Rogue Review  No. 122 - July 28, 1998

A Matter of Need by Watcher

M/F

Length: 14,700 words


  NOTICE

If you are easily offended or under the age of eighteen then please
do not read what follows.


  SUMMARY

Barry grieves over the death of his wife for two years.  It is 
Crystal, a stripper, who finally captures his heart and ends his 
mourning period.


  COMMENTARY

I like the way this story begins.  I do not like the way it ends.  I 
am disappointed that Jeanine, a friend of Barry, only made a brief 
appearance in the story.  When she was first introduced I thought she
was there to do more than just help set the mood.  Alas, she was 
not.

[A lass, she was.  Zort!]

This is a well written story, but I cannot believe that it is love 
that motivated Barry to fall for Crystal.  It was lust.  Maybe the 
author did not mean for it to be love.  Even if that is the case, I 
think there was too much of this story spent in the strip bar.

[YEEESSS!  Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?]
[I think so Brain, but what does wearing a beret have to do with safe
sex?]

I did not care for the way the author resolved Barry's dilemma.  I 
would much rather have seen him jumping in the sack with his friend 
Jeanine, or even his other friend, Ted.


  JUDGMENT

This is a good story, but I did not care for the way the plot 
developed.


  LINK(S)

http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/13034.txt [1/3]
http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/13035.txt [2/3]
http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/13036.txt [3/3]
