"Happening" by Vickie Tern (VickieTern@aol.com). The author sent me a note with this one that said that this story was to have been very short - like one of Deirdre's stories. But the characters outwitted her, even as they outwitted each other and the plot outwitted them; and it took time and space for her to head them off, haul them back, and make them behave. I used my word count; that's 80,278 characters - as in 18,361 words!

If you ever become trapped as a character in a Vickie Tern story, here's my advice to you: if you want to maintain your personal autonomy and gender identity, do not be unfaithful to your spouse under the impression that he/she will not know. Not only will he/she know, he/she is probably engineering it; and very soon he/she will be the proper pronoun to refer to you. Oh! and also be especially skeptical if you are male and the female participant values your sexual activities but does not appear to consider your penis to be an integral part of your amorous interactions with her. And if there is more than one female in the story, be very careful - you may be wrong about who is really in charge of your life. Your best bet is to find a kindly priest, minister, or rabbi and follow the conservative moral advice given to you by that counselor. On the other hand, if personal autonomy and gender identity are not high on your list of priorities, go with the flow; it might be fun.

Ignoring my initial advice, the hero (for lack of a better word) of this story plunges into a romantic liaison with his sexy neighbor, who lets him lick her pussy and insert his earnest ejaculations into her asshole, provided he licks out the untidy remnants. What begins as a simple fling soon becomes something much more complex. You see, the neighbor has a husband with one of those monster cocks, and this husband has been boinking the hero's wife into heavenly bliss for the past several months. As part of a revenge/love theme, our hero becomes a woman, so that he/she can suitably serve all three of the others - to the happiness of all four, of course. The plan assumes that some characters will misconceive some other people's reasons, get them wrong, act accordingly, and then do the right thing, while thinking they were doing something else. This probably makes no sense whatsoever, unless you read the story.

I know a lot of readers think TG stories are just plain weird. Some may be, but I have found the ones that have been sent to me for review to be exceptionally creative. This one is no exception. To be honest, I did not find this story to be sexy in the sense of a turn-on, but I did find it to be extremely erotic in the sense of blending sex into a creative plot that actually did make a lot of sense and really did speak intelligently about human nature. This is one of this author's better stories!