"How I Met Pat and Julie" by Mark Aster (MyFrThAl@aol.com). "The younger of the Allen sisters soaped my stomach and thighs with a warm washcloth while the elder, lying naked on the bed, masturbated lazily with a blue dildo, and told erotic stories in between orgasms. My cock had been hard in a relaxed comfortable way for some time, and the gentle rubbing of the rough wet cloth on my thighs and balls was driving me slowly crazy." So starts the pilot episode of Mark Aster's "My Friends the Allens".

The "Allen Sisters" stories are loosely connected. I understand there are now about 20 of them. There is every indication that there will be at least 20 more. I hope so. The combined stories do not add up to a novel; the best comparison I can make is a sitcom. But since the stories are predominantly erotic rather than funny, perhaps a better analogy would be a porno version of an American soap opera. What I mean by this is that readers can start at any point in the series and even skip episodes without losing the continuity of the story. While doing so, readers can still enjoy both each separate story and the combined series, while developing a sort of friendship with the characters.

The unnamed Hero/Narrator of these stories is a typical soap stud. If he lived in Salem or Aramid, he would be John Black or Bo Brady; but instead of having two middle aged women fighting over his favors or wrestling over which bride he should keep, our Hero is resigned to the quiet existence of servicing his two lovely friends, while the three of them unselfishly extend their favors into the world around them. While John and Bo frown a lot, Our Hero groans even more. Like John, he has no obvious means of earning a living; he just accompanies the girls to expensive resorts or attends parties at exclusive mansions and pleasantly groans and reciprocates ad infinitum. He is pleasantly insatiable, the kind of boytoy that even Madonna and her Evil Twin working as a tag team could not exhaust.

Logically, I should have read this story first in the series; but I didn't know it existed until now. Finding it was like coming across the pilot story for a sitcom I had grown to love. The Friendly Threesome were quite at home in my mind's eye as they fucked and sucked their way through this initial episode. It's a really hot one. Somehow I'm glad I read it out of order; it was almost as much fun as the time I found the John Black FAQ on the World Wide Web.