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Subject: {ASSM} {REVIEW} Peaches and Cream Reviews #8
Date: Thu,  8 Aug 2002 16:10:04 -0400
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Hi! We're Peaches & Cream. We're just two ordinary Joes who like
reading and romance. Recently, there was a Summer Solstice Romance
Festival on ASSM, and it caught our attention. We started discussing
the stories and our reviews were born. Our format is simple: one of us
starts the review, the other chimes in, and then the starter finishes
it off. Because this is all about romance, we'll be scoring with 0-5
kisses. We'll be posting a review a day until we finish the stories
that were submitted, beginning with the Flash stories.

There is a website devoted to the festival where you can find all the
stories we will review. 

http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Rui_Favorites/www/RomFest


Peaches and Cream Reviews # 8

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
--Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian author

***

Consummation by Sara H 
(FF, Rom, no sex, flash) 
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Sara_H/www/consummation.htm


***

Peaches:

This is a tender love letter from a wife to her lover, her female
lover. It's full of all the things that poets write about when they
are first in love. It might be a little over the top for some readers
in its descriptions, but I found them quite beautiful. And yet, I have
to wonder if the wife isn't idealizing love just a little, so she can
rationalize her longing for a woman, rather than her husband.

I think the most poignant line in the whole letter is, "Peter still
doesn't know, and doesn't suspect. That's Peter's sweetness and also
his weakness." 

How sad for Peter when this love affair plays out.

I give this love letter 4 kisses. 

***

Cream:

This letter paints a good picture of the letter-writer's emotions.  I
believe every word is from the heart. Yes, Peaches, the woman might be
fooling herself a little, or more than a little, and that possibility
leads us to one regret I have about this piece: that the letter is not
used as part of something larger.  I recognize the importance of the
letter having been written.  People write letters like these all the
time and don't send them. I want to know what happens to the letter.
Maybe it was never sent.  Maybe it never arrived.  Maybe the husband
intercepted it. Maybe it was received by the intended, and then what
is her reaction? This letter does such a good job with the part of the
story it tells.  But that's just one chapter, and for me that's not
quite enough.  As a love letter I'll go along with your four kisses.
As a story I give it three.

***

Peaches:

You've raised some good questions that I hadn't thought about, Cream.
And yet, as I do think about this more as a story, I'm still not
disappointed. It gives away a lot. A woman is lonely, decides to have
a brief encounter with another woman, ends it because she's married,
but regrets ending it. That's a lot of story. I guess the "what
happens after this letter" isn't exactly answered, but it doesn't take
too much to fill in the blanks. By the way the letter is written, she
sounds as if she's already come to a decision, it's just a matter of
carrying it out. Will she? Maybe there's a return letter in the
author's hopper somewhere.

***

Peaches: 4 kisses
Cream: 3 kisses

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