"I need your help. You've got to make her stop. I can't take it any more." Make who stop?" Your sister! She's making me into her slave!" What?" She ma...kes me do things. And I can't stop her." Andrea?"I thought of my sister's plump, innocent little eighteen year old face. What was Tammie talking about? How could my shy little sister make her do anything? None of it made any sense at all."Yes, Andrea. Please, you have to help me. You're her sister, make her stop. You have to!" I don't understand,. )(Jenny) So what's the best way for getting "hard" criticism?(TH) For one, ask people face to face or in a chat if possible. Hope that you get slaughtered by Keith Morrison or ask me on the next bash! Very few people *dare* to give hard criticism. It has partly become bad form to say 'the story suffered from that and that and that'.And *don't* ask for "constructive" criticism. That's asking for the kid gloves and the patpat-treatment. Ask for tearing apart, for drowning your story in a sea of. Chris knew that Jerry was lining up for the big one. In desperation, Chris leaned back, using Jerry's hold on his collar as extra leverage, and kicked him as hard as he possibly could on the side of the knee.Jerry's leg buckled and he howled in anger and pain. He took a half step, limping and favouring the leg that Chris had kicked. He lined up the big right hander again, and by reflex Chris looked away just before he got hit again in the head, his ineffectual attempt at a block brushed aside.. Present were all the hetaerae Superior of the goddess's temples throughout the world, and great was the respect accorded to these special women. Calista was kind enough to introduce Geeta to a number of them, giving her the opportunity to make obeisance directly. Geeta had met and kissed the feet of the superiors from the temples at Cardiff, Munich, Muang Xay and Singapore. Geeta wished her friend Alice had been with her to see this, but she was not here this evening, for of course she was back.