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I love this sixth episode. Too many scenes that my passionate mind wants to draw, but my reasoned hands try to reason away.

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OK! This is THE BOMB!!! Erin is my girl--straight up! This is how it's done--giving it back 10,000% then, as an appetizer--pissing on the guy's face! Then, having a no-holds-barred fuck on his desk with her boyfriend/Igor! (I'm calling Max "Igor" because Erin's the brains and body and the power in this whole operation--he's along for the ride, and needed for the occasional "ride" in the stress-relief sense. Now for my take on Episode 6. I've been out of position for a bit, now I'm back high-octane, so here it goes. The best thus far--I love the grindhouse sex and violence here--this is real uncensored Tarantino territory right here. Kate--some of your GREATEST WRITING! Some standouts for me:

1) "I indulged in a frequent pleasant dream, where I marinated lasciviously while lying naked in a bath of my enemy's blood, drinking a glass filled with dark emotions that crept through my veins like black fiery tendrils of hatred."

OH YEAH! Visceral, sexualized, vampiric, down-at-the-roots, sadism here--probably how Countess Elizabeth Bathory felt on a regular day!

2) "He caught my evil smile while sinking into his dark oblivion and I watched delightedly when unadulterated terror and his realization of my victory danced raw in my former pimp's drowning eyes."

This right after tricking the bastard into stripping, getting him with the needle--serves the bastard right! Brava for keeping the moment cliche free--you know, like "Take that, you bastard!" kind of stuff--that'd be hokey Disney "Star Wars" crap there--you're way better than that, and this is way better than the losers at any mainstream studio could come up with--they lack the balls to!

Then there are some gems from the banter between Erin and Max:

"Danger is the only thing that might keep me grounded."

My reply: Why be grounded--be a human firestorm and burn them all to a cinder--rebuild the whole fucking world out of your own indestructible alloy according to your own will, no matter the cost!

"Fuck me hard like you're injecting some decency back inside me."

My reply: Decency is overrated at the very least. Also not a lot of fun in the noir world--I say be as libertine and over-the-top as you can!

"I won't outsource my vengeance..."--just thought this was a nice motto.

And as for the dismemberment scene--all of that speaks for itself! Classic, if not standard-setting, grindhouse cinema stuff if this were a flick, and this whole Sin Street thing has Tarantino all over it--of course without primitive, puritanical, prudery such as film ratings, political correctness and such.

Now, Sissitrix. Artistic vision is spot on as always. Love the visual of Erin doing the washdown of Chester--poetic justice. It was a symbolic gesture next to her ordeal, but he got his eventually! Liked her gear too--the garter belt, stockings, heels--the whole slick, sexy powerful woman thing--which she most definitely is--always linked into the erotic writing whenever you've got something like this--any office sex scenario (I think) where you've got a powerful woman (what I like to write about, since I think the standard has been too much in the other direction, or not balancing the scales enough)--the fashion is very important--the convergence of her femininity, sexuality, and power--combining into what I consider an unstoppable force that amps up the fantasy a thousandfold--why I love elegance so much in narrative fiction, even in film (I love classic noir for this reason--the women had seduction down pat--Ava Gardner in her star-making role in "The Killers" is the exemplar--Burt Lancaster literally follows her around with his mouth hanging open like a puppy dog, silently, mesmerized by Gardner in that iconic black dress--they just DON'T have that anymore). But your artwork fits the narrative 100%--both your narrative Kate, and your artwork, Sissitrix, are perfect complements.

Sin Street is a terrific venture--I can't say it enough. You've got the ultimate, 21st century, kickass neo-noir heroine here, operating in an atypical, amoral universe which merges the rawest depictions of savage violence, erotica (encompassing rough, sensual, and ambiguous), and grotesque horror, in the true spirit of each genre.

Now I'm on to Part 7!

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