Fugue by Rick R. Reed

[reviews_and_ramblings]

This is the second short story I read by Rick R. Reed partially set in a train car by night. So, I'm arrived to a conclusion: or when I'm on the tube, I don't pay too attention to what happens around me or there is a particular tube line, in Reed's fantasy, that allows to strangers to meet and "connect".

This short story is actually a parallel story: the first is played in a dungeon, a slave in chains and the master who is loving him; the second as I said, in a train car, where an older leatherman is engaging a dangerous game with a young blond boy. For age and body, the leatherman should be the master in this second story, and instead the boy reveals to be the Dom to master the sub hidden well inside the leatherman.

As the two stories goes, the reader starts to wonder if these are two side of the same pair, or if maybe, the chance encounter on the train car is what led to the scene happening in the dungeon: are they the same couple? and the role are the same? The powerful Master in the dungeon is the young Dom in the train car?

I don't know why, since they are only two side of the same D/s play, but I found more enthralling and interesting the scene played in the train car; a raw and dangerous sex encounter, played only with the "tools" of you body, without chains or blindfold or whip; the danger consists in being discovered, the thrill in having sex with a stranger. And I know that it's wrong: the slave in the dungeon is more safe with his Master, a man he knows and loves, than the leatherman in the train car, putting himself in the hand of a total stranger, without any hint of safe sex around. Who is the master and who is the slave? What is the safe scene and what the dangerous one? Where is love, if is there, and where is only sex? A tale of contraposition in many way than one.

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