Celestial Reviews 80 - May 1, 1996

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      “Games People Play” by RC (ff mind control) 9.5, 7, 7
      "Turn of the Cards" by RC (ff mind control) 9, 7, 7
      “A Conversation with Eve” by Joe Parsons (phone sex)
            10, 7, 7
      “The Lecherous Professor” by David Esposito (bdsm
            with the prof) 9, 7, 7
      “Atoms” by Mark Aster (sexy meditation) 10, 7, 9
      “Julie and the Beast” by Mark Aster 
            10,10,9.5
      “Three” by Mickey (exhibitionism & threeway) 9.5, 9, 9
      “Ball” by Deirdre (anal sex) 9.5, 10, 9.5
      “Cheerleader” by Deirdre (anal sex) 9.5, 9, 8.5
      “Date” by Deirdre (deja vu) 10, 9.5, 9.5
      “Denial” by Deirdre (anal sex) 10, 9.5, 9.5
      “Lab Partners” by J Palmer (ff sex) 6, 7, 7

“Games People Play” by RC (74734.271@CompuServe.COM).  I’m afraid I set 
rather high standards for mind control stories.  Writing a story in 
which one person simply uses mysterious powers to make another person 
conform to his or her sexual whims is no real challenge.  The story 
needs a twist of some kind.  This story has a twist - the person who 
was doing the controlling eventually becomes controlled by the original 
target, but it wasn’t enough to make me really excited.  It’s not a bad 
story; but it needed a little more sexual tension to make it really 
interesting.

Ratings for “Games People Play”
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

"Turn of the Cards" by RC (74734.271@CompuServe.COM).  This is another 
mind control story.  Five college-age girls gather to play cards.  One 
of them hypnotizes the others and turns them into sex slaves.  
Actually, two of them become the main sex slaves for the others.  Both 
the recipients of the slaves’ attentions and the slaves themselves 
really enjoy the activity.  Again, I wasn’t all that inspired with this 
story.  I think my problem is that Deirdre has set such high standards 
for mind control stories that I can’t get excited by more mundane 
examples.

Ratings for "Turn of the Cards"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

“A Conversation with Eve” by Joe Parsons (jmp@cyber-mall.com).  The 
author combines a brief essay on “The Straight Scoop about Phone Sex” 
with a transcription of a short telephone conversation with a lady 
named Eve.  Both were fairly well done.  I think the factual portion 
gives a legitimate treatment of the topic - even though the author is 
pretty much advertising his own service, which he describes as one of 
the “more legitimate” on-line phone-sex services.

I am a devout believer and fervent participate in sex with Ma Bell as a 
partner, but neither my husband nor I have ever called a phone-sex 
number.  We do it with each other when we’re separated, and out 
conversations are a lot hotter than the one described in this story.  
Even if I didn’t have access to my husband, I’m not sure I would ever 
call these services - $40.00 to reach orgasm sounds a bit high when I 
can easily get there for the price of a download of a good a.s.s. 
story.  And the TV shows and movies have convinced me that there’s a 
lot of deception going on: the sexy chick who says she’s fantasizing 
about giving you head may actually be an ugly bimbo who’s clipping her 
toenails while watching a fertilizer infomercial.  But as the author 
says, “I'd spent about $40.00 on the call, but I'd have to say that for 
me, at least, it was a worthwhile experience. I'd had a pleasant 
conversation with a bright woman whom I could imagine to be tall and 
gorgeous.  It was easy for me to imagine that she got off on our 
conversation as much as I did; she actually had me believing that I was 
bringing her to an orgasm with our shared fantasy.”

Tastes vary.  Whatever roasts your weenie!

Ratings for “A Conversation with Eve”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

“The Lecherous Professor” by David Esposito 
(4lpone$10hi@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com).  The prof was usually a proper 
sort of guy, but he secretly longed to get into the pants of cute 
little Amber.  But the haughty cheerleader disdained him.  As luck 
would have it, however, Amber’s mother took the summer session of the 
prof’s class, and she was more amenable to seduction - and to a lot 
more.  The high point comes when the prof gets Amber first to watch him 
buttfucking her mother and then to join in the fun.  This is probably a 
very realistic account; male college English professors are a lot less 
in control of their emotions and less ethical than female high school 
English teachers.

Actually, if the author is going to play the role of an English 
teacher, he should put a little more panache into his writing style.

Ratings for “The Lecherous Professor”
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

“Atoms” by Mark Aster (MyFrThAl@aol.com). The narrator is lying in bed, 
watching the beautiful Allen nymph sleeping next to him.  This “story” 
is basically a meditation on her body.  There’s not much real sex in 
this story - just lots of sexy fore-foreplay.

Ratings for “Atoms”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

“Julie and the Beast” by Mark Aster (MyFrThAl@aol.com).  “And now for 
something completely different....”  The stories by this author usually 
focus on the simple things of life - quiet orgies by the fireplace or 
in the woods.  This story is different.  We are spirited away to a 
castle in the middle of the seventeenth century, where Julie has been 
captured by a Beast and has been seduced by one of the spirits dwelling 
there and has fallen in love with the Beast himself, who is also a 
handsome prince.

In my ordinary life I am not fond of medieval magic stories.  I never 
know what to expect from them, and the authors seem to simply change 
the rules irrationally to solve plot problems.  And so when I say I 
enjoyed this story, you should keep in mind that persons who like 
medieval magic stories might like it even more.

The author writes in a deliberately confusing manner in order to 
develop an ambiance of mysterious, dreamlike eroticism. I seldom knew 
exactly what was happening - but neither did Julie.  The sex isn’t all 
that vivid (because nothing in the story is vivid), but the overall 
impact of the story is highly erotic. 

Ratings for “Julie and the Beast”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5

“Three” by Mickey (KKLV22A@prodigy.com).  This story is a description 
of how a couple first became fascinated and turned on by the idea of 
inviting a third party into their relationship and then actually tried 
it.  A lot of stories on this newsgroup purport to be “basically true,” 
but this one seems more realistic than most. The story is well written 
and the sex is hot.

When I say this story was reasonably realistic, I should qualify that 
statement.  What I really mean is that I think this story is realistic 
with the unpleasant parts filtered out.  {If the menage a trois had 
been thoroughly unpleasant or if the couple had contracted a sexually 
transmitted disease, there simply would be no story.}  I think in real 
life it would be relatively uncommon that a loving man and wife would 
find in the pages of a swingers’ magazine an ad from a really great guy 
who was compatible and capable of giving mutual pleasure with no 
strings attached and that there would be no ill effects on the original 
marital relationship.  I think it is nice to THINK that things would 
work out this way - and that’s why I enjoy this kind of fiction.  On 
the other hand, Fatal Attraction relationships are also plausible and 
interesting but relatively uncommon.  Real life falls somewhere in 
between.  

I myself find it very rewarding to work hard at maintaining a 
monogamous relationship without adding elements that might hurt me, my 
husband, my family, another person, or that person’s family.  This is 
not a sermon.  It is quite possible that the author of this story and 
other swingers possess interpersonal skills that I lack.  All I am 
saying is that I am grateful for the fiction on this newsgroup that 
enables us to spice up our love life with almost no real danger at all.

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

“Ball” by Deirdre.  The woman’s husband has lost a basketball game that 
he felt sure he would win.  The woman is astonished to discover the 
winners buttfucking the losers.  Drawn up in the heat of the moment, 
she herself has anal sex with Jerry, one of her husband’s friends who 
happens to be nearby.  Then the next morning Jerry’s girlfriend shows 
up at the front door....

Deirdre certainly is a good writer.  Many of her stories (like this 
one) start in the middle of the action, making the reader guess at 
what’s going on.  Subtle clues gradually enable the reader to figure 
the story out; but just when you think you have everything figured out, 
Deirdre throws in another surprise.  This was an excellent story.

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

“Cheerleader” by Deirdre.  The high school kid longs for the 
cheerleader but can’t even get up the nerve to talk to her at the 
dance.  He goes into a dark room, and there she is with him.  But the 
quarterback is also there, and she instructs the guy to let the 
football player have anal sex with him.  And that’s the predictable 
part of the story!

Ratings for “Cheerleader”
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8.5

“Date” by Deirdre.  Breaking up is hard to do.  Someone should write a 
song about that theme.  In this case, the girl has broken up with her 
boyfriend in an awkward manner - she left him the Dear John message on 
his answering machine while he was out of town.  But when the guy came 
back from his trip, he came to see her without listening to her 
message.  Now he’s in her arms, being a really wonderful guy.  Deja vu!  
I’ve seen this on Dick Van Dyke - only it was a script that would 
offend the boss.  Deja vu!  I saw this on Days of Our Life last week - 
only it was a letter that was written but was supposed to be destroyed 
but that somebody wanted back before somebody else coould read it and 
destroy all hope of happiness.  Deja vu!  This is one of the most 
common story lines in history.  What will Deirdre do with it?  Deja vu!  
I’m not going to tell you.  You’ll have to read the story and find out 
for yourself.

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

“Denial” by Deirdre.  Two high school boys are out back showing their 
hardware to each other.  A passerby - a girl whom they like - sees 
them.  The embarrassed boys run inside the house.  No big deal; she 
won’t deal anybody. Knock, knock!  It’s the girl. No big deal, she 
says; but she’d like to see how gay guys do it!  But they’re not gay 
guys, and they tell her so.  She doesn’t believe them; after all, she 
saw them.  If they’ll just show her how gay guys do it, she won’t tell 
anybody; but if they stick with this crap about not being gay, she’ll 
tell the whole world.  If this was ever on Dick Van Dyke, I missed the 
episode.  Somebody should write a song about this.

I learned a long time ago how to deal with blackmail.  Simply call the 
blackmailer’s bluff.  Either that or kill the blackmailer and chop the 
body up into small pieces.

Anyway, the guys do it for the girl; and then the story starts taking 
surprising twists.

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

 “Lab Partners” by J Palmer (JT25@gnn.com).  I have to learn to 
remember to verify that I have an entire story in hand before I start 
to read it.  This one had no indication that it was a Part 1 - until I 
got to the end and discovered that it wasn’t finished.

This is a story about a woman who is horny almost all the time - but 
especially when she’s having her period.  The main event in the present 
story occurs when Laurie goes off to the bathroom to change her tampon, 
which makes her horny, which makes her masturbate, which makes her make 
noise, which attracts the attention of a coworker (lab partner), which 
leads to an invitation to the coworker’s house, which leads to mutual 
masturbation, which leads to a lesbian experience, which leads 
eventually to a menage a trois with Laurie’s husband - but the story 
ended before we got there.

I think this story is better than it looks.  The author writes with 
real passion, but the story has obviously been rushed into print 
without proofreading.  Aside from numerous irritating misspellings, the 
main problem is verb tense.  The author tries to present action that 
occurs at several different times - the present, the distant past, the 
past a little closer to the present, etc.  Time management in a complex 
story with numerous flashbacks is a difficult task.  In this case, I’m 
sure the author knew what was happening and when it happened; but it 
was very difficult for me as a reader to determine the sequence of 
events.  I know it’s a pain, but if you want to tell a complicated 
story, you simply have to be patient and explain things carefully.

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

