"The Afternoon Feast" by Frederick T. (an580405@anon.penet.fi). This is a Willy Tamarack Adventure. In fact, it's the first Willy Tamarack Adventure ever written. It was listed in the postings as "Willy Tamarack - Adventure One." In it Willy asks an interesting question: "If I'm going to sell a high school girl dope, what's the harm in having fantasies about fucking her brains out too?" The answer is that there's nothing wrong with having the fantasies. However, the penalty for the combination of selling the dope and acting upong the fantasies would be about 20 years of hard time with a cellmate named Bubba. Willy is what you might call a mellow guy. He seems to be about 35 years old and a bit of a jock. He gets stoned at least once a day. He recently lost his entire family in an automobile accident in California - but shit happens; and so he has moved to Las Vegas. He grows his own marijuana in one of those growing contraptions that you can hide in the closet. In this episode he develops a meaningful relationship with Karen, a high school senior who obtains marijuana from him and then takes him for a ride in her fur-lined canoe. I suspect we'll see more of Willy. The author is not a grammatical or linguistic genius. For example, he has a "prolong" where I think he meant "prologue"; but maybe this was a Freudian slip, or maybe he was being clever. However, he's not illiterate either, and he tells an interesting story. I recently saw "Leaving Las Vegas," and Willy makes a lot more sense than that movie did. I guess this kind of behavior is fairly normal for that part of the country. Maybe they don't have girl scouts or moral values in Nevada. Ratings for "The Afternoon Feast" Athena (technical quality): 7 Venus (plot & character): 7 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 6