Do you mean the author should send an email to the reviewer, or reply to the post on the review page?

I'm fairly new to the site, and I hesitate to write reviews of stories I don't like, since 1) I'm not likely to finish the story anyway and 2) I find that the wirters of badly written stories are much less receptive to criticism (wonder if there's a correlation there?)

Oh, and as for "Petrol Station," I thought it was fine, except it needed to take place in Disneyland and be about a plot to assassinate the Prime Minister of Canada. Also, in the ending Twinkles the pink magic dragon should have appeared and taken everyone to Happyland.
--Wait a minute...you mean the review should be based on what's actually *in* the story, not what you think should be in it. I gotcha.