Message-ID: <551eli$9704161411@qz.little-neck.ny.us> X-Archived-At: Path: qz!news.accessus.net!not-for-mail X-Path-Preload: news.accessus.net preloaded to thwart rogue canceller there Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d Organization: The Committee To Thwart Spam Approved: X-Moderator-Contact: Eli the Bearded X-Story-Submission: From: Celeste801@aol.com Subject: Celestial Reviews 173 - April 16 X-Is-Review: yes Celestial Reviews 173 - April 16, 1997 Note: I'm finally catching up on some stories that I received at a time when I was experiencing technical difficulties. If I review your story, you may want to repost it, so that readers can find it more easily. If you have trouble finding a story, try www.dejanews.com. Also, if you sent me a story and I failed to review it, send me a reminder. I probably still have the story, but I need you to nudge me to dig it out. Second Note: Remember: even though someone else may be posting my stories for me, my e-mail address is still Celeste801@aol.com. - Celeste "Chocolate Kisses" by Ashley (chocolate incest) 9, 7, 7 "My Birthday Present" by Insomnia (strip search & threesome) 9, 9, 9 "The O'Stikkit Inn" by Mike Hunt (sex in the swimming pool) 10, 10, 10 "The One-Room Schoolhouse in the Middle of the Prairie" by Anonymous (double whammy) 10, 9, 10 "Box Office" by CobaltJade (sex slavery) 10, 10, 10 "A Summer Romance" by Jim Fix (emerging adolescence) 10, 10, 10 "Twins" by IRA (pregnancy) 9, 8, 8 "Susan" by DaVinci (one nighter) 7, 8, 8 "Down by the Tracks" by Dulcinea (outdoor sex) 10, 10, 10 "Mowing the Lawn" by OddManOut Anywhere (applied sex education) 10, 9, 9 "For Her" by Unknown Author (very hot mf sex) 10, 10, 10 "Moments of Gold" by Rayv and Jvstin (meeting the cyberlover) 9, 9, 9 "The Last Man on Earth" by Night Writer (science fiction) 10, 9, 9 * "Slippery When Wet" by SueNH (boiling hot jacuzzi sex) 10, 10, 10 * "At the Pool" by Mark Aster (swimming pool sex) 10, 10, 10 * "Brenda's Conquest" by Tom Bombadil (emerging adolescence & romance) 10, 10, 10 * = Repost of a previous review (because the story has recently been reposted) "Chocolate Kisses" by Ashley (ashley@cythera.com). The story is supposed to be a narrative by a 16-year-old, describing her sexual experiences with her father. The old guy has bought her a candy cock, so that she can practice giving head without using her teeth. Ashley tells how she gets turned on while playing with her phallus and her father, and she also describes some of the things she imagines while she does her thing. It's an interesting and somewhat sexy story, but it just doesn't quite ring true. Ratings for "Chocolate Kisses" Athena (technical quality): 9 Venus (plot & character): 7 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7 "My Birthday Present" by Insomnia (insomnia@bigfoot.com). For his birthday present the girlfriend allows the narrator to strip search herself and her friend. The activities get pretty hot and result in threeway action that includes anal sex. Not a bad story! Ratings for "My Birthday Present" Athena (technical quality): 9 Venus (plot & character): 9 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9 "The O'Stikkit Inn" by Mike Hunt (M1KE HUNT@aol.com). I'll bet you wouldn't notice this on your own; so I'll tell you. If you read the title " O'Stikkit Inn" by Mike Hunt out loud, it could be mistaken for an imperative sentence giving directions during foreplay. Imagine that. This is a VERY hot story. As an example of sex in the swimming pool, it rivals "Slippery When Wet" by SueNH. As I said in my review of Sue's story, I can't do it justice by trying to summarize it - It's about a man and a woman who meet a guy in the bar and then get into the hotel's swimming pool after closing time. Read the story for the rest. As I said, it's really hot stuff. Ratings for "The O'Stikkit Inn" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "The One-Room Schoolhouse in the Middle of the Prairie" by Anonymous. Jim Harbo is a student having a sex fantasy about his teacher, Keesha Jackson. Or maybe Keesha Jackson is a student having a sex fantasy about her teacher, Jim Harbo. Or maybe Jim Harbo is a teacher having a sex fantasy about his student, Keesha Jackson. Whatever.... Somebody either in real life or in fantasy life is a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse with a sexually enticing student who needs to be punished and who enjoys the spanking or does not enjoy the spanking - or at least someone is putting something over on someone else and at least one person is getting sexually aroused. Probably. This story is to be continued. Maybe. Ratings for "The One-Room Schoolhouse" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 9 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "Box Office" by CobaltJade (cobaltjade@aol.com). I try to set aside my personal preferences when I review these stories. In the present case, I would NOT like to experience the activities that this woman experiences, but I have to admit that this is a well-written creative story. In a weird way I enjoyed the story very much. The story is about sex slavery. The woman enjoys bdsm games, and she volunteers to be sold into slavery. She gets more than she bargained for. The title is a perfect description of her final role in the story. I promise you that you'll be unable to guess the meaning of this title until you get to the very end of the story. Ratings for "Box Office" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "A Summer Romance" by Jim Fix (emerging adolescence). This was actually posted as two separate stories: "A Summer Romance Part 1" and "Summer Romance Revisited." I shall review these as a single story, and I advise you to read both parts together. Paul (a bright student going into his sophomore year in high school) and his Mom have been living together since her messy divorce from his Dad two years ago. Paul and his mother have always showed mutual affection, but during a stay at some relatives' mountain cabin they realize that their attraction has a physical and sexual component. With his mature consent, Mom decides to treat Paul as a lover, and their life together becomes happier. They each contribute to the other's intellectual and personal growth, as well as to each other's sexual happiness. The second half of the story moves more rapidly than the first half. Life changes; Paul goes to college; Mom gets a new job; their love affair comes to an end; Mom remarries; and Paul falls in love. This is a very good story. I think society's general taboo against incest is reasonable; that is, it makes sense to have an initial reaction that incestuous relations should be avoided. In general, incestuous relationships are likely to be coercive and exploitive, even though the participants may be unaware that something bad is happening. Nevertheless, it also makes sense to consider the possibility that such relationships could be productive and growth-producing. This author has gone to great lengths to build a good story around a set of circumstances in which a mother/son sexual relationship is not only harmless but also beautiful. You can skip the rest of this review if moral reasoning doesn't interest you, but I am going to discuss morality for a few paragraphs. Religions generally condemn incest, and I (Celeste) am an active participant in the Catholic religion, whose leaders condemn incest. How do I reconcile these views? Why don't I either condemn incest or stop being a Catholic Christian? The answer lies in proportionalist moral reasoning, which says that when there is a conflict between moral outcomes or goals, decisions must be based on proportionate consequences. An action that might objectively be undesirable (immoral) is permitted only if it leads to benefits (called values) that outweigh its ill effects (called disvalues). The Catholic Church and other religions have used this kind of reasoning for centuries (for example, with regard to the "just war theory") but the Church leaders are not exactly progressive with regard to sexual morality. The main alternative to proportionalist reasoning in the Christian religions is natural law reasoning. Here's the difference. Assume that there is a soldier who has his army's secret plans in a pouch attached to his belt. When he is in danger of being caught, is it morally permissible for the soldier to ignite an explosive that will destroy the plans but also kill himself? Moral reasoning based on the natural law says yes - because the soldier would be destroying the plans directly and himself only indirectly. In other words, this is not really suicide. Proportionalist reasoning would also say yes - but because the value of saving the entire army outweighs the disvalue of the soldier killing himself. In other words, this is suicide, but it's justified. Changing the situation slightly, what if the soldier had memorized the plans instead of having them in a pouch? Can the soldier kill himself if he suspects that his captors will get the secrets from him? Natural law reasoning would say no - because he would be killing himself directly and destroying the secrets only indirectly. This would be suicide, and nothing can justify suicide. Proportionalist reasoning would still say yes - again because the value of saving the entire army outweighs the disvalue of the soldier killing himself. Again, this is suicide, but it's justified. My opinion is that the natural law conclusion is just plain goofy. This proportionalist reasoning is not all that complicated, and it makes perfect sense. Common sense tells me that it would be unfortunate for the soldier to be put in either situation, but I don't think he would be "sinning" in either case if he took his life to save his army. On the other hand, the soldier should consider other factors - such as how well he can withstand torture, the likelihood that the enemy will get the information from someone else, the actual value of the information, etc. All this information would enter into the soldier's moral reasoning to determine whether there is a proportional reason for taking his own life in either case. Applied to an issue like incest, proportionalism means that we should weigh the possible values to be gained from incest (such as the possibility of a mutually fulfilling relationship that is a natural extension of an existing spontaneous relationship and which would release two people's tensions while getting them ready for other relationships) against the disvalues associated with that action (such as restricting the child from more age-appropriate relationships, giving birth to children that are likely to have genetic defects, and societal retribution). In most cases in real life, the disvalues would far outweigh the values; but in this story the values outweigh the losses. This reasoning is different from the traditional, more legalistic approaches, which focuses on whether the action is natural or unnatural - prohibited by a rule or not prohibited; but this type of reasoning is neither excessively complex nor illogical. There is no reason to believe that Jesus would reject proportionalist reasoning. There IS reason to believe that in most cases in real life the disvalues will outweigh the values, and so society's general ban on incestuous activities makes sense - as long the taboo itself does not introduce more problems than it solves. In terms of moral reasoning, what this story has done has been to create a situation in which the values demonstrably outweigh the disvalues. My personal reasoning is also different from that of hedonism, which essentially says if it feels good and hurts nobody, go ahead and do it. Both hedonism and traditional religions offer valid insights into incestuous behavior; proportionalism offers another angle. So there! I hope this discussion makes as much sense to you as it does to me. I do NOT believe that it is necessary that every story describe purely moral behavior, but I do think it is good occasionally to discuss a story in its moral context. Ratings for "A Summer Romance" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "Twins" by IRA (Fun@Americanstyle.com). This story imitates a clinical case study written by a marriage counselor. The woman had insipid sex with her husband, then hot sex with the (African American) delivery man. When the woman gives birth to twins, her husband becomes suspicious since one baby is white and the other black. The doctor tells them that perhaps this is because they each had an ancestor who might have been black. The man accepts this reasoning, and thereafter he works harder at his marriage. They live happily ever after. This story suggests that the skin color of the black baby is essentially a matter of a double recessive gene, like eye color. It just doesn't work that way. Other than that significant mistake, this is a nice story. Ratings for "Twins" Athena (technical quality): 9 Venus (plot & character): 8 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8 "Susan" by DaVinci (rmbte1@ix.netcom.com). Rick meets Susan, discusses literature and art with her, then takes her home to her house. Susan really needs her confidence boosted, and Rick helps out in several ways, mostly by fucking her brains out. Some of the grammatical structure is awkward, but this is a pretty good story. Ratings for "Susan" Athena (technical quality): 7 Venus (plot & character): 8 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8 "Baywatch Story 1: Caroline Holden" by SJ Bedden (sjb@easynett.co.uk). "Baywatch" is an exciting television show that suffers from unfair criticism from what a great American leader referred to as "an effete corps of intellectual snobs." Each week (or every day on cable) the brave men and women of Baywatch save lives and bring joy and happiness to the small corner of the world known as Venice Beach. Jay Leno recently noted that scientists have discovered salt water on one of the moons of Jupiter. Said Leno, "If salt water is a prerequisite for intelligent life, then how do you explain Baywatch?" Actually, Leno was suffering from a logical fallacy known as the undistributed middle or some such thing; but the point here is that one should not hastily conclude that these sexy babes are all airheads or that David Hasselhof can't sing. This story approaches the Bay heroes and heroines in the same spirit: "They all had perfect bodies, and from their tight swimsuits I could tell that they were pretty well endowed elsewhere too." Just ponder that sentence! By contemplating the swimsuit of, say, Pamela Anderson, it is possible to determine that Pamela is pretty well endowed "elsewhere" too. Where else could that "elsewhere" be, except in the mind or the soul? Anyway, once I knew the narrator of this story would "were" a similar swimsuit, I knew I was in for more than mere sexual titillation. Nevertheless, I went on with the story. Some of the details in this story are as surprising as they are stimulating. For example, within only a few hours CJ is able to find out the phone number of the narrator, whose bushy hairs jut out prominently beyond the red fabric of the sides of her swimming suit. The story contains many revealing details, such as the fact that the typical lifeguard has at least a 10-inch cock but is surprised to discover this (unless that was a bad pronoun reference). Also, female lifeguards sometimes give head to male lifeguards while they drive their vehicles across crowded beaches, but no one gets hurt, usually - at least not unless they hit a bump and her teeth snap shut or something like that. Instead of saving lives, in today's episode Caroline lies on the beach and sleeps until Ryan comes down from the tower and rubs suntan lotion on her while she grinds her ass into his erection. Actually, I guess they WERE saving lives - at least she wasn't giving head in a moving vehicle on a crowded beach anymore! When Ryan takes a break, the three studs on the beach come up to Caroline and ask if they can please have sex with her. She replies, ""You guys are asking to fuck me, just like that. Do I look like some kind of slut or what?" Then she has sex with them. Afterwards, the boys are knackered and lie on the floor panting. That's a British expression, I think: in America we refer to the sandy area where lifeguards have sex as a "beach." In spite of its clever use of technical terms like "big cock," "juicy spunk," and even "thick white cum," the story lacks realism and what technical people refer to as a "plot." However, this story certainly does have a lot of pointless sex in a quasi-literate context, and so this might appeal to some Baywatch enthusiasts or to people who are interested in getting vicarious sex without having to think too much. There's a second episode, entitled " Baywatch story 2: Gena's Story," but I think I'll skip that one. This review sounds like it was written by an envious English teacher. Ratings for "Baywatch Story" Athena (technical quality): 6 Venus (plot & character): 5 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5 "Down by the Tracks" by Dulcinea (ImDulcinea@aol.com). The picnic has been romantic, and who said sex needed to intrude on every romantic venture? Well, the guidelines of this newsgroup, for one! Since she loves trains, they have been having a picnic near the train tracks. About the time the train is scheduled to pass, the husband begins to make love to his wife and manages to climax just as the train is passing ten feet away on the other side of the bushes. The earth DID move! It turns out she likes boats too. Ratings for "Down by the Tracks" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "Mowing the Lawn" by OddManOut Anywhere (oddman0ut@hotmail.com). The guy hates to mow the lawn. When his own lawnmower breaks down, he borrows his neighbors'. When he returns it, he discovers that the neighbors' sexy 17-year-old daughter is down in the dumps because no boys find her attractive. She's a track star and is in great shape, but she's shy and sexually inexperienced. Drawing on his own expertise from 20 years earlier, he gives her some really good advice, explaining that the boys actually find her extremely attractive but are reluctant to risk talking to her for fear of rejection. She appreciates the advice and then asks him to help her learn to kiss and make out. He complies - after all, they did loan him the lawnmower. Katie learns the basic skills of sexual foreplay, and Brad doesn't hate to mow the lawn anymore. Ratings for "Mowing the Lawn" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 9 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9 "For Her" by Unknown Author (THC Archives). This was reposted as "Looker 1" by the THC Archives. It's not a full story - just a brief interlude about two people in love, fucking each other's brains out. It's extremely hot and well written - kind of like Dulcinea in heat. If anyone knows anything about the identity of this author, I would certainly like to hear from you. There's also a "Looker 2 (Night Breezes )" and "Looker 3 (Role Reversal)," which I plan to review soon. Ratings for "For Her" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "Moments of Gold" by Rayv and Jvstin (jvstin@admin.con2.com). Elizabeth and Jason have won a contest that took two people who have corresponded by e-mail but not in real life and sent them BOTH on a trip together in London. They have already hit it off nicely in cyberspace, and they find that they are even more compatible in person, as they act out their sexual fantasies in London. This is a very good story - probably the sort of thing that many readers of this newsgroup incorporate into their own fantasy lives. Ratings for "Moments of Gold" Athena (technical quality): 9 Venus (plot & character): 9 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9 "The Last Man on Earth" by Night Writer (A+ Story). Not only has there been a nuclear cataclysm, but there has also been a Plague, which has destroyed all the men on the earth - all but one, that is. Now that man has returned to Estrogen City, where he has been captured by Arachne and her leader Mrs. Ippy. The world is ruled by lesbians. Will the heterosexual forces arise and come to John's assistance and somehow restore sex between men and women to its rightful and lustful place in the World Order? Will John Doe make a contribution to repopulating the entire world with males? Stay tuned for next week's exciting adventure. Although I would have liked a more completely developed plot, this was still a good story. I suspect that somewhere in cyberspace there are other episodes of "The Last man on Earth." I don't want to ruin the ending, but Mrs. Ippy is a closet heterosexual. Ratings for "The Last Man on Earth" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 9 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9 * "Slippery When Wet" by SueNH. This was one of the first stories I reviewed. It sort of got me started in this business. Here's the original review. I hope Sue reposts the story so that you can read it. I was going to read this story late at night and write the review right away, but after a story like that I have to take a break and visit my husband. He's going to wake up with one hot mouth around his cock! This was a truly erotic story. I can't do it justice by trying to summarize it - It's about a girl and a guy who get into the fitness center jacuzzi after closing time. Read the story for the details. The only part that I didn't like at first was when they let the three college kids join them in the jacuzzi. Actually, I liked that part too; but except for that part, I'd be ecstatic for a chance to do exactly what the two of them did. Sue has one of the best disclaimer's of all the a.s.s. writers: "Reading and writing these stories should be acts of fantasy, and I hope that you can keep your notions of real and fantasy life separate in your mind. I know I can." And so can I! Ratings for "Slippery When Wet" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 * "At the Pool" by Mark Aster (MyFrThAl@aol.com). Sometimes I suspect that the plots for some of these stories are not very realistic. Take this one, for example. Do you think that a guy in his middle twenties would really go to a swimming pool and relax with his pregnant girlfriend at his side and lust after a high school girl with shapely tits and a nice ass and legs that won't quit who is serving her community as a lifeguard? And if the couple did go to the pool together and if the guy really did feel horny whenever he looked at the lifeguard and if he did express his fantasies about this young lady to his girlfriend, do you think she would really find it interesting to borrow the lifeguard's swimsuit and arrange to be alone in the pool with the guy after closing time? And even if she did do this, do you think the guy would actually get really turned on by the fantasy of making it with this cute little lass while he was really driving his throbbing cock underwater into the pulsating pussy of the lady who will bear his child? Do you find this as repulsive as I do? And anyway, how could you get the girl to loan you her swimsuit and let you into the pool - except, perhaps, by telling her what you plan to do and telling her that she can watch. Ratings for "At the Pool Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 * "Brenda's Conquest" by Tom Bombadil (stbush@iglou.com). This is a story about an older man who falls in love with a 13-year-old girl with whom he has been familiar since she was nine. In addition, the girl's 11-year-old sister develops a sexual relationship with his own 17-year-old sister. There's a lot more to the story than this, but I am not going to go into the details here. All I'll say here is that it's a rich, well-developed story that presents a reasonable perspective on the problems as well as of the joys of such a relationship. The author himself refers to this as a "pedophile love story." Interestingly, my on-line dictionary does not define pedophile or pedophilia. It goes straight from pedometer to peduncle. Go figure. However, my on-line encyclopedia does have an article on the topic, which says this: "Pedophilia is a psychosexual disorder characterized by a sexual desire for and sexual acts with prepubescent children. Onset of the disorder can occur from adolescence through old age, and it occurs predominantly in males. About two-thirds of pedophiliacs are attracted to children of the opposite sex. Based on evidence from criminal court records, pedophiles usually know the children that they abuse. Most pedophiles resort to deception rather than force. Although much is known about pedophilia, pedophiles themselves are difficult to treat and recidivism rates are high." In the present story, the "pedophile" doesn't actually do what my encyclopedia says pedophiles do; he simply develops a consensual relationship with a thirteen-year-old whom he has known for several years. You will note that although the author himself describes this as a pedophile love story, I myself have referred to it as a story of emerging adolescence and romance. Nonetheless, it is important to realize that this story deals with a topic that sets of alarms in the minds of people who are concerned about children being harmed by pornography on the Internet. As a teacher in an American public school, I am supposed to call to the attention of the legal authorities behavior that is typically labeled pedophilia, if I become aware of it. That's the rules, folks; and I could get into trouble for not following them. I hasten to add that I am NOT a member of the Thought Police. I work with a large number of troubled adolescents, and I HAVE worked with the authorities in cases that they refer to as pedophilia. In no case that I have witnessed has the relationship been like that described in this story. Every case I have ever seen has revealed children who had their lives screwed up by an exploitive adult. The notion of falling in love with an innocent and precocious young person is intuitively appealing. This story idealizes that intuitive appeal. It seems reasonable that society can differentiate between exploitive sex with children (which is vividly described in Michael K. Smith's "Remembering") and emotionally sensitive relationships like those described in this story. It is my own belief that most children are best advised to reach a reasonable level of maturity before becoming sexually active and that many adults who become sexually active with children are likely to be satisfying their own (perhaps unconscious) needs rather than being helpful to the children. In addition, a very large number of psychologists seem to agree with my belief, and the laws of most countries in Western society support my position. On the other hand, stories like this one are realistic presentations of emotions and feelings. My hope is that reasonable people can set aside their biases, read this as the good story it is, and perhaps let the insights they get from this story influence their thinking about the issues involved. Many people will read this story to get some good ideas on how to seduce little kids or will reject it out of hand because it is about something that is immoral. Both groups will waste a perfectly good story. This story raises a simple question: is it possible to write a story in which an adult has sexual relations with a young adolescent in a way that would be approved by reasonable, socially responsible people? I think this story (along with several others, including Randu's "Double Trouble" and Santo Romeo's "Martha Jane") demonstrate that the answer is yes. The related (and more volatile) question is can this happen in real life? The answer certainly must be yes, it CAN happen. The crucial question is DOES it happen? Or are all adults who do this sexual perverts, as most laws seem to suggest? As I have said earlier, literally all the young children whom I have known to have experienced sex with an adult were severely exploited. It may not always be accurate to call their partners perverts; "sick" or "dysfunctional" may be better words for some of them. But - and this is an important BUT - kids who have had perfectly adaptive - even wonderful - relationships like those described in this story would have no incentive to come forth and talk to me about it. In fact, if they did so, the adults whom they loved would possibly suffer dire consequences. I seriously doubt that all adult-child sexual relationships are as destructive as some child advocacy people would have us believe; but I also think that most real-life adult-child sexual relationships are exploitive. I cannot conclude without mentioning one important issue. I think we need to let kids be kids. In recent years movies and TV shows (especially the soaps) have combined with peer pressure to urge kids to rush into adulthood way too fast. An important part of the mother's logic in this story was that if Brenda didn't have sexual relations with Richard, she'd be having sex with someone else real soon. To the extent that her insight is accurate, her decision to permit sex with Richard may be valid. But might it not be better to find a way to encourage kids to grow up before they have sexual relations? As I understand it, something like 25-40% of kids in the Western world don't have sex until they are at least 18 years old. Granted, a bunch of these people have major hang-ups; but statistically they're OK people. If I may use myself as a case study, I think I really do all right sexually, even though I had a full childhood before I began my active sex life; and I THINK the same can be said of my daughters. Sexuality isn't the only area in which we tend to push kids too fast; I constantly see parents trying to push preschoolers into academic programs when they should be playing games or reading Little Red Riding Hood. Ooops! {For an explanation of this Ooops, see the review of "The Better To...." later in this issue.} Let's let kids be kids! I like stories that raise thought-provoking questions in interesting contexts. This story does exactly that. Ratings for "Brenda's Conquest" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 -- +--------------' Story submission `-+-' Moderator contact `------------+ | story-submit@qz.little-neck.ny.us | story-admin@qz.little-neck.ny.us | | Archive site +--------------------+------------------+ Newsgroup FAQ | \ .../assm/faq.html> /