Message-ID: <6384eli$9712131824@qz.little-neck.ny.us> X-Archived-At: From: Celeste801 Subject: {ASS} Celestial Reviews 242 - Dec 13 Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.d,alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Path: qz!not-for-mail Organization: The Committee To Thwart Spam Approved: X-Moderator-Contact: Eli the Bearded X-Story-Submission: X-Original-Message-ID: <45fffa41.3492ae64@aol.com> X-Is-Review: yes Celestial Reviews 242 - December 13, 1997 Note: If you requested proofreading help recently but did not receive it, please contact me again. I am afraid I accidentally threw out a request with some spam that I was discarding. Second Note: There are several interesting discussions currently on a.s.s.d., if you can find them amidst all the spam. One perennial theme is "why does Celeste allow anonymous guest reviews?" The answer is because I believe I can get better reviews from certain reviewer/authors if I do it this way. When a reviewer uses a "second pseudonym" to post a review, that simply forces you (the reader) to accept that review in isolation from any other information about the person who wrote that review. In practice, that means that with Mike Hunt and Kim, an author can look at a review and say, "Big shit! She can't do any better herself!" With Piper or Fiddler, on the other hand, you are forced to deal with the content of the review. I personally enjoy the reviews of all four of the reviewers mentioned in the preceding paragraph. There are obviously advantages and disadvantages to doing it either way. The strongest advantage that I have noticed to using "real" names for reviews is that it's easier for reviewers to develop a relationship with reviewers whose work they recognize. I think that's a real benefit. The best reason NOT to use a "real" name is that this may interfere with the reviewer's own writing. I know I personally am hesitant to post my own stories here (as if I had time to write any!), because I have the feeling of undue pressure. I have seen my own story (Virtuous Reality) unfairly ripped simply because somebody was pissed that I gave his story an unfavorable reall of them - would feel a pressure arising from the inconsistency of roles. Third note: Occasionally somebody sends me an "obviously good" suggestion about how to improve Celestial Reviews. They suggest that I "should be open to growth." Actually, it's exceptionally obvious to me that I have grown during the two and a half years I have been writing these reviews. But the point I want to make here is that sometimes I do things the way I do them for a good reason. A certain amount of stability is good and necessary. Changes HAVE occurred, and I do appreciate your suggestions. However, I cannot respond to each of you individually. I need to spend most of my time doing these reviews rather than talking about them. Which is what I'll do now - that and learn how to spell "waist" correctly. Final note: Remember: even though someone else may be posting my reviews for me, my e-mail address is still Celeste801@aol.com. - Celeste "Lucky Mower" by Reaven (sex with lawnboy) 9.5, 9.5, 9.5 "Pierced" by Sexy Grrl (piercing) 10, 9, 9 "The Talent Contest" by Lisa Cohn (amateur sex ed) 8, 10, 10 "Mr Miller's Dream" by Youngset (old man/young girl) 8, 7, 7 "An Unforgettable Evening" by Gary Ray (bdsm) 10, 10, 10 Celestial Christmas Contest: "Fantasies" by BitSlinger (sexual fantasies) 9, 10, 10 "Christmas Carole" by MrSpraycan (femdom office sex) 10, 10, 10 "Snowbound" by Ann Douglas (older man/younger woman) 10, 10, 10 "The Curiosity Shop" by Sven the Elder (Christmas shopping quickie) 10, 10, 10 Guest Reviews: "One Fine Weekend" by Mr. G. Reaper (loosening up) 7.5, 9.5, 10 "Front Window" by losgud (neighborly sex) 9, 9, 9 "Let's All Nap Now, Please!" by losgud (romantic quickie) 10, 10, 9 "It's Only a Dream " by Unknown Author (ghastly ghostly sex) 4, 1, 1 Reposted Reviews: * "My Bedroom" by WA Emmerson (casual sex) 7, 3, 3 * "Cousin Tanda" by Unknown Author (youthful frolic with a cousin) 9.5, 9, 9 * "Travels with Aunt Paula" by Estragon (female dominance) 10, 10, 10 * "Forever Faithful" by J Boswell (office romance) 8, 6, 5 * "Snowbound" by A. Van Peebles (lustful longings for a lovely little lady) 10, 10, 10 * = Repost of previous review (because the story has recently been reposted) "Lucky Mower" by Reaven (reposted by Erostory ). Fantasies about yardboys are apparently as ubiquitous and American as apple pie. As near as I can figure, nearly every non-Amish American boy who mows a lawn wants to get into the pants of the middle-aged divorcee or young widow who pays for his services. The lustful feelings are reciprocal: nearly all women, including some nuns, have apparently lusted after the muscular kid with the tight ass who mows the lawn and pulls the weeds. The Coke guy on the commercial last year was nothing more than a glorified yardboy. Anyway, Mrs. Anderson is a 42-year-old divorcee - a DWF, as she might call herself in the personal ads. Dan is a 16-year-old HWT (horny white teenager) who mows her lawn - literally at first and metaphorically later. The deal is that Mrs. A decides that just for one day, Dan can do anything he wants with her body. And that's just what he does for the next 24 hours. He comes fast the first time, but pretty soon he is listening to lectures from Mrs. A and searching through books and magazines for interesting positions. This is an interesting enactment of the Great American Fantasy. Incidentally, my favorite variation on this theme is "Charly the Yard Guy" by Michael K. Smith, in which Charly is a yardgirl. Ratings for "Lucky Mower" Athena (technical quality): 9.5 Venus (plot & character): 9.5 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5 "Pierced" by Sexy Grrl (bigsexygrrl@hotmail.com). It was only after I had read this story that I discovered that it is actually Chapter 3 in a series called "The Education of a Princess." I have not read the other chapters. Aside from my earrings, I have never been pierced myself - largely because I have surmised that it would be very much like what this story describes. I suppose someday one of my daughters will decide to get pierced, and I think I can handle that. But I suspect that day is far in the future. Tonight we were watching a TV show in which a cute young lady had her belly-button pierced, and the local adult suggested that she connect her halter top to the belly-ring, so that he bare midriff would be at least partially covered. They roared with laughter. On the other hand, they looked interested when the same young lady boasted of having had sex in the torch of the statue of liberty. Anyway, in the story the woman gets pierced, and it hurts like hell. But she does it for Her Guy, who enjoys seeing her in pain, because then he knows she really loves him. Of course, she enjoys the pain, because it is a way to show her love for him. Barf city! I'd consider this to be really sick, except that I had a nun in the fourth grade who quoted St. Theresa to us by saying "If you suffer a lot, that's because God loves you." So I guess what I am saying is either this notion is not completely crazy or maybe that nun was. The motivation of the main character is not clear to me, but this story was still interesting. That's the right word: the story wasn't sexy to me, just interesting. Ratings for "Pierced" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 9 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9 "The Talent Contest" by Lisa Cohn. For the past 27 years Johnson Roberts School has held its annual talent contest for all students aged 12 to 14. In the weeks and months preceding the event there is a flurry of activity with youngsters organizing and practicing their presentations. There have been several calls for the contest to be scrapped as grades fall during this period. However, the event survives as "part of the overall socialization and education of the child at Johnson Roberts School". This is the story of three 12 year old girls - Megan, Beth and Sam - and their first appearance in the contest which ultimately leads them to find hidden talents none of them ever dreamed they had. That's because Big Brother Tim offers to help, and he becomes a Benignly Benevolent Big Brother. The story is a bit slow in developing, but eventually the young girls and older boy get down to Serious Show and Tell - starting with observation of bodies and an errant cumshot, then licking, porn magazine analysis, and blowjobs. I never did anything this explicit as a kid. I don't even WISH I had done it. I'll do what I can to keep my kids from doing it. But it certainly does sound like fun! One word of advice. If you have an orgy with your loved one(s) and feel concerned that subsequent visitors to the area of emboinkment will notice the musky aroma of sex in the air, do NOT smoke a cigarette to throw the visitors off track. As the surgeon general will assure you, this can cause cancer, birth defects, and all kinds of other evil side effects. Instead, simply burn some popcorn. It works even better and has no negative side effects. My teenage daughters could never figure out how my husband and I could be so klutzy as to burn popcorn as often as we did. Ratings for "The Talent Contest" Athena (technical quality): 8 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "Mr Miller's Dream" by Youngset (youngset@aol.com). Sean is 18. Kira is 16. Kira is black; but her father is white and so is her mother. Go figure. Stranger things have happened. Mr. Miller is 61. Mr. Miller lusts for the cute little ass and sexy exuberance of the lithe and luscious, lovely and lascivious, little lass. So Mr. Miller concocts a plan with Sean to get Kira to fuck with him while she really thinks she is screwing somebody else. At this point I discovered that I was reading Part 1 of who knows how many parts. This is not a bad idea for a plot, but it's a bit clumsy so far. Unfortunately, the author will just go ahead and finish it without fixing these clumsy parts. That's unfortunate, but that's the way it is with these serial postings. However, this story has potential, because it already contains some good stuff. Ratings for "Mr Miller's Dream" Athena (technical quality): 8 Venus (plot & character): 7 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7 "An Unforgettable Evening" by Gary Ray (csangha@hooked.net). The man and woman are in love - deeply in love. Tonight he is going to pop the question: "Do you love me enough to trust me?" "Yes!" she replies. And out come the handcuffs, the blindfold, and an accomplice named Dominick. "Wait a minute!" says I. "This is bullshit!" "Wait a minute!" says she. "This is bullshit!" But they persist, and we come to a surprise ending. I don't exactly recommend what this guy does - too much could go wrong. But then I personally reject cybersex for the same reason, and a lot of you enjoy that activity. Anyway, this is an excellent story. This author ends his disclaimer with "Do I have hope as an erotica writer?" Hmmm... Is the pope Catholic? Does the bear shit in the woods? Do teenage nympho queens want big cocks up their asses? Ratings for "An Unforgettable Evening" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 Fantasies" by BitSlinger (bitslinger@hotmail.com). I believe this is this author's first story. It's also an entry in my Celestial Christmas story contest. I am happy to have stimulated the author to enter upon a promising writing career. The basic plot is that the wife has become interested in fulfilling her husband's fantasies; but he's reluctant to share them, because he's afraid he'll scare her off. Most recently she has noticed his interest in a sexy little elf at the mall, and so tonight she has seduced him in an elf costume. Eventually she manages to pry some fantasies out of him, and she rewards him by acting them out with him and enjoying them herself. The fantasies are actually pretty tame by a.s.s. standards, but I enjoyed them. Except for a few occasional flaws in verb tenses, the author shows a good sense of timing in his integration of the fantasies and the real-time sexual activity. I look forward to seeing more stories by this author. Ratings for "Fantasies" Athena (technical quality): 9 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "Christmas Carole" by MrSpraycan (mrspraycan@mailanon.com). Several years ago my husband treated me very romantically and fucked me under the Christmas tree after the kids went to bed. As he did so, he played a tape with the song "Here We Go a' Caroling." Unlike the woman in the previous review, I did not have to ask him about his fantasies. You see, I had three very close friends - all very sexy, one of whom had one the Nurse Goodbody award in nursing school. That may help explain the title, but not the plot of this story. The time is 1941. Pearl Harbor has just been bombed shortly before the Christmas party, and the United States is going to change its economy to a war footing. History books tells us that women will move into the workplace and never move out; it's the start of the sexual revolution in America. Carole is a woman in a male-dominated environment who has ideas about becoming a significant person in her company. Pat O'Reilly is the abstemious, Scrooge- like part owner of the company, who thinks he's big stuff around women. By the end of the story we can see how Carole is going to move up the corporate ladder. I have read several stories by MrSpraycan, and this one is not in the author's usual raunchy style. Nevertheless, it's a really good story that I think you'll enjoy. Ratings for "Christmas Carole" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "Snowbound" by Ann Douglas (older man/younger woman). This is the second excellent story that I have reviewed with this title. I am reposting the review of the other, and I hope the author will repost the story. When Ann Douglas moved to her new home and announced her retirement, I suspected she would miss us and would return to her writing shortly. I was right, and I am glad. This is a really good story. Of course, I had the same feelings about Delta; but so far Delta has remained in obscure retirement. I guess maybe that's what happens when your spouse becomes vice president of a major industrialized nation. What Ann exemplifies here is her ability to write a complete story - one with numerous details that at to the impact of the overall story rather than distracting us. Her stories are not complete in the way that novels are complete: they are more like good weekly TV episodes - lots of interesting details with everything falling into place at the end. In addition, Ann has the ability to treat her characters with a respect, dignity, and honest sexiness that makes them really appeal to me. Ilyssia is snowbound on Christmas eve at O'Hare airport. She meets the father of one of her best friends. She's 24, single, and sexually aggressive; he's 42, divorced, and hasn't been with a woman since his wife left him a year ago. They are forced to share a room, and they fuck beautifully. But the story is much more than a May/December emboinkment. It includes serious and sensitive concerns about who will sleep where, real evidence of the value of both sexual experience and spontaneity, and the value of waiting - plus a literal cold shower. This is an absolutely delightful story. Minor grammar lessons: (1) When you quote someone and follow the quote with "he said" or the equivalent, use a comma in place of the period at the end of the quoted sentence. On the other hand, if the sentence ended with a question mark or explanation point, just leave them there. "I knew I should have taken the flight out yesterday," Ilyssia thought. "Wanna fuck?" Ilyssia asked. "I'm gonna come!" Ilyssia shouted as her pulsating cuntlips continued to caress his gyrating cock. (2) Use "lay" (not "laid") for the past tense of lie, meaning to recline. They lay (not laid) there for about fifteen minutes, just enjoying the comfort of each other's body. (3) When two or more words form a single modifier and precede a noun, join them with a hyphen. If the words come after the noun, omit the hyphen. This rule is often violated with impunity, but it's good to watch for cases where the omission causes confusion. My well-fucked pussy tingled with delight. My pussy was well fucked and tingled with delight. They had a last-minute gangbang before the end of gym class. They had a quick gang bang at the last minute before the end of gym class. Ratings for "Snowbound" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "The Curiosity Shop" by Sven the Elder (sven@brass-neck.demon.co.uk). If I were writing clever one-liners to entice people to read this story, I would say, "Sven has gone Christmas shopping, but he finds a surprise present for himself!" The surprise present is the lovely and vivacious Jo, whose full name is too long to print here and whose husband is away while his wife must play. This is a delightful little story that will take your mind off the burdens of last-minute Christmas shopping. Rarely do Americans find a woman who hunkers down and lets a man find her centre. Apparently that sort of thing is fairly common on the Island. It sounds like a custom worth exporting. Ratings for "The Curiosity Shop" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 "One Fine Weekend" by Mr. G. Reaper (MrReaper@DeathsDoor.com). Guest review by Sven the Elder. "My fantasy weekend started off in a very shity way." So starts this tale of derring do! The story revolves around a weekend with the 'outlaws' - sorry, in-laws - and the happenings of the weekend. That it involves the conversion of a semi-religious fanatic to the ways of a sex maniac makes this a very hot story. It should be read with great care and the aid of a set of welders gloves and goggles. From that you may take it that this was one fantasy I enjoyed - in spades! Fantasy named, fantasy it is and fantasy it will remain as I think of it tonight. If I follow Kim's fairly outrageous line (kisses Kim ) I would say it made me wet. Well you know what I mean....... Mr Reaper prefaces his story with an apology for a lack of proofing, or even spell checking. For once, even though it was apparent, I refuse to let it spoil the prose. It will cost a point or so though. Celeste advises that an 8 is normal, anything higher denotes special usage of the language; so I must give a 7.5, other than that - I like!! Read and enjoy - I did Ratings for One fine Weekend Technical quality: 7.5 Plot & character: 9.5 Sven (appeal to reviewer): 10 "Front Window" by losgud (losgud@hotmail.com). Guest review by Mark Aster (myfrthal@aol.com). This is a nice sweet sexy story, perhaps a little long, with a few rough spots in the writing. But recommended to "MF cons" fans of all ages. Lots of nice fucking. To say too much about the plot would be to spoil the surprise. Basically your typical guy meets the new neighbors, and gets to have hot sex with the sweet young great-assed wife. Twice. With the promise of lots more to come. I thought there was a bit too much setup: we didn't really need the furniture rearrangement, nor the cat (although the cat does enable one wonderful double- entendre line that it WOULD have been a pity to lose). I don't really care what a large amount of urine he had to get rid of that morning (the urine has nothing to do with the sex). And the whole obscene-phone-caller thing seemed sort of unnecessary. But excellent use of panties! Also that lovely thin dress. The writing is generally very good, sweet and evocative. A few typos and odd turns of phrase: "Her eyes were like those of a doe's" should be either "like those of a doe" or (better) "like a doe's". The thrill that's described as "vicarious" isn't vicarious in any sense I can think of. There a little dialog about "usually" that I found incomprehensible. But those are nits. Slightly more serious IMHO is a bit of Stupid Exclamations During Sex Syndrome (SEDSS): why does she have to yell things like "That's it baby, _use_ that fuck finger" and "Go, baby, _go!_ Fuck me now!"? Except during sex, she talks like a normal person; why the trite cheap-porn-movie sex-talk? On the other hand, I realize that some people find that kind of talk very sexy, so Your Mileage May Vary. Definitely Recommended. Ratings for "Front Window" Techical stuff: 9 (quite good when it's good, some oopses) Plot and Character: 9 Overall Appeal to Mark: 9 "Let's All Nap Now, Please!" by losgud (losgud@hotmail.com). Guest review by Kim. I expect some of you are waiting for some sort of comment about the fallout from my last review. Well, sorry to disappoint you, but it's all been settled, and I'll say no more about it. So with that out of the way... onward. I have reviewed some losgud stories before and they've always hit the spot. So the question is will this one? It's a short story for a start. Only a matter of a few minutes reading. Basically it's the musings of a frustrated husband and father waiting for a covert bit of lovemaking with his wife during one of the brief afternoon naps of his small son. Due to the cramped living conditions of his city apartment they have to time their clinches to coincide with the offspring's sleeping routine. The problem being that he is now reaching an age where his afternoon naps are less certain than they used to be. Ordered to get in bed by his wife, the man sits and waits for her to return after having settled the boy. Soon they go at it like tigers and copulate for all their worth. Having got round one out of the way they are about to go for round two when... I expect all you RL parents can guess the rest. It seems as if Losgud was aiming for the territory that is usually the exclusive domain of Uther Pendragon. And he does it very well, I might add. Not brilliantly arousing by any means, but pleasing and gentle for all that. Uplifting and amusing seems about right. On a different note, to answer a question posed by Losgud on ASSD, I personally prefer to see the asterisk used to denote *emboldening*, rather than the under_score, but I have no valid or rational reason for doing so. Losgud uses the under_score. Each to their own . {Celestial comment: I personally use either CAPS or _underscore_ for EMBOLDENING, because the *asterisks* appear to my spellcheck as WILDCARDS and slow up the proofreading process. I prefer that my guest reviewers do the same.} Ratings for "Let's All Nap Now, Please!" Athena (technical quality): 10 (Very clever writing) Venus (plot & character): 10 (Highly believable) Kim (appeal to reviewer): 9 (I liked it, rather than loved it) "It's Only a Dream " by Unknown Author. Guest review by David Rills. Maybe it's me but I just couldn't get into this story of female masturbation come to ghostly fulfillment. The submission is about a woman returning from a disappointing "Blind Date". Lying in her bed, she begins to masturbate, falls asleep and is visited by a robe clad stranger who makes love to her. There's no plot and the sexual descriptions aren't very good. To make things worse, the author makes numerous spelling errors. My advice: SKIP THIS ONE ! Ratings for "It's Only a Dream" Athena (technical quality): 4 Venus (plot & character): 1 David (appeal to reviewer): 1 * "My Bedroom" by WA Emmerson (chas@bladon.dnet.co.uk). I have to admit that the main reason I reviewed this story was because the size of the cock caught my attention. It was immense - "just over seventeen centimetres from the base to the top." We Americans don't do centimetres, so I just assumed that this must be about 13 inches, since that's the size of a typical immense cock here in the colonies. I called the librarian and asked her the American equivalent 17 centimetres. She told me it was 6.7 inches, and I said there must be some mistake. She rechecked and said, "Nope, actually 6.6929 inches. Why? What do you have that's 17 centimetres long?" I had to think fast, and so I said, "A British hotdog." She said, "Those Brits should put more meat in their hotdogs." If she only knew.... I made that story up. The part about the librarian and the hotdog, that is. Actually, I looked up the formula in the World Almanac and did the conversion on my calculator. You can review and rate my story, if you wish. But the guy in this story was really impressed with his 6.7 inch beaver cleaver. Anyway, the guy with the 6.7 love muscle is going to go clubbing with four lady friends, and they are going to stay over the night with him in his flat, which is what the British call apartments or certain types of shoes. I knew what the author was talking about right away, since this was not a foot fetish story. Anyway, the guy has sex with one of the girls. That's about it. It's a really lame story - just a bunch of ideas thrown together without any concern for timing, plot, motivation, or any of those subtleties we might expect from a sex story. My own story at the end of the first paragraph of this review was much better. My guest reviewers are going to be glad that I kept this one for myself. But then, I also kept all the Mandible stories for myself. Ratings for "My Bedroom" Athena (technical quality): 7 Venus (plot & character): 3 Venus (appeal to reviewer): 3 * "Cousin Tanda" by Unknown Author (editor@spellbinder.bc.ca). The guy has been staying on the farm with his cousin Tanda. One morning she awakens him early and asks him to join her in some voyeurism. By that I mean they watch some pigs copulate. There may be something to the old theory of "Monkey see, monkey do," because immediately afterward Tanda asks him if he'd like to have a shot at it - with her, of course, not with a pig. They do pretty well! This is a short, but very good story. It was presented as a sort of an advertisement for Lust So Stories, who have a web site at http://spellbinder.bc.ca/lss/. Ratings for "Cousin Tanda" Athena (technical quality): 9.5 Venus (plot & character): 9 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9 * "Travels with Aunt Paula" by Estragon. Paula is the guardian for her ten- year-old nephew, the child of her deceased sister. Since she generally requires Cal to appear naked in her presence, we might suspect that she is a dirty old woman. Not true! Paula's every desire toward Cal is indeed maternal, even her long-established insistence on his naked humility. It is all for his own good. She has always known in her heart that a worshipful man is a happy man; and an adored and well-served woman is happier still. All she wants for her sweet nephew is as much happiness as a life of early sorrow can still afford. We learn several important Hidden Truths from the Feminist Catechism - a few things that make one go "Hmmmm." For example, why does it feel good for a boy to have his penis become hard? Answer: Because the erection shows that the nearby female has power over him, and it's good to be honest and respectful in that way. We also witness a detailed description of circumcision - that sacrament (best conferred when young girls are holding the boy's legs apart) which is designed to humiliate and shame a young boy and to enable him to find his place in the world designed for women. After his circumcision, young Cal became popular with the local girls, many of whom had been present at his gala circumcision and who had told their friends that here was a lad who was willing to become obediently naked for instructional or conversational purposes. They could ask him questions about his boy things and even touch them if they wanted. His aunt didn't mind at all, and nobody even knew whether he did. Nobody asked him. Nobody really cared. The girls who heard all this said it was incredible but they'd believe it when they saw it. Cal had many visitors. The censors might be suspicious of this story - thinking, for example, that there is something unseemly in the idea of an 11-year-old girl gazing at and touching the newly circumcised penis of a 6-year-old boy. That would be the perception of a person with a filthy mind; most readers of this story will easily see that this is simply an example of a lower-order member of the species offering his genitalia as an educational tool for a young member of the Super Race. For, as every British schoolgirl knows (with apologies to Thomas Babington Macaulay), "The battle of the sexes is lost before it even begins. Ladies just happen to enjoy being reminded of this fact." Like most of Estragon's writing, this story is a fictionalized version of a feminist philosophical tract. Some readers will find the ideas a bit exaggerated or even bizarre. "Who could ever believe crap like this?" they'll say. Well, my old Aunt Emma, for one. I escaped from her clutches long ago (I think). She's dead now and can no longer reach me (I hope). But she had these weird ideas about religion that ran exactly parallel to Aunt Paula's sexual theories. Aunt Emma's books did not emphasize physical circumcision or sexual humiliation - just spiritual versions of the same themes. I haven't looked at the "Imitation of Christ" lately - and I doubt that it's high on the reading list of most a.s.s. readers - but my recollection is that it seriously argues that humans become more perfect by becoming better slaves of God. My point is that if otherwise sensible people have been known to apply this dominance/slavery theory to the relationship between God and humankind, it should hardly be surprising to see it applied to the relationship between men and women. Estragon writes extremely well, and this is another good story. Every time I sit down at my computer to review one of Estragon's stories, I say to myself, "This female dominance stuff is nonsense. I want men to be my equals, not my slaves." Then, as I read the outlandish but interesting events in the story, I find myself realizing that there's a huge kernel of truth behind what Estragon is saying. Ratings for "Travels with Aunt Paula" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 * "Forever Faithful" by J Boswell. Holy cow! Could both Ann Landers and Dear Abby be wrong? Both of those illustrious advisors adamantly insist that the "other woman" gets the short end of the stick {so to speak}. But here we have a woman who accepts an invitation to become a mistress in exchange for an opportunity for professional advancement. She has regular trysts with her gentleman friend three or four times a week. They feel quite affectionate towards each other; it's much more than just sex, and there's no need for a commitment. He's married, a wonderful lover, and safe, having had a vasectomy years ago. Everyone, including the spouses, is happy; and the woman becomes immensely successful in the business world! I don't know - either Ann and Abby or the lady in this story must be living in a fantasy world. Probably the most perverse thing in the affair occurred when the woman shared her wedding day with her lover, because she wanted it to be special for him, too. I don't think Ann and Abby have ever dealt with that issue; but I'm pretty sure they'd agree it was perverse. That occasion also entailed an example of either a seriously misplaced modifier or crossdressing: "Still in my veil, gown and heels, Robert threw my dress up over my back and knelt behind me, slowing pushing himself into my wet pussy." After the prenuptial romp, Robert says, "Theresa, I love you all the more for this wedding treat you've given me. I've thought about what I want to do and decided that I don't want you to be a virgin anywhere in your body tonight." Then he fucks her up her ass, in both nostrils, and in both ears. The story wasn't bad; but it wasn't as hot as many of the better stories I've reviewed recently. It was late when I wrote this review. The story had potential, but was dragging; and so I made some of this stuff up. Sorry, Boswell; you've written worse stories, but you've also written better. Ratings for "Forever Faithful" Athena (technical quality): 8 Venus (plot & character): 6 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5 * "Snowbound" by A. Van Peebles (an182636@anon.penet.fi). Planes are grounded because of snow; and so the doctor's wife is stuck in a distant city, leaving him alone in charge of the slumber party for a boisterous band of fifteen- year-olds. One of the girls (who happens to be his favorite) falls and sprains her ankle; and the old peter meter is on the rise as the doctor takes her to his bedroom and gives her first aid. Afterwards, to avoid doing something "irretrievably stupid," he is faced with the choices of a cold shower or masturbation. He prescribes the latter for himself, but Allison is vividly in his mind as he jerks off in the bathroom. The sex is hot here, even though it's all in his mind. While Doc shovels snow the next morning, the rest of the kids go sledding; but the injured Allison stays behind and offers him a massage to cure what ails his sore back. He accepts the rubdown, but will he decline to roll over and let her "do the front"? And what will happen when his wife eventually returns home? You may be surprised! Ratings for "Snowbound" 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 |