Review: Dark Dreamers The Van Ride
By Little Bree

REVIEWERS NOTE: 

      This is the first in what I hope will be a series of reviews of smutty stories that I like and recommend.  Im posting it both to my FTP site on asstr.org, and to my website at lttlbree.blogspot.com (also accessible through http://www.asstr.org/~Little_Bree/).  If you have comments, questions or concerns (or just want to say hi!) please feel to email me at lttlbree@yahoo.com.

      As always, if youre not over 18, dont read this!

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      When writing about internet smut, the word classic is usually out of place.   The medium is too new, and the stories are too trivial.   People like slapping the term on anything they happen to like that isnt entirely brand new (classic techno music, (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080911103723AAidYnQ )  or classic tweets (http://stackedblog.com/news/classic-tweets) ) but I think that cheapens the term.  A classic requires more than mere existence.

	In the sordid rape story genre, though, Dark Dreamer wrote classics.  He disappeared from the scene in the mid nineties, long before I ever saw his work (and, for the sake of full disclosure, before I could have read it if I did see it),  but anyone who gets into this sort of filth probably knows his stories.  Tales like Shower Rape, (http://www.asstr.org/files/Collections/Old_Joe's_Collection/Rape/Dark_Dreamer/rapeshwr.txt) Farm Girl (http://www.asstr.org/files/Collections/Old_Joe's_Collection/Rape/Dark_Dreamer/FARMGIRL.001), Phone Booth Rape (http://www.asstr.org/files/Collections/Old_Joe's_Collection/Rape/Dark_Dreamer/Phone%20Booth%20Rape%20-Dark%20Dreamer-inter.txt)  and Raping the Twins (http://www.asstr.org/files/Collections/Old_Joe's_Collection/Rape/Dark_Dreamer/rapetwin.txt)  are probably familiar even to readers who didnt know whose work they were reading. 

	My favorite Dreamer story has always been The Van Ride. (http://www.asstr.org/files/Collections/Old_Joe's_Collection/Rape/Dark_Dreamer/van-ride1.txt)   Its a surprisingly smart first person account of a sexual assault in the back of a van, told from the perspective of the slutty but charming teenage victim.  

	Superficially, this story isnt all that different from scores of imitators. The plot is neither compelling nor unfamiliar.  We know from the beginning, without being told, that our narrator Meghan is going to have sex with a group of boys in a van.  The story telling, too, lacks refinement;  before the action begins were force-fed a straightforward physical description of Meghan, complete with a long lamenting about the sensitivity of her boobs. 
      
      Dont let those seeming flaws distract you, though. What makes this story particularly arousing is not its unique content, but the way its handled.  By teasing and tantalizing readers for pages, the author builds up the sexual tension so methodically that you cant help but feel joyous satisfaction when the flirting in the car finally gives way to sex.  It feels, when youre done, like the best sort of foreplay. (If the breaking point for part one was deliberately chosen, it was similarly brilliant. I almost always climax at the end of that chapter). 

	Dark Dreamers work can be found on the usenet through Google Groups, though the best collection is maintained by Asstr.org in Ole Joes Collection.  http://www.asstr.org/files/Collections/Old_Joe's_Collection/Rape/Dark_Dreamer/

	
