Celestial Reviews 268 - March 21, 1998

Note: A young fellow walks into a talent agent's office and says he wants to 
break into show-biz. The agent says, "OK, kid, show me what you do."  The kid 
tells some jokes, does a little soft shoe, sings a bit, does an acrobatic act 
with an ottoman, and is good enough to impress the agent.

"Great, kid! Just great!" exclaims the agent. "I can do things for ya! I think 
I can get you a show on T.V."  (This was the early sixties.)  "By the way, 
what's your name?" 

The young man, proud and excited, replies, "Penis Van Lesbian".

"'Scuse me?" questions the agent.

"My name is Penis Van Lesbian," repeats the young man. 

"Hey, I'm sorry kid, you're gonna have to change your name. Nobody is gonna 
hire you with a name like Penis Van Lesbian".  The young man is crestfallen, 
but steadfastly refuses to change his name; so he leaves to find another 
agent.

A few months later he returns to the same agent.  "Hey kid!  Good to see ya 
again!" says the agent. "Are ya still looking for work? Have ya changed your 
name?"
 
With his head hanging low the young man replies "Yes. Every agent in town 
turned me down because of my name, Penis Van Lesbian.  So I've changed it".

"Great, kid, great!  What's your new name?"

"Dick Van Dyke."

Second note: A handsome young lad went into the hospital for some minor 
surgery; and the day after the procedure, a friend stopped by to see how the 
guy was doing.

The friend was amazed at the number of nurses who entered the room at short 
intervals with refreshments, offers to fluff his pillows, make the bed, give 
back rubs, etc.  "Why all the attention ?" the friend asked.  "You look fine 
to me."

"I know !" grinned the patient. "But the Nurses kinda formed a little fan club 
when they all heard that my circumcision required twenty-seven stitches."

Final note: Remember: even though someone else may be posting my reviews for 
me, my e-mail address is still Celeste801@aol.com.

- Celeste

      "Tyler" by BadMichel (kiddysex) 9, 6, 5
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=333790301

      "Tyler II" by BadMichel (kiddysex) 9, 6, 5
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=335682952

      "Janey's February" by Janey (orgy) 10, 10, 10
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=334665895	

      "It's Not Cheating" by Jordan Shelbourne (infidelity) 10, 10, 10
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=325912354

      "Burning the Church" by LeAnna (sex in church) 9, 10, 10
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=332488183

      "Bimmy" by G Smith (romantic evening) 9, 9, 9
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=335059608

      "A Birthday Wish Come True" by Empath (romance) 10, 10, 10
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=335662065

      "Jim & Cathy"  by W (incest) 7, 6, 5
          (Not found in Archive)

Guest Reviews:

      "Desire Eternal" by H.D. Meister (ghostly sex) 8, 8, 9
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=324330225

      "Politically Correct Fuck" by Tim Richards (satirical sex)
            8, 10, 9
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=325912259

      "Samantha and Selena" by J. B. Mast (sex for pay) 8, 5, 7
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=327664754

      "Angel of Mercy" by Unknown Author (medical sex) 9, 9, 9
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=332757630

      "Love Lessons" by Candy Kane (ff kiddysex) 10, 4 ,6
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=335030395

      "Battle Lust" by Kurt Animus (action adventure sex) 9, 9, 8
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=334654562

      "Phony Doctor Examined My Wife" by Watcher (wife watching)
            10, 8, 8
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=333785280	

      "Stolen" by SR (cybersex) 5, 6, 6
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=330253550

Reposted Reviews:

    * "The Black Knight: An Erotic Adventure" by Alan Barclay
            (chivalry, bdsm & humor) 10, 10, 10
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=335700568

    * "Cousin Tanda" by Unknown Author (youthful frolic with
            a cousin) 9.5, 9, 9
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=335700566

    * "Peer Pressure" by Wollstonecraft (rough first time sex)
            10, 10, 10
          http://search.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=335706708

* = Repost of previous review (because the story has recently been
      reposted)

"Tyler" by BadMichel (michx666@aol.com).  Right up front the narrator says she 
has been teaching at a "pre-school."  That term usually refers to an at least 
quasi-educational setting for children BEFORE they go to school; yet she 
encounters Tyler as a twelve-year-old "student" there.  I think this is 
actually some sort of day-care or after-school center.

Anyway, Tyler gets a hurtie on his mouth and rushes to the narrator for solace 
and starts squeezing her breast while she comforts him.  Well, the little 
devil gets carried away.  The narrator, of course, tells him to stop and then 
fondles his cock and gives him a nice little blowjob.

Then there's Tyler II, who was vice-president and then president of the United 
States.  Actually, that's a leftover joke from when I was in the sixth grade.  
Get it?  "Tippicanoe and Tyler II!"  Hmm... if I was making jokes like that 
when I was about twelve years old, and the boys were a lot less mature at that 
age, how realistic is this story about fucking a twelve-year-old?

Anyway, "Tyler II" is really a story about the narrator's continuing 
adventures with Tyler I, in which she plies him with liquor and fucks him when 
he is 14 - years, that is, not inches or centimeters.

To be honest, this sounds more like Tyler's fantasy than the recollections of 
a former teacher.

Ratings for "Tyler" and "Tyler II"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 6
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5

"Janey's February" by Janey. "What does one wear to a small, informal orgy?  
Ooops... I'm getting ahead of myself. Janey and the gang from "Janey's 
January" (CR 265) have migrated to Florida to get away from the unpleasant 
winter in Boston and to soak up some vitamin D.

But Florida is not a lot of fun when it rains in February - unless you can 
think of something else to do.  Let's see.... Maybe they could go back to the 
motel and fuck one another's brains out.  And so they do.

Janey doesn't do women - at least not at the beginning of the trip, but she 
thinks it would be interesting to watch a really accomplished woman in action.  
And that's what her friend Beth is: a really accomplished woman in action - 
sort of like the Mona Lisa in bra, panties, and long white stockings, sitting 
down her legs up in the air.  Hence the enigmatic smile. Tough act to follow.  
But Janey holds her own - well, not actually her own....

Ya know, the nuns taught me that if you tempt someone into sin, that's even 
worse than being the sinner yourself.  If that nun was right, this author is 
going to have serious problems on judgment day!

Seriously, this is good stuff.  This author writes extremely well.  I'm not 
going to give a moral lecture - really, I'm not; but for reasons I have 
discussed elsewhere, I have no intention of ever engaging in a similar orgy.  
I find it very time- and energy-consuming {and very rewarding} to have a 
really great relationship with one man.  I suspect that these descriptions of 
idyllic relationships that involve several other people would be improbable in 
real life - at least in my own real life.  Even when I get upset with my 
husband, I figure it's better to work it out than to check out the grass on 
the other side of the fence, which probably won't turn out to be so green 
after all.

Lots of holy people agree with me. What these self-righteous prudes don't 
realize, however, is that a good story is still a good story.  It's just plain 
stupid to deny that it would be fun to do what these people do in this story - 
assuming (as the story does) that it could all happen without hurting anyone.  
As Shakespeare put it, "There ain't nothin' wrong with a vicarious 
experience."

That's the value of a good story: if I'm going to have a vicarious experience, 
it sure as hell had better be a good one.  I'm looking forward to Janey's 
"March" through "December."

Ratings for "Janey's February"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"It's Not Cheating" by Jordan Shelbourne (jordan@u36.com).  I didn't like this 
story at first, but it sort of grew on me.  It's a monologue of a woman 
talking to a man who has decided to leave her and go back to his wife.  He 
wants to stop cheating.  So the woman describes to him all the things they 
used to do.  It got me hot reading the descriptions, and the man gets hot too.  
Eventually the woman concludes that since his wife won't take it up the ass, 
anal sex wouldn't be cheating.  Especially if he pays for it.  Hmm...

Ratings for "It's Not Cheating"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Burning the Church" by LeAnna (kalika@main.provost.msu.edu).  Ya know how 
some churches have a crying room for irritable babies?  Well, this church has 
a moaning and grappling room for horny college kids being reunited with their 
childhood friends.

Lee and KC had gone to church together as kids.  They used to sneak away to 
the library and kiss and make out.  For old times sake they get back together 
and finish what they started many years ago.

This is a sexy story!

Ratings for "Burning the Church"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Bimmy" by G Smith (gsmith625@hotmail.com).  The narrator meets Bimmy at a 
dinner party.  They discover that the chemistry is right and head for her 
place and a quiet evening of tender lovemaking.  

There are some rough edges to the grammar and style, but this is a very good 
story.  I hope this author writes more for us.

Ratings for "Bimmy"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

"A Birthday Wish Come True" by Empath (empath@hotmail.com).  The man and woman 
have dealt with each other only by cybersex and telephone.  In addition, they 
have exchanged pictures.  Now he has arrived unexpectedly at her apartment 
disguised as a telephone company technician and is proceeding to make tender 
love to her.  You'' have to read the story to find out whether they live 
happily ever after.  I'll just say that the romance is sexy and the many 
details in the story tend to keep it really interesting.

From vague hints at the beginning of the story we get the impression that 
these people met while he was serving as a Celestial proofreader for one of 
her stories.  I didn't intend for my proofreading service to become a form of 
cybersex, but I suppose stranger things have happened.  However, I want to 
assure you that I do NOT consider copulatory capabilities when assigning 
proofreaders - although I have noticed that people who use grammar effectively 
ARE usually quite good in the sack.

In addition, the author hints that this story originated as a love letter.  
What this author has done (apparently with the help of a good proofreader) has 
been to change all the "you" references that would have occurred in the 
original letter to third person references.  As readers, we don't even notice 
this; but I assure you that this has resulted in a major improvement.  It has 
turned an initially private intimacy into a very good story for public 
consumption.

One flaw in the story is that the author sometimes tends to get a little off 
track.  For example, there's an incident with Joan, the real telephone 
technician, that looks like it's going to develop but goes nowhere.  My guess 
is that the author originally intended to write a longer story that would 
incorporate Joan more completely but then decided to cut the story off at the 
present ending.  When doing this, it would have been better to cut back on or 
at least alter some of the previous details about Joan.

Ratings for "A Birthday Wish Come True"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Jim & Cathy" by W (xwyz@hotmail.com).  While mom and dad are away, fifteen-
year-old Cathy catches her older brother Jim jerking off.  He realizes he'd 
like to fuck her, and he does so.  Cathy resists, but Jim forces himself on 
her.  That's OK, because she likes it after all.  Well, actually she says she 
hates it and tells him to stop; but she gets all wet and has an orgasm; and 
that's the same as liking it, isn't it?

This is not an especially creative incest story.  It's just a story with verb 
tenses mixed up and a bunch of other grammar mistakes about a guy raping his 
sister.

Ratings for "Jim & Cathy"
Athena (technical quality): 7
Venus (plot & character): 6
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5

"Desire Eternal" by H.D. Meister (dez187lm@hotmail.com). Guest review by 
Bronwen (bronwen@anon.nymserver.com).

This story expresses the thoughts of a ghost who wanders the streets, still 
chained to the earth. One link in his chain is Dianne, his true love; the 
others are unspecified. He is preoccupied with a sexual experience he had with 
another woman during which he contracted a fatal sexually transmitted disease. 
At least I'm pretty sure that's what happened - because this story is a bit of 
a puzzle. 

Unanswered questions often heighten the sense of mystery in ghost stories, but 
in "Desire Eternal" there were so many I found it a difficult to work out 
exactly what was going on. The tenses can be troublesome also, and this 
element would benefit from an edit. OTOH this is a very short piece - more of 
a fragment than a complete story, I suspect. Maybe it is a sketch for a longer 
work.

The story ends with a grim warning against infidelity:

>I am dead.  This is my tale.  This is my warning.  Love is the one
>possession mankind can hold on to even after death.  Know this... for
>no wet twat can replace it.  No blowjob can compare to its eternal
>power.  Know this... or I shall see you here... within the shadows.

Even in so short a piece the author has done a splendid job in delineating the 
narrator - a convincing portrait of a particularly nasty man: a sentimentalist 
who projects his own mistakes and lusts on others, who despises women on the 
basis of their sexual experience and enthusiasm. I suspect the author means 
the reader to perceive that the ghost has misinterpreted his lesson - he does 
not understand that it is his own hatred and anger which hold him earthbound - 
the implication being that he still has much to learn.

This is a chilling little tale, full of the ghost's warped personality. I take 
my hat off to the author for his skill, though I'm not sure I'd actually enjoy 
reading a longer version! <grin>

Ratings for "Desire Eternal"
Athena (technical quality): 8 (watch those tenses!)
Venus (plot & character): 8 (character great = 10, plot confusing = 6)
Bronwen (appeal to reviewer): 9 (horrid, but well-done)

"Politically Correct Fuck" By Tim Richards (alunrob@mailexcite.com).  Guest 
review by Sandman (sandman@bitsmart.com).

In the seventies women burned their bras (You go girl!), in the eighties they 
started suing men for sexual harassment (and won!), in the nineties they might 
just dethrone a president.  Everyone knows the rules have changed from the 
good ol' days when a guy could pinch his secretary on the butt, then ride home 
with all those pesky colored folk forced to the back of the bus to a charming 
June Cleaver like wife who had a nice warm dinner ready for him.  For the most 
part the changes have been good I think (I miss the warm dinner though).  The 
tough thing for us poor old guys is that while the rules have changed they 
keep right on changing and we're never REALLY sure where we stand.

Take for instance Alun (Which I suppose is some fancy English spelling of 
Alan), who at his local (pub) meets the much younger, vivacious, and 
interesting Liz.  I mean if all this PC stuff is tough for us thirty 
something's who grew up with the concept, imagine how tough it is for an older 
guy, especially when the woman he's interested in is probably a registered 
member of NOW.  Poor Alun has to get her permission in writing to do anything 
interesting at all, though he does have quite a bit of fun after the details 
have been worked out.

This was a charmingly original story with an absolutely fantastic plot idea 
mixed with a bit of scathing social commentary on just how silly "politically 
correct" can be when taken to extremes.  As social satire it worked rather 
well and I was chuckling on more than one occasion.

There are however some rather troubling problems with this story.  First was 
the lack of anything resembling a quotation mark or an apostrophe, this makes 
the story a little hard to read.  Second, and this is more serious than the 
first by far, is that while the idea is absolutely fantastic it interferes 
with the other subject (namely the sex).  When I started getting all hot and 
bothered when Alun and Liz started getting hot and bothered they'd suddenly 
stop and start working on their contract again so they could get even more hot 
and bothered.   This, to me, is a serious structural problem in the story and 
really I don't see how the author could get around it considering what he 
wanted to say.   

Really I liked the concept but I think this story will prove to be a 
frustrating read if you're looking to become aroused.  Then again being PC can 
be terribly frustrating.  

Ratings for "Politically Correct Fuck"
Athena (technical quality): 8 -- " & ‘ needs them.
Venus (plot & character): 10 -- For the concept not the sex.
Sandman (appeal to reviewer): 9  – Frustrated PC reviewer.

"Samantha and Selena" by J. B. Mast (Mastwords1@aol.com).  Guest review by DG.

This story started out looking pretty interesting - we find out about a 
discreet and expensive service that caters to the kinks of the perverted rich.  
One client, a certain Mr. Stern, has requested the services of two girls who 
have unusually long tongues.  "At least this one will be different," I 
thought.  It didn't really turn out that way, though.  Once the two girls 
reach Stern's hotel room, the story quickly lapses into mediocrity, reading 
like a scene from a porn movie.  I didn't think it was a good sign when Stern 
was described as wearing "nothing but a smoking jacket."  It was a worse sign 
when Stern asks the girls to recite their measurements as they undressed.  I 
mean, do you need to know a woman's cup size when her breasts are in your 
face?  On the other hand, the vigorous, athletic sex that follows is pretty 
well described.  I would describe this simply as a decent jerk-off story.

Ratings for "Samantha and Selena"
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 5
DG (appeal to reviewer): 7

"Angel of Mercy" by Unknown Author.  Guest review by Sandman 
(sandman@bitsmart.com).

"Angel of Mercy" is about a doctor and a nurse who after pulling a double 
shift together go back to her place engage in some very well described oral 
sex and just generally fuck like bunnies for four pages or so.   On the first 
read it appeared to be my sort of story in that the characters were introduced 
nicely before hopping into bed together, but for some reason this one just 
missed it's mark with me.  I should stress the "with me" part -- I suspect 
many, many people will enjoy this story far more than my scores would 
indicate.

In Athena I knock off a point for a few mangled words and for one sentence 
with two buts in it (but if they were sexual butts this would not be a 
problem, but I think that a sentence with two buts just doesn't work very well 
-- see?).  The story also contains no dialog and I think the story would have 
worked better for me on a personal level if it did.  Other than those faults 
however the story is a very easy read.  Most people will have no problems 
whatsoever following the story flow.

In Venus I'm knocking off a point for exactly two problems that had me 
scratching my head and saying, "Huh?".  First problem --  does a doctor in the 
midst of trying to save an eighty-six year old man in cardiac arrest really 
notice that his nurse isn't wearing panties?   Second problem -- this is kinda 
a good news bad news problem -- in the throws of anal sex we suddenly learn 
about the "B Spot". 

"I was concerned that her clitoris would get too sensitive for me to continue 
licking it and so I concentrated on that  special sensitive area where the 
Bartholin ducts run up to the clitoris.  I call it the  B spot and not many 
people know how important it is between orgasms if the  clitoris is 
sensitive."

This was something new to me and I set the story aside and searched my on-line 
references to research the validity of this.  Surprise!  It's valid (though 
not every woman responds to it).  So I learn something new. I'm glad to know 
it, and I'm certainly going to see if it works at the first opportunity I get.  
The trouble is, it happened in the middle of a pretty hot sex scene.   A sex 
scene is about feeling and emotion, throwing an intellectual anatomy lesson in 
the midst of this is like asking an Olympic Athlete who just got a gold medal 
how they feel about a new development in quantum physics.  

And finally we come to appeal.  I said before that most people will like this 
story much more than my scores would indicate.  Here the appeal is just a 
little off because to me there's never been anything remotely sexual about 
doctors or nurses.  Every time I see either they're either trying to stick a 
needle in me, trying to get me to drink some bitter concoction, or I'm so 
bloody sick I really don't care.  I think this is called an avoidance 
reaction.  

The fact that the scores are relatively high despite my prejudices in this 
area should indicate that this story is probably worth looking up.

Ratings for "Angel of Mercy"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 9
Sandman (appeal to reviewer): 9

"Love Lessons" by Candy Kane (rytr33@hotmail.com>). Guest review by Bronwen.

As the heroine so rightly observes:

>Lesbianism and bisexuality are everywhere: magazines, 
>movies, TV, fashion, the Internet.  It's impossible to find an adult 
>movie that doesn't have girl-girl love scenes.  And besides, ask any boy 
>what his number one fantasy is and he'll tell you it's a three-way with 
>two girls doing him and each other.

I guess a story detailing how an 18-year-old babysitter teaches two 12-year-
old girls about lesbian sex is such a turn-on for some people they won't care 
whether it's plausible or authentic. But I do; and, although I don't wish to 
be too hard on it, this story just doesn't hold together, though I think it 
might with more work. There's a chunk in the middle which belongs in another 
story. I'd suggest to the author that when the narrator is obliged to say:  
'Anyway, back to my story'  it's safe to assume the plot is in trouble. 

Otherwise, the spelling and grammar are mostly fine, but there's hardly any 
efforts to provide the participants with characters or feelings. The girls are 
no more than puppets.

I have a bigger problem though, and this leads me on to some very sensitive 
ground indeed. And this is that although the story is told from a female POV 
it reads more like a male pedo fantasy than a story told by a lesbian. Readers 
who download this story because the idea of three girl sex appeals may be 
squicked by the fact that two of them are pre-teens. I would urge the author 
to use the correct story code. My guess is that it should be coded "F/ff pedo 
cons".

Ratings for "Love Lessons"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 4
Bronwen (appeal to reviewer): 6

"Battle Lust" by Kurt Animus posted by Bookman Archives 
(readebks@wolfenet.COM). This review is the personal opinion of Kim, who can 
be contacted at ghost@nym.alias.net

What we have here is a full-out blood-and-thunder fantasy romp. You know the 
sort of thing -- folks with dramatic names, warring factions, intrigue, skimpy 
leather uniforms for the warrior babes, myths and magic, exotically poisoned 
darts in the neck, all the usual stuff.

Trying to rationalize the plot is kinda self-defeating, but here goes. Young 
Prince Raznil is being taken to marry some neighboring kingdom's Princess to 
try to force an alliance between the two hostile territories. He is protected 
by the mighty warrior, Captain Thula Von Aax, feared throughout the land as 
the best female fighter and bodyguard.

Unfortunately on their journey they are ambushed by a third outfit. A bunch of 
outlaws ruled by the bandit, Dalzeil the Victorious. See, I told you about the 
dramatic names.

Having had all her troops killed by the bandits, Thula is forced to flee, 
dragging the young Prince with her. What she doesn't realize is that she's 
been infected by a poisoned dart that,
although it satisfactorily did for her comrades, merely induces hallucinations 
in her, most of them centered around an uncontrollable desire for sexual 
release.

This leaves her open to not just the lustful advances of her young charge, but 
later to the more aggressive tendencies of the first two bandits to find her. 
Then the story abruptly stops mid-sequence. The reposter asking at the 
beginning if anyone knows of more parts being available anywhere.

I don't care for unfinished work for obvious reasons. I suspect I'll never 
find out what happened to Thula now, and I'd really like to. Bah!

So, I quite liked the story telling, though I can't take too much of this sort 
of stuff without giggling at its more florid excesses. Written in that 
irritating "Thula slogs through the dense forest" instead of "Thula slogged 
through the dense forest" style, it's either love it or hate it. I personally 
don't care for it, mostly.

And if you object to such things, there is a pretty graphic rape at the end, 
and the young boy who begins the crime is only fourteen. Two squicks for the 
price of one.

Ratings for "Battle Lust" 
Athena (technical quality): 9 (But irritating use of tense, and 
      florid with it)
Venus (plot & character): 9 (It all worked well enough, within 
      the genre)
Kim (appeal to reviewer): 8 (I wanna read more of it. I like 
     strong women, don't like rape)

"Phony Doctor Examined My Wife" by Watcher (llxzt@hotmail.com). Guest review 
by David Rills.

This story is very erotic.  It is technically very well written and is 
narrated by the husband of a woman peeping into a medical exam room as his 
wife undergoes a job physical.  The husband wonders if the doctor is real or 
just a voyeur.

The narrator alludes to his feelings as his shy spouse is given a very 
physical exam by a stranger.  My only criticism is that the author should have 
spent more time exploring the husband's feelings and reactions.  Otherwise, 
his very sensual description of the exam is good.

Ratings for "Phony Doctor Examined My Wife"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
David (appeal to reviewer): 8

"Stolen" by SR (parasol_60@yahoo.com).  Guest review by Dart.

Katy and Pamela are online together and have decided to take turns playing 
slut and voyeur. They set up a private chat room. Katy lures Jack into the 
room, and she talks him through an orgasm while Pamela watches. Then, after a 
short private chat between themselves, Steve is lured into the room, the women 
switch roles, and Pamela talks him through a climax while Katy, mostly, 
watches. In the final private chat between the two women, Pamela confesses 
that she's been capturing their proceedings, and hopes that Katy's not upset 
about it. She isn't, and in fact wants a copy of the file.

This could have been an excellent story, but it's not. The problem is that it 
reads like I imagine an actual captured chat file would read. The story needs 
editing. It should also provide - for those readers unfamiliar with chat 
notation, such as myself - an explanation of chat notation.

Ratings for "Stolen"
Athena (technical quality): 5
Venus (plot & character): 6
Dart (appeal to reviewer): 6

* "The Black Knight: An Erotic Adventure" by Alan Barclay (I think). Sir 
Englebert the Ungainly is in the midst of a rather hectic adventure when he 
comes upon a naked woman - I mean fair maiden - tied to a stake. The young 
lady is the nearby village's offering to one of the great beasts of the forest 
to persuade that monster to spare their homes from destruction. If the dragon 
devours her, he cannot then in good conscience attack the village. It was a 
sensible thing for the villagers to do, and the good knight very nearly rides 
on by.  But there's something about the fragile beauty of a damsel in distress 
with her naked body dangling like a misplaced modifier from a stake so that 
her breasts....

This is the sort of story that really upsets me!  It includes a focus on sex 
slavery and a large amount of spanking - but that's not what upsets me.  After 
all, this is a story about chivalry, and chivalry has specific Rules.  For 
example, a chivalrous person must always open doors for lady of rank equal to 
or higher than his own, allow an opponent to be armed before he lops off his 
head or blows his brains out, and accept sex slaves when they are assigned to 
him and treat them as their status deserves.  No, that's not what bothers me.  
What upsets me is that at the time I am reading this story, I already have 
TWENTY-ONE stories on my Top 15 List for this month; and here I am reading 
number TWENTY-TWO!  In today's mail I received the "J" story from Mark who 
does the Alphabet series.  I'm going to wait until December 4 to review it.  I 
can't stand any more really excellent stories this month!

The only significant problem with the story was this sentence: "I told her 
that I labored under a curse; that I could not enjoy a woman who was well and 
recently spanked."  Actually, the opposite was true: he could not enjoy a 
woman UNLESS she was well and recently spanked.  It's a big difference, but I 
figured the curse correctly from the context.  Since the story was otherwise 
so good, I decided to forgive this one sin.

Anyway, this is a really excellent story.  I don't want to ruin it for you, 
but I'll advise you that it's meant to be funny.  Thomas Mallory and Alfred 
Tennyson may have taken knighthood seriously, but more recent authors have 
discovered that knights were really funny people.

This story was presented by Lust So Stories.  Since it was a good one, I might 
was well cite their web page: http://spellbinder.bc.ca/lss/

Ratings for "The Black Knight"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

* "Cousin Tanda" by Author R. Dominick (I think).  The guy has been staying on 
the farm with his cousin Tanda.  One morning she awakens him early and asks 
him to join her in some voyeurism.  By that I mean they watch some pigs 
copulate.  There may be something to the old theory of "Monkey see, monkey 
do," because immediately afterward Tanda asks him if he'd like to have a shot 
at it - with her, of course, not with a pig.  They do pretty well!

This is a short, but very good story.  It was presented as a sort of an 
advertisement for Lust So Stories, who have a web site at 
http://spellbinder.bc.ca/lss/.

Ratings for "Cousin Tanda"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

* "Peer Pressure" by Wollstonecraft (an285729@anon.penet.fi).  In the past 
Terry has said no to guys who wanted her to go too far.  Result: no dates for 
six months.  Her peer counselor, Jenny, has convinced her to loosen up; and 
now, as Bobby's tongue duels with hers, she's following that advice.  Being 
lonely is not fun.  Sex is.  Some choice!  At Bobby's urging, she opens his 
zipper, takes his cock in hand, and thinks, "Please, don't try to put in me, 
please, please, don't!" Bobby moans and says, "Thanks, Terry!  That'll be 
enough for tonight!"  He zips his fly, takes her home, and gives her a sweet 
kiss on the cheek.  The next day he sends her flowers with a poem he wrote 
himself.  

Yeah, right!  This is Wollstonecraft, not Pollyanna.  Actually, Bobby's next 
words are, "Mmmm, Terry, you're so tight!  So warm, so tight!"  You can well 
imagine the course of events that ensue, right after Bobby pauses and says, 
"Y-you've done this before, right?" She doesn't tell Bobby he is going to be a 
father.  After he spreads the word about how good Terry is at sex, she becomes 
real popular.  She goes out with a different guy every night and does what 
comes naturally.  The baby might not even be his. 

In addition to the overall realism, what the author accomplishes extremely 
well in this story is his portrayal of the Terry's ambivalence.  She 
constantly thinks one thing and does the opposite; and the contrast is, 
effective, exciting, and depressing.

Ratings for "Peer Pressure"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

