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  1. Can’t believe there has been no comments on this one…

    I love the ‘Dream’ stories. I love that Entropy takes the times to do something so novel and abstract, which examines characters. By going into their dreams we can see their anxieties, lusts, and fears given tangible shape.

    This was a great one…examining Anna grappling with her lose to Melanie; the humiliation and the damaged pride, but also the fear that she liked it, and that, deep down, she believes that she’s a loser. Brining Annie into it as well, and examing the roots of her competition with her sister, and demonstrating how she feels that she’s the ‘lesser’ sister by exaggerating in her minds eye the very small different in their breast size; how that one or two inches in real life is magnified by her anxiety to several cups in her nightmare; was a novel abstraction!

    I also like that there was an arc are work in this story…Anna starts off wallowing in the fear and helplessness that she felt as she lost to Melanie, shows her struggling with that anxiety, and then finally overcoming it and reaffirming her sense of self and personal identity.

    This was a satisfying read as an examination of character…but also as a piece of erotica. There is something very tantalizing about showing Anna being dominated not only by the bigger, stronger, Melanie, while she expresses her humiliation at losing to someone she assumed she was better than, but also being dominated by her sister, who she views as being her better. The depth of her humiliation is exciting and erotic.

    This was a great piece of writing! I always appreciate it when Entropy tries something novel or ambitious like this or the previous ‘Dream’ stories. I hope to see more like it in the future!

    Thank you! Great work as always!

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