"Hypno-tricked Wives" by Watcher (llxzt@hotmail.com). Guest review by Sandman (sandman@bitsmart.com).
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On the May the 15th I signed off the net, sure that I wouldn't return until the middle of June. But I found myself with four unexpected days off at the end of the month and so had some time for the net. When I signed off, I had printed out a few stories to tide me over while I was gone. One of those stories was this small novella by Watcher.

The premise of the story is that our hero and his friend use hypnotism to create several sexually provocative situations among the neighborhood wives. Normally I'm not a fan of mind control stories because they are usually a crutch to avoid things like plots, conflict, and resolution all very important elements to any story in my opinion.

Really when you boil this story down to it's core, it's little different from other mind-control stories in that the Mind Control element is used to bypass the normal restrictions that prevent everyone from just immediately stripping and having a grand old time. What is different is the way Watcher chooses to execute the mind control.

Yes the women are exploited, although current theory suggests someone doesn't do anything under hypnosis that they really wouldn't do in real life. But the hypnotism is used to do horribly trivial things like giving the guys a good view of a women in her (gasp) panties! What you ask? No, you are my slave, bend over and service me commands?

Nope. What we have here is very, very effective peeking and the occasional copped feel. Compared to the other stories here and especially considering the genre this story was almost PG-13 compared to the normal XXX. Why then did I get so excited when a guy copped a feel of a woman through her blouse?

Sometimes a story like this comes along and reminds us all that less sometimes really is more. There's sex in this story, and there's an amazing amount of very exciting voyeurism. I found myself anticipating and looking forward to the next situation our protagonist would set up next and I found this a refreshing and wonderfully well written story well worth the read on those long, lonely nights when you have to forgo your network access.