Barry Yourgrau: Strawberry Pie

Uhhhh.....

Yeah. I second that "Uhhh." I at least understood the first two stories, but this one... I guess it's good? (I really have no idea and am just trying to fake my way through this comment.)

I don't get it.

Could someone clue me in?

Hannh??

Yeah, the conclusion could have been a bit stronger.

Will we see erotica written by women sometime in the future? So far, I have only seen erotica written by this Barry chap. Not that it's bad or anything...but a female writer would be able to offer a different erotic perspective that I think would be very interesting.

I think the author was going to go somewhere with that... maybe he forgot?

I'll second the request for female-authored literature. I'd bet at least a handful of these beautiful girls know how to write.

Hey, whaddya know, it's been revised!

Don't read the next paragraph if you want to figure the story out for yourself.

Okay, I had assumed this was what Yourgrau was going for in the first version, but it seemed there were too many blanks for the reader to fill in. It's like a "closed loop" story... or maybe an infinite regress? This coroner is now going to go off and visit perhaps the same redhead, go down on her, get hit by a truck, and another coroner will examine his body, find more red hairs, get another "delightful idea" and so on... with a string of coroners being lead to the same fate by one woman (unwittingly on her part?). Heh, kind of like a twisted version of the poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by John Keats.