Celestial Reviews 257 - February 11, 1998

Note:  Did you hear about the guy who had tried every diet in the world 
in an attempt to lose weight? He tried the Scarsdale diet, the Navy 
diet, Weight Watchers, etc.; and none worked. He was reading the paper 
one day, when he noticed a small ad which read:  Lose weight $1.00 a 
pound.  And it simply listed a telephone number.

Having little to lose, the man called the number. A sultry female voice 
on the other end asked, 'How much weight do you want to lose?' The man 
responded, 'Ten pounds.'. The voice replied, 'Very well. Put you check 
in the mail, and we'll have a representative over to your house in the 
morning.'

About 9:00 am the next morning the man heard a knock on the door. There 
stood a beautiful redheaded woman, completely naked except for a sign 
around her neck stating, 'If you catch me, you can screw me'.  Well, the 
overweight fellow chased her upstairs, downstairs, over sofas, through 
the kitchen, all around the house. Finally he did catch her; and when he 
was through enjoying himself, she said, 'Quick, go into the bathroom and 
weigh yourself!'. He did just that and was amazed to find that he had 
lost ten pounds, right to the ounce!

That evening he called the number again. The voice on the other end 
asked, 'How much weight do you want to lose?'The somewhat less 
overweight man replied, 'Twenty pounds.'.  'Very well,' the voice on the 
phone told him; 'Put you check in the mail, and we'll have a 
representative over to your house in the morning.'

At about 8:00 am the next morning the man received a knock on the door. 
When he opened the door he saw a beautiful blond dressed only in track 
shoes and a sign around her neck stating, 'If you catch me, you can 
screw me'.  The chase took a while longer this time, but the man finally 
did catch her.  When he was through, she told him, 'Quick, run into the 
bathroom and weigh yourself!' He ran to the bathroom and found he had 
lost another 20 pounds!

'This is fantastic!' he thought. Later that evening he called the number 
again and the voice at the other end asked, 'How much weight do you want 
to lose?'. 'Fifty pounds!' the man exclaimed. 'Fifty pounds?' the voice 
asked. 'That's an awful lot of weight to lose at one time.'. The 
overweight man replied, 'My check's already in the mail. You just have 
your representative over here in the morning.' Then he hung up the 
phone.

About 6:00 am the next morning the man got out of bed and got all 
fancied up, ready for the next representative. At about 7:00 am he heard 
a knock on the door. When he opened the door he saw a large gorilla with 
a sign around his neck stating, 'If I catch you, I'm going to screw 
you.'

Second note:  I think the Story Links have been a useful addition.  I'd 
like to express my appreciation to Sandman, who has been supplying the 
links that the guest reviewers and I have been unable to obtain 
ourselves for each issue.

Third note:  I have had several inquiries recently regarding "Tie 
Fighter" by Walter Slaven.  I may be mistaken, but my recollection is 
that Walter is in a position where he cannot post because of his job - I 
think he might be a special prosecutor or a White House intern or 
something like that. Although it was not complete at the time I last 
reviewed it, "Tie Fighter" is one of the best stories ever posted on 
this newsgroup.  I hope someone can find a way to repost it.

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

- Celeste

      "Inn" by Uther Pendragon (romance) 10, 10, 10
          http://w9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=322865614
      "The Trick" by Spoonbender (turning a trick) 10, 10, 10
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8197.txt
      "Always the Same" by Sven the Elder (hot flirtation & 
            romantic fuck) 10, 10, 10
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8139.txt
      "Friends and Lovers" by SandMan (romance) 10, 10, 10
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7881.txt
      "Fighting Rose's Corner" by Nick (Celestial sequel) 10, 8, 8

Guest Reviews: 

      "Study Partner" by DevoSpudC (academic sex) 9, 9, 9
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7915.txt
      "School Daze" by Gargoyle (high school sex fantasy) 
            8, 9, 9
          http://w9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=291344172 
          http://w9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=291210183 
      "Dance of the Worm" by Peter (nice friendly sex) 8, 9, 9
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8028.txt
      "The Two of Us" by Vickie Tern (TG femdom) 9, 7, 3
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8152.txt 
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8153.txt 
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8154.txt 
      "Slippery Fun" by Unknown Author (suck & fuck story) 7, 1, 1
          http://w9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=322388931
      "My Three Sisters" by Tom and Emerson Laken-Palmer (incest 
            fantasy)10, 10, 10
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8083.txt
      "Michele" by Stephen Peters (kiddysex) 9.5, 7, 0
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8026.txt
      "A Meeting" by Bob (bdsm) 8, 8, 8
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8194.txt
      "Love at First Sight" by Tom (love story) 5, 6, 5
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7391.txt
      "Bronze Lust" by A Pulp Fan (action adventure sex) 10, 10, 10
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8112.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8113.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8114.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8115.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8116.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8117.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8118.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8119.txt
      "A Friend in Need" by Phil Phantom (king of the herd fantasy) 
            9, 7, 7
          Part (1/2) http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7483.txt
          Part (2/2) http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7488.txt

Reposted Reviews:

    * "Soft Ball or My Best Position" by Taria (shower sex)
            10, 10, 10
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8289.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8290.txt
    * "Marie" by Friar Dave (emerging adolescence) 10, 10, 10
          http://w9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=323632711 
          http://w9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=323632721 
    * "Catty Corner" by SueNH (voyeurism) 10, 10, 10
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8223.txt 
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8224.txt 
    * "The Black Box" by Emerson Laken-Palmer (mind control)
            9.5, 8, 8
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8205.txt
    * "Rain" by Mark Aster (voyeurism & sex on the beach)
            10, 10, 10
          http://w9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=178772411
    * "Rain" by M.M. Twassel (voyeurism & emerging sexuality)
            9, 10, 10
          http://members.aol.com/Mmtwassel/rain.htm

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

"Inn" by Uther Pendragon (anon584c@nyx.net).  From the very 
beginning, when the man picks up the woman in the restaurant (or 
is it vice versa?), I thought I knew pretty much where this story 
was going.  I was right, but I still enjoyed getting to the 
"surprise" ending.  However, I think I still had better refrain 
from telling you too many details.

In brief, the man and woman meet in the restaurant, dine together, 
and then retire for tender but hot sex.  This author has written 
scenes like this so often that they have become routine, but they 
are still very, very nice romantic scenarios.

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

"The Trick" by Spoonbender (Theodore@spoonbender.demon.co.uk).  
This is one of those stories whose entire impact is achieved by 
its cleverness.  If I tell you anything at all about it, then it 
won't be clever at all, and the story will really suck, in the bad 
sense of that term.  Let me just assure you that I am hard to 
trick, and this one did trick me - at least a little bit.  It's a 
short but excellent little story.

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

"Always the Same" by Sven the Elder (sven@brass-neck.demon.co.uk).  
Most Americans named Jay are males.  From this story we learn that 
there is at least one female in Britain with that name.  Sven can 
tell she's a female from the nice way she fills out her leotard 
while they work out together at the club.  Jay has been flirting 
with Sven, and she can perhaps tell that he is a male by the nice 
way his half-erection fills out his shorts.  Raging hard-ons just 
don't work really well on exercise machines - at least if one 
wants to continue the original exercise and not digress to 
another.

Today when Sven leaves the gym, he finds Jay distressed because it 
is raining, and she doesn't want the rain to fall hard on her 
body.  I just wanted to see if I could say the words "hard on" in 
a sex review without direct reference to the ole muttondagger.  
But really, it's raining with thunder and lightning; and so Sven 
offers Jay a ride home, even though by this time her lithe and 
lovely, lewd and lascivious body is covered in a baggy warm-up 
suit.

Well, I suspect you can see where this is going.  That's right, 
they share sausage and eggs between the legs while the summer 
storm thunders away in the background.  The intensity of 
flirtation is extremely well done.  A young and aggressive woman 
can be a real turn-on to a man, or so I'm told.  I happen to know 
from personal experience that things very much like this do happen 
in real life during thunderstorms after exercise.

Ratings for "Always the Same"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Friends and Lovers" by Sandman (sandman@bitsmart.com). Sandman's 
stories are archived at 
ftp://asstr.ml.org/pub/Authors/sandman/index.html.

In their very young teenage years (the story doesn't really say how 
young), Cal and Kathy spent many an enjoyable day innocently and 
pleasantly discovering each other's bodies.  Then Kathy's parents moved 
away; and the friends were separated until they happened to meet during 
their college days. That day they make it as far as Kathy's Toyota 
before falling into a passionate embrace. Then they meet again many 
years later, when they are both married and committed to their families.  
Finally, they meet once again in the winter of their lives.

"Like two ships that pass in the night, or two thieves stealing time and 
pleasure where they can find it. So are the Days of Our Lives."  Or 
something like that.

This story is long on sentiment.  But it moistened my pussy as well as 
my eyes.  In short, this is an excellent story that blends sex and 
emotions into a genuinely erotic story.

This story also contains the accidental quote of the year: "There was 
something fascinating about what he was seeing that he couldn't quite 
put his finger on."  

Ratings for "Friends and Lovers"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Fighting Rose's Corner" by Nick (Nick@cassandra.demon.co.uk).  This is 
a follow-up to my story entitled "The Review," which was originally 
posted in CR 250 as part of my review of DG's "Call of Desire" (which 
was also rated the Number 5 story of January 1998). In order to make 
really good sense out of the present story, you really ought to read my 
story first, which is archived at 
http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7611.txt.

In my story, the fictional Celeste (c'est moi) was trying to write a 
review, but my husband came on to me and distracted me from my writing 
task.  After I am thoroughly aroused, the phone rings, and my husband 
decides to increase our enjoyment by banging away at me even more 
industriously.  The climax, so to speak, comes when he fucks me in the 
ass while I continue to converse on the phone with a rather prudish 
woman, who presumably knows not what is going on.

The present story continues from the perspective of  the other woman 
(Rose) after she has hung up the phone.  I won't try to summarize the 
details.  My overall reaction was that I was flattered that someone 
would enjoy my story enough to try writing a follow-up.  However, my 
feeling is that this sequel is far too introspective.  

It's dangerous to praise one's own stories; but one of the best features 
of my story was that it conveyed most of the sexy idea through action.  
This sequel goes into Rose's background and her innermost thoughts - but 
there is no real action.  I personally still enjoyed the story very 
much; but I think a reader without a vested interest would prefer that 
the author show us what Rose has done rather than just summarizing her 
sexual background.

And so I am going to propose a contest.  Maybe not a contest - perhaps I 
should call it an invitation.  The challenge is to write Chapter 2 of  
"The Review."  Follow it up in some creative manner.  One possibility 
would be to try again from Rose's perspective, but that is not the only 
option.  You can do anything you want, but you should try to be 
consistent with my original story.  I think this could be fun.

Note that SueNH and some co-authors have done something similar in the 
withSue stories.  For example, her Catty Corner became Across the Catty 
Corner in cooperation with Backrub.  Likewise, Mat Twassel wrote a 
sequel from a different perspective to Mark Aster's "Rain".  TEX did 
this in an almost opposite way in "Raped Teen Burglar."  I'm sure there 
are other examples.  In fact, if you feel an urge to expand upon someone 
else's story, go ahead and try.  My advice is that you cite the other 
story accurately in your disclaimer and that you seek the cooperation 
and approval of the person whose story you are expanding.

I won't put a time limit on this.  If you're interested, give it a try.  
And if you know of other sequel-stories that I have missed, let me know, 
and I'll try to post a complete list.

Ratings for "Fighting Rose's Corner"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

"Study Partner" by DevoSpudC (cwilson9@ix.netcom.com).  Guest review by 
Dart.

This is a very pleasant, gentle, and modestly erotic story.

Jessica and Vicki are together in the library. Vicki is studying, and 
also chastising Jessica for being distracted by the gorgeous young man 
she's watching through a window near their table. Jessica has a calculus 
exam the following day which she really needs to pass, and she's behind; 
and Vicki enjoys pointing out to her that she hasn't the freedom to idle 
away her time gazing at young men. Jessica agrees and applies herself to 
her studies. Prim Vicki, meanwhile, leaves Jessica to struggle with her 
studies by herself, since she has a class.

Like all good calculus students, Jessica becomes so engrossed in her 
studies that by the time she thinks she's in reasonably good shape for 
the exam, it's after ten and the library's deserted, except for a shy-
appearing young man who smiles at her when she finally looks up. She 
smiles back. She's about to ask him what he's studying, when he drops 
his pen. She waits while he bends down to retrieve it. He doesn't 
reappear where she expects; and she never does find out, academically at 
least, what he was studying. But by the time she's back in her room, 
she's a lot more relaxed.

I would have liked a sentence explaining why Vicki never returned to the 
library after her class. Also, Vicki was sometimes referred to as 
"Vicky." Finally, the author begins a sentence: She had ceased wearing 
bras some ago as ..., when I think he means: She had ceased wearing bras 
some time ago as .... 

Ratings for "Study Partner"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 9
Dart (appeal to reviewer): 9

"School Daze" by by Gargoyle (gargoyle@northernnet.com). Guest Review by 
Sandman (sandman@bitsmart.com).

Imagine if you will a school where attendance is dropping, seriously 
jeopardizing the school's funding.  Well, our narrator puts things back 
on the straight and narrow, by abandoning the straight and narrow.  From 
now on, all female teachers must wear skimpy outfits and being 
exhibitionists at heart they all fall willingly into line and show as 
much flesh as possible. 

We know this is a fantasy because at least in MY high school, there were 
more than a few teachers that would have caused me to ditch school if 
they tried to pull anything like this.   In fact, it is my belief that 
our "health" teacher was specifically selected because no sane teenage 
boy, however raging the hormones, would ever be aroused by words such as 
"penis" and "vagina" when uttered from her lips.

The first chapter in this 90K story briefly introduces us to the various 
teachers.  The subsequent chapters are a more thorough exploration of 
the fun each teacher has with her students. This begins with simple 
exhibition and moves very quickly into finding out exactly how many 
penises can be stuffed into a teacher at the same time.  By golly math 
can be fun!  If you have six teenage boys with raging erections how many 
orgasms will the teacher have?   If I had word problems like that in 
school, maybe I wouldn't have to go rooting around for my calculator so 
often!

I have to admit this story was fun.  I also have to admit a bias.  A 
bunch of adult women having sex with high school boys is perfectly OK by 
me.  If School Daze had been about a bunch of adult men having sex with 
high school girls, I probably would have had significant problems with 
the story, regardless of the fantasy aspect.  That thought is profoundly 
deeper than anything you'll find in this story.

"School Daze" was totally unrealistic. There were some awkward 
sentences, a few misused words, a lack of transitions to smooth the 
reading; but it was outrageous as hell, and I enjoyed it.   If you're 
looking for fun, uncomplicated, fantasy sex you'll probably like this 
one a lot.

Athena (technical quality): 8-- Needs a good proof, not too
      distracting.
Venus (plot & character): 9-- Lots of sex, stayed a fantasy.
Sandman (appeal to reviewer): 9-- It's not a classic, but I enjoyed it.

"Dance of the Worm" by Peter. Guest review by Mark Aster.

This is a nice, warm, sexy human-interest story, about a young man who 
has no luck with random superficial girls his own age, but meets a 
pretty slightly-older woman at a dance class and, well, gets along very 
well with her.  In the back seat of the car.

This story is more in the true-life-experience genre than the literary-
sex-story genre; which is to say, not that it's true, but that it reads 
like it might be, like it might be a friend telling the story to you.  
The story as story has a few imperfections; I found the first two or 
three sections rather beside the point, or at least too long for what 
they did.  The diction is awkward in a few places, but nothing seriously 
distracting.  My only complaint about the story or the sex is that the 
idea of making love in the back seat of a Datsun makes my leg-muscles 
cramp up!  <grin>

Recommended as a heartwarming story of nice friendly sex, with some 
dirty talk thrown in as a bonus.

Ratings for "Dance of the Worm":
Athena: 8 (basic correct writing)
Venus: 9 (friendly and sexy and convincing)
Mark: 9 (nice story)

"The Two of Us" by Vickie Tern (VickieTern@aol.com). Vickie Tern's 
stories are archived at http://library.gaycafe.com/nifty/
transgender/by_authors/vickie_tern

This is a femdom story, but female values hardly triumph. The story is 
about the forced (?) feminization and enslavement of a man by his wife. 
But it is also deeply misogynistic - the woman telling the story 
expresses beliefs about how we should behave which I found both 
repellent and archaic.

As a reviewer I'm from a different world. I adore my husband and the 
narrator has nothing but contempt for hers. I'm a feminist and the 
narrator despises women. I have to accept the narrator's world view is 
part of something a large group of readers find profoundly erotic but 
which, in this case, passes me completely.

It is well-written, hypnotic in its assurance, but falls down in its 
POV. The tale is told as though the narrator were talking to a friend, 
and this approach is often successful. But the speaker goes on and on - 
it's a very long story - without apparently pausing for breath. I 
couldn't help wondering how long any listener would have put up with 
this without interjecting a question or response. 

I know *I* had some questions, like "Why didn't you just divorce him if 
you loathed him so much?" or "Exactly how unhappy do you both want to 
get?" but, aw, fuck it, this is sex fantasy, not RL and I respect the 
fact some people will love every minute.

I can cheerfully accept it's not my thing. What I find hard to handle is 
the hatred of both women's roles and male inadequacy expressed. The only 
life jumps into the story as the narrator describes great experiences 
with passionate huge-dicked men. I wish *she'd* stuck to that. Or *he'd* 
stuck to that - whatever....

Ratings for "Two of Us"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 7 (falls down on narrative voice)
Bronwen (appeal to reviewer): 3 (it *is* well-written, and a few 
      bits flickered some appeal)

"Slippery Fun" by Unknown Author (rocketscandy@hotmail.com).  Guest 
review by Sven the Elder.

Right from the word 'go',  from the point of view of this reviewer, this 
story gets two strikes against it.  There is no clear idea as to who the 
author is and there is spam for a story site at the start and finish of 
the story.  The latter, particularly, *SMELLS*!!! If I want to be 
spammed I can do so by trying to find stories in what used to be a.s.s - 
I do *NOT* want to find it within a story I am trying to read. I do not 
refer to where an author has a reference to their own site, but rather 
the sort that reads, and I quote :

"  Would you like thousands of erotic stories in many different topics?
         Cum to http:..."

As to the missing author name - was the poster the author, or has 
someone decided to steal this story, remove the authors name and then 
just post it?  Sadly it is impossible to tell, perhaps the *real* author 
will stand up and either claim or reclaim the story. Who knows.  Rant 
mode off!! - And I haven't even read the story yet.

The story is a somewhat uninteresting suck and fuck story involving a 
lesbian four-way with a follow-up of some equally uninteresting MF to 
close.  The idea may well be taken from the screenplay of one of the 
poorer quality porn videos that seem to float around.  There are a 
number of credulous assumptions and zilch in the way of plot. It isn't 
even good one-handed fiction.  There would appear to be little in the 
way of technical errors, but having read it once I am not about to go 
back and waste time a second time. Advice to possible readers - if you 
like this sort of thing it may well be of interest - If you like your 
stories to have a start, middle and end, look elsewhere, this was not 
worth reading.

Ratings for "Slippery Fun"
Technical quality: 7
Plot & character:  1          
Sven (appeal to reviewer):  1

"My Three Sisters" by Emerson Laken-Palmer (Sxjames@aol.com). Guest 
Review by BillyG.

It's almost embarrassing to admit that I like action movies, 
particularly the mindless, unbelievable-hero type filled with gratuitous 
violence and killing.  I suppose the embarrassment arises from the fact 
that in my real life I abhor violence.  Yet, in the action movies, it's 
sufficiently distant from reality, I don't take it seriously.

There's a strong carry over into the stories in this newsgroup   I 
particularly dislike stories of rape and non-consensual exploitation 
when it "sounds" real.  On the other hand, I can enjoy an erotic story 
that's clearly and deeply embedded in fantasy.  Such is the case for "My 
Three Sisters" by Emerson Laken-Palmer (ELP).  

ELP's stories are usually well crafted, establishing the very human 
personalities of the players with skill and introducing the erotic 
scenarios with credibility.  That, of course, is what helps create the 
eroticism. At the same time there's an overlay of fantasy that allows me 
to enjoy a story that delves into non-consensual as well as exploitive 
incestuous sex.  A literary double standard?  Sure.

Tom's a horny 15-year-old boy who's surrounded by females, his sisters.  
The oldest and token sex pot is Rachel, a beautiful cheerleader type 
who's a year older than Tom and largely oblivious of him.  She's his 
voyeuristic and masturbatory fantasy and for the moment, he's largely 
unaware of his one-year-younger, tomboy-kid-sister Susan.  Finally, his 
11-year-old sister Christa is nothing more than a tattle-tale pain in 
the butt.

Stumbling onto his older sister, drunk in the bathroom at a teenage 
party, he undresses, plays with and finally fucks her, all in a 
strangely loving way.  As it turns out, that's it for them but it does 
open the doors in a convoluted manner for Tom to "force" his baby sister 
initially into a sexy spanking scene, ostensibly as a way of shutting 
her up.  Later, their sex escalates in a consensual albeit kinky way.  
(Keep in mind that sex with an 11-year-old girl, consent or not, is 
exploitive and NOT OK.)

As you might have imagined, the really hot one is his tomboy sister, 
Susan.  They have the closest emotional connection and have great 
affection for each other.  That they secretly lust for each other might 
be anticipated, but still comes across a delightful "surprise."  I liked 
this story and it scored well on my peter-meter.

Ratings for "My Three Sisters"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
BillyG (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Michele" by Stephen Peters (Sxjames@aol.com). Guest review by Anne747 
(Anon747@aol.com).

One of my biggest flaws (well one of them at least) is that when I don't 
want to do something I can be the world's worst procrastinator.  I 
really didn't want to review this story.  Oh, I could have sent it back 
to Celeste, but I try not to do that very often, since having her pre-
read them would defeat the purpose of guest reviewers.  And actually, 
even if she had read it, she might figure it would slip under my `ick' 
radar (if there is such a thing).

Okay, quick review, then my semi-rant.  John, a 34-year old architect 
with a masters in civil engineering, has an affair with his 15-year old 
neighbor.  That's really the whole story.  It is written as a `true 
story' with a disclaimer at the end about it being fictional (although 
something the author wouldn't mind doing from his comments).  So that's 
it - you like reading about grown men fucking little girls - you'll love 
it.  It's reasonably well written, although a spell check would have 
picked up a couple of errors.

Now, here are my problems with the story.  First, I can't figure out 
why, but the author has a phone number for a voice mail system at the 
end.  I can't help but wonder if he hopes an impressionable 15-year old 
will read the story and call him.  God, I hope not.  Second, the author 
tries to make John the victim of the story.  Poor John, seduced into 
fucking the poor teenager.

See, Michele is from a soon to be broken home.  She's running away from 
a fight at home the first time they meet.  He invites her in and 
befriends her.  Along the line he realizes he's attracted to her, but 
fights it.  Of course, when Michele arrives at the door, all wet and 
upset that her father has called her a whore, John succumbs to her plea 
for him to screw her.  Yes, that's just what a confused child from a bad 
home life needs - sex.

I don't know, the whole thing just turned my stomach.  Of course the 
author even goes to the extent of letting you know how emotionally hurt 
he was by the whole thing, and the moral struggle he went through before 
deciding to fuck the young girl.  Oh, and she tells him not to feel 
guilty, because she really wanted him to fuck her.  Such a nice touch 
(ick).

Ratings for "Michele"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 7 (probably higher if you buy into the 
      motivation)
Anne747 (appeal to reviewer): 0 (yep, disliked it that much)

"A Meeting" by Bob (McPeery@Bellsouth.net).  Guest review by Kim.

This is a "first attempt" by Bob to post a sex story, so it says here. 
Oooh, Bob, ya ready for this? I'll take it slow at first...

Two unnamed people, a woman and a man, meet on a flight to London, he a 
computer engineer, her a flower buyer. They hit it off, and arrange a 
date for that evening. No jet lag for them, oh no, it's off to a very 
strange restaurant with an odd line in entertainment.

After eating their way though a lovingly detailed menu, they settle down 
to watch the floor show. This consists of the spectacle of a woman 
getting tied to a sawhorse and then getting beaten to orgasm by a guy in 
a long black cape wielding an assortment of implements of corporal 
punishment. Now you might expect this to be a bit racy for a first date, 
but not our couple, soon they're back at her hotel getting up to their 
own little bit of spanking fun.

Having warmed her ass once, they decide they will continue there dom/sub 
relationship by flying off to Paris, as you do. Once there, a much more 
detailed meeting of Master and willing submissive takes place, involving 
such whimsy as her undressing him using just her teeth. It all ends with 
them cuddling each other to sleep. Maybe not everyone's idea of a 
romantic story, and while not entirely gentle, then certainly loving, 
none the less.

As a story, it lacks much of a coherent narrative, but it's really an 
excuse for the linking of the BDSM scenes. The English was a bit lacking 
in places, but nothing too wayward. I did notice a technical error. I 
haven't been to London for a long time, but they didn't have single 
pound notes even then. But then again, this could be set in the past 
(apart from the fact that the guy is a network engineer, which I don't 
think have been around for all that long). Ah well, whatever, I doubt it 
makes much of a difference, all things considered.

Generally I quite like consensual spanking stories, though I personally 
don't care for dom males, but hey, it wasn't written just for me. Not 
too bad for a "first attempt".

Ratings for "A Meeting"
Athena (technical quality): 8 (Nothing really bad)
Venus (plot & character): 8 (Precious little story, but good sequences)
Kim (appeal to reviewer): 8 (Read a lot worse, specially first time 
      efforts)

"Love at First Sight" by Tom (tje@mail.nls.net). Reviewed by James.

This is as close to Perfect as I have ever read. Which makes things 
seem, but only in retrospect, predictable. You see, this is a story with 
symmetry.

Mary and Jack live in a carefree world - world whose only blemish is the 
crude fragrance of lilac bushes beside Jack's driveway. They are made 
for each other. She is as innocent as he is experienced. There is no 
evil or ugliness, only love and beauty - and the Perfect ending.

For all this Perfection there were times when I got drawn in. I could 
imagine Mary's angelic figure -the awe of Jack as he realized he had 
found the one he would give everything up for. In this story, anyone who 
has been in love will find empathy.

Whilst I liked this story - with its interesting, mild, interludes with 
Jack and Marsha, and, Jack and the English school teacher - it was not 
without some unwelcome distractions. For instance, I did not need to be 
told over and over again that "They were the same height". Some of the 
paragraphs are also way too large - making the story feel too long (even 
though it takes less than 20 minutes to read). 

To conclude, this story might feature some sex, but first and foremost 
it is a love story. And, at the end of the day, not one I feel inclined 
to recommend.

Ratings for "Love at First Sight"
Athena (technical quality): 5
Venus (plot & character): 6
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5

"Bronze Lust" by A Pulp Fan. Guest review by Igor.

This is a story featuring Pat Savage, a well known pulp heroine, cousin 
to the famous Doc Savage, and a two-fisted scrapper in her own right. 
Patricia, however, takes on a whole new dimension in this lustful saga 
of erotic-action adventure.  There is enough unadulterated raw sex, 
lesbian activity, gangbanging, oral sex, anal sex and three-way sex to 
satisfy everyone and keep both cocks and nipples stiff throughout all of 
the eight chapters of this sexual adventure.

Briefly, we find our heroine witness to a street kidnapping following a 
delicious lesbian romp with her close friend, Melissa.  True to her pulp 
image, she immediately takes pursuit and sets in motion events that lead 
her to uncover a Nazi plot to steal a secret weapon.  With Doc and the 
fabulous five away, Pat's on her own and loving it. She manages to get 
herself captured by the gang of nefarious cut-throats who are about to 
sell our country out, turning the kidnapped inventor and his weapon over 
to the Nazis.  While awaiting the arrival of the Nazi submarine, our 
captors have ample time to concentrate on the lovely bronze bombshell, 
tied deliciously bare and naked to a cot.  Events of the night leave our 
heroine soaked in sexual sweat and dripping with cum as all of the gang 
members satisfy themselves, each according to his own peculiar sexual 
proclivity, on the body of her person.  Pat is, however, a far cry from 
the helpless victim of gang rape, but rather is caught up in a frenzy of 
sexual lust, desire and orgasmic overkill.

Needless to say, rescue is eventually achieved when Doc and company 
return, track our wayward heroine down, and foil the Nazi plot.  Later, 
a fantastic menage-a-trois culminates the climax to this lustful yarn in 
a vivid scene.

This is a very well written story with good, true to form, character 
development and non-stop action.  The author did a good job with 
characters that appeared in other stories, but you don't have to be a 
Doc Savage fan to enjoy it.  I hope that the author will favor us with 
additional pulp heroines in lusty, action adventures.

"Bronze Lust" is high caliber reading and very highly recommended.

Ratings for "Bronze Lust":
Technical Quality - 10
Plot & Character -- 10
Reviewer Appeal -- 10

"A Friend in Need" by Phil Phantom (slutmissy@hotmail.com).  Guest 
Review by DG.

Imagine, if you will, a fortyish guy with an average job, a house in the 
burbs, a wife, and a kid.  It's Sunday afternoon, and he's watching 
football on TV and having a couple beers.  He's feeling a little sleepy, 
so he pops the footrest on his recliner, leans back, and closes his 
eyes.  While he's snoozing, he enters his own private fantasy universe, 
a strange place we might call... Testosterone Land.

Let's follow this typical American family man and see what happens: 
Testosterone Land doesn't seem all that different at first.  The guy 
still lives in the burbs with his wife and son.  But then we notice some 
subtle changes... for starters, he's now the big shot in the 
neighborhood - the guy with the nicest house and the most money.  He and 
his wife hold wild parties every week, where everyone gets stinking 
drunk and wife-swapping is rampant.  His own wife is aggressively 
bisexual, and they enjoy comparing notes on which of the neighborhood 
wives have the juiciest pussies.  

He has his way with any number of women (his wife doesn't mind a bit), 
but he has one special mistress - a respectable married woman who just 
can't say no to him, much to her shame.  He fucks her whenever he wants, 
right under her wimpy husband's nose.  In fact, she's even given birth 
to a couple of his kids, who have red hair just like him so everyone 
knows who their stud-daddy is.  

As for his son, he's a chip off the old block:  he's only 17, but he's 
already popped most of the cherries in the neighborhood. Just to make 
things interesting, there's one really hot wife who won't sleep around - 
even with him, the big cheese of the neighborhood.  But then her husband 
dies and leaves her broke.  Now he's in good shape, because his wife 
decides to turn her into the family maid/sex slave... 

What's that?  He's waking up - what a shame.  Uh oh, it's his wife 
calling him.  He's got to get up out of his recliner and mow the lawn.  
Too bad.  He's already looking forward to his next trip to Testosterone 
Land.

Ratings for "A Friend in Need"
Athena (technical quality): 9  
Venus (plot & character): 7  
DG (appeal to reviewer): 7

* "Soft Ball or My Best Position" by Taria (Taria29c@aol.com).  
Guest review by Cellist.  {Note from Celeste: This was reposted as 
a Valentine for M1ke Hunt.}

Neither Fiddler nor Piper were available for this review, so 
Celeste turned it over to me, Cellist.  The story is about a sexy 
young lady who plays second-base on a coed softball team.  I have 
played second bass in the past, but now I play cello. 

The story takes place in the romantic environment of a sweaty 
softball game.  One day a sorta cute guy shows up as a substitute, 
but he wants to play second base, which position is already taken 
by the narrator, as I have said.  His name is Mike Hunter, but 
with some modification of the name he hopes some day to become a 
short story writer of sorts. I guess I should stop beating around 
the bush and come out and say it:  this is a parody of a Mike Hunt 
sex story. As a result of some incredible coincidences Mike and 
the young female baseball enthusiast have to shower together; and 
as fate would have it, they fuck their mutual brains out.

Fuck!  Now there's an interesting word. It's a word redolent of 
baseball imagery.  That's why Taria chose this scenario for her 
story.  In a story about softball this word and its immediate 
derivatives can express any of the following:

    Greetings      How the fuck are you?
    Immensity   Look at the size of that mother on first base.  
{fucker understood}
    Insignificance    That little fucker can't hit for shit.
    Dismay         Safe? The fuck he was!
    Trouble        Well, I guess we're fucked now.
    Aggression    Fuck you! {brings automatic ejection and a 
fine}.
    Safety           Don't fuck with the big mother on first base.
    Disgust          Fucking Celeste!  This review is stupid!
    Confusion      Where the fuck is the ball?
    Synonym for "very"   This story is fucking good.
    Difficulty       I don't understand this fucking game.
    Despair          "Fucked Again by Celeste" by Mike Hunt.
    Argumentation   You goddam motherfucking son-of-a-bitch 
cocksucker! {And I don't like you either!}
    Fraud           I got fucked by the umpire on the third 
strike.
    Incompetence     The umpire fucked up again.
    Distraction     He was fucking with a fan behind the dugout.
    Displeasure    What the fuck is going on here?
    Disbelief         That was an unbefuckinglieveable call!
    Disbelief, dismay, confusion, etc.    Fuck!  What's my wife 
doing in this bar?
    Inevitable defeat   We're fucked!  {because the other team is 
fucking good!}
    Retaliation      Up your fucking ass! {automatic ejection and 
fine}.
    Paradoxical impossibility   The umpire can go fuck himself! 
{But how?}
    Telling time    The game didn't start till 8-fucking-o'clock.
    Physics     I can't hit the fucking curve ball.
    Maternal instinct--  Goddam motherfucker! {automatic ejection 
and fine}.
   Sexuality    Holy fuck!  Where did you learn to do that?

Taria's best use of the F-word is her double-entendre reference to 
Mr. Hunter as a "pretty sneaky fuck."  On the downside, her most 
serious faux pas was saying that Mike gave her cunt the two-finger 
Boy Scout salute: the Boy Scout use three fingers - ask a girl 
scout (obviously, because their salute is with three fingers 
also.) Taria doesn't write quite like Mike Hunt, but who does?  
This is both an excellent parody and a superb story in its own 
right.

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

* "Marie" by Friar Dave.  When she was a little under 11 years old 
and had a body that was a bit advanced for her age, Marie made an 
important discovery.  She could become close to and even have sex 
with nice men, and she could turn them on and still have them treat 
her right, and it could be fun and sweet and pleasurable and not 
hateful or hurtful or scary.

The problem was that soon she loved sex, and she was used to 
getting it pretty much when she wanted it. And she was often horny 
as hell.  To use Marie's own expression, she was making Lolita look 
like a nun.

Marie's initial sexual contacts were with boys near her own age.  
She quickly graduated to more mature boys and to adult men.  Once 
she had experienced the more mature partners, she lost interest in 
younger boys.  She progresses to numerous hot, sexy adventures.

If we accept this as fiction - a nice story - then we're OK.  If we 
look at it as a case study - which is the format the author uses - 
then our choices are to regard this story as either (1) a very 
unusual set of circumstances or (2) a far-fetched fantasy.  The 
FACT is that there is an overwhelming tendency for girls who become 
sexually active this young to have adult lives that are at best far 
below their potential at and worst just plain miserable.  I have 
worked with kids who have been sexually active.  I am not talking 
about "kids" who get married and start a family when they are 17.  
I am talking about kids who start having constant sex when they are 
under 12 years old.  In general, when they become adults, they have 
no idea what real love is about.  They've lost their childhood.  
They almost invariably either drop out of school or just sit in a 
desk until the law permits them to leave.  They enter into a series 
of shallow sexual relationships as adults, and they almost never 
have what a sensible person would call a stable family.  My guess 
is that by their fiftieth birthday half of the kids I have known 
like this will be dead after an unhappy life.

I also serve as an informal counselor to a large number of well-
adjusted teenagers (by being the sponsor of various organizations), 
and my impression is that the sexual experiences of these kids 
begin much later in life.  Articles and case studies published in 
scientific journals confirm my perception.

It's possible that I'm getting a biased sample in my real life 
contacts.  I work with kids who are dysfunctional, and so maybe I 
just don't see the well-adjusted kids who have been having frequent 
sex since they were 11 years old.  It's POSSIBLE that the world is 
full of wonderful children like Marie who become sexually active 
before they turn 11, who are never sexually exploited, and whose 
lives are not permanently screwed up because of their early sexual 
experiences.  These kids would not come to my attention, because 
they look like normal kids and don't advertise the fact that 
they're fucking one another's brains out when I'm not looking.  
It's also important to note that even with the dysfunctional kids 
it may be the problems in the rest of their lives that lead to 
early sexual behavior rather than vice versa.  

What I most emphatically want to say is that I do NOT believe that 
any of you readers who started your sexual careers at a really 
early age are necessarily scarred for life because of this.  On the 
other hand, I hope you have the honesty to admit that maybe life 
would be better were it not for some early problems and mistakes.

Marie discovered early in this story that sex could be fun and 
sweet and pleasurable and not hateful or hurtful or scary.  I 
learned the same thing from my mother and from the happy 
environment in which I grew up.  Mom didn't let me look at porn 
magazines when I was really young, because they would "give me a 
wrong impression of sex and love." My father and mother were very 
affectionate in front of us, and I knew that someday I might get 
lucky and have a similar relationship.  She knew what kinds of 
movies I watched and casually offered me advice, including the 
encouragement to "save myself" for somebody I truly loved.  I had a 
full childhood and a happy athletic career in high school; and I 
cannot imagine my sex life being much better than it is right now - 
except when I get interesting ideas from these stories.  My advice 
to my own daughters has been similar; and had I ever suspected that 
one of them was engaging in precocious sexual behavior I would have 
done what I could have done to lead her to a more adaptive 
lifestyle.

Having stated my personal philosophy in the previous paragraphs, 
now I'll say that this is still an excellent story.  It's 
"realistic" in the sense that these events COULD happen to a person 
that would grow up to be a normal, functioning adult.  And if you 
read the whole story, I think you'll discover that Marie's eventual 
opinion of her life story is not all that different from my own.

The story is also just plain enjoyable - even to a person like 
myself who would discourage such behavior in real life.  I have 
close friends and relatives who adamantly insist that anything 
that's immoral, unwise, or unrealistic cannot be enjoyable.  That's 
just plain stupid.  When I watch Star Wars, I don't worry about the 
impact on their families of killing the storm troopers of the Evil 
Empire.  When I watch a movie about a clever bank robbery, I don't 
worry about the fact that such activity would ultimately influence 
how banks would operate and probably cause hardship for families 
with marginal incomes.  Get real!  It would be fun to rob a bank 
and get away with it (although I would never do it and it couldn't 
really be harmless in real life), and it would also be fun for a 
12-year-old to pull a train with a bunch of friendly 16-year-olds.  
Not wise, perhaps, but certainly fun.

Some people cite this as Friar Dave's best story.  I liked "Inger" 
better, but this one is still an excellent story.

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

* "Catty Corner" by Sue (SueNH@aol.com).  I loved this story.  So 
many writers on a.s.s. can describe hot sex; but Sue has the knack 
of putting it into the context of a really creative story.  This 
one comes with a double whammy - a voyeur watching a voyeur and 
then the voyeurs watching each other.  I just resolved earlier 
today to be a little rougher in my ratings.  I also resolved to 
give my husband a break from passion tonight.  Oh, well; there go 
my resolutions.

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

* "The Black Box" by Emerson Laken-Palmer (Reposted by who@why.not). 
Guest review by Anne747.

I'm trying to think of a way to review this story without giving away 
the plot.  So, I'll say the story is about mind control with a twist.  I 
guess I don't get the point of mind control stories.  The biggest charge 
I get out of sex is knowing the other person (or people) want to have 
sex... and with me.  Oops, since we're talking about stories, make that 
with each other.  A magic box or special powers just don't seem all that 
sexy.

When you meet someone that might not want you, well, the fun part is 
getting them to the stage where they do want you.  The slow seduction 
can be a great thing.  It can be hard to translate this well into an 
erotic story.  Having a `magic' solution just seems like an easy way out 
of explaining the scene, and making it more realistic.

Don't get me wrong, this isn't really a bad story.  You will have to 
read it to see what I mean about the twist.  I should mention that it's 
also an interracial story.  The narrator wonders about his own racist 
attitudes at times.  The thing is, I wonder if a black woman would ever 
shout, even in the throes of lust - "Lick my nigger pussy, white boy!"  
I suppose the answer is you never know.  There is a lot of overkill on 
the description of the woman in my book.  However, I know this is put in 
to emphasize the black/white relationship.

Ratings for "The Black Box"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 8
Anne747 (appeal to reviewer): 8
  
* "Rain" by Mark Aster (MyFrThAl@aol.com).  "Doesn't it get boring 
- all the time with the same guy?"  That question came not from an 
a.s.s. pervert, but from my teenage daughter a few years ago.  My 
answer was, "You would expect it to get boring; but surprisingly, 
no - not so far."  I raise the same question every time I read 
another story in the "My Friends the Allens" series; "Isn't this 
going to get boring."  I mean, all the author ever seems to write 
about is this wonderfully hot stud traveling with and servicing 
two well-adjusted and well-endowed young nymphomaniacs.  The sex 
is almost invariably hot and consensual.  It's gotta get boring 
some time.  But not yet.

In this episode, Our Hero reclines on a beach with one of the 
Allen sisters, while they watch another couple initiate and 
consummate passionate sex nearby.  Naturally, the voyeurs get 
turned on as well and make passionate love themselves, as a gentle 
rain begins to fall on them.  The description, the environment - 
the entire picture evoked in my mind as I read this story was 
really beautiful.  Another excellent story!

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

* "Rain" by M.M. Twassel (mmtwassel@aol.com).  "An orgasm is "like 
winning all the Nintendo games at once."  Those words are spoken 
by an 18-year old girl to an 11-year-old boy while both of them 
are watching from seclusion as two couples make it on the nearby 
beach.  The author has taken the story entitled "Rain" by Mark 
Aster, which I reviewed in the last issue of CR, and has 
introduced the perspective of the young boy and the other girl 
watching from a nearby sand dune.  I don't want to tell you much 
more about the story; you should read it for yourself.  It's a 
really sensitive and sexy story of emerging sexuality.  Although 
its title is "Rain," it's listed in the postings as "More Rain."

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

