"Bird Watchers" by Unknown Author. There's a person named William Gann who is reposting a large number of stories from his archive. I have had time to check out only a few of these; but my advice to you is to grab all of them you have time to download. (If your service doesn't list the names of the person posting the messages, look for this format: REPOST: BIRD1 "Bird Watchers" 1/8 M,F, mast.) Some of the other downloaders don't exercise any quality control at all; their stories run the gamut from sheer gibberish to occasionally excellent writing. However, Mr. Gann has been selective. From what I have seen, the stories he is reposting are all literate and sexy. As long as William Gann doesn't read this review and decide to post even more stories and start dumping bad ones on us, I think he is doing us a great service. I cannot possibly read and review them all so rapidly; but I'll try to review one or two a week even after he stops posting them.

This particular story is about a man and a woman who accidentally view each other in moments of private sexual arousal (i.e., masturbation). Even though the man uses his binoculars to zoom in for detail, he doesn't consider this to be an invasion of her privacy. {He differentiates between being a Peeping Tom and voyeurism of opportunity.} In fact, as a friendly gesture he sends her a gift: a pair of binoculars with a note reading "from one bird lover to another." The voyeurism is itself very sexy, and the direct sexual contact is even hotter. I strongly recommend this story.

A problem with this posting is that I have no idea who the author is. I would very much like to read more stories by this writer, but I have no way to accomplish this. I find that a lot of people who repost stories from their archives remove the names of the authors; and it's hard to tell who really wrote them. This one bears a closer resemblance to the Sue-Backrub-Ng school of authors than to the Deirdre-Anderson or Victorian schools. I'm pretty sure it was not written by either the Dirty Dawg, Shakespeare, or Francis Bacon. It's really hot sex with good character development and twists of plot. The author is especially adept at viewing the action from the perspectives of different characters and using flashbacks to add excitement to current situations. I know the year is just beginning, but this is a good candidate for story of the year. So if someone knows who the real author is, please let me know. (Rating: 10)