Celestial Reviews 103 - July 27, 1996

Note:  I get literally hundreds of requests from people I don’t know 
who want me to send them copies of stories or at least to tell them 
where they can find the stories I review.  I don’t have time to respond 
to these messages individually.

All the stories that I review are found on alt.sex.stories.  They are 
almost always posted within a few days of the time when my reviews 
appear.  Many authors are kind enough to repost their stories after I 
review them. Furthermore, I post monthly and annual lists of Top 
Stories, and authors whose stories make these lists often repost their 
stories.

In addition, many authors have Web Sites at which their stories can be 
found.  Here is a list of web sites that I know about.  

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

Some hot femdom stories can be found at
http://www.webcom.com/~akasha/

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

Cindy archives her own stories and some others at
http://members.aol.com/cyntil8ing

A good set of TG stories by several authors is found at
http://satchmo.physik.TU-
Berlin.DE/~zirzlaff/nienor/pub/Stories/Nostrumos_Book/

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 apparently some others) are archived at:
http://www.teleport.com/~marawuti.

Mary Anne Mohanraj posts her own stories at
http://mud.bsd.uchicago.edu.

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

If any of these are no longer current or if there are others I should 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.

Another interesting service is the "Diana Rhodes Efficient Amazon Mail 
Story-server," DREAMS for short.  This service archives and will 
automatically mail to you upon request several of my Top 100 Stories of 
last year plus many other stories.  To get help, send for the document 
help01 by sending a message to na644546@anon.penet.fi.  The subject of 
that email should be "Request story".The content of the email should 
be:

X-Story-code: help01
X-address: youraddress@server.com
X-Declaration: I am over 18 years old

Second Note: Another source of stories might be the reposts that often 
appear in flurries on a.s.s.  If you use my reviews as a basic list, 
you may be able to find many of the stories in these reposts.   
Currently THC is reposting a huge archive of stories, which are of 
uneven quality and several of which I have reviewed in recent weeks.  
EBS is also reposting stories, mostly of poor to medium quality and 
with bdsm themes.  Somebody else is reposting stories labeled “TG 
Repost”; and these are almost always of high quality - but they 
invariably have transgender plots that might not appeal to everyone.

An unnamed reposter is currently reposting 71 stories, which usually 
appear in sets of about 20 stories, with “Repost:” beginning each title 
line.  The advantage here is that the reposter is posting only what 
he/she considers to be “good” stories; and so if your opinion of good 
coincides with his/her opinion (and mine often does), you may find a 
large number of good stories.  Ironically, although the author says, “I 
did not write these stories; the credit should go to the authors,” the 
names of all the authors have been systematically omitted.  I hate this 
omission of authorship, not only for reasons I have previously stated 
but also because it makes it impossible for a reader to verify that a 
story is really the one I am looking for.  For example, one repost was 
labeled “Brandi,” but it is not the story to which I gave a positive 
rating in CR 102 - although it does appear to be a pretty good story in 
its own right.  Likewise, the author claims that the stories “should be 
complete”; but I noted that “Bird Watchers” - an excellent story - is 
far from complete.  However, even though it is not the whole story, the 
segment of “Bird Watchers” that is reposted does contain a whole 
episode from the original story, and so it is likely to be enjoyable to 
readers who are unaware that they are missing a lot more.  {Please do 
not write to me asking to send you the “missing parts.”  I won’t do it; 
and I won’t respond to the request.  My time and generosity are 
finite.}  My advice is (1) that readers might like to check out this 
person’s reposts and (2) that this person should post the authors’ 
names with their stories, if he/she really wants the credit to “go to 
the authors.”

Third Note:  At school I have access to the Deja News search engine.  I 
have found that I can locate and download almost any recent story by 
simply typing its title or (usually more simply) the author’s e-mail 
name (e.g., Celeste801) into the search box.  If you are able to access 
this service, you should be able to get this issue’s “Trinity Trilogy” 
stories (for example), by seraching for “Trinity Trilogy stbush.”  I 
imagine you could get “Caitlin's Tale” by simply searching for Caitlin, 
since that is an unsual name.  I do not get a commission from Deja News 
for telling you this; and I suggest that you be careful not to leave 
traces (as in Netscape’s GO or BOOKMARK menus) that will accidentally 
give children access to these stories.

- Celeste

      “Discovery" by Michael K. Smith (romance) 10, 10, 10
      “Trinity Trilogy Novel 3/14” by Tom Trinity 
            (relationships) 10, 9.5, 9.5
      “A Mid Winter Night’s Sex Dream” by Mike Mize (romantic
            sex) 8, 8, 8
      “Igrayne” by Uther Pendragon (knightly sex) 9, 8, 8
      “Office Girl” by Parker (blackmail & white slavery) 10, 10, 9
      “The Surprise” by Charles Kessler (bdsm) 9.5, 8, 6
      “Bobbie’s Special Half-Time” by The Warthog (orgy)
            9.5, 8, 6
      “Happy Days” by Uncle Mike (Sitcom parody) 10, 9, 9
      “Feeding Frenzy” by Unknown Author (mindless sex)
            8, 8, 9
      “Role Reversal” by Unknown Author (sex with the car hop)
            10, 8, 9
      “Housecleaning” by Warlock (romantic quickie) 6, 8, 9
     *"Caitlin's Tale" by Lysander (historical romance) 10, 6, 10

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

“Discovery" by Michael K. Smith (mksmith@metronet.com).  The guy works 
in the library reference area, and an attractive girl whom he would 
like to meet accidentally drops her purse on the floor.  Instead of 
picking it up for her, he waits for her to leave and then retrieves the 
purse.  He checks its contents.  What will he do?  If this were a 
Parker story, he would try to use the information obtained from the 
purse to stalk its owner and make her into his sexual slave.  However, 
Parker is a complex author; and so the guy might wind up becoming HER 
sexual slave.

If the author were either SueNH or Ann Douglas, the guy would return 
the purse but would first look in the window of her house or apartment 
and discover her making love to her female roommate.  He would probably 
knock on the door, and the purse’s owner would recognize him as the 
author of several of her favorite stories on a prominent Internet 
newsgroup and would invite him to join the festivities.  The sex would 
be explicitly described and wildly erotic, but nothing much kinkier 
than three-way sex.

If the author were Backrub or one of the Ng sisters, the range of 
possibilities would expand rapidly, depending on the mood of the 
author.  The guy might find Tammy’s diary in the purse, read it, and 
insert himself into her love life.  The purse would almost certainly 
contain at least one dildo and probably several other sextoys.  
{Indeed, if this were a story by May Anne Mohanraj, the story might be 
told from the perspective of the dildo.}  The woman to whom the guy 
returns the purse might be a vampire.  Almost certainly there would be 
passionate heterosexual activity,  and it is not particularly likely 
that the guy would die during the ensuing action.

If Wollstonecraft wrote the story, the guy would return the purse; but 
the woman would be either a nun or a member of a coven of witches.  
They would be hostile to him, until he offered to impregnate them all 
during a wild orgy, at which time they would become submissive but 
passionate.  It is very possible that somebody might die during the 
ensuing orgies.

If Mark Aster were the author, the girl would be Pat Allen, the lovely 
and vivacious older sister of the equally lovely and vivacious Julie 
Allen.  When he returned the purse, the guy would find its owner making 
tender love to her sister and to an extremely sexy stud in a 
metaphorically rich environment.  They would invite him to join the 
festivities, and the author would choreograph his orgasm to coincide 
emphatically with those of the Three Amigos.

If Joe Parsons wrote this story, the guy would call the girl and have a 
really nice, erotic conversation with her.  It would be a truly 
delightful conversation, but he would later receive a bill for $240.

If this were Stephanie’s story, the girl would really be a guy who just 
looked like a girl - actually, he would be both a guy and a girl.  This 
would be the first of ? parts to be posted over a period of 14 months.  
If this were by Estragon, the plot would be similar to Stephanie’s; but 
the number of parts would keep changing.  If it were by Vickie Tern, 
the plot would again be similar, except that the girl would be a guy 
who had become a girl to please a wife who really wanted a girlfriend 
with whom she could pick up men.  Also, the guy would be a hair stylist 
rather than a library assistant.  In addition, the story would have 
been revised three times since Vickie first posted it yesterday.

If this were written by Shelby Bush, the story would be a parody of 
“Murphy Brown.”  The guy would try to return the purse, but Murphy 
would be interviewing Ralph Nader, with whom she is secretly in love 
but cannot get off first base.  I’m unclear on the specifics, but 
somehow during an early part of the story Hillary Clinton would become 
involved in a menage a trois with Murphy and Ralph, while the guy 
watched and masturbated with a defective dildo, which Nader would 
eventually work into a class-action lawsuit.  Later, Dan Quayle would 
have trouble spelling the plural of dildo and would express the opinion 
that he was glad he studied Latin in high school, in case he wanted to 
have sex with a woman from Latin America.  If this were an Uncle Mike 
story, it would still be a parody of Murphy Brown; but the guy would be 
a blind man whose dog would sodomize Murphy.

Of course, if this were Deirdre’s story, the man would return the 
purse, only to find its owner living in an old warehouse that she 
shared with seventeen other women who spent most of their time nakedly 
worshipping a female dom who fucked them anally with a large dildo 
shaped like a snake while their husbands hung by their feet from meat 
hooks and sucked each other’s cocks.  Although he would be the narrator 
of the story, the guy would never be seen again.

If I wrote the story myself, the guy would return the purse to the 
woman, but she would be a bit of a jerk.  She would leave on a date 
with someone else, but the guy would become attracted to her roommate - 
a socially mature, intelligent person who would discuss world politics 
with him over a banana split, which they would share.  After dating for 
several months, he would propose to her.  They would engage in heavy 
petting, but they would not have sexual intercourse until the night of 
their wedding, which would occur in a beautiful church in the presence 
of their fully clothed friends.  None of their relatives (nor the 
priest) would have intercourse with either of them on their wedding 
night, but the couple would see metaphorical fireworks as they together 
explored the wonders of each other’s bodies.

If Dirty Dawg wrote the story, the plot would be similar to mine, 
except that the guy would first treat the girl badly, then realize ten 
years later what he had missed and make it up to her during a whirlwind 
courtship climaxing in tender, multiorgasmic sex.  If Frank McCoy or 
The Bear were the author, the plot would again be similar to mine, 
except that the girl would be much younger - probably the guy’s 
daughter.  The Observer’s plot would likewise be similar to mine; but 
it would be spread out over about six different stories and would have 
been edited by all the other authors mentioned in this review.

If this were a porn movie instead of a short story, the woman would be 
Tori Wells, playing a character named either Eustacia Vye or Pussy 
Galore - both of which names have amazingly appeared in the non-
censored media (one more amazingly than the other).  The college kid 
would be played by a middle-aged fat guy, perhaps Ron Jeremy.  Ron 
would follow Tori when she left the library, but we would never see her 
again - except on the jacket of the videotape.  Ron would go through a 
door into a cheap motel room with a beautiful fireplace, where he would 
have oral sex with a listless woman named Randi Cunt, who very well 
might be the inspiration for all those dumb blonde jokes I see on 
rec.humor, while a Scandinavian guy with long blond hair and a black 
guy with a monster cock did a double penetration on her.  The actual 
action would take about three minutes, but clever looping would consume 
fifteen minutes, while Randi said clever things like, “I love your big 
cock” and “Cum on my face.”  Indeed, all three men would cum 
externally, and Randi would rub the cum or a mixture of flour and water 
all over her body while she said things like “oooooo!~  

I apologize to all the authors whose works I did not satirize in the 
previous paragraphs - as well as to those whom I did mention.  The 
story’s actual plot was quite interesting and contained elements of 
several of my proposed story lines.  One of Smith’s main strengths is 
his ability to write highly literate and realistic stories from many 
different perspectives.  I find him pleasantly difficult to predict.

All I’ll add about the plot is that I think it gives a nearly perfect 
treatment of romantic interracial sex.  As I’ve said before, I am a 
white woman with a black brother-in-law whom I really enjoy knowing but 
who is not reputed to have unusual sexual proclivities.  I get tired of 
reading stories that are labeled “interracial” in which black guys with 
“monster cocks” service white women or white guys screw black “sluts.”  
This story takes a completely different (yet sexy and socially 
responsible) perspective on interracial sex. 

I think you’ll enjoy reading this story.  I certainly did.

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

“Trinity Trilogy Novel 3/14” by Tom Trinity (stbush@iglou.com).  This 
segment ends with these words: “All right, you guys, what do TWO rubber 
bands mean?" I’ll bet if you’re real creative and think real hard you 
can figure out what two rubber bands might mean - especially if you’ve 
ever had a college roommate.

For those readers who joined us late, the “Trinity Trilogy” stories are 
a loosely organized series of 99 stories that were posted by an author 
named Tom over a period of several years.  Shelby Bush has kept in 
touch with this author, who prefers to remain anonymous; and Shelby has 
edited and reorganized the stories into the “Trinity Trilogy Novel.”  
Shelby has agreed to repost the novel in 14 segments (one segment of 
several stories each Saturday), and I am briefly reviewing each segment 
as it appears.

The stories generally describe what I’ll call consensual, hedonistic 
sex.  In each of the segments so far the protagonists (a male and two 
females) have had some wild times with each other and with a few 
outsiders.  The present segment is loosely focused around the 
attendance of the trio at science fiction conventions in Chicago and 
New Orleans.

In the first story in this installment we witness CB sex with truckers.  
From the narrative you might get the impression that the Knights of the 
Road like it when two people with handles like Pretty Kitty and Red Hot 
Momma first give notice and then flash a whole convoy while the red 
airhead passes.  Actually, the truckers would consider this to be a 
road hazard and would insist that these women cease and desist.  At 
least that’s what a trucker once told me.

The second story describes sex on a rooftop of a hotel.  This story was 
very short, very sexy, and very realistic.  Rooftop sex can be great, 
especially if the roof overlooks something really scenic.  The first 
time my husband and I ever did it on a rooftop, we had gone there to 
finish an argument.  We were at a party in the hotel, and he got upset 
with me for flirting with another man and I countered with an 
accusation that he had been ignoring me.  In retrospect neither 
accusation was true, but we left the party and went to the roof to 
avoid making bigger fools of ourselves.  The roof had plants and 
benches and chairs; during the day people probably went there to sun 
bathe.  While we were being unpleasant to each other, we heard another 
couple approaching.  We moved to the other side of the roof to avoid 
detection and to continue our hostilities.  A few minutes later we 
looked through some plant leaves and saw a young couple making tender 
love.  We immediately realized our argument was silly and decided that 
we could probably also make love ourselves without detection; and we 
probably could have, except that a third couple came to the roof.  That 
final couple just held hands and looked at the lights below and the 
stars above, but meanwhile the other couple quickly grabbed their own 
clothes and ran to hide when they heard the new couple arriving.  This 
paragraph is now almost as long as the story I am reviewing; but to 
keep it from becoming even longer, I’ll simply say that they surprised 
the hell out of us.  Even with my lips wrapped snugly around his cock, 
my husband managed to keep his cool; and he calmly said to them, “If 
you won’t tell, we won’t.”  They did their thing; we did ours; and we 
never saw them again after we snuck back down to our party.  Anyway, 
since that night I tend to believe rooftop stories.

The third story is a fantasy about Tom being Captain Kirk of Star Trek 
fame.  A sweet young humanoid from another planet sucks his joiner and 
then mates with him.  It’s a different type of story; I found it to be 
hilarious but erotic.  When his partner gets turned on, she screams, 
“I'm budding, I'm budding!" and then “Pollinate me!” shortly before she 
climaxes.

In the fourth story, Tom and Candy meet Judy’s mother, who looks like 
Dolly Parton and is sexually active and interested in young men.  ‘Nuff 
said.  In the fifth story, it’s Tom’s birthday; and the girls blow out 
his candle - and I don’t mean the one on the cake.  The fifth and sixth 
stories are closely related to each other, and the final line is Candy 
standing outside the door of the hotel room and saying, “All right, you 
guys, what do TWO rubber bands mean?" As I said at the beginning of 
this review, I’ll bet you can figure out what two rubber bands might 
mean.

Ratings for “Trinity Trilogy Novel 3/14”
Athena (technical quality):9.5
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

“A Mid Winter Night’s Sex Dream” by Mike Mize.  This is a repost from 
EBS (an349772@anon.penet.fi).  The story describes a man and woman who 
go upstairs to their apartment on a cold winter night and make 
passionate love.  It’s a nice story - nothing exceptional, but a nice 
story.

Ratings for “A Mid Winter Night’s Sex Dream”
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

“Office Girl” by Parker (an210088@anon.penet.fi).  The college girl has 
accepted a boring summer job.  Someone from another company offers her 
a large amount of money for some survey results.  She agrees to the 
terms, but she gets caught stealing the information.  Either she must 
do what her superiors demand or they will report her to the police.  
She has become that saddest wretch of a.s.s. - the moral (or immoral) 
equivalent of the trapped tenant farmer or coal miner locked into the 
company store; she has become a sex slave.  The story describes in 
detail some creative forms of humiliation to keep the girls ensnared in 
what used to be called white slavery.

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

“Igrayne” by Uther Pendragon (an569889@anon.penet.fi) This author 
writes under the pseudonym of the father of King Arthur.  It was Uther 
Pendragon - not his son Arthur - who established the Round Table on 
Merlyn's advice. Uther later found his true heir (Arthur) through the 
ole sword-in-the-stone test.  In this story, Uther is perceived through 
Merlyn’s sorcery by the defenders of the castle to be the their Duke.  
And as the Duke he gets to make love to the duchess (the eventual 
mother of King Arthur), which indeed he does in excruciating detail.  
It’s good to have a sorcerer on your side; in this case Merlyn even 
supplied Uther with an herb that had an enchantment against morning 
breath.  Imagine that.  

Through the use of descriptive language and metaphors the story 
attempts to create an atmosphere that makes the age of chivalry come 
alive.  That approach worked; but I personally found the descriptions 
of sexual activity to be TOO detailed - almost tedious.  I found myself 
thinking something like, “Alright, already!  Fuck her and get on with 
your life!”

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

“The Surprise” by Charles Kessler (kessler@net-market.com).  This is a 
story about a man who has been helping his wife expand her limits by 
inflicting pain on her to teach her to be submissive.  She loves this, 
and she is gratified when she buys him some new toys that enable him to 
punish and thrill her more effectively.  She is also happy to be able 
to help him expand his own horizons by fucking him in the ass with a 
dildo that she gives him as a present.

Near the beginning of the story Charles says to RoxAnne, “I am going to 
spank you now for my pleasure. I want you to be aware of my desire for 
you all through dinner. I want to know that some of your attention is 
on your bottom to remind you of what awaits you when return."  Now, 
omitting the first sentence, my husband has probably said just about 
this same thing to me.  However, instead of beating me with a large 
paddle (“within my limits,” of course), he has focused my attention and 
has managed to preoccupy our mutual minds by doing other things: 
sometimes he gives me flowers or perfume; sometimes I find his unshod 
foot moving up my leg while we eat at a restaurant; sometimes he makes 
double entendre remarks to the waitress so that only I know what’s 
really on his mind.  He also loves it when I lean across the table and 
notify him that I’m not wearing any panties or when I lick my lips and 
describe what I hope to do to him when we get home.  My point is that 
to get the benefits that Charles describes to RoxAnne the paddle and 
the pain are unnecessary.

I think pain COULD remind me of sexual pleasure - but not if it’s 
deliberately inflicted by the person who says he loves me.  Years ago 
my husband and I were playing racquetball together and he accidentally 
drilled me with a killshot.  Later that evening he told me he was 
sorry; I told him to kiss it to make it better; and we had a good ole 
time.  For the next few days, that pain DID remind me of his love for 
me.  But if he would have asked me to go and stand by the front wall so 
that he could hit me with a killshot to prove his love for me, I would 
have told him to fuck himself - in the bad sense of that expression.

My husband has also made love to me with so much vigor that I was sore 
afterwards.  While that was happening, I screamed for more, even though 
I probably knew I’d be sore.  Being sore for the next couple of days 
actually did turn me on.  This is analogous to feeling good when my 
stomach growls from hunger at night (because I know I am winning the 
battle of the bulge) or when my muscles and lungs hurt during a 
physical workout.  There’s significant pain involved, but the pain has 
been inflicted as a side effect - not to give capricious pleasure to 
the person inflicting the pain.

I CAN understand how pain can be sexy in a cultural context different 
from my own.  For example, in a slave-owning society a woman might be a 
lot better off with a man who would beat her and screw her and love her 
than with one who would beat her and screw her and not love her.  But 
the best thing to do with a slave-owning society is to abolish it.

I may be missing something.  There are people whom I suspect to be 
normal who enjoy deliberately inflicting and receiving fairly extreme 
forms of pain.  What I have tried to explain in the preceding 
paragraphs is the perspective of a “friendly outsider” who simply 
cannot understand this.  To be perfectly honest, I had a friend once 
who was in a relationship that sounded like the one described in this 
story; and I suggested that she a counselor.  She saw a shrink; then 
she confronted her boyfriend; he changed his pattern of behavior; and 
they have been together now for nearly ten years.  He now gives her 
flowers and plays footsie with her.  As I understand it, they do a lot 
of bondage, but he never intentionally inflicts pain on her.

I do not mean this as a moral lecture, but rather as literary advice.  
A very large number of people who follow this newsgroup think the way I 
do regarding this issue.  If authors of bdsm stories want to make sense 
to this broad audience of relatively tolerant readers, they should 
develop the plot in such a way as to make the story believable to a 
wider audience, not just to people who already buy into the idea that 
it is a great idea to inflict pain on somebody in order to make him/her 
love the person giving the punishment.  To put it another way - a major 
problem with this story is that an ordinary reader like myself does not 
receive enough information to distinguish the people in this story from 
real sickos who ought to get their act together.

Aside from the groundless bdsm, I enjoyed other elements of the story 
that some people might consider to be kinky.  For example, the man has 
a secret longing to have his ass stimulated during sexual intercourse; 
and so his lover approaches him with a strap-on dildo and with Ben Wa 
balls inserted into her own pussy.  If you think spanking a woman to 
climax is sexy, you’ll find this story to be even more enjoyable than I 
did.

Ratings for “The Surprise”
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 6

“Bobbie’s Special Half-Time” by The Warthog (linetwo@connect.net).  The 
guys have gathered to watch the NFL game.  Bobbie is serving them beer, 
and does she look good!  They seem to be guzzling their beer just so 
they can ask for more.  I should clarify something.  The Warthog writes 
Gangbang Virgin Stories; but that doesn’t by any means suggest that the 
bangee is a virgin - simply that she hasn’t had prior experience with 
multiple drunken partners.  Bobbie sheds her gangbang virginity status 
at half-time.  Some of the action is pretty sexy.  Bobbie does well, 
and her husband is proud of her - even though the action goes well 
beyond half-time.  I suppose this kind of thing is workable - as long 
as you have at least one black friend with a 14-inch cock and as long 
as somebody else buys the beer.

Ratings for “Bobbie’s Special Half-Time”
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 6

 “Happy Days” by Uncle Mike (fr582@cleveland.Freenet.Edu).  Richie 
Cunningham has to baby-sit for his little sister Joanie, who is not so 
little any more.  She catches him naked with a hard-on from thinking 
about his girlfriend; and she tells him, “Jenny Piccolo said guys like 
it if you touch their things. Can I touch yours?"  Richie acquiesces, 
and they’re off to the races.  It turns out that Jenny Piccolo also 
showed Joanie how to perform fellatio on a banana.  Actually, Richie 
discovers that Jenny Piccolo taught Joanie so many interesting things 
that he agrees to let Jenny join them the next time they fool around 
together.  A negative side effect of the whole episode is that coaches 
will no longer be able to inspire Richie by saying,  “A tie is like 
kissing your sister.”

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

“Feeding Frenzy” by Unknown Author.  This is one of those reposts with 
the author’s name removed.  If anyone knows who wrote this, I’d like to 
find out. A guy says to a woman, “Can you imagine how great it would 
be, if you did have a lover you could do anything at all with - I mean 
anything. No rules, no balking, no looks of disgust or weird judgments, 
just a pact, an agreement to say no to nothing? I mean, you could 
construct a Magic Kingdom of unnatural acts and playlets. You could 
create your own attractions like at Disney World. You could have 
Fellatio Land, Ass Lickers of the Caribbean, the Haunted Condom...”  
She says OK, and so they get together with a bisexual friend for wild 
sex on a regular basis.  This is so cheap and tawdry that it’s actually 
intriguing.

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

“Role Reversal” by Unknown Author (Sextales).  I need help here.  I 
found this story and the next among a set of 55 stories that I 
downloaded as a zip file from a.s.s. several months ago.  The stories 
are of generally very high quality; but I have waited for several 
months and have seen no additional information about them.  They seem 
to come from a BBS.  A few of the stories have the name Port Coco BBS 
or Heart Break Hotel BBS associated with them.  I don’t know what to 
make of them; and I am reluctant to write detailed reviews if no 
readers will have access to these stories.  If anyone knows anything 
about the Sextales stories, please let me know, so that I can decide 
how to treat them.

This story is about a lady who dresses very enticingly to go to a party 
in the nearby city.  She stops for a hamburger on the way.  When she 
sees the bulge she has evoked in the pants of the kid who delivers the 
food, she says fuck the party and then fucks the kid.  It’s short but 
pretty sexy stuff.

Ratings for “Role Reversal”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

“Housecleaning” by Warlock (Sextales).  You can tell that this story 
was written by a guy.  “Housecleaning” refers to such tasks as using a 
vacuum cleaner, mopping floors, and cleaning toilets.  Sexy things like 
that.  In this story the lady is “washing dishes.”  The guy comes up 
behind her, and starts fondling her.  He quickly gets her attention, 
and a sexy interlude follows.  As far as I can see, however, he doesn’t 
help her actually wash even the first dish.

This is another story from the Sextales zip file that I described in 
the review of the preceding story.  As I said, I have 55 of these 
stories.  Unlike this one, most of them do not have authors associated 
with them.  They appear to be generally short but good - often of the 
style and quality that I associate with Damya.  If you’d like me to 
continue reviewing these stories, I need some more information about 
them.  If you have any information, please contact me.

Ratings for “Housecleaning”
Athena (technical quality): 6
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

*"Caitlin's Tale" by Lysander (Lysander@vnet.net).  This story has 
recently been reposted as part of the THC archives. It is a historical 
romance - in the loose sense of both words.  Many of the events are 
indeed plausible, but I'm not sure that historians would say that 
things really happened quite this way.  It seems to me that the author 
may be projecting back into a historical context modern notions of 
sexual domination and submission.  However, even though I'm skeptical 
about some of the historical accuracy, I liked the setting.  It gave a 
rationale other than pure cruelty or petulance for treating a woman 
like an object - after all, Caitlin was literally Robert's slave.  And 
her reaction of loving her tormenter becomes understandable in this 
context.

I really don't enjoy stories about mindless sex, but I did enjoy this 
one.  Talk about mindless sex!  In this story we have Caitlin eating 
the asshole of her former best friend who has become her mistress (or 
maybe it was vice versa), swallowing about a gallon of her friend's 
urine while eating her pussy, fucking a whole small army of men either 
two or three at a time (depending on how many orifices were available), 
getting an enema before a beating and then being punished for crapping 
all over the place, taking it in the pussy and then in the ass from one 
giant dog before giving the other dog the blow job of its life, and 
being bound to a rack while getting fucked with the hilt of a giant 
sword before getting really fucked by its owner and everyone else who 
happened to be around.  And that doesn't even include what the master 
himself did to her.  I don't want any of this to happen to me; and if I 
were on a jury, I would recommend severe (non-sexual) punishment for 
people who did this to Caitlin.  So why would I enjoy this story?

One reason I enjoyed it was the historical context, which kept me 
constantly aware that I was in a fantasy world.  I could enjoy it 
without succumbing to the feeling that I was actually recommending this 
kind of activity.  Science fiction sex stories have the same advantage 
for me.  When stories are more contemporary, I feel inclined to react 
to them more realistically - which means I am inclined to dislike what 
is brutal or demeaning.  I think a lot of people react this way.  Other 
people have different ways to differentiate between reality and 
fantasy.  (If you don't have any way to make this distinction, you 
should probably find one.)

A second reason is that the author takes advantage of the historical 
context to make the story interesting as well as sexy.  I remember 
criticizing a story called "The Tugboat" a while back for failing to 
integrate the sex with the context.  That story story just had lots of 
sex for no apparent reason and with little relation to the things that 
would have been unique to that environment.  Lysander avoids that 
mistake.  We're pretty much constantly aware of the context, and that 
makes the story more riveting.

While I found parts of the story to be sexually arousing, I found more 
parts to be just interesting.  My reaction was often, "Yeah, I guess 
that would be possible."  I truly believe that the author had to be 
laughing while he wrote parts of this story: "I wonder if I can make 
them believe this!"  

This tale reminded me in some ways of the first great American 
historical romance, "The Last of the Mohicans."  That novel was quite 
popular among rich, stylish ladies in Europe, who thought it would be 
"romantic" to go the American West with the "noble savages."  The 
actual realities of the American west were quite different from these 
fantasies.  Mark Twain wrote a delightful essay on "Fennimore Cooper's 
Literary Offenses," and it would be possible to find even more 
egregious offenses in this story.  But it was still a pretty good 
story.

Ratings for "Caitlin's Tale"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 6
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10


