Celestial Reviews 244 - December 20, 1997 - Christmas Special

Note: In this issue I posting reviews of every Christmas story I know 
about, EXCEPT those which have been reviewed as part of the Celestial 
Christmas Story Contest in the past few issues.  If I missed any 
stories, please send them to me.  The next regular issue of Celestial 
Reviews will be December 24, and then I'll take a Christmas break until 
January 3.

Second note:  Not all the stories reviewed here are good ones.  I 
reviewed any story that seemed to have a Christmas theme. To save you 
some time, here's a list of my Top 12 Christmas Stories. I am excluding 
those entered in my Celestial Christmas Story Contest.  Some of those 
may be even better; but if I included them in this list, that would ruin 
the surprise of the dramatic announcement of the winner on January 3 at 
half-time of the Down Under Bowl.

1. "For Now" by Uther Pendragon (adolescence & romance)
2. "Here Cums Santa" by SueNH (real celebrity sex!)
3. "Sue Saves Christmas " Paul LeComte (holiday orgy) 
4. "Christmas Break" by Mat Twassel (sexual fantasies)
5. "Wrapped Attention" by Uther Pendragon (romantic first time)
6. "Santa's Cumming" by Kansica (orgy with Santa)
7. "Solstice Present" by Michael Snider
8. "Christmas Tale" by Frank Ashby (hedonistic reunion)
9. "A Christmas Pony" by Grr Raoul Leash (bestiality & humor)
10. "Christmas with the Andersons" by James Boswell (various
            orgies, etc.)
11. "Christmas Presents" by Ruth White (transgender)
12. "Oh, Christmas Tree" by Dulcinea (sex under the Christmas 
            tree)
13. "Faerie Tale I" by Unknown Author (outdoor sex)

You can send one story to a loved one for each day of Christmas.  Number 
13 is a bonus - even if it is a bit of a stretch.

Third note: Keep in mind the Celestial Christmas Story Contest.  The 
only rule is that your entry has to be a new story about Christmas or a 
related holiday theme.  I'll interpret this seasonal theme loosely - a 
Druid orgy at Stonehenge during the winter solstice or group sex at 
half-time on a Rose Bowl float would qualify.  Entries can still be 
posted as soon as they are written, and I'll review them as soon as I 
receive them. Winners will be announced on or around January 2.  If you 
want to try to influence my judgment, send me your comments about the 
stories when you read them.

I had hoped to post reviews of all the Contest entries I have received, 
but they are still coming in, and so I'll have to save at least a few 
reviews for the December 24 issue.  Here is a list of all the Contest 
stories I have reviewed so far:

      "Fantasies" by BitSlinger
      "Christmas Carole" by MrSpraycan
      "Snowbound" by Ann Douglas
      "The Curiosity Shop" by Sven the Elder
      "Tongue and Cheek" by Hawk "Santa" Richards
      "The Night Before Christmas" by M1KE HUNT
      "My Xmas Threesome" by Patty Nickel
      "Another Christmas Carol" by James Martin
      "A Letter to my Babe" by Dexy
      "Carole" by Kim
      "Destiny Manifested" by Losgud

Here are the stories submitted for the Contest which I have not yet 
reviewed:

      "Snow Flake" by DG
      "Room with a View" by Mark Aster
      "Seduction" by A Magician
      "A Very Rejected Christmas" by OddManOut Anywhere
      "Winter Solstice" by Raven M.
      "Christmas Dinner" by Tom Bombadil

If you submitted a story and it is not on one of these lists, you should 
contact me as soon as possible.

Final note: Remember: even though someone else may be posting my reviews 
for me, my e-mail address is still Celeste801@aol.com.

- Celeste

      "A Christmas Pony" by Grr Raoul Leash (bestiality & humor)
            10, 10, 10
      "Home for Christmas" by Unknown Author (sex with stepsister)
            9, 6, 7
      "Joan for Christmas" by Unknown Author (confusing TG shopping
            trip) 6, 3, 1
      "Solstice Present" by Michael Snider (bdsm & fantasy fulfillment)
            10, 10, 10
      "Office Christmas Party" by Remy (torture) 7, 4, 3
      "Zucchini" by Frank McCoy (incest with a vegetable) 7, 8, 2 
      "Edging All The Way: Holiday J/O Good Thing" by Frank Nash,
            The New York Jacker (masturbation) 10, 10, 10
      "Santa's Cumming" by Karen Flynn (illiterate TG fantasy)
            4, 3, 1

Celestial Christmas Story Contest:

      "A Letter to my Babe" by Dexy (romantic fantasy) 8, 7, 8
      "Carole" by Kim (meaning of life) 9, 10, 10
      "Destiny Manifested" by Losgud (brother/sister romance)
            9.5, 10, 10

Reposted Reviews:

    * "Christmas with the Andersons" by James Boswell (various
            orgies, etc.) 10, 10, 10
    * "Adult Christmas" by Abby (Santa orgy) 9, 10, 10
    * "Faerie Tale I" by Unknown Author (outdoor sex) 10, 10, 10
    * "A Charlie Brown Christmas" by Unknown Author (Christmas
            orgy) 10, 9, 9
    * "Santa's Cumming" by Kansica (orgy with Santa) 9, 10, 10
    * "Oh, Christmas Tree" by Dulcinea (sex under the Christmas 
            tree) 10, 9, 10
    * "Candy Cane" by Dulcinea (oral sex with Santa) 10, 9, 9
    * "For Now" by Uther Pendragon (adolescence & romance)
            10, 10, 10
    * "Here Cums Santa" by SueNH (real celebrity sex!) 10, 10, 10
    * "Sue Saves Christmas " Paul LeComte (holiday orgy) 
            10, 10, 10
    * "Christmas Presents" by Ruth White (transgender) 
            8, 10, 10
    * "Christmas Break" by Mat Twassel (sexual fantasies) 10, 10, 10
    * "Christmas Tale" by Frank Ashby (hedonistic reunion) 9, 10, 10
    * "Christmas Carol" by Mark E. Dassad (teen gangbang) 5, 9, 8
    * "Wrapped Attention" by Uther Pendragon (romantic first time)
            10, 10, 10

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

"A Christmas Pony" by Grr Raoul Leash.  I'm a city girl.  But that 
doesn't mean I don't know about country livin'.  I listen to country 
songs on the radio, and they talk about lonely hearts, pickup trucks, 
unfaithful women, hard-living men, and greyhound buses.  They don't talk 
about Christmas ponies.  The young folks don't get much done 'cuz 
they're having too much fun in grandma's feather bed or rolling in the 
hay with Farmer Johnson's daughters, because there ain't nothin' wrong 
with their radios. The men occasionally leave their women at home while 
they pursue a Holy Grail called the damned ole rodeo.  The women are 
often tigers in their tight-fitting jeans who are looking for love in 
all the wrong places down at the honky tonk.  But none of them concern 
themselves with Christmas ponies.  

If country folks really DID have Christmas ponies, I'd know about.  Pam 
Tillis would have mentioned it in her ballad about her crazy life.  
Believe me: those songs are straightforward.  They sing about partying 
with Jose Cuervo and waking up in someone else's clothes; about living 
in two-story (not storey) houses; about little lovin' lies; and about 
two-timing bastards.  One of my favorites is a ditty by the Stattler 
Brothers about "My Bed of Roses" - actually a pun on Rose's Bed - in 
which a teenager describes how he learned all the things a man should 
know from a woman not approved of I suppose, whom the church-going folks 
in town wouldn't even talk to.  A Christmas pony wouldn't even be a 
stretch for country singers, who invented the term Dolly Parton and have 
been known to name their male children Sue.

No, there is no such thing as a Christmas pony.  But heck, there's no 
such thing as Santa either.  And Rudolph doesn't really have a nose that 
glows.  Nor does frosty go thmpity thump thump before he comes each 
winter.  And so a story about a Christmas pony is not out of order.

Viewed from the proper perspective, this story is a real laugher.  The 
basic plot is that Santa brings a Christmas pony down the chimney; and 
while Mom, Dad, Billy Bob, and Sis look on and plot their future 
activities, Santa has sex with the pony right there in front of the 
Christmas tree and fireplace.  This obviates the need for egg nog!  And 
as Billy Bob (actually Jimmy) says to his father: "And you and Mom won't 
allow Amy or me to have human sex until we're eighteen.  I fully 
understand your reasons why.  So that's when I came up with the idea of 
having sex with animals.  I can learn about sex, have a great time at 
it, and won't get some girl pregnant."

Which reminds me: What goes "Ho, Ho, Ho, Clunk?"
Answer: Santa Claus laughing his head off.

What goes "Ho, Ho, Ho, Clunk, Clunk, Clunk, Clunk....?"
Answer: Santa Claus laughing his head off at the top of the 
stairs.

Ratings for "A Christmas Pony"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Home for Christmas" by Unknown Author.  Dan is not exactly 
excited about the prospects of a boring visit to his family to 
exchange Christmas presents.  After all, they're just a bunch of 
step-siblings; and he has never felt very close to them.  But 
wait!  Ami has grown up, and now he's happy to feel very close to 
her indeed.  As the narrator puts it, her topography (not 
typography!) has improved.  A good time is had by both.

Ratings for "Home for Christmas"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 6
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

"Joan for Christmas" by Unknown Author.  John goes shopping for 
Christmas, and he buys a sexy dress as a special present for himself. In 
the parking lot he gets almost run over by a car, and during the time 
between the time he first sees the car and the time when he is helped to 
his feet, he hallucinates about being a woman, having sex, getting 
pregnant, and having a baby.  The story is not even as good as the 
preceding confused sentence might make it seem.  It contains a huge 
number of annoying typographical (not topographical) errors - mostly 
wrong words that make the story even more confusing than would seem 
possible.

Ratings for "Joan for Christmas"
Athena (technical quality): 6
Venus (plot & character): 3
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 1

"Solstice Present" by Michael Snider (msnider@mindspring.com).  
This story is interesting for what doesn't happen as well as for 
what does occur.  First, the woman's bathrobe falls open in front 
of the bellboy, but she doesn't fuck him - she just adds him to 
her fantasy repertoire.  The very next paragraph refers to a hand 
job, but the term refers to the fact that the package the bellboy 
brought is hand-wrapped.

Now, on to what DOES happen.  The woman is alone with Jose Cuervo 
at a resort at which her husband will join her in two days.  {Jose 
Cuervo is a brand name of tequila.  I know this because the name 
comes up often in country western songs that often supply 
background music for my private orgies with my husband.  Hence, 
the phrase, "No way, Jose!"}  The package contains a solstice 
present from her husband - some basic bdsm material and an 
introductory note from Marka, who will orchestrate her fantasy 
fulfillment.  Well, you can take it from there.  Let me just say 
that things work out pretty well or everyone.

Ratings "Solstice Present"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Office Christmas Party" by Remy (dianthus@concentric.net).  "You" are 
at your boyfriend's office Christmas party.  Since "you" are eventually 
tied spread eagle to a desktop while several guys fuck your cunt, "you" 
are apparently a female.

So if you are actually a guy, what the hell are you supposed to think 
while you're reading this story?  See, when I say you, I mean you - the 
person who is reading these words.  When this author says "you," he 
apparently means "she" but wants to confuse "you" by asking you to 
pretend that you are she, which makes no sense if you don't have a cunt 
that can be probed by all those penises.

Even if you're a woman - say, perhaps moi (that's French for Yours 
Truly) - the "you" makes no sense.  I am not at all like this woman.  I 
have watched such women at parties and I might enjoy reading stories 
about them, but why confuse the issue by insisting that she is me?

When you wrote this story, you should have said "she" instead of "you."  
The previous sentence was silly, because you did not write this story, 
unless you happen to be the author.  Is there a lesson in this?

What this author probably did was write the story as a fantasy for 
someone else - maybe a cyberlover with whom he wanted to share a 
sex fantasy or a drinking partner sharing Jose Cuervo.  She read 
it and said, "God!  This makes my pussy wet!  I came fourteen 
times just reading it!  You oughta publish this shit!"  And so he 
did, but he did not have the insight or courtesy to revise it in 
order to enable a different audience to enjoy it. 

Authors do this all the time.  I don't understand it.  Well, I do 
understand it, but I think it sucks.  If you want to write a story 
for an audience of one, that's OK.  But if you want to write the 
story for a general public, do it right!

It is possible to write a "you" story.  For example, we readers 
might view the letters of one person to another or eavesdrop on 
their conversations.  But good "you" stories are unusual.  They 
are difficult to write.  My advice is to write from the first (I) 
or third person (he/she) perspective, unless you have a good 
reason to use the second person.

In addition to the second-person problem, the author uses a weird 
melange of verb tenses to confuse the reader further.   However, 
as I understand it, a woman goes to an office party, gets drunk, 
sucks the monster cock of another drunk, and enjoys this 
immensely.  This has something to do with spite towards her 
boyfriend, Jeremy - fuck the bastard!  Then Jeremy catches her and 
punishes her; but no matter: she has orgasms all the while he 
beats and abuses her.  Then he invites his friends to torture her, 
and one of them burns her "right nibble" with a cigarette, which 
hurts like hell and leads to more orgasms.

I guess this all makes sense.  After all, if you believe, anything 
can be true - isn't that what Miracle on 54th Street is all about?

Ratings "Office Christmas Party"
Athena (technical quality): 7
Venus (plot & character): 4
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 2

"Zucchini" by Frank McCoy. Actually, this story is not by Frank McCoy.  
Frank himself suspects it's by someone named Tammy, but Tammy says it's 
something she picked up under the original title "The Christmas 
Present."  Anyway, you wouldn't spontaneously select this as a Christmas 
story, unless someone told you about it.

The basic premise is that zucchini (I guess that's the plural) make 
excellent natural dildos. They come in any size necessary to fit any  
vagina.  All you have to do is pick them when they reach the size you 
want.  In fact, if you slept in the garden, the damned things might grow 
inside you - but that would be a different short story.In the summertime 
they grow almost as quickly as some guys' cocks.

At the beginning of the story, the man sees his ten-year-old 
daughter fucking herself with a zucchini.  When he reports the 
episode to his wife (Mrs. Potato-Head - no, I'm just kidding!), 
she tells him that he should go into the little girl's room and 
have sex with her, in order to "save her from masturbating with a 
stupid vegetable."  The wife adds: "She'll never be able to relate 
properly to a man, if all her early experience with sex is just 
some frigid cucumber."  This may sound stupid, but I had a friend 
who had a bunch of baby ducks imprint on him.  They followed him 
all over the place, quacking outside his door late into the night.  
As the saying goes, "Like duck, like cucumber"; and I suspect this 
can be extended to zucchini.

All this is interesting, you might say (or probably not), but what 
does it have to do with Christmas?  Well, I was just coming to 
that.  Approximately 8.5 years after Daddy begins boinking his 
baby, during which time they have constantly copulating like 
coaxial cables, Little Lynnie gives Daddy for Christmas an 
unopened tampon and applicator.  She doesn't need it anymore, 
because she's pregnant with his son/grandson!  Isn't that special?

So that's why there's an angel on top of the Christmas tree. I 
know that's a non sequitur, but so is this entire story.

Ratings "Zucchini"
Athena (technical quality): 7
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 2

"Edging All The Way: Holiday J/O Good Thing" by Frank Nash, The 
New York Jacker (nyjaquer@smartec.com).  This isn't really a 
Christmas story, but it comes a lot closer than the previous 
attempt, if you'll pardon the pun.  What we have hear is some 
good, solid advice (or soiled advice, as my spellcheck preferred) 
regarding how to masturbate during the Christmas season, as well 
as at other times during the year.

I have secretly suspected that some of the people who frequent the 
a.s.s.* newsgroups engage in what my eighth-grade nun mysteriously 
referred to as "self-abuse" or "the solitary sin."  I now believe 
that both of those terms refer to excessive scrupulosity, and I 
find it refreshing to find a discussion of techniques for stroking 
the one-eyed burping gecko.  This article shows that when a young 
man decides to take matters into his own hands or to windsurf on 
Mount Baldy, he can do more than whack the weasel in order to 
tenderize his tube steak before shooting putty at the moon.

Actually, there are four articles in this series.  In addition to 
the one I am reviewing, there are

2. Maxing Out Your Loads
3. Work out your COCK
4. Maxing out your jackoff

The articles are designed mostly for men, but women may also find 
them stimulating.  The information is slightly redundant, but some 
folks may want to try this more than once. In other words, 
masturbation can be more than sacrificing sperm to the goddess of 
lonely nights.  These guidelines may help you shake the paint 
loose the next time you polish your bayonet or pop your clutch.

Maybe this "story" would qualify as "seasonal" because it could 
lead to some New Years Resolutions.

Ratings "Edging All The Way
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Santa's Cumming!" by Karen Flynn (TGSTORIES@station1.com). This 
is an insipid and illiterate story about a guy who wishes he was a 
girl.  Santa comes down the chimney and brings him a dress for 
Christmas.  After some flashbacks - surprise!  The story doesn't 
end here; but we can go to a web site to get the rest.  Yeah, 
right....  And Santa doesn't cum either.

This is the sort of thing that happens when you promise to review 
any story you can get your hands on that has something to do with 
Christmas.

Ratings "Edging All The Way
Athena (technical quality): 4
Venus (plot & character): 3
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 1

"A Letter to my Babe" by Dexy (padiday@hotmail.com).  The only reason 
this is a "Christmas story" is because the eponymous letter is dated 
December 18.  Give it another date, and you have an Easter story, a 
Mother's Day story, or even a Guy Fawkes Day story.  But the rules for 
the contest do say that "I'll interpret this seasonal theme loosely," 
and so the story is certainly eligible for consideration.

This is really a "you" story, like the previously-reviewed Christmas 
Office Party story.  The "you" perspective makes slightly more sense in 
this one, because it is a letter addressed to somebody else.  However, I 
still had trouble getting into the mood of the story, because it seemed 
to be written for an audience that did not include me - as if the author 
had a story ready to post, saw a Christmas story contest, and then 
adapted this story to that purpose by simply inserting a date and 
saying, "I'll be thinking of you at Christmas."  Imagine that.

Given the preceding constraints, this is a pretty good story.  It's a 
fantasy about what a bloke would like to do to his babe down under - I 
mean in Australia.  Actually, the man is in Australia, but the fantasy 
takes place in exotic India.  It's a pretty good fantasy.

Ratings "A Letter to my Babe"
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

"Carole" by Kim (Ghost@nym.alias.net). Why is Kim leaving the bar with 
her panties in her pocket, and what does this have to do with Christmas?  
Well, it's because she had been thinking about her present (meaning now, 
not a gift) and then somebody was kind enough to show her a possible 
future.  In short, she has met Carole, who had put the scroo in Scrooge.

The sex in this story isn't actively sexy, but it's still an important 
part of a very good story.  Kim weaves together several separate, vivid 
incidents into a good slice-of-life plot.  Kim doesn't start this story 
with a claim that it is "true"; and I seriously doubt that these things 
really happened to her exactly as she describes them.  Nevertheless, 
this story has a ring of authenticity to it that is often missing in 
stories on this newsgroup.

The only problem - and it's really a minor one - is that Kim should have 
consulted her proofreader before going to press with this story.  
Another 24 hours and one more set of revisions could have made this an 
even better story.

Ratings "Carole"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Destiny Manifested" by Losgud (losgud@hotmail.com).  Sam's life 
sucks.  In the bad sense.  One of the reasons his life sucks is 
that his girlfriend doesn't.  In the good sense.  That is, it 
sucks bad that she doesn't suck good.  But no matter.  He breaks 
up with her and plans a Christmas visit to his long-lost sister 
Miriam in California.

It turns out that Miriam has become wealthy, and Sam arrives just 
in time for the lavish Christmas bash at her house. Miriam has 
given her friends and associates the impression that Sam is a 
friend rather than her brother, and - can you see where this is 
going yet?  Right - adult incest sans social stigma.  When the 
brother and sister get going, the sex is both tender and hot; and 
the author blends all of this with personality development that 
doesn't hinder the action at all.  This is an excellent story.

Ratings "Destiny Manifested"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

* "Christmas with the Andersons" by James Boswell (Jaybos@cris.com). 
Bobby is lonely and depressed, because he has to wait around to take his 
last exam after all his college friends have gone home for Christmas 
break.  Readers of this story don't suffer, however, because Bobby 
spends his time rehashing a sexy scene from earlier in the school year.  
When he finally catches his plane and goes home, he is met at the 
airport by his sensual mother and sexy sister - or maybe it's vice 
versa.  Then things rapidly become more and more interesting.

I chose this story because its title had a Christmas theme, and `tis the 
season.  Actually, it's not all that seasonal.  True, Heather gives 
Bobby a simple blowjob rather than a complete enfuckment because she has 
already gone to confession and doesn't want to have to go again before 
going to communion on Christmas; but I think that's theologically 
ambiguous at best.  {Heather must have had different nuns than I did.}  
But when Laurie boinks the boss at the office while she's still full of 
her husband's cum from the wake-up call - well, that could have been 
opening day of baseball season as well as a few days before Christmas.  
On the other hand, the wild session with Stan the Man in the station 
wagon did at least start at the office Christmas party; and the drunken 
orgy that included Stan's little brother was really an extension of what 
had started earlier.

Meanwhile, back at basketball practice, the lesbian coach has become 
attracted by the combination of sexy innocence and sweet sluttiness 
exuded by Bobby's 14-year-old sister, Amanda. And then we find Bobby 
wondering if his sexy mother is naked while he hears her grunting on the 
exercise machine in her bedroom.

Certainly Sherri's big tits and the way she bangs the hell out of Robert 
at the office don't qualify as a Christmas story.  To be sure, Mr. 
Dawson is deeply interested in the youth of his community; but since 
that's really just a euphemism for liking his girls a little on the 
young side, it hardly qualifies as a Christmas motif.

Ah, here's a connection: when Laurie is kneading the dough for the 
Christmas cookies, she's really needing a couple of cocks.  Then there's 
father O'Sullivan - a kind of Bing Crosby or John Black {for you DOOL 
fans} with raging hormones, leading the girls' choir in practicing 
carols. In his bed at night, as he whips his hand up and down his turgid 
flesh, lost in lust and guilt, his thoughts have often turned to doing 
indecent and indescribable things to sweet Amanda Anderson.  What would 
father O'Mally say about that?

Maybe I'm being too rough.  After all, Mrs. Stone does say "Merry 
Christmas!" to Bobby after she lures him away from the party and before 
she pulls a Mrs. Robinson with him.  And when Mrs. Stone's daughter 
catches them in the act, Bobby and Mindy do go at it like reindeer in 
heat; and Bobby does explain his absence from the party as "checking out 
the Christmas decorations."  

Well, it all comes together when they exchange Christmas presents.  And 
later that night, after all the festivities, while Amanda is gently 
masturbating in front of a glowing fire, visualizing in her mind's eye 
the special efforts she had put in to get just the right presents, 
generally reviewing her year's sexual exploits, looking up in the midst 
of an orgasm to see her big brother looking down at her....

If the mother's name had been Carol, we would have a clear musical 
connection: "Here we go a' caroling!"  As it is, we'll just have to 
settle for that other Christmas favorite: 

       "Yes, I need a little pussy,
       "Right this very minute...."

This is very hot reading for a cold winter's night.  It has some minor 
stylistic flaws, but it's an excellent story.

Ratings for "Christmas with the Andersons"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

* "Adult Christmas" by Abby (abbywife@aol.com).  This is going to be a 
little hard to explain: there IS a Santa Claus, but he comes only for 
selected families when the woman turns 40 and the youngest child has 
stopped believing in Santa.  And he's not an old man; he's a virile 30-
year-old with a wife that gives great head to male and female alike.  
And that's not all; but you really should read the story to find out 
about it for yourself.  Don't let the brevity of this review lead you to 
believe that this is a weak story.  It's really excellent!

Ratings for "Adult Christmas"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

* "Faerie Tale I" by D-Singer.  While I was looking for Christmas 
stories for this issue, I came upon this THC repost - fairies, 
elves - close enough, I thought.  'Twould be more appropriate for 
St. Patrick's Day, but a delightful story this is.  The lass who 
narrates the story has returned from America to Ireland, where she 
goes skinny dipping in a bucolic wilderness stream and is accosted 
by a brawny lad who mistakes her for a water nymph.  Well, to meet 
a nymph is good luck, but to have intercourse with one means death; 
but the young man figures, "What a way to go!"  They don't actually 
SLEEP together, so I suppose the guy lived happily ever after.

Ratings for "Faerie Tale I"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

* "Santa's Cumming" by Kansica (Kansica@aol.com).  On a whim, the 
beautiful blonde lady decides to have her picture taken with the mall's 
Santa Claus.  When he asks her what she wants for Christmas, she 
replies, "Well, mom thinks I need a man. Could you bring me a gorgeous 
specimen of a man?"

{At a recent Christmas party, the Santa Claus asked my husband what he 
wanted.  He replied, "Can I have a copy of your list of naughty girls?"  
When Santa demurred, my husband said, "OK.  I'll settle for your list of 
NICE girls."  I think I'll keep him!}

When Santa asks her if she's been a good girl, she replies that she has 
been quite slutty, and she feels his ears with dirty but delicious 
details.  Of course, she is sitting on his lap during this part of the 
narrative.  Anyway, Santa assures her that it's sometimes nice to be 
naughty and asks her to meet him after work.  It seems that Mrs. Claus 
no longer has much interest in sexual activity other than missionary 
style once a month.  Santa needs relief from his hectic life, and he'd 
like Jennifer to help out.  Mrs. Claus has no objections, but she has 
insisted that Santa never have missionary-style sex with another woman.  
{No wonder Santa laughs so much!}  Santa is free to engage in sexual 
intercourse in any other position, with the further stipulation that he 
videotape each encounter to protect himself from being sued or arrested 
for rape.  Got your attention yet?  Check this story out for yourself!

Oh!  I forgot to tell you - Santa is looking for the right woman to give 
to his helpers as a reward for their good work throughout the holidays.  
They so seldom have time to indulge in the pleasures of the flesh....

This is a VERY creative and stimulating story!

Ratings for "Santa's Cumming"
Athena (technical quality):9
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
 
* "A Charlie Brown Christmas" by Unknown Author.  This story was 
listed as cbxmas.doc.  If you want to find it on Deja News, I would 
suggest using "alt.sex.stories Charlie Christmas."  Charlie Brown, 
Sally, Linus, Snoopy - the whole gang from Peanuts are more 
sexually active than we might think.  Indeed, Peppermint Patty and 
Marcie are lesbian lovers; Lucy has finally found a better way to 
approach Schroeder while he plays the piano and tries to ignore 
her; and Linus has tried to get some nooky from the little red-
headed girl, but she has been saving herself for Charlie Brown.  
Well, Charlie Brown gets a special Christmas present, and a general 
orgy ensues. This was the best Christmas ever!

This is a pretty good parody - or perhaps a pastiche - not quite as 
good as most of those by Shelby Bush or Uncle Mike, but still 
pretty good.  I was a bit put off by all the urination - it just 
doesn't sound like all that much fun to have somebody piss in my 
mouth; but other than that I enjoyed this story.

Ratings for "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
Athena (technical quality):10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
 
* "Oh, Christmas Tree" by Dulcinea (Dulcinea97@aol.com).  Every 
year I try to make love just one special time under the Christmas 
tree.  So do the people in this story. It's a very nice custom and 
a very nice story.  As the song goes, 

      I saw Momma fucking Santa Clause
      Underneath the Christmas tree last night....

Ratings for "Oh, Christmas Tree"
Athena (technical quality):10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
 
* "Candy Cane" by Dulcinea (Dulcinea97@aol.com).  This story is NOT 
about the REAL Santa Claus.  Jan and Tony have been working 
together at the Santa Shop in the mall, and after the last evening 
of hard work Jan goes down on him and invites him home for an 
wilder evening of elf sex.

Ratings for "Candy Cane"
Athena (technical quality):10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
 
* "For Now" by Uther Pendragon (anon584c@nyx.du.edu).  It was 
almost exactly six months ago that I reviewed "Forever," the first 
story in the Bob and Jeanette Brennan saga.  I astutely said it was 
a good story, expressed a wish that the author would post more 
stories, and rated it 9.5, 9, 10.  I was also pleased as punch that 
I had recognized Uther Pendragon as the name of the king who 
established the Round Table on Merlin's advice and who subsequently 
found his true heir (King Arthur) through the ole sword-in-the-
stone test.

Since that time, this author has not only reposted a revised 
version of that story - cleaning up the imperfections and earning a 
10, 10, 10 rating; he has also posted six more stories in this 
series, in addition to a half dozen unrelated stories.  At the 
present time I am going to say that this is the best story in the 
series; but I think that may be comparable to my daughter's annual 
statement that "This is my best birthday ever!" which is invariably 
followed a few months later by "This is the best Christmas ever!"  
What I mean is that each successive story (a) is excellent itself 
and (b) makes the whole series better.  As I read this story I saw 
Bob and Jeanette in a completely new setting, and I learned things 
about them that made sense, but which I had not thought about 
before.

The present story is only indirectly about Bob and Jeanette.  It's 
told through the eyes of Bob's sister, Vi, a bright 16-year-old who 
wants to be a psychoanalyst some day but who is at the present time 
overwhelmed with her own problems with her boyfriend.  The sexual 
activity is equally indirect: we infer only what we can learn from 
Vi's descriptions of Bob and Jeanette, while she listens in the 
room next door while her hot brother and sister-in-law go at it in 
his old bedroom.

This is an excellent Christmas story.  I loved "The Gathering" 
episode of the Waltons, and this is the sexually explicit version 
of it - except, of course, that the Brennans are a smaller family 
and that Bob is Bob's first name rather than the ubiquitous Walton 
middle name.  The interpersonal and family relationships ring true 
in this story; and even the non-sexual details contribute to the 
sexuality that Vi observes in Bob and Jeanette.  If this author 
does not have a degree in psychology, I hereby bestow an honorary 
degree upon him.

If you have not read the previous stories in this series, do a 
favor for yourself or a loved one this Christmas.  Log onto 
DejaNews on the Web (www.dejanews.com) and punch in the search 
words "alt.sex.stories pendragon."  Download all the stories you 
find there.  The ones that begin with "For" are the Bob and 
Jeanette stories. They'll give you a warm feeling on a cold 
winter's night.

Ratings for "For Now"
Athena (technical quality):10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
 
* "Here Cums Santa Claus" by SueNH. This story centers around the visit 
of the lovely and vivacious Sue (who looks and acts a lot like me, 
although she apparently has smaller breasts and nipples that respond 
slightly more slowly than mine do to gentle caresses) to the mall's 
Victoria's Secret shop at the end of a long day of Christmas shopping.  
Two libidinous female employees invite her to join the after hours 
festivities, at which she will become the Christmas present for the 
mall's Santa.  

I guess I shouldn't spoil the suspense - but the supposed impostor is 
the real Santa himself.  (This is where Sue departs a little from 
reality.  Her Santa is not circumcised.  He was the last time I made 
love to him.)  Sue has a lot of fun with the story, replacing the 
typical descriptions of sexual activity with terms and metaphors related 
to the Christmas season.  I checked with my word processor's "find" 
function, and the word "musky" doesn't appear even once; and the only 
time "rod" occurs is in the middle of "strode," "produced," and 
"prodigious" - the latter not in its usual context in a sex story!  
Instead, the aroma emanating from his cock is "the delicate fragrance of 
apple blossoms and almonds, with maybe a hint of balsam fir."  Santa's 
rotund cock is deliciously sweet and fruity.  And Santa's sweet candy 
cane drives deeply into Sue's fiery open hearth.  The only image I found 
to limp a little was Santa's offer to let Sue ride his North Pole.

Of course, like any depraved a.s.s. writer, Sue skirts the moral issue: 
what about poor Mrs. Claus, waiting chastely at home at the North Pole 
with all those tiny but horny little elves?  Nevertheless, this story 
managed to get the vision of Santa's "sugar plum" dancing in my head.  
This story definitely put me into the spirit of things.  You'll have to 
read the story to find out what Santa said as he rose out of sight. 

Ratings for "Here Cums Santa Claus"
Athena (technical quality):10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
 
* "Sue Saves Christmas" by Paul LeComte 
(FA27482@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU).  Two heterosexuals and one lesbian 
(all geologists) are stranded on Christmas Eve in a Bolivian 
desert, bemoaning their lack of holiday cheer - when what to their 
wondering eyes should appear?  It's Sue - filling in for Santa 
Claus.  When Sue asks them what they want for Christmas, they all 
give the same answer; and so they have to share Sue, who doesn't 
seem to mind it at all.  This is a delightful story!  Read it with 
someone you love!

Ratings for "Sue Saves Christmas"
Athena (technical quality):10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
 
* "Christmas Presents" by Ruth White.  Ray (Rachel) and Jack 
(Janice) are both computer geeks and crossdressers.  Neither is 
gay; but they discover that when they want to pass as female in 
public they can minimize risk of exposure by having one (dressed 
as a male) date the other (dressed as a female).  

They like one another.  As a grammarian, I stated that last 
sentence carefully.  If there were only two persons, I would have 
said, "They like each other."  But actually Ray and Jack like each 
other; Ray and Janice like each other; and Rachel and Jack like 
each other.  So they like one another, although only two of them 
are ever present at any one time.  Isn't grammar wonderful?

As time passes the guys get better at crossdressing and enjoy 
taking greater risks.  They are even more successful as computer 
geeks and become wealthy.  At the annual TV dinner (in San 
Francisco TV does not stand for television) Jack wins an award as 
most improved TV while Ray takes first place in the evening gown 
event.

Now at this point, the idea hit me: "Wouldn't it be a great plot 
if.... "; and that was exactly the plot of the rest of the story.  
I enjoyed the story even though I thought I knew how it would end.  
If you want a clue, read the next paragraph.  If you don't want a 
clue and prefer to be surprised by this really creative plot, skip 
the next paragraph.

Clue:  Skip this if you want to be surprised.  Clue: Think O. 
Henry.  Further clue:  If you haven't guessed it yet, think "Gift 
of the Magi"!  If you haven't guessed the plot yet, you're not 
very familiar with American literature.  Read this story; but then 
you won't be surprised when you read O. Henry's story.  End of 
clue.  You can resume reading now.

So they make a bet.  Each will live as a woman during the 
following year, and whoever does the best job (as adjudicated by 
the TV club) will win a vast sum of money and will obtain the 
services of the loser as a personal maid for a period of one year. 
For perfectly sensible reasons that are too complex to discuss 
here, they cancel the bet but continue to live and work as women, 
and Sally (that is, Walter the doctor) moves in with them as their 
maid.  It would also be too complex to explain why Ray finds 
himself as a client at the Institute for the Amelioration of 
Gender Dysphoria.  And finally comes the surprise ending.

As I have read TG stories, I have learned that crossdressers have 
problems that we more blas‚ people hardly even think about.  For 
example, if a guy is dressed like a girl in a bar and gets carded, 
what does he/she do about the picture and information on the 
driver's license?  And novice male CD's have problems typing with 
those long fingernails.  I have also learned that TG stories are 
often very creative.  I have no urge to become a crossdresser 
myself or to become sexually involved with one, but I find the 
ideas in stories like this one to be extremely creative - not 
_sexually_ stimulating, but very creative and _intellectually_ 
stimulating.  Although this story could benefit from a good 
proofreading, it is still an exceptionally creative tale.

Ratings for "Christmas Presents"
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

* "Christmas Break" by Mat Twassel (mmtwassel@aol.com).  The man is 
sitting in his office, watching the consultant finish up her work at the 
computer.  The company makes screen savers, and he doesn't know for sure 
whether she is testing his in-house version, which contains embedded 
erotic events <g>.  He also can't help thinking about the doorknob in 
her hotel room and the wonderful things the consultant might do to 
herself before or after a shower.  Eventually, he confronts her on the 
elevator with a mild sexual innuendo.  For the denouement, you'll have 
to read this delightful story yourself.

Ratings for "Christmas Break"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

* "Christmas Tale" by Frank Ashby.  Frank and Gladys are hedonists.  I 
know this because instead of going to church on Sunday, they stay at 
home and fuck; and before the third enfuckment they discuss swinging, 
and Gladys gets so turned on that she's eager to take it up the ass.  By 
this I don't mean they are irreligious: the church people probably 
preferred that they stay at home, since they would have been distracted 
by all that fucking, especially the anal part, and especially if the 
sermon was boring or the choir was off key.  Anyway, Frank and Gladys 
sponsor a sort of secular version of the Waltons' Homecoming or 
Gathering or whatever their Christmas special was called.

The participants in the reunion are fairly normal people whose value 
systems and lifestyles differ somewhat from my own. I would say that 
they are like folks next door, but the folks next door to me go to 
church every Sunday, and I think they shudder at the very notion of anal 
sex.  The story is big on incest, but it's not the exploitive type of 
incest that many readers find to be distasteful.

The story is told by the participants themselves, as they remember it.  
There are four different parts, each told from a different perspective; 
and the details of their stories do not always agree. This is an 
interesting approach: the same incident can be remembered differently by 
different people, because nobody sees the whole picture.  Each person 
sees only that part of the scene that could have been seen from his or 
her perspective, and even that part may be remembered imperfectly 
because of emotions or subsequent activities.

The only minor weakness in the story is that it would have benefited 
from a good proofreading before going to press.

Ratings for "Christmas Tale"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

* "Christmas Carol" by Mark E. Dassad (Ole.Joe@poboxes.com).  The 
narrator is a unintelligent embodiment of high school swine who decides 
to take an unattractive seventh-grader to a Christmas booze and drugs 
party so that he can pop her cherry.  It turns out that he shares her 
with a bunch of other guys he hardly knows.  The girl doesn't exactly 
enjoy it, but the guy sure feels good about his contribution to society.

If it weren't for the overall illiteracy of this story, it would 
possibly be a very good story.  I don't think many of us would actually 
recommend gang-rape like this in real life, but the story is a vivid and 
realistic portrayal of a really shallow lifestyle.  If it were clearly 
written, the story could give us an insight into the mind of a bizarre 
pervert - like many of those whom we might find in the real world today.  
It's very difficult to write dialogue in such a way as to make the 
characters look illiterate without letting the story itself degenerate 
into benighted stupidity, and this author is not completely successful 
in his endeavor.  Nevertheless, I can't help suspecting that this might 
be a good story, if it were cleaned up.

Ratings for "Christmas Carol"
Athena (technical quality): 5
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

* "Wrapped Attention" by Uther Pendragon (anon584c@nyx.net). Some 
people read a story once and then skip it forever after, because 
they have "already read it."  Same with movies, video games, and 
women they've humped, I suppose.  Been there, done that, got the 
tee-shirt.  Occasionally, however, it may be good to revisit the 
past.  This may be especially true if the former sex partner has 
grown into a more mature lover - I'm speaking hypothetically, of 
course - or if the author has revised the story.

This is a story about the first sexual experience of a young 
college student, which occurs during Christmas vacation with a man 
nearly twice her age. Originally the author attempted to describe 
the activities as comprising a tender scenario, but I felt he 
slowed things down so far that the events became boring.  This 
author usually writes vibrant, upbeat stories; but this one did not 
yet have those characteristics.  My assumption was that he would 
return to the drawing board and inject into this story the 
energetic life that it deserved. If I was going to read a story 
like this, I wanted it to be interesting and lively as well as 
tender and meaningful. And behold, during this Christmas season of 
A.D. 1997, a star appeared in the sky and my prophecy was 
fulfilled.

So the tender lover deflowers his uptight, young sweetheart so 
carefully and considerately that even the pope's mistress would 
become orgasmic.  This story is still not as good as those in the 
Bob and Jeanette Brennan series; but few stories are.  I might add 
that anybody who successfully writes a story about an actuary as a 
sex object deserves a special award!  I enjoyed this story very 
much and strongly recommend it as part of your Christmas reading.

By the way, the title contains a pun; but I'll bet you can figure 
that out yourself!

Ratings for "Wrapped Attention"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10