"Burning Letters" by Lord Malinov (malinov@mindless.com). Malinov has been writing stories at a prodigious rate lately. I saw a note on a.s.s.d. that suggested perhaps he has been scanning stories from Readers Digest and simply inserting sex into them. You might think that a person who writes so many stories so fast would write weak stories, but that is not the case. The stories are short. They differ from more fully developed stories. But they have a distinct impact, and they are well worth reading.

In the present story we have a woman who has been told by her husband to burn her letters from her old lover. He owns both her and the house now. It's time to cut the ties. Or maybe it's Independence Day. This brief story conveys an intense atmosphere and has a surprise twist at the end.

My advice to you is to download this author's stories whenever you see them and to save them for a time when you have just a few minutes to read a quick story. When the sexual revolution REALLY comes, maybe we'll see these stories in a futuristic Readers Digest.