"Fortissimo" by Uther Pendragon (anon584c@nyx10.nyx.net). When I found a "story" posted in a.s.s. last week labeled "Forceps," I was at first happy (because I looked forward to another installment in the Brennan story) and then sad (because it wasn't really a story at all, "just" a birth announcement.) Now that the story has actually arrived, I guess I should send a virtual present or at least plan to attend the virtual baby shower.

As you may have surmised, the newest Brennan has arrived and Bob and Jeanette are engaged in celebratory copulation. Jeanette is concerned that Bob considers her breasts, which have been exploited by Catherine as a source of nutrition, to be unattractive. Bob disabuses her of this notion. Then, just a foreplay is getting really good, they are interrupted by the "fortissimo" cry of the baby. And so it goes; lovemaking is delayed, but climaxes come later.

Most men and many women who haven't had or nursed a baby have no idea how sensuous the combination of nourishing a baby and making love to the baby's father can be. The author seems to have figured this out and has made the connection pretty clear in this story.