--Bitbard

"Hands On" by Deidre Ng (Deidre Ng@aol.com). Deidre Ng employs the flashback technique as effectively as anyone I know on this newsgroup. She even does flashbacks within flashbacks without confusing the reader. In this case, she starts the story giving a hand job to her present lover and immediately flashes back to the first hand job she gave to her adolescent boyfriend. She then flashes back to her fourth grade fantasies of what sex must really be like. She moves back and forth through these nested scenes quite effectively. This is easy to read; but believe me, it is not easy to write this as well as Deidre does.

The emerging adolescence that Deidre describes in this story is quite different from my own; but as I read her description it was totally believable and almost nostalgic. Deidre's other stories are often what I might call "crazy sexy" - all out total passion, often in the context of a comparison to the activities of her insatiable sister Tammy. This story has a note of that sort of spontaneous sex, but it also demonstrates that Deidre can write in an entirely different mood.

Incidentally, this author is Deidre - without an early "d" as in Deirdre. Both Deidre and Deirdre are excellent writers, but their stories are quite different.