Celestial Reviews 104 - July 31, 1996

Note: The following web page contains my reviews of the Top 100 Stories 
of 1995 along with the stories themselves:
http://proffa.cc.tut.fi/~k113973.  This is an absolute bargain.

Second note: The people who write these stories do not get paid for 
doing so.  Their main motivations for writing these stories are (1) the 
inherent pleasure that comes from writing a good story and (2) the 
feedback they get from readers.  Plus - I guess the activity can 
improve their sex lives.  I strongly urge you to take the time to 
communicate with the authors.  You don’t have to have cybersex with 
them; just tell them what you think of their stories.  If you like a 
story, send a note to the author and tell him/her what you thought of 
the story.  If you do this once a month or so, you’ll make the lonely 
recluses who write these stories feel good, and you’ll increase the 
probability that we’ll continue to see good stories on a.s.s.

- Celeste

      “Japanese Garden” by Mary Anne Mohanraj (emerging 
            sexuality) 10, 9, 9.5
      “Victoria's Secrets+” by Unknown Author (quickie)
            10, 8, 9
      “Western Adventure” by Jimbo (historical romance)
            9, 8, 8
      “Bob and Carol and Jack and Jill “ by Darryman (sexual
            horror story) 10, 10, 10
      “A Sexy Camping Trip” by Unknown Author (outdoor sex)
            8, 8, 8
      “Summer Sizzler” by Phaerie (kiddie sex at camp) 8, 6, 6
      “Hello In There” by Mark Aster (casual sex on a train)
            9, 9, 9
      “The Candyman” by Ovid (voyeurism) 10, 10, 10
      “Tammy On The Big Screen” by Tammy Ng (surrealistic
             sex fantasy) 10, 9, 9

“Japanese Garden” by Mary Anne Mohanraj (moh2@midway.uchicago.edu).  
The girl and her boyfriend have gone to visit a museum, and afterwards 
they have wandered off to the garden for a makeout session.  After some 
interesting developments (which I cannot disclose without ruining the 
story for you), they are forced to retreat to her dorm room to conclude 
their activities.  Some of the best parts of this story are the 
narrator’s retrospective comments on her previous relationships and the 
way she integrates these insights with the present story.

Ratings for “Japanese Garden”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5

“Victoria's Secrets+” by Unknown Author (Sextales).  This is my second 
appeal.  If I don’t hear from someone soon, I am going to stop 
reviewing Sextales, since I am reluctant to write detailed reviews if 
no readers will have access to these stories.  I found this story and 
the next among a set of 55 stories that I downloaded as a zip file from 
a.s.s. several months ago.  The stories are generally of very high 
quality; but I have waited for several months and have found no 
additional information about them.  They seem to come from a BBS.  A 
few of the stories have the name Port Coco BBS or Heart Break Hotel BBS 
associated with them. If anyone knows anything about the Sextales 
stories, please let me know, so that I can decide how to treat them.

In this story Victoria is driving along the highway and suddenly 
realizes that her stick shift on the floor resembles something else she 
would prefer to be caressing.  She reverses direction and heads for 
home, practically cumming in her panties while she continues to fondle 
the gearshift.  When she gets home, she finds her significant other 
reading the morning paper and fondling his dick.  She replaces his hand 
with her own body, and a good time is had by both.

Ratings for “Victoria's Secrets+”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

“Western Adventure” by Jimbo (Jimbo@oldfolks.hom).  Matt and Laurel are 
14-year-olds who have survived an Indian massacre while their families 
were on their way to Oregon in 1870.  They make their way together 
toward the nearest fort; and once they are out of danger they explore 
their emerging sexuality together.  Each has almost no knowledge at all 
of human sexual behavior, but they do pretty well and live happily ever 
after.  The story is told simply and directly, as if it were being 
related by a subsequent great-great-grandson - the status claimed by 
the narrator - rather than by a more polished storyteller.

Ratings for “Western Adventure”
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

“Bob and Carol and Jack and Jill “ by Darryman (Darryman@aol.com).  
This story gets off to a fast and jolting start.  An American boy and 
girl have been hiking across England. The girl is a bit forward - 
almost sluttish; and she is in the next room having sex with Jill’s 
brother Jack. The boy is shy; and when he cums prematurely, Jill tells 
him that’s OK, because "I'm going to fuck you to death."  And she does.  
Literally.  Then she goes to join her brother in disposing of the boy’s 
sister.  These are not the ordinary, friendly hedonists that we 
Americans believe inhabit the British countryside.

In short, this story deals with that question that has been nagging at 
the back of your mind: is there anything as exciting as giving pleasure 
to someone you were about to destroy?  Now on to the main plot.

Bob and Carol are sexy American lovers whose car breaks down near the 
Gothic mansion of Jack and Jill.  They need help - but they don’t know 
how badly they really need help.  Some - indeed, most -  of the rape, 
torture, and snuff stories posted on this newsgroup are just plain 
drivel.  They’re the inane emissions of childish minds trying to prove 
their manhood by being nastier and grosser than anyone else.  {If you 
need evidence to support my assertion, consider this title of a story 
posted yestereday, which I declined to review: “6 Drunks Gang-Bang, 
then Vomit on Barmaid”}  This one is different.  When an author can 
write about so many things that disgust me and do so in such a way as 
to make me thoroughly enjoy the story - THEN I know that I am reading a 
truly good story.

At a very early point in the story I was struck by an insight.  Jill is 
a crazed sex maniac who has joined her similarly inclined brother, 
Jack, in his hobby of sexual torture and murder.  Jack had started out 
a long time ago on the whores of London - to be exact, his first victim 
had been Mary Kelly.  But by now his sister had helped him develop more 
cultured tastes.  I’ll give you no more hints regarding Jack’s 
identity.

Lest you have nightmares, I remind you that this is fiction.  People 
like this don’t exist.  Or if they do exist, they’re crazy and too 
strong to resist.  Now, isn’t that reassuring?

Ratings for “Bob and Carol and Jack and Jill”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

“A Sexy Camping Trip” by Unknown Author.  In this story from the THC 
archives, a man and woman go camping with another couple.  They make 
love in their tent; and the man feels an additional thrill from the 
knowledge that the other couple is nearby.  Afterwards, the woman goes 
to take a leak; and she returns with the other woman, and both of them 
make love to the man.  The next night we presume the duo will take on 
the other guy.

Ratings for “A Sexy Camping Trip”
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

“Summer Sizzler” by Phaerie (an656768@anon.penet.fi).  Nick is a young 
teenager at summer camp.  During a rain storm, he sneaks off to the 
gym, where he finds Tegan the Counselor restfully asleep.  He fondles 
her and accidentally awakens her.  Instead of being upset, she fucks 
his little brains out.  That’s about all there is to the story right 
now; but if the author gets a decent response, he/she may finish the 
story some day.  This story must take place in Europe.  In America I 
don’t think most camps outside Maine have female counselors who have 
sex with the little boys.

Ratings for “Summer Sizzler”
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 6
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 6

“Hello In There” by Mark Aster (MyFrThAl@aol.com).  The guy is riding 
one of those trains that have separate compartments - like Sherlock 
Holmes used to ride in when he discussed crimes withWatson between 
cities.  A woman comes by and asks if she can join the man.  Then she 
informs him that she is crazy, but “they let her out.”  After a while 
she announces that she trusts him and likes him and asks if he would 
like to have sex with her.  They make love.  It’s not real sexy - just 
the sort of pleasant sex that a nice man might have with a friendly 
stranger who came by on a train and offered her body to him.  Then she 
gets off the train, and we presume they’ll never see each other again.  
This was a surrealistic story - very different from the hot passion we 
usually find in this author’s writings.

Ratings for “Hello In There”
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

“The Candyman” by Ovid.  This story is reposted by the THC archives in 
two parts with slightly different titles.  Be sure to get both parts; 
otherwise you’ll be furstrated.

The man sneaks home in the middle of the day and hides in the closet to 
surprise his wife.  Don’t ever do this in real life.  I don’t know any 
woman who was ever happy that her husband hid in the closet when he was 
supposed to be at work and jumped out to surprise her.  I DO know a 
woman who grabbed a gun and nearly killed her husband when he made a 
suspicious noise in the closet.  But this is fiction, and so it’s OK. 

Anyway, while her husband is in the closet ready to pounce, a traveling 
salesman comes to the door.  He’s selling candy (hence the title), and 
the wife buys some and agrees to respond to a survey a week later.  
Then the candyman leaves without fucking the wife.  I kid you not.  The 
candy contains an aphrodisiac; and so the woman comes into the bedroom 
hornier than hell; and the guy is too surprised to jump her bones just 
then.  So he watches and gets turned on.  This process repeats itself 
every Thursday for several weeks, and the guy begins to enjoy it more 
and more; and still the candyman doesn’t even suggest having sex, and 
the wife is presumably faithful to her husband.  She just eats the 
candy and masturbates, and afterwards they have better sex than ever.

Eventually the candyman asks if he can please stay and watch the lady 
masturbate after she consumes his commodity.  {Oh, great!  Now I’ll 
have a bunch of young readers thinking that commodity is a big word for 
cock, and that commodity futures are.... Oh, never mind!}  The wife is 
inclined to say no, but she should have declined before she consumed 
his product.  Next she discovers that she finds it spooky for him to 
just stand in the doorway and watch quietly, and so she suggests that 
he make mild comments, like “yes, yes!” or “Take it off, baby!”  By the 
time he leaves, the candyman is really into it; and he suggests that 
next week maybe she wear something sexier.

Things escalate, so to speak; and eventually the candyman suggests that 
he take off his clothes so that the wife can see him masturbate while 
she reacts to his merchandise.  It turns out that he is Long Dong 
Candyman - twice the length and girth of the husband.  He comes in 
massive dosses - suggesting (to me, at least) where he gets the filling 
for his candy!

Then one day the candyman announces that he will be leaving to move to 
far away Minnesota.  He further informs the wife that she has recently 
been the victim of a placebo.  {Actually, according to the Latin 
definition (“I will please”), that’s literally true.} The candyman is a 
pop psychologist: the aphrodisiac, he tells her, has been her mind, the 
strongest aphrodisiac there is.  And that’s the moral of the story.  
There’s a final orgy, but you really should read the story yourself to 
get all the details.

Ratings for “The Candyman”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

“Tammy On The Big Screen” by Tammy Ng (Deidre Ng@aol.com).  Tammy finds 
herself alone in a theater.  Whilke her hand begins to wander, she visualizes 
herself on the screen doing exciting things.  Either she is indulging her 
active imagination while bringing herself to orgasm or she is watching a porn 
flick.  From what I have read about Tammy in previous stories, the former is 
more likely.  As we know, Tammy is capable of fingering herself to orgasm 
during a ginsu knife infomercial.  The images that float through Tammy’s mind 
are surrealistic.  A barber shaves her legs and works up to her pussy, where 
he braids her hair instead of cutting it.  She nearly cums, but leaves and 
goes to a shoe store, where she makes a move I have always wanted to make on 
the salesman as he sits on his little stool.  Then she goes to a restaurant 
that is almost closed and gets a hot fudge sundae.  She drops her napkin; and 
when the waiter goes down for it, she rubs a fingerful of hot fudge onto her 
braided pussy, and the guy dives right in.  This is a strange but interesting 
story.

The only reason I noticed this story was because Tammy’s sister Deidre called 
it to my attention.  It was reposted by Red Dragon as “Tammy at the Theater” 
with no authorship listed.  I have previously communicated with Red Dragon, 
and he seems to be a decent sort of person.  I am going to presume that he 
came upon this story when it was already in mutilated form, rather than 
accusing him of altering it himself.  I don’t know what is going on here.  I 
mean, I have no problem dealing with the people in this newsgroup who dwell on 
rape, incest, sodomy, child molestation, bestiality, and even masturbation - 
but I really do think we should have the decency to give authors credit for 
their own work.  Am I missing something here?  Why would anybody strip away 
the author’s name, change the title, and then post the story word-for-word as 
it was written?  I don’t see what anybody gains by doing this; and the 
negative effects are that (1) the author doesn’t receive credit and (2) lots 
of potential readers will skip the story because they will not realize that it 
is by a high-quality author like Tammy Ng.  Tammy was upset.  Is that what 
somebody wants - to antagonize an author because he/she dislikes her for some 
reason?

As far as I can see, the authors don’t make any money from these stories.  The 
least we can do is give them credit and treat their work with respect - 
especially when it takes more work to mutilate it than it does to repost it 
accurately.  I guess in some sense we can take pleasure in seeing good stories 
at all - even if the authors don’t receive credit and even if somebody thinks 
he can give the story a better title than the original author.  But I urge 
reposters to have the integrity to respect the rights of the original authors 
by reposting their stories completely and accurately. 

Ratings “Tammy On The Big Screen”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

