Celestial Reviews 93 - June 22, 1996

Note:  Someone has opened a web page that contains my reviews of the 
Top 100 Stories of 1995 along with the stories themselves.   The 
address is

http://proffa.cc.tut.fi/~k113973/

I would like to express my appreciation to the owner of this web site 
for making these reviews and stories conveniently available to a broad 
audience.  (I have no connection with this web site other than granting 
permission to use my reviews and writing an Introduction.)

Note that the authors of these stories do not get paid for their 
efforts.  They would probably appreciate your constructive criticism.  
Their e-mail addresses can usually be found in either the reviews or 
the stories.

It may be possible for you to download these stories and read them off 
line.  To do this, use your browser to select the desired text, copy 
it, and paste it into your word processor.  You can then leave the web 
site and read the material at your convenience.  This will permit more 
readers to have convenient access to the web site.  If you download 
stories in this way, please respect the copyright of the original 
authors.

If this works out well, maybe the same person will continue this 
service with the Top 100 Stories of 1996 - and perhaps someone else 
will offer a similar service for my monthly Top 15 lists.

Second Note:  Here are the names and addresses of some people who 
archive their own or others’ stories:

Mark Aster has set up a Web site with all the Allens stories:  
http://users.aol.com/myfrthal/

There is a Web site for Deirdre stories.  If someone sends me the 
address, I’ll post it.

Robot Fetish stories are posted at: 
http://users.aol.com/robotdoll/asfr.html

Celestial Reviews are posted at: http://www.emi.u-
bordeaux.fr/~jay/Celeste

Elf Sternberg stories are posted at: 
http://www.halcyon.com/elf/index.html

Sisters Ng stories are posted at:  
http://members.aol.com/deidreng/index.htm

Tooshoes, the author of the Supergirl stories, has a site at 
http://www.netcom.com/~tooshoes/PenPartners.html

Warthog stories are posted at: 
http://www.connect.net/linetwo/stories.html

Estragon’s stories are posted at:
ftp://unix.tpe.com/pub/estragon

The Wulf stories (and some others) are archived at:
http://www.teleport.com/~marawuti.

If any of these are no longer current or if there are others I should 
add, please contact me.  I am interested only in free, non-commercial 
sites.  However, I’ll also plug the following organization; although 
they charge for membership, they GIVE stories away to non-members.  (I 
suppose they hope you’ll eventually join.)

The BackDrop Club  offers a service of helping people who are looking for a 
specific file, story, or a chapter or section of a story. If you are an adult 
and know the name of the file you wish to receive, send a request using the 
following format:

TO:       file.archives@backdrop.com
SUBJECT:  (the name of the file you wish as a single word)

I HAVE used this service myself, and it is my opinion that it is NOT a 
rip-off.  If you need more information, contact robin@backdrop.com.  
The BackDrop Club also has a Web Page at http://www.fantasies.com.

- Celeste

      “The Lifeguard” by Unknown Author (lifeguard sex)
            7, 6, 6
      “Open Big” by Thomas A. Long (dental sex) 10, 9, 10
      “Shades of Sex” by K. Alan Brask (masturbation &
            exhibitionism) 7, 9, 9
     *“Terri’s Dilemma” by The Observer (romance) 10, 10, 10
     *“The Photographer’s Daughters” by The Observer (people
            in heat) 9.5, 9, 9
     *“Meeting Shirley” by The Observer (romance) 9.5, 10, 10
      “Peer Pressure” by Wollstonecraft (rough first time sex)
            10, 10, 10 
      “Fruit of the Vine” by Wollstonecraft (rough first time sex)
            9.5, 9.5, 9.5
      “Safe Sex” by Wollstonecraft (rough first time sex)
            9, 10, 10
      “Bushido” by Sachi Mizuno (sex in Medieval Japan)
            10, 10, 10
      “Paying the Price” by Boomer (wife watching)  3, 5, 3
      “The Virgin” by Jessica Lovecraft (older woman, younger 
            man) 3, 3, 3

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

“The Lifeguard” by Unknown Author.  This story was listed as megan.txt.  
There are a lot of stories by that name.  I keep looking a good one 
that I vaguely remeber and keep finding these others.  This one is the 
first offering from a new but unnamed author.  Dave and Megan are 
lifeguards.  Dave fucks Megan after work.  It’s an interesting story, 
but it’s been told many times before; and it’s not as carefully written 
as the best stories in this newsgroup.

Ratings for “The Lifeguard”
Athena (technical quality): 7
Venus (plot & character): 6
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 6

“Open Big” by Thomas A. Long (pantsuit@prairienet.org).  This is a very 
good story, but it is somewhat confusing and therefore hard to 
describe.  Transparently about the dental orifice, it focuses on oral 
and anal sex, giving little attention to nasal sex.  Apparently I am 
not the only person who uses sexual fantasies to ward off the potential 
pain that the dentist might inflict.  For my part, I make a specific 
effort not to get too turned on in the dentist’s chair, even though I 
engage in sexual fantasies while the dentist does his sadistic work.  
My goal is to use good thoughts to ward off bad ones; I’m paying good 
money, and I am interested in good teeth, not good head.

I prepare for my visits to the dentist by copulating frantically with 
my husband at least twice the night before the visit; and I have 
actually been known to cancel an appointment because I couldn’t 
complete my preparations.  Do you think the dentist or his hygienist 
suspect what goes on in my mind?  I do get pretty relaxed and horny 
when the nitrous oxide kicks in; but I try to think about quiet, sexy 
scenes from the past, and I deliberately exclude the person whose 
breasts are dangling just inches from my doped up face and the guy 
holding the gadget that could do wonders for my cunt or ass at thirty 
thousand rpm with the proper attachment.  Am I wrong in suspecting that 
my dentist’s chair is not as virginal as the typical cheerleader at a 
Baptist summer camp?  This is all very confusing; and so is the story.  
But it’s very funny!

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

“Shades of Sex” by K. Alan Brask (abrask@worm.hooked.net).  The woman 
is lounging alone in the hot tub of her apartment complex, having 
passed up a date for that night.  She sees a pair of human shadows 
projected onto the window shade in a nearby apartment - shadows 
performing an activity that she would prefer to her own solitude.  She 
starts masturbating.  After verifying that she is alone, the woman 
sheds her bikini bottoms in order to gain more direct access to the 
target area.  Suddenly a young man arrives at the hot tub.  Blissfully 
unaware of what she is doing, he initiates innocent small talk.  
Covered only by the bubbly foam of the hot tub and possessed by a 
desire to finish up what she has started, the woman is determined to 
continue her good work without letting the man know what is happening.  

This is an excellent story, but it could use some stylistic 
improvement.  Sex in dangerous or semi-public places is a major turn-on 
for me - as long as I can avoid detection, rape, or arrest.

Ratings for “Shades of Sex”
Athena (technical quality): 7
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

*"Terri's Dilemma" by The Observer (lsummers@onramp.onramp.net).  This 
author is determined to become an excellent writer.  Here he has 
revised a story to which I already gave high ratings and which ranked 
number 5 on my Top 15 list for April.  The revisions have indeed led to 
improvements in an already good story, and I have boosted his ratings 
as far as they can go.  I am repeating the original review here.

The narrator has been keeping company with Terri as a sort of favor to 
the family.  Her boyfriend is in the army, and somebody has to hang out 
with her.  The story opens with Terri giving the narrator a ferocious 
slap for no good reason. He responds with a grim determination to take 
the bitch home and dump her for good.  However, as every British 
schoolgirl knows, when a girl slaps a guy for no discernible reason, 
it's because she loves him.  And if the recipient of the aggression 
would simply get a grip on himself, he would realize that the emotions 
are reciprocal.

I'm not going to retell the story; the fun is in finding out what's 
going to happen.  I'll only say that in many ways this story is a 
fusion of the previous two stories in this review.  Like "Old Friends" 
this story is built around power struggles; and like “Lisa” it 
describes the fruition of a relationship that began badly.  Oh - I 
almost forgot.  The sex scenes are some of the hottest ever; and their 
heat is intensified by the chemistry of the context.

One thing I had trouble with was the anal sex scene.  I have come to 
the conclusion that anal sex is uniquely personal.  This story and 
several others describe it as painful.  I have engaged in anal sex with 
a loving partner, and I have experienced no pain.  The guy in this 
story seems to want to dominate his lover and she wants to be 
dominated.  Domination is not a conscious part of my anal sex.  I like 
anal sex because it’s a violation of a taboo that’s just waiting to be 
broken; it’s a way to be nasty without really being nasty at all.  I 
think the secret lies in having a gentle lover who has rimmed the 
asshole tenderly and has finger fucked it on previous occasions and who 
uses plenty of lubrication when he finally rams his dick home.  
Remember, the ass doesn't naturally lubricate, and it may be useful to 
withdraw and add some extra KY before finishing the job.  I guess the 
other part of the secret is to relax and enjoy it; if you're tense, I 
guess it might hurt like hell.  I have learned to relax and enjoy it so 
much that once when I had to have a barium enema I was afraid I would 
have a sexual climax in the examination room through association with 
anal sex.  We engage in anal sex less often than in other forms, but I 
would describe the feeling as slutty (in the best sense of the word) 
and very filling.  {In my fantasy life, I would like to have one cock 
in my cunt and one in my ass.}  In addition, there's the side advantage 
of making me look forward to my next GI series.

This is an extremely creative and generally well-written story. The 
author uses a nice variety of stylistic techniques.  I especially liked 
the way the narrator's perspective kept changing as Terri's behaviors 
shifted in response to the narrator’s own actions.  I also liked the 
wide variety of writing styles that the author blended into an 
integrated story.

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

*“The Photographer’s Daughters” by The Observer 
(lsummers@onramp.onramp.net).  This author has continued to revise and 
upgrade his earlier stories.  I don’t have time to write a complete new 
review of this story, but I want to acknowledge that he is reposting 
the story with revisions.  Although I have not had time to give the 
story more than a cursory glance, I think it is safe to assume that the 
already high ratings would be even higher now.

Bob the Photographer lived across the hall from the Narrator of this 
story.  Bob had two daughters to speak of; hence, the title of this 
story.  The first daughter was Julie, an 18-year-old of dubious virtue 
whose only thinking apparatus was between her legs.  Part one describes 
the initial emboikment of Julie by the Narrator.

Wendy (Part 2) was sixteen years old.  She was as much of a slut as her 
sister, and then some.  But she ignored the Narrator, and he ignored 
her, no doubt because of his scruples concerning having sexual 
relations with young girls.  Then Bob went out one night and asked his 
friendly neighbor to keep an eye on Wendy.  Needless to say, our 
Narrator fucked the hell out of the sweet young tramp and sent her home 
to her mother and her boyfriend in another state, so that she could 
give Bob a grandchild nine months later.

For Part 3 I figured there would be a third daughter, but instead Julie 
returned and began playing mattress tag with our Narrator on a daily 
basis, since her wealthy fiance was a bit of a drag.  She went off the 
pill, and our narrator disliked condoms. This was not really a problem, 
since he and Julie and the fiance were all so virtuous; and besides, he 
decided to teach Julie to like oral sex.  He developed an elaborate 
plan to get Julie pregnant the night before she married the other guy, 
but I can’t tell you whether it worked.

This is an interesting story, even though it doesn’t have a clearly 
focused plot.  I started out thinking these people were hormonally 
imbalanced imbeciles with no brains or emotions outside their genitals, 
but then their personalities developed as the story went on.  The 
author writes in several different styles, and this makes for 
interesting reading.  I enjoyed this story.

Ratings for “The Photographer’s Daughters”
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

*“Meeting Shirley” by The Observer (observer@onramp.net).  When this 
author originally posted this story, I incorrectly believed he was 
trying to tie it in with “The Photographer’s Daughters.”  Not true; it 
ties in with “Terri’s Dilemma.”  This makes better sense, and I revoke 
my chastisement.  In addition, I noticed that in his revision the 
author took my suggestion and at least made “Damn you Charlie” a 
subtitle.  I don’t have time to re-review the whole story; so here’s a 
corrected version of the original review.

The man likes women who are a challenge:  sexy, smart, classy, devious, 
and underhanded - with a whim of iron.   As a favor to a friend, 
however, he agrees to take a frumpy young lady to dinner.  After she 
changes clothes, she becomes beautiful - even enchanting, if non-French 
men would ever use that word.  {Usually it works the other way, I’m 
told: beauty deteriorates geometrically during the first twelve hours - 
except near closing time.  As one of my former professors used to say 
whenever he talked about nuances among synonyms: “She was a vision in 
the evening, and a sight in the morning.”}  Unfortunately, the 
protagonist has promised his friend not to seduce this young lady.

The chemistry between them is obvious.  I don’t know when I have read 
so many hot lines before any sex has occurred.

I think I once berated this author for dangling his modifiers.  He has 
reformed almost completely - almost: “Alone at last with Shirley, my 
cock was making its presence known even more than it had numerous times 
during the day.”

Incidentally, if I were the author of this story, I would have gone 
with “Damn you Charlie” for its title.  

One problem I had with this story was that it ended a bit up in the 
air.  The author starts a new subplot near the end and doesn’t finish 
the first plot.  This was a bad place to break the story, but he 
promises a continuation this week.

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

“Peer Pressure” by Wollstonecraft (an285729@anon.penet.fi).  In the 
past Terry has said no to guys who wanted her to go to 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

“Fruit of the Vine” by Wollstonecraft (an285729@anon.penet.fi).  The 
girl has been drinking, and her boyfriend has been nice enough to find 
her a quiet, cool place to lie down.  As she feels her jeans being 
pulled down over her hips, she vaguely thinks she ought to protest; but 
she can’t understand why. The fondling fingers on her body feel so 
good, especially when they press into the soft globes of her ass, 
lifting her off the bed, sliding her jeans down her legs.  Her torment 
over her virginity slipping away and her immediate realization that she 
is probably pregnant become trivial when she is faced with the 
knowledge that the guy who fucked her was not even her boyfriend, but a 
total stranger.

Things work out; it’s just a major change in her way of life. She 
discovers that there are a lot of guys who love to fuck knocked-up 
bitches and who pay quite well for the privilege.  If she manages 
things right, she can simply become a whore and maintain this new 
lifestyle for a long time.  The one aspect of the story that I disliked 
was the fact that the guy who popped the girl’s cherry was a black man.  
This detail was presented with a racially demeaning nuance: not only 
did the girl get deflowered by a stranger while she was drunk, but to 
make matters worse the guy was a scruffy black guy.  I don’t think this 
racial slur contributed to the story, and I would have liked to have 
seen it omitted.

Ratings for “Fruit of the Vine”
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5

“Safe Sex” by Wollstonecraft (an285729@anon.penet.fi). The girl is hot 
for the boy.  They have engaged in mutual oral sex, but the girl is 
still a virgin.  She doesn’t want to get pregnant. He shows up with a 
condom.  With no further reason to say no, she accepts his cock inside 
her; but in the heat of passion they forget to use the condom.  Too 
late; she’s pregnant; they get married.  Five years later she tries it 
just one more time with another man.  Ooops; she’s pregnant; they get 
divorced.

The author describes this and the preceding two stories as a “variation 
on a theme.”  One way to state that theme is to say that it’s a good 
idea to decide on a set of rules ahead of time and then to live your 
life in such a way that you won’t deviate from these rules by accident.  
In other words, if you’re going to make decisions that will radically 
change your way of life, you might want to try to make those decisions 
on purpose - not by default.  My mother taught me the same lesson when 
I was a teenager.  This version is more interesting than the way my 
mother tried to teach me that message - and more likely to be 
convincing to a teenager.  Oddly enough, my mother’s sermon would be 
acceptable in churches, whereas holy people would like to ban these 
stories from the Internet.  Go figure.

The stories are NOT simply sermons or parables.  The sex in them is 
graphic and erotic; but anybody who thinks at all about these plots is 
likely to conclude that the girl came out behind on each of the 
exchanges.  These stories make that point better than most moral 
lectures.  I was going to suggest using stories like these to enlighten 
teenagers; but the better idea would be to let kids know that they 
exist and then to forbid them to read “this kind of trash.”  This would 
insure that the kids would read them and possibly gain some useful 
insights.

Ratings for “Safe Sex”
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5

“Bushido” by Sachi Mizuno (71022.251@compuserve.com).  I truly enjoy 
historical novels and televised miniseries with  historical themes.  
Likewise, I enjoy reading about sex in a historical context.  The 
present story takes place in Medieval Japan - during the Tokugawa 
shogunate, which would place it in the early 1600’s.  I am familiar 
with this period of Japanese history from other sources, and the 
customs and events in this story seem to be extremely accurate.  For 
example, the daimyo (lords) really were hereditary warriors who were 
governed by a code of ethics - bushido (which means "the way of the 
warrior") - that defined service and conduct appropriate to their 
status as elite members of Japanese society.  In addition, during the 
Tokugawa shogunate sons of the daimyo were routinely sent to the 
capital at Edo to serve as hostages in order to assure the good 
behavior of their fathers.  A glaring exception to the overall accuracy 
is that in the first chapter the daimyo considers Tokugawa to be a weak 
and almost effeminate ruler.  This is grotesquely inaccurate, and 
surely the author knows this. I suspect that in a later chapter the 
daimyo will realize his mistake.  

The first chapter is full of political intrigue and sex.  I do NOT know 
for certain how accurately this story portrays the sex life of Japanese 
lords in the 17th century, but the presentation was certainly 
believable.  In addition, the chapter that I sampled was just plain 
well written.  If I were not already overwhelmed with numerous good 
stories to review for this newsgroup, this is certainly a book I would 
read.  The publisher has a Web Page at http://users.aol.com/specpress.

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

“Paying the Price” by Boomer (boomer@undernet.com).  This story 
consists of three paragraphs: a semi-literate introduction and 
conclusion, and an extremely long, rambling, main paragraph that is 
nearly devoid of spelling, punctuation, and grammar.  The gist of the 
story is that Julie gets plastered; her husband is too far gone himself 
to take her upstairs; and the black friend not only takes her upstairs, 
he also fucks her comatose brains out - with the hubby’s blessing, of 
course.  The gentleman has a “monster cock” twice the size of the 
husband’s, and he is genuinely grateful for the good fuck; but the wife 
is probably going to dump hubby when she delivers a black baby in a 
month or so.  

Let me get this straight. The man’s wife is a sex goddess who was 
completely blitzed and has no recollection of the sexual activity that 
got her pregnant.  Hubby wants to retain his franchise to fuck her; but 
she’s going to become suspicious when she gives birth to an infant 
whose skin color will suggest that the ole man is not the papa and will 
want to divorce him.  Apparently they are deeply religious people - I 
would assume that’s why abortion has not been an option.  The trouble 
with men is that they never watch soap operas.  Given these 
circumstances, the man should simply feign indignity and accuse HER of 
being unfaithful when the child is born.

Ratings for “Paying the Price”
Athena (technical quality): 3
Venus (plot & character): 5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 3

“The Virgin” by Jessica Lovecraft. I downloaded this story from the THC 
Public archive primarily because I liked the sound of the author’s 
name.  It’s about an older woman who has sex with a younger man.  The 
THC stories are of uneven quality; this is one of the weak ones.

Ratings for “The Virgin”
Athena (technical quality): 3
Venus (plot & character): 3
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 3


