Celestial Reviews 133 - Nov 9, 1996

Note: I would like to review “Livinia” by Friar Dave.  But try as I 
might, I cannot find part 7.  If someone sends me that part, I’ll 
review that story as soon as possible.

Second Note:  I recently received an e-mail message telling me about a 
“really great porn web site.”  To my dismay, I received an identical 
message at a different address, which I never use for my a.s.s. 
activities.  The same message also showed up on my daughter’s account.  
This was clearly a spam message; and it’s the sort of thing that 
needlessly riles the censorship people; and it makes it seem that they 
may have a valid point.  It should be obvious that I am in favor of 
freedom of speech, and I can understand why a person would want to 
advertise a web site.  But isn’t it reasonable to advertise to the 
millions of people who are already interested in this stuff and to 
leave the others alone?

My argument against Senator Exon and his ilk is that we porno people 
are doing no harm.  We just want to be left alone with the other 
perverts here on the Internet.  This argument holds a lot less strength 
when people start sending porn spam to people who have expressed no 
interest in it.  Someone may reply that for all I know my daughter may 
have gotten to a porn newsgroup without my knowledge.  That may be 
true; but I am absolutely certain that my other account has never been 
used in connection with any porn service.  If you have any moral 
persuasive force with these spammers, I encourage you to urge them to 
be more careful where they send their spam.  It’s just a matter of 
common sense and courtesy.

- Celeste

      “Better Loving Through Chemistry” by The Bear (college
            sex romp) 8, 8, 8
      “A Long Day” by J. Boswell (wild west sex) 9.5, 8, 8
      “Bracelet of Love” by Stephanie (TG magic) 10, 10, 10
      “Hell Hath No Fury” by Satan Penguin (Utopian comic book 
            sex) 10, 9, 9
      “I Learn to Think” by Estragon (philosophical growth) 
            10, 10, 10
      “Sister Mary Jean’s Struggle” by Linda Jean (sex in the 
            convent) 4, 4, 4
      “Kira’s Postnatal Obsession” by Murgen (sci fi sex) 5, 4, 4
      “The Journey” by John Carter (primitive sex) 9.5, 8, 8
      “Fame” by Uncle Mike (music & sex) 10, 10, 10
      “Helping Hand” by Dulcinea (quickie) 10, 10, 10
      “Duty” by Uther Pendragon (revolutionary sex) 10, 10, 10

Note: Someone is reposting Deirdre’s stories. Here are the reviews of 
the most recent reposts:

    * "Dream" by deirdre (athletic fantasy) 10, 9, 8
    * "Dress" by Deirdre (blackmail & sexual potpourri) 10, 9, 9
    * "Drop" by Deirdre (sex on the rebound) 10, 10, 8
    * "Dunes" by Deirdre (group sex) 10, 10, 10
    * "Easy" by Deirdre (voyeurism and anal sex) 10, 9, 9
    * "Entertainment" by Deirdre (dancing & ff sex) 10, 8, 8
    * "Everything" by Deirdre (bondage and oral & anal sex) 
           10, 7, 4
    * "Exam" by Deirdre (bondage & oral sex) 10, 8, 6
    * "Experiment" by Deirdre (mind control) 10, 10, 10
    * "Fashion" by Deirdre (romance & infidelity) 10, 10, 10
    * "Field" by Deirdre (I'm not sure) 10, 9, 9
    * "Fixup" by Deirdre (voyeurism) 10, 7, 5
    * "Flight" by Deirdre (mile high fantasy) 10, 8, 7
    * "Foreign" by Deirdre (mind control & sex slavery) 10, 7, 7
    * "Found" by Deirdre (whipping) 10, 9, 9
    * “Four” by Deirdre (bizarre dinner party) 10, 9, 8
    * "Freebie" by Deirdre (spontaneous oral sex) 10, 10, 10
    * "Friend" by Deirdre (ff attraction) 10, 7, 5

These are the stories that resulted from the Second Annual Celestial 
Story Contest, mentioned below:

    * "Flight" by Stephanie (TG public sex) 10, 10, 10
    * "Wonderful Journey" by Kid Dynamite (mile high public
            sex) 10, 10, 10
    * "Seen by Air" by Rajah Dodger (mile high public sex) 
            10, 9, 9

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

“Better Loving Through Chemistry” by The Bear (thkbear@earthlink.net). 
Jenny is a college girl who is usually overlooked at frat parties in 
favor of hotter babes that attract the young studs who frequent such 
activities.  Her friend Carol sprays her with a perfume that she has 
developed as her chemistry project.  Sure enough, one of the cavemen at 
the party dances with Jenny and then drags her upstairs and fucks her.  
Then the rest of the guys fuck her while she sleeps.  Being a virtuous 
girl, Jenny suggests that Carol change the dosage, so that she can 
remain conscious and enjoy it the next time she is gangbanged.

But these are college students.  They believe in controlled 
experiments.  Of course, to Carol this concept refers to chaining Jenny 
to the bed, so that she will be controlled the next time Carol uses the 
chemicals and experiments with her.  One can only wonder what a placebo 
or double blind experiment would entail.  But Jenny does look good in 
chains, and so I guess we should allow a little slack in scientific 
terminology, especially since Carol takes copious notes while molesting 
her friend.

Anyway, our young heroines put the pheromones to good use, integrating 
chemistry with sports to win basketball games and with English to get a 
couple of A’s and to wreak revenge upon a group of snobbish sorority 
bitches.  

The Bear who wrote this story is not the same Bear who wrote such 
stories as “Kathy” and “Kate and Me.”  I added this story to my list 
for reviewing because the plot sounded like an interesting idea.  As 
soon as I started the story I became skeptical, because the story was 
about pheromones as sexual attractants; but the author consistently 
misspelled the word as “phermones.”  This is not deep stuff, but it’s 
an interesting story with lots of sex.

Ratings for “Better Loving Through Chemistry”
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

“A Long Day” by J. Boswell.  This is not exactly a hot sex story; it’s 
a big buildup to a raunchy punch line.  The cowboy comes upon a woman 
who has lost her family and has been raped by Apaches.  She tells him 
her story; but you’ll have to read the story to see what happens.

Ratings for “A Long Day”
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
 
“Bracelet of Love” by Stephanie (stephanie@nym.alias.net).  The woman 
buys an old bracelet that turns out to be magic. She had been beautiful 
before; but when she puts the bracelet on, she becomes the embodiment 
of feminine sensuality.  This all happens within the first 449 words of 
the story; there are 11,597 words left in the story.  What will happen 
next?  Well, for one thing, the bracelet has the immediate but indirect 
effect of making the husband’s penis become engorged with blood.  
Imagine that.

This is an amazing story!  I’m not going to tell you more details 
except to say that the main effect of the bracelet is to turn the 
wearer not necessarily into an idealized woman, but into an idealized 
lover for the person who happens to be closest to the wearer.  Oh, and 
the wearer cannot take it off; someone else has to remove it.  As my 
Canadian sisters say, interesting possibilities, eh?  Or, as the wife 
says in the story, perhaps it isn't a good idea to experiment with the 
bracelet in a hotel."

Ratings for “Bracelet of Love”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
 
 “Hell Hath No Fury” by Satan Penguin 
(spenguin@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca).  Shakespeare based most of his plays 
on the tales and legends with which his audiences were already 
familiar.  To accomplish this, he must have had a prodigious knowledge 
of the classics and of folk legends.  The present author likewise bases 
this story on information with which he expects his audience to be 
familiar.  In other words, he displays a prodigious knowledge of the 
Archie series of comic books and newspaper cartoons.

Stan, the protagonist of this story, comes from a planet called Elad-
Revir, H'trae.  This planet is a close parallel to earth, and the city 
is closely parallel to Riverdale, the home of Archie, Veronica, Betty, 
Jughead, and their comic book friends.  If you haven’t made the 
association yet, you may want to read Elad-Revir, H'trae backwards and 
see if you can notice its relationship to Riverdale, Earth.  If you can 
see no connection, you are not smart enough to read this story.

This could be described as a Utopian - or anti-Utopian - story.  It 
combines comic book characters with a focus on adolescent sex to deal 
with concepts that Orwell dealt with in “1984 “and Skinner dealt with 
in “Walden II”: what is the best way to run a perfect society - to get 
individuals to contribute willingly to the good of the greater society?  
Stan is the quintessential Renaissance man, modern scientist and 
engineer, and sexual aficionado all rolled up into one.  He’s almost 
too good to be true- which is OK, because, after all, this is a comic 
book episode.

As I neared the completion of Chapter IV (which is all there is right 
now), I paused and pondered the title.  I had assumed it was excerpted 
from the expression “Health hath no fury like a woman scorned.”  But no 
woman had been scorned, and the prospects for scorning were low.  Maybe 
the title was a simple description of the lack of overt hostility in 
hell.   The Church Lady would certainly notice that Stan himself was 
one vowel short of Satan; could that be relevant?

I really don’t know where the story is going. There are numerous 
unresolved subplots - none of which have any apparent relation to hell 
or its fury.  Reggie has been plotting to seize a share of Stan’s 
wealth.  One of the sex slaves is developing a genuine (non-slavelike) 
attraction for Stan.   Sabrina is trying to integrate her witch essence 
with her human existence.  Veronica and Betty have discovered the joys 
of hedonistic sex with each other and with other lovely ladies.  All 
the members of the gang (especially the genius Dilbert) have started 
getting in a little over their heads with sex with sex; and who knows 
what to make of the lovely ladies whom Stan has so adeptly trained to 
service himself and his friends?  And there’s much more.  I am 
impressed with the overall quality of the writing and with the attempt 
to merge the consistent Archie story line with more complex sexual 
idea, but I am also a bit disappointed that I have read this far and 
don’t yet know where the story is going.  I guess I’ll have to wait and 
see what happens next.  Its sort of like reading the funny pages!

Ratings for “Hell Hath No Fury”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

“I Learn to Think” by Estragon (rgt@well.com).  I nearly died laughing 
while I read this story.  I have never been an adolescent boy, but this 
HAS to be how they think when they encounter the first intelligent and 
attractive female who has authority over them.  The story is written in 
the format of a journal for a philosophy class - a class that discusses 
how people think.  Sounds boring; but it’s not.  The author comes up 
with some bizarre insights that are so crazy that they simply MUST be 
true.  The last line of the story says “end of part one”; but I almost 
hope there is no more - why ruin something that’s almost perfect by 
adding to it?  {That last sentence sounds like something I once wrote 
in my own philosophy journal.}  Instead of making this story three 
times as long, I would really like to see this author tighten up the 
ending and leave it at approximately the same length.  Then publish it 
in a philosophy magazine - like Playboy or Redbook or maybe 
Cosmopolitan.

One interesting thought that is NOT explored in the story is the fact 
that since the journal is written FOR Ms Altman, then she’ll obviously 
have to read what the writer has written; and it’s fun to speculate 
about what her reaction will be.

Incidentally, my favorite philosophical cartoon may be apropos here.  
It shows a philosophy professor writing on the chalk board, “I think, 
therefore I am.”  The student in the back row leans over and whispers 
to the scholar next to him, “Oh, no!  We don’t even exist!”  Think 
about that one, Ms Altman!

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

“Sister Mary Jean’s Struggle” by Linda Jean (lindaj@cris.com).  Some 
interesting things do happen in this story.  For example, as a 12-year-
old, the future ex-nun who narrates this story learns about sex by 
watching two older girls go at it with carrots and cucumbers.  {There’s 
a whole web page of jokes about nuns like that.  Why did Sister Mary 
Jehosephat get kicked out of the convent?  For doing pushups in the 
cucumber patch.  How many nuns does it take to screw in a lightbulb?  
Just two; but it’s difficult to get two nuns and a cucumber inside a 
lightbulb in the first place.  Etc.  } 

The basic problems with the story are that it has no coherent plot and 
that it’s largely illiterate.  The author apparently ran it through a 
spellcheck; but that just turned some of the spelling mistakes into 
usage bloopers.  For example, the girl watches the other girls 
masturbate in her “secrete place,” which, I presume, would be a place 
where she oozes through the walls.

Why is this plot set among nuns?  Well, because nuns have that 
legendary evil innocence, I suppose.  Actually, the author explains her 
rationale in her disclaimer with the following non sequitur: “I want to 
document what has happen to me over the last 13 years. Second- maybe 
some girl thinking of becoming a nun like I did may just think twice if 
she finds sex to be what she desires most in life like I do!”  Go 
figure. I would make my pitch in defense of nuns - actually, they are 
fairly normal people, etc.; but a correspondent once told me that was 
like telling the late night comedians to stop telling offensive jokes 
about Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Amish.  According to his theory, 
about as many nuns are going to read this story and become offended as 
Amish are going to watch Jay Leno and get offended by Amish jokes.  If 
you want a story that treats nuns in a sexy but literate manner, try 
Wollstonecraft’s “The Novice,” Uncle Mike’s “The Flying Nun,” or Ann 
Douglas’s “Sarah and Sister Theresa.”

Ratings for “Sister Mary Jean’s Struggle”
Athena (technical quality): 4
Venus (plot & character): 4
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 4

“Kira’s Postnatal Obsession” by Murgen 
(jeeforse@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca). The author, Murgen the Dragon Slayer 
of Khatovar, concludes this story with these words: “This is my first 
story ever so I would like some feedback thanks.”  Earlier, in the 
disclaimer, Murgen spake thus: “I don't give the slightest of a damn if 
anyone under the age of 18, 19, or 21 reads this story because I the 
original writer am get this 15. So fuck all you censors I will write 
what I want. Nyah! =O)

My main feedback is: Proofread the story before you post it.  If you 
don’t do so, your writing will appear to be that of a 9-year-old 
American male.  If you use a spellcheck alone without proofreading, you 
will write sentences like this one: "The inner walls of her vagina were 
mush like her stomach.”  Readers will be needlessly distracted by the 
image of vagina walls composed of a thick porridge or pudding of 
cornmeal boiled in water or milk.  Likewise, readers will be confused 
by the reference to “the shy pale ensign from the engineering core.”  
In addition to proofreading the story yourself, you should share it 
with someone who will politely point out your errors, so that you won’t 
make an ass of yourself by publishing inane drivel.

On a kinder note, I should add that the story has considerable 
potential.  For example, I can see the fascination of reading about the 
sexual exploits of a hormonally imbalanced space cadet with six 
clitorises and two nipples on each breast but only one asshole.  Walter 
Slaven wrote about similar creatures in his wonderful “Tie Fighter” 
series, which I ranked among the very best stories of 1995.  My point 
is that if a person wants to be a writer, he or she has to do a little 
more than think up neat ideas in his or her own little head.  It is 
necessary to express these thoughts in a way that enables readers to 
care about them and to conjure up in their own minds the same images.

Actually, it is of some interest to reflect on the age of this author.  
If we assume that the author is really from Khatovar, we would need 
more information; surely there is a web site somewhere that would 
enable me to convert Khatovarian years to Earth years.  My suspicion, 
however, is that this author is not really from Khatovar, but is 
actually an Earthling.  My analysis of the grammar further suggests a 
male author of North American ancestry - or perhaps a Hungarian.  
Furthermore, a person who would lie about his planet of origin would 
also be likely to lie about his time of origin; and hence it is 
unlikely that we can accept the assertion of 15 years at face value, 
even though it is followed by the enigmatic Nyah! =O).

On the other hand, the hypothesis that this story was indeed written by 
an early adolescent is supported by the fact that the author seems to 
be incapable of realizing that the reader may not initially have the 
same perspective as the writer.  Teenagers do this a lot.  For example, 
a more mature author would probably assume that we needed to know who 
the O’briens are and some other basic information regarding what in the 
world is happening in this story.

The author could get pissed off and pout over these comments.  On the 
other hand, the author (and others like him/her) could accept these 
suggestions in the friendly manner in which they are offered and use 
them as a basis for becoming a real author.

Ratings for “Kira’s Postnatal Obsession”
Athena (technical quality): 5
Venus (plot & character): 4
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 4

“The Journey” by John Carter (John_Carter@docs.dgsys.com). This story 
is set in the world John Norman created -- Gor.  I don’t know what that 
means.  I assume it’s either a primitive or a post-apocalyptic world.  
The only action in the story consists of a herd of captive women being 
escorted from one place to another, where the protagonist will meet her 
Lord.  Along the way her short-term caretakers are not allowed to have 
vaginal sex with her (she has some sort of chastity belt to prevent 
that), but they have exuberant oral and anal sex with her without fear 
of recrimination from the Lord.  The woman’s mind is fogged by some 
sort of drug; she feels a mixture of pleasure and shame from the sexual 
encounters.

I suppose the enjoyment is supposed to come from figuring out what 
these primitive people are doing.  The men apparently have no 
responsibility other than to have sex and to deliver the women to the 
Lord.  The women serve the men.  Imagine that.

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

“Fame” by Uncle Mike (fr582@cleveland.Freenet.Edu).  This story is 
based on the movie and television series of the same title; but 
knowledge of those shows is unnecessary.  This story about a teacher 
and student rehearsing for a dance performance stands on its own. It is 
replete with arpeggios, counterpoints, dramatic leaps, abrupt 
pirouettes, and other subtleties that rarely occur in light-hearted sex 
stories.  Once the sweat kicks in and the music charges the emotions, 
Miss Grant begins to look literally lewd and lascivious in her lovely, 
lithe, and luscious little leotard that covers her palpably pulsating 
pussy while her pupil plays the piano.  Lost in a delightful daydream 
about driving his desperate dick into the dark cunt of his teacher and 
fatefully fantasizing about her eyes flashing during the forthcoming 
fellatio, Bruno strikes a heavy chord when he would have preferred to 
remove her g-string, and his faux pas draws the teacher’s attention to 
his engorged love wand and reminds her that perhaps he has a different 
form of rhapsody on his mind.

As Miss Grant changes into her costume behind the portable blackboard, 
Bruno realizes that her taut brown body is naked before him but for 
that one obstruction, and he tries to regain his composure by 
concentrating on the middle arpeggio while stroking his middle 
appendage.  To make a long story brief, shortly after Miss Grant 
praises him and encourages him to just keep it up, Bruno comes wildly 
in his pants while the devilish dancer accidentally brushes against his 
beleaguered body. As he finishes the piece, she moves away and 
comments, "Perfect tempo, Mr. Martelli, but you finished too quickly."  
More practice seems to be in order - but only after she checks and 
tunes his instrument.  Damn!  He’ll have to tell his mother the teacher 
kept him after school.

A faux pas occurs! This is a school for the gifted.  Shouldn’t "I never 
thought a teacher could suck cock so good" be more fittingly rendered, 
“I had not realized that a teacher could fellate so felicitously”?

This is an exceptionally well-written story.  The description and 
integration with the musical theme was so well done that I practically 
came just reading about the dance scenario - before there was any 
actual sexual contact.  Then the actual sex was even more vivid.  I 
strongly recommend this story!

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

“Helping Hand” by Dulcinea (Dulcinea97@aol.com).  I’m a sucker for 
sexy, romantic stories.  And so this story labeled (m/f, cons, rom Fun) 
caught my attention.  I guess a story about a quickie should be short.  
And to the point.  And climatic.  This one is.

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

“Duty” by Uther Pendragon (nobody@REPLAY.COM).  This author has learned 
to write like a behavioristic teacher. We teachers say things like, “Do 
you want to read Hamlet or Macbeth next?”  Actually, if they had to 
read at all, our students would prefer to read Stephen King or maybe 
Sports Illustrated or probably TV guide.  But it’s best to give them 
the illusion of control.  And so the lieutenant says to the peasant 
woman, “Do you want me to rape you here in the main square while the 
men use cattle prods on you, or would you prefer to go inside the house 
and be my sweetheart?   Macbeth looks shorter, and there probably are 
no cattle prods in the house, and there’s no chance of getting out of 
the assignment anyway, and so she becomes the lieutenant’s sweetheart 
pro temp.

The lieutenant is a graduate of the School of the Americas - not the 
one in South Bend where they play football, but rather the one that the 
CIA operates to train freedom fighters for Latin America.  I’m sure 
some readers will enjoy this story of a terrorist officer exploiting a 
peasant woman as “really great sex.”  I found it to be a genuinely 
realistic portrayal of a real asshole.

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

* “Dream" by Deirdre.  This is an extremely short short story about a 
woman fantasizing about the woman her husband would fantasize about and 
then fantasizing about her.  That sentence actually makes sense, after 
you have read the story.  The story is short but clever.

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

* “Dress" by Deirdre.  Sacre vache! (as the French say) - when I looked 
at the alphabet soup after this story's title, I was a bit startled.  
TG, mf, cd, blackmail, dom, (bond), (mm).  As I understood it, I was in 
for a transgender story that involved male-female sex, cross-dressing, 
blackmail, dominance, and bondage, with a male-male finale.  I wondered 
if the author had forgotten to make reference to the two nuns who had 
just fucked with a German shepherd when they walked into a bar.  
Actually, this part about the nuns isn't very realistic; the second nun 
almost certainly would have ducked after she saw the first nun walk 
into the bar.

Anyway, after that description I thought I had a pretty good idea what 
I was in for. When I discovered in the first 100 words or so that the 
man's wife used to be interested in a guy who was a cross-dresser and 
that the wife's sister-in-law was a flirtatious sex maniac, I knew I 
had the story pretty well sized up.  Another hundred words, and I had 
guessed the ending - or so I thought!  To make a long story short - I 
blew it.  For one thing, I didn't know about the anal sex at night in 
the middle of the football field.  This is a clever, but strange story; 
but I suppose that's what the word Deirdre in the title line is an 
abbreviation for.

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

* “Drop" by Deirdre.  A woman has been rudely dumped by her boyfriend, 
and the woman's son tries to console her.  After venting her rage 
against the boyfriend and his new flame, the mother convinces the son 
to go with her to a vacation resort.  I thought I was getting good at 
predicting Deirdre's endings, but I blew this one badly.  Since I don't 
want to ruin the possibility of your being surprised, I won't tell you 
any more.

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

* “Dunes" by Deirdre.  A beautiful woman catches the attention of two 
men on the beach.  Both are heterosexual, and one of them is married 
(or at least in a permanent relationship with a woman).  The goddess 
draws them to a secluded area and then offers to have sex with them if 
she can first watch them having sex with each other.  What will they 
do?  How will this affect the man's relationship with his wife/lover?  
This is a strange but fascinating story by Deirdre, who was Sherwood 
Anderson in a former life.

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

* “Easy" by Deirdre.  A man's wife surprises him by asking him to shove 
his cock up her ass.  Then she surprises him further by the ease with 
which the husband is able to make the backdoor entry.  This leads him 
to be suspicious that she's not exactly new at this approach.  The wife 
admits that she and her college roommate used to do it with a dildo; 
and as luck would have it, this same woman is coming to visit this very 
weekend.  Imagine that.

Ratings for “Easy”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

* “Entertainment" by Deirdre.  There's a moral to this story.  Don't 
let the stripper handcuff you to a chair before she gives you a demo of 
the dance she plans to do at your fiance's bachelor party - at least 
not unless you want to spend the rest of your sexual life eating the 
cunts of her and her friend, running their errands, and being a general 
sex slave.  But I already knew that.  Heck, I thought everybody knew 
that!

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

* “Everything" by Deirdre.  This is the worst story Deirdre has ever 
written.  Even Homer nods; or as Yogi Berra might say, even Nod homers.  
Most of Deirdre's stories have a weird plot to them, but this one is a 
disorganized conglomeration of weird sexual activities, with an 
emphasis on bondage and anal sex.  The story is told from the viewpoint 
of a woman whose friends support her through a difficult divorce; then 
as the title says, they do "everything" with her.

Ratings for “Everything”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 4

* “Exam" by Deirdre.  A man goes for a medical checkup; but he 
discovers that the doctor and nurses are engaging in some kind of 
perverse sexual activities.  Being an upright and honorable man, he 
leaves; but he meets a neighbor on the way out of the office.  Not 
being so upright and honorable after all, he accepts a blow job from 
her and accepts a ride with her to a strange house, where even stranger 
things go on inside.

Ratings for “Exam”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 6

* “Experiment" by Deirdre.  Ah! Another mad scientist is at work in the 
laboratory of Deirdre's mind.  This one finds out that one of her 
female students is attracted to a cheerleader, and the scientist 
promises to turn the cheerleader over as a sex slave if only the 
student will make love to the mad scientist.  Sounds good?  Read on!

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

* “Fashion" by Deirdre.  A man is introduced to a fashion model by a 
relatively plain woman.  He marries the model but then has an affair 
with the woman who introduced them.  The sex with the plain woman is 
even more exciting than that with the exotic model.  

This is a completely different type of story than I am used to seeing 
from Deirdre.  There is no hint of mind control, and the story scores 
low on the kinkiness scale.  It's really a good, interesting story of a 
romance.  An excellent story!

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

* “Field" by Deirdre. A college girl shares an apartment with her 
girlfriend.  The girlfriend acquires a boyfriend, and he moves in with 
them.  The boyfriend and girlfriend split up, and the girlfriend goes 
home to mother, leaving the original girl and the former boyfriend 
living together - but not sexually involved.  The boyfriend decides to 
play the field for a while. Pretty soon there are women marching in and 
out of the boyfriend's room.  This confuses the original girl, because 
the boyfriend strikes her as rather bland.  Pretty soon the boyfriend's 
women are multiplying faster than rabbits with calculators and are 
overflowing the apartment.  Then the girlfriend comes back and asks if 
the boyfriend has been seeing anyone.  This story certainly held my 
attention!

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

* “Fixup" by Deirdre. The boss's wife seems to be jealous of the female 
employee.  She invites the employee over and tries to fix her up with a 
date.  When the boss takes the employee home, they double back and peek 
in through the window and see the wife and the other young man making 
out.  Just when the story starts, it stops!  It certainly leaves a lot 
to the imagination.

Ratings for “Fixup”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5

* “Flight" by Deirdre.  The husband and wife go on a plane ride, and 
the husband casually inserts his hand inside his wife's clothes.  The 
stewardess notices.  Now what will Deirdre do with this setup?  
Actually, it was pretty tame.  Not a bad story, just tame and peaceful 
sex.

Are we going to tolerate this?  No!  This calls for the Second Annual 
Celestial Story Contest.  Simply write a short story based on the 
following premise:

“Once in flight, we flipped up the arm rest between us and I lay 
against Jay who lay against the wall.  It was nice like that and I 
spread Jay's coat over us like a blanket. We had hours of night-time 
flying in front of us.  Jay held me in his arms.  I felt him slip his 
fingers into the waist of my pants.  He slowly fingered me.  I opened 
my eyes.  I felt that feeling growing inside me.

“The stewardess walked by.  It was so strange to have Jay fingering me 
right there in front of someone.  Jay withdrew his fingers and I could 
tell he was sleepy.  Soon I could feel that he was sleeping.  I slipped 
my own fingers where his had been.  I fingered so slowly.  I wanted 
that feeling, more and more.  The stewardess came back and stopped.  I 
stopped my fingers, laying there frozen.  She looked right at me and 
then smiled.”

Rules: Enter as often as you like. You CAN alter the exact wording; as 
a matter of fact, I think it would be NECESSARY to modify the text to 
suit a particular story.  The key components are man and wife on plane, 
woman fingers herself, stewardess notices.  Send entries to 
Celest801@aol.com.  Winner will be announced on December 9.  This 
deadline is now past (since this is a repost of this review); but feel 
free to enter anyway.  If necessary, I’ll revoke the original prize or 
award a new one.

Don't get me wrong.  The story is already a good one; and there's 
nothing wrong with quiet, peaceful sex.  But this just sounds like a 
setup that someone would like to finish in a different way.

Ratings for “Flight”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character):8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

* “Foreign" by Deirdre.  A woman finds herself attracted to the Asian 
teenager who lives next door and who has been a guest in her swimming 
pool.  She fights the urge to act upon this attraction, but then the 
girl's older sister intervenes.  Those Asian babes are impossible to 
resist!

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

* “Found" by Deirdre.  A woman's boyfriend undergoes hypnosis in her 
presence, and she finds out (1) that her boyfriend loves her and (2) 
that he would really like to whip her.  Her friend debates with her the 
rights and wrongs of accepting the whipping. Like most of Deirdre's 
stories, this one has a surprise ending; but unlike most of her 
stories, this one is perfectly plausible in real life.

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

 “Four” by Deirdre.  Do you remember the first time you were invited to 
a dinner party at which the husbands were bound naked in the basement 
while the wives had a delicious meal in the dining room?  And do you 
remember how much fun the girls had with the leather strap afterwards, 
and how much the guys seemed to enjoy it?  And do you remember the 
great sex you had with your husband the rest of the night after you got 
home and how much he looked forward to the next dinner party?  And do 
you remember how shy you were the first time about getting naked 
yourself at the dinner table but how you eventually got into things and 
were easily willing to diddle the hostess’s clit, even though you 
remained timid about eating her out?  Neither do I, but Deirdre makes 
this bizarre story seem believable.

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

* “Freebie" by Deirdre.  A woman gives her husband for his birthday 
five coupons that say: "Give this ticket to Jeannie Greene and she will 
immediately and silently perform one oral sex act on her knees, any 
time, any place, no questions asked."  Interesting premise!  Read the 
story to find out what happens to the tickets.

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

* “Friend" by Deirdre.  A woman finds it to be stimulating when her 
girlfriend rubs lotion on her at the beach.  This is one of those 
interesting snippets that just doesn't go anywhere.

Ratings for “Friend”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5

The following are the stories that resulted from the “Flight” contest 
that I mentioned above. I gave first place to Stephanie for the story 
reviewed below.  The other two finalists (reviewed immediately 
afterwards) were also excellent stories.  I was happy to be able to 
stimulate three good writers to write such excellent stories.  I 
encourage the authors to post (or repost) the stories for everyone to 
read.  If anyone else wants to try an adaptation of this interesting 
theme, I am authorized to accept late entries.

* “Flight" by Stephanie (stephanie@nym.alias.net).  This author was 
also the winner of the First Celestial Story Contest.  As such, she 
probably had one strike against her going into this contest: I felt a 
slight urge to spread the honors around by letting someone else win.  
Another strike against her was that I knew she writes TG stories; and 
so when the stewardess went down on the narrator, I had a sneaking 
suspicion that she was really a he.  On the other hand, Stephanie had 
the major advantage of being a very creative person and of handling 
herself quite well with two strikes against her.  Even though I "knew" 
what was going to happen, I was surprised over and over again.  I found 
it to be particularly interesting that she was able to integrate this 
story with her previous "Locksmith" story, which won the First Annual 
Celestial Story Award.  As the present story ended, I received the 
distinct impression that I was being set up for a Third Annual 
Celestial Story entry, even though she cannot possibly know what that 
lead-in will be.  No problem, even when I think I know exactly what 
Stephanie is going to do, I still have no idea what she is going to do.

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

* “Wonderful Journey" by Kid Dynamite (na109288@anon.penet.fi).  This 
story reeks with hot sex, in spite of the fact that nothing much really 
happens.  This author does an exceptionally good job of building and 
maintaining sexual tension.  As you may recall, the original stimulus 
for this contest was a story by Deirdre that I said left too much to 
the imagination.  This present story also leaves almost everything to 
the imagination, but now the imagination is more thoroughly stimulated.  
An excellent story.

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

* “Seen by Air" by Rajah Dodger. The story continues with the woman 
falling asleep and awakening to the voice of the stewardess in a 
darkened cabin: "Do you have a fever?.. You look hot."  Her bedside 
manner does nothing to cool the woman down.  Shortly thereafter, the 
woman goes to the bathroom and returns to find the stewardess in her 
seat, next to her sleeping husband.  And then...  You'll have to read 
the story yourself to find out.

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

