshoes@cris.com). Zatanna is a witch. If you type her name on a word processor, your spellcheck will suggest Satan as a replacement. Really. If your spellcheck does not make this suggestion, you need an upgrade.

Zatanna lives in Salem, where most modern witches live.

Linda Lee is Supergirl. Not the shapeshifter who appears in some stories with Supergirl in the titles, but the comely lass who came from the same planet as Clark Kent and who has been seeking her identity ever since while working as an exotic dancer and superhero. As previous stories by Tooshoes have revealed, Linda Lee has a major concern with the sluttishness that occasionally tries to leap to the forefront of her personality. In the first quarter of this story we get vague details about an incident on a football field, where Linda shed her clothes and her reputation in front of national media cameras. Now she has withdrawn from public view and is trying again to find herself. She is traveling incognito under the name Linda Danvers with her cat Calvin, looking more like an English teacher than a sex goddess - a simile that missed its mark completely, as far as I am concerned.

So Zatanna and Linda Lee meet in Salem, where they are joined by a mysterious vampire. I'll skip some details now and simply say that the climax comes during a total eclipse of the sun and involves Superman.

Magic is something I have trouble understanding, because the rules keep changing. Superman I think I understand: his rules evolve more gradually. Exactly how or why Supergirl can save the world by having a roaring orgasm during a solar eclipse eludes my grasp - but maybe the notion is supposed to be a bit obscure. In fact, the whole story is confusing, but in a very nice way.