"The artist" from THE AMAZONS ARENA BBS Reviewed by Spiros Bousbouras http://www.thevalkyrie.com/stories/misc/artist.txt My rating system: * = Forget about it ! ** = Fair *** = Good **** = Very good ***** = Read it now !! This story gets a ****1/2 Kate , a small skinny woman and successful artist dreams of becoming a powerful amazon.She has written a novel about her fantasies and she wants to illustrate it.So she hires two gorgeous tall female bodybuilders and she ensnares a small but very sexy male dancer to her secluded house so that she can draw pictures of the two women dominating him and add them to her book. I should add that a promise for continuation appears at the end of the story but that's no reason not to write a review.Many stories on this site are left uncompleted and unfortunately some good ones. This is a fine story of female dominance. What are the key elements for a successful dominance story ? First an unwilling and protesting victim. Jimmy King , the victim of this one , fulfills very well this role.He struggles with all his might but of course he is totally helpless against not one but two powerful amazons. He loudly protests but they pay no more attention to him than they would to a small child.Soon after he sets his foot into the house he finds himself trapped and from that point on there's nothing he can do to escape his ordeal. Second the person(s) who dominate should take pleasure in the dominance itself and not just in whatever benefits it may imply.We are certainly given adequate opportunity in this story to appreciate how much the two amazons enjoy dominating men in general and poor Jimmy in particular. Third , variety.Variety in the kind of ordeals and humiliations the victim must endure , in how many different ways he realizes his helplessness.And in case the domination is of a physical nature as it is most often the case with the stories on this site , variety in the kinds of physical scenarios which lead to the male's defeat.This story does very well in this sector as well.One of the elements which provide the welcome variety is that the male has to submit to two kinds of domination direct from the amazons and indirect from Kate who hired them and to a large extent controls what they will do to him.It is delightful how the amazons treat Jimmy as almost an object while at the same time view Kate with the outmost respect and refer to her as "Ms Kate" ! Finally vivid descriptions.There are so many stories on this site where you read things like "she put him into one inescapable hold after the other" or "it only took her a few seconds to achieve whatever".It almost feels as if you're reading a summary of a story instead of the story itself.But certainly not with this one.Here you feel as if you're watching the action with your own eyes.The only thing that's lacking is the physical descriptions of the characters which should be more detailed. That's the only weakness of the story. A continuation of "The artist" along the same lines would be very interesting.But some mention in the story of Kate's future plans suggests that a sequel would be even more exciting so I certainly hope that we will see one.In the meantime if you like female dominance you will enjoy a lot the part which has been written.