"While You Were Out" by Deidre Ng

"While You Were Out" by Deidre Ng (Deidre Ng@aol.com). As you may have hear by now, the bureaucrats at AOL erased all of the stories from the Ng Sisters' web site. This is known in Catholic theology as a felix culpa. Culpa (fault or sin), because it was a lousy thing to do. Felix (happy), because the upshot is that Deidre is now reposting all of those stories, which means that those of you who have not yet seen the entire Ng opus will get your chance now.

In her e-mail message notifying me of our Redemption, Deidre said that she actually started reading a.s.s, and told Tammy how pitiful it was, and how "even they" could do better than most of the lame stories, and got their first stories posted, just before I started reviewing. That means that I'll have to write a few new reviews, but I'll also repost my old reviews whenever I notice one of the stories reposted. I might add that this newsgroup has come a long way since the first stories of the Ng Sisters. Their stories still stand out as excellent, but they have a lot more company nowadays.

This first repost takes the form of a message from Deidre on Tammy's answering machine. Deidre speculates about what her sister is probably doing instead of answering the machine and describes her own recent experience at the St. Regis hotel, where after a long day Deidre's boyfriend dropped by and lit up her life. The author describes the foreplay and penetrations in intimate detail.

As an English teacher, I was most interested in the punctuation of this sentence.

I started to beg for him to fuck me, just little
panting "fuck me, fuck me please"s.

How DOES one make plural a phrase that's in quotes when the item within quotes is itself singular. As far as I know, the author got it right. I'm going to defer further thought on this problem for one of those occasions when my husband is trying to embarrass me by getting me turned on in public and I need something really boring and insipid on which to concentrate.

All I can say is that Tammy's answering machine takes a lot longer message than mine does!