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Celestial Reviews 159 - February 19, 1997
Note: I tried to post this through AOL, and they put it on the Newsgroup
INCORRECTLY three - count 'em - THREE times - not one of them correct. Eli
(of alt.sex.stories.moderated) has been kind enough to offer to repost it for
me, and so I'll simply send this to him and ask him to repost it. I regret
the delays this causes. It seems that AOL is so hung up on fixing its
overload problem that the organization is ignoring this other problem.
Please continue sending correspondence to me at celeste801@aol.com.
Second Note: Thanks to the help of a correspondent, I have rebuilt my
database of stories and should be able to resume my regular review pattern.
Third Note: I reviewed several "leftover seasonal stories" this week -
specifically Christmas and Velentine's stories.
Final Note: Remember that the authors of these stories may like to hear a
word or two from you.
- Celeste
"Radhika and Matthew" by Mary Anne Mohanraj (cross-cultural
romance) 10, 9, 9
"Dialogue" by Mary Anne Mohanraj (hot flirtation) 10, 9, 9
"Teen Breeder" by ucclear (beating & impregnation) 7, 5, 3
"Christmas Tale" by Frank Ashby (hedonistic reunion) 9, 10, 10
"Stuck by Cupid" by Hotdog (fun-filled rape) 6, 5, 4
"Christmas Carol" by Mark E. Dassad (teen gangbang) 5, 9, 8
"Take 2" by Gregarious (blind date) 8, 9, 9
"Skinny Dipping with My Maiden Aunt" by Day Dreamer
(emerging adolescence) 9, 9.5, 9.5
"Robin" by Mark Aster (moral dilemma) 10, 10, 10
"Robin and Kestrel" by Robin Man (bb superhero sex) 9, 9, 9
"The Little Elf, A Fairy Tale" by Milford Whittemore (fairy
tale without sex) 9, 5, 5
"Change of Pace" by Mike Allegretto and Caitlin B. (sci fi TG)
8, 10, 10
"Radhika and Matthew" by Mary Anne Mohanraj (mohanraj@mills.edu). This is a
brief but well-written story about an intercultural romance. It contains no
vivid sex scenes, and I suppose the main reason for including it in this
newsgroup is because it is written by an author who has written so many vivid
sex scenes.
This is the sort of story after which I had to stop and think about what
really happened. As I neared the end, I said to myself, "This isn't really
making sense." When I read the last line, I said, "This makes NO sense."
Then I glanced back through the story and said, "Oh, yeah! I get it. Now
it makes perfect sense."
Ratings for "Radhika and Matthew"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"Dialogue" by Mary Anne Mohanraj (mohanraj@mills.edu). No actual sex takes
place in this very short story. The man and woman just make plans, but they
are very hot plans.
Ratings for "Dialogue"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"Teen Breeder" by ucclear (ucclear@inetworld.net). The girl thinks her mom
is wonderful but her father is a jerk. When the daughter walks past the
bedroom, she sees the father cruelly beating her mother with a belt, and this
gives the girl her first orgasm. The old man's job is threatened, and Mom
figures he can hang onto it by letting the new boss fuck their daughter.
Since the boss wants to have children by as many women as possible, the
mother arranges for the daughter to take fertility drugs. They date and have
sex. Before the second date Dad beats the girl and then goes out with the
guys; then Mom serves the boss a good meal; and then Mom stands by the
parental bed and occasionally beats the daughter while the boss has sex with
the kid during her most fertile period. Knowing how fertile she is, the girl
can't help but have a major orgasm. After the boss leaves, Mom beats the
girl some more, so that she'll have some more orgasms to "soak it up" and
make sure the kid gets pregnant.
I guess there are some sexy parts to this story. Mostly, however, it's
pretty silly. I really don't think there are many normal girls who would
respond this way to this kind of abuse, and there's no sensible explanation
for her abnormality.
Ratings for "Teen Breeder"
Athena (technical quality): 7
Venus (plot & character): 5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 3
"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
"Stuck by Cupid" by Hotdog (hotdog@who.knows). I thought this was going to
be a Valentine's Day story, but it's not. It's a story about a horny guy who
rapes a younger girl in the shower. It's not really rape, of course, because
the girl enjoys it and decides to go steady with the rapist.
The story has additional basic problems with verisimilitude. For example,
the narrator claims to attend a public high school that has 22,000 students,
with 4000 graduating seniors. There ain't no such place. Most states have
only one or two UNIVERSITIES with that many students. To feed that many
students, the cafeteria alone would have to be larger than any high school I
have visited or heard of.
The following criticism may appear trivial, but it's not. In the first
paragraph, the narrator says, "I graduate in two weeks and have never been
laid." This is not true. He should have said. "I WAS GOING TO graduate in
two weeks and HAD never yet been laid." It makes a difference. It's
important to use verb tenses in such a way as to help the reader understand
the perspective from which the story must be read.
Ratings for "Stuck by Cupid"
Athena (technical quality): 6
Venus (plot & character): 5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 4
"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
"Take 2" by Gregarious (gregtorr@ican.net). Keith gets set up on a blind
date with Elena. The date turns out to be wonderful, and so they head
straight to her apartment from the jazz club and decide to make love. They
have a major focus on doing things for the "first time" together. It was a
good, sexy first date.
Ratings for "Take 2"
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"Skinny Dipping with My Maiden Aunt" by Day Dreamer. Because of his mother's
job, the 15-year-old narrator of this story has to stay with Aunt Sue on
Grandpa's farm just outside town. The main difficulty is that they have only
two bedrooms, and so he has to sleep with Aunt Sue in her big double bed.
Talk about a transparent plot! Actually the situation not all that
difficult: Aunt Sue is beautiful and the narrator has a deep and abiding
interest in losing his virginity as soon as possible.
In spite of sharing the bed with his aunt, Donny is initially virtuous,
settling for simple wet dreams in which his imaginary partners look a lot
like his bed-mate. When they go swimming, they initially wear their
underwear, but it's hard to hide a hard-on in a skimpy bathing suit, and
Sue's panties, do not remain opaque when they get wet. As I said, talk about
a transparent plot! Well, opacity having been eliminated, Sue decides that
it will be OK to go skinny dipping if Donny would like to go swimming again.
Boy, would he! And remember, we mustn't tell Mom. And, of course, there's
a rule: "Everyone can look all they want, but no handling the merchandise."
I guess if the U.S. Constitution can be amended and if the Berlin Wall can
come down, we should not be surprised that the Rules of Skinny Dipping can
change; and they do. It gets to be pretty hot stuff. The New Rule is that
touching and its concomitants should take place only in the pool at the
creek, certainly not in bed, where they sleep and have mutual wet dreams
together. Eventually the New Rule gets modified with a simple codicil that
says it will be OK for them to mutually take each other's virginity. And
maybe it would be OK to do it in bed if they were really quiet and didn't
wake Grandpa, who seems to be pretty much deaf and senile anyway. As the
song says, "Life gets complicated when you get past fourteen...." This is a
very good story.
Ratings for "Skinny Dipping with My Maiden Aunt"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5
"Robin" by Mark Aster (MyFrThAl@aol.com). Robin first appeared with the
Allen Sisters in this author's "At the Pool". In this episode Robin is still
working as a lifeguard, and she becomes romantically involved with another
lifeguard named Jerry. What we have here is a sexy build-up to a moral
dilemma.
Ratings for "Robin"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Robin and Kestrel" by Robin Man. {This was listed as ROBIN4.TXT}. The two
16-year-old proteges of Batman work out together and get turned on by the
physical contact. Later Batman himself frolics with the guys - all sans
costume, of course. I enjoy ff sex much more than the mm variety, but it's
easy to see that an mm fan would enjoy this, if a deep plot were not
considered to be a necessity.
Ratings for "Robin and Kestrel"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"The Little Elf, A Fairy Tale" by Milford Whittemore
(MilfordW@worcester.net). This well-written fairy tale about an elf and a
naked princess who usually wore a chastity belt but one day went for a walk
naked in the forest has no moral and no real point. It's one of the best
pointless sex stories that's not worth reading that I have ever read.
Ratings for "The Little Elf, A Fairy Tale"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5
"Change of Pace" by Mike Allegretto and Caitlin B.
(caitlinb@concentric.net). Jack is a bit of a rationalist: he doesn't
believe in magick. But his mother is a white witch, which means that she can
cast benevolent and humorous spells, like Samantha used to do on "Bewitched."
So she changes Jack into a person who looks just like Agent Scully from the
"X-Files." Actually, the transformation process continues in several steps
in 15 minute intervals until he becomes totally female, but Mom doesn't tell
him exactly what these steps are. In addition, there are several other rules
that are explained in the story.
Since the change will be temporary (unless he requests that it be permanent),
Jack decides to play along, to enjoy it, and to make mental notes that he can
enjoy later. After all, he has lusted after the Scully character for a long
time, and soon he will be encapsulated inside her body! There are several
additional interesting twists and turns in this story.
Chapters 1-3 were written some time ago by Mike Allegretto, and Chapters 4-6
were drafted by Caitlin B., and finished by Caitlin B. after feedback from
Mike Allegretto. The two halves don't match up perfectly (the pace of the
second half is different from that of the first, and the first three chapters
develop at a more leisurely pace than the last three), and some proofreading
would have been in order; but it's still a pretty good collaboration.
Ratings for "Change of Pace"
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
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