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Celestial Reviews 204 - August 2, 1997

Note:  I posted some information about killfiles and zipped files in the last
issue of CR.  What I posted was generally accurate.  However, as someone
astutely pointed out in an a.s.s.d. discussion, I really don't know much
about technology and I was just paraphrasing what more knowledgeable people
had told me.  This discussion is continuing on a.s.s.d., where it belongs and
where more competent people are handling the debate.

Second note:  I have neglected Parker in my reviews.  Parker is a good
writer, but most of his stories simply deal with topics that don't interest
me.  I am reposting my reviews of the three Parker stories I have reviewed.
 In addition, I have "commissioned" guest reviews of two of his other stories
(as if I really had the authority to "commission" anything).  If there is
anyone out there who would like to guest review some more of Parker's
stories, I would be happy to hear from you.

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

- Celeste

      "After School Special" by Unknown Author (teacher sex)
            8, 8, 8
      "The Words" by L.P. (cyber-romance fruition) 8, 8, 8
      "Surprise" by DaTurnOn (dreamy threesome) 8, 8, 8
      "On The Other Side of Seduction" by ElSol (seductive
             romance) 6, 5, 5
      "Begging on all FOURS" by Puppylicks (sex slavery &
            bestiality) 6, 5, 3
      "The Insatiable Flirt" by Anne747 (ff shower sex) 
            10, 10, 10
      "The Hunter" by The Erotic Pen (magick & romance) 
            10, 9, 9
      "Taking it in the Shorts" by Jamie Phillips (light-hearted 
            revenge) 10, 10, 10

Guest Reviews:

      "Elizabeth" by Seurat (bdsm & control) 9.5, 9.5, 6
      "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" by Waldo (vampires
            & TG) 10, 10, 10
      "Nancy Comes to Work" by the Erotic Pen (office 
            rendezvous)

Reposted Reviews (because the stories have recently been reposted):

    * "Singapore Girl" by Friar Dave (anal sex, fisting, bondage,
            etc.) 10, 8, 8
    * "Honeymoon" by Parker (Slavery/bdsm) 10, 8, 3 
    * "Office Girl" by Parker (blackmail & white slavery) 
            10, 10, 9
    * "Princess" by Parker (TG Halloween Party) 10, 9.5, 9
    * "Scarlett's Cove" by Ann Douglas (hot lesbian romance) 
            10, 10, 10

"After School Special" by Unknown Author (teacher sex).  An After School
Special is an occasional television show that appears in the late afternoon
in the United States with the purpose of enlightening children in an
entertaining atmosphere.  This story is about a different sort of After
School Special.  The narrator is a teacher who flirts with Miss Daphne Mason
and is invited to the book closet for a session of hot sex.  Although the
terminology is stereotypical and the plot predictable, this is a fairly hot
story.

Ratings for "After School Special"
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

"The Words" by L.P. (kspeyt@hotmail.com).  Her sex life was sterile and
uninteresting, until she found the Internet, where she was able to let her
inhibitions down and let the sexy and charming self emerge from inside her.
 Then she found herself actually having orgasms with this man on the
telephone.  Now she is going to meet him in person.

I guess part of the appeal of cyber-romances that eventually come to fruition
is that the participants often know each other even before they meet.  The
rendezvous is a blind date, but not a blind date.  In this case, the man and
woman had talked about everything:  birth control, their children, what they
read, the music they listened to....  Since they had exchanged sexual
fantasies ad nauseam, it was only a matter of acting them out, following the
game plan. This sounds like something Dear Abby or Dr. Ruth would approve of.

I found the use of very short sentences and numerous sentence fragments to be
a bit choppy and distracting.  The author should either work to perfect that
style (as Hemingway did) or consider using a more conventional style to
combine thoughts and to subordinate one idea to another.  All in all,
however, this is pretty sexy stuff.

Ratings for "The Words"
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

"Surprise" by DaTurnOn (Almond423@aol.com).  I give my students the following
advice: "Your ideas are more important than grammar, spelling, and
punctuation; but that doesn't mean that these skills are inconsequential.
When you're writing something formal for someone who is likely to judge you,
use the grammar, spelling, and punctuation rules that are in the grammar
handbook.  When you're allowed to be creative, it's sometimes OK to cast
aside the rules of grammar, spelling, and punctuation; but you should have a
purpose in doing so.  For example, if you decide to use your own rules for
capitalization, this can be effective; but when you choose to do this, you
are essentially inventing your own system.  Your readers can no longer rely
on conventional rules to understand you.  Using unconventional grammar,
spelling, and punctuation is often much more difficult than simply applying
the standard rules."

This author chooses to use no capital letters at the beginning of sentences.
 As I start the story, I'm not sure why she does this; but as a reader I am
willing to go along with her.  Maybe she wants to suggest that the narrator
is moderately illiterate.  Maybe she wants to express a feeling of urgency.
 Maybe she just wants to show that she's a free spirit.  The only real
disservice this deviation accomplishes is that it makes it a little harder
for me to find the beginning of a sentence if my eyes wander.  I guess I
better not let my eyes wander.  Maybe that's why the author does this.

Near the beginning I also notice that sometimes sentences end with periods,
but sometimes they end with four dots - but then sometimes four dots occur
between phrases in the middle of sentences.  Sometimes paragraphs end with
nothing but empty space.  Is the author trying to say something?  Maybe she's
just saying she doesn't care much about punctuation.

So then in fifth paragraph I see the sentence "Derek... this is my gurl
Naomi...."  I would have expected, "Derek, this is my girl Naomi."  Now I am
wondering, why does she call Naomi a "gurl" rather than a "girl"?  Since the
author makes other "mistakes" on purpose, I am left wondering why she has
done this.  What is a "gurl"?  A few sentences later I find this sentence: "
his eyes widen.... looking at the woman that turns him on..."  Grammar books
tell me to use "who" not "that" when referring to a person.  Is the author
making a statement?  Is she trying to suggest that the woman is more of an
object than a person.  I doubt it.  I suspect the author simply screwed up
the grammar; and by this time I suspect that she simply misspelled "girl" as
well.

Near the middle of the story a paragraph begins with a capitalized "He."  Is
there some significance to this?  I suspect carelessness - but I am
obsessing.

The story is a simple description of a woman sharing her girlfriend with her
boyfriend.  I think the author is trying to use a train-of-though approach;
but I did NOT find it to be all that effective.  I think it interfered with
this story.  This author used the same general style in "Dreamland," and
Stubby (who wrote the guest review) liked that style in that story - calling
it poetic.  I have read "Dreamland," and I think the author did a better job
of using this style in that story. I think "Dreamland" was a better story
than this one; but this is still a very good, sexy story.

My advice to this author is the same as what I say to my students: using
unconventional grammar, spelling, and punctuation is often much more
difficult than simply applying the standard rules.  I think the gimmick
worked once, and now it is beginning to stand in the way.  Nevertheless, I
hope to see more stories by this author.  I admire people who are willing to
try both different ideas and different approaches to presenting these ideas.

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

"On The Other Side of Seduction" by ElSol (Commander Jameson repost).  The
guy has seen a female coworker he likes in the computer lab and has decided
to bed her.  He begins his slow and devious process of seduction.  He's a
geek, a weirdo, a stalker.  The seduction drags on and on, and then the
narrator discovers that he is the one who has been seduced!  Imagine that.

This story is labeled "real." My advice to the author is to make it less real
and more interesting.  "Real" stories are what make anthropology courses
boring, unless the teacher does something to liven things up - something like
having an angle or focal point to the stories.  

The verb tenses in this story are confusing.  Sometimes the present tense
indicates habitual action; sometimes it indicates what is happening "now,"
but "now" changes as the perspective shifts.  Then we find ourselves in the
past tense - where are we?  It gets worse as the story goes on.

Finally, I found this sentence: "I put a husband between us...."  The author
is obviously referring to something like a cushion. Then by massaging her
shoulders the narrator makes the woman lean back into the "husband."  The
author has obviously used spellcheck and has accidentally used global replace
to insert "husband" for something else, but I cannot for the life of me
figure out what it is.  Can you?

Ratings for "On The Other Side of Seduction"
Athena (technical quality): 6
Venus (plot & character): 5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5

"Begging on all FOURS" by Puppylicks.  The full heading for this story was
WOMEN INVITED TO READ "Begging on all FOURS.... .....", if you DARE! :)"  It
really wasn't all that nerve shattering; actually, it was just another sex
slavery story, based on the notion that "woman have richer, wilder fantasies
than
men.... Men are only beginning to perceive the true nature of woman's
being.... They have created a false image of her.  She's' neither an angel
nor a bitch in heat.  If she is no longer an enigma, She's' certainly an
everlasting source of wonder and rich in unexplored possibilities in every
domain of life....."  Oh, and the guy has his faithful dog Rusty work her
over as well.  

Well, at least one intrepid woman has dared to read this story, even if she
thinks that men have to be stupid to believe this kind of shit.  This is
actually an ad in which the other is trying to solicit a woman who would like
to perform these services for the him and Wonder Dog (not the dog's real
name).  Good luck.  {I don't know why FOURS is all caps in the title - maybe
Rusty was licking the author's asshole or something when he wrote it.}

Ratings for "Begging on all FOURS"
Athena (technical quality): 6
Venus (plot & character): 5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 3

"The Insatiable Flirt" by Anne747 (Anon747@aol.com).  It is certainly
possible to write a better story than this.  It lacks character and plot
development.  But it really does a good job at what it's supposed to do:
describe the actions and atmosphere surrounding a first-time quickie between
two female friends in the shower.

I am not going to describe the intimate details: you can discover all of
those in ten minutes by reading the story yourself.  As I have said many
times in the past, I am a monogamous heterosexual woman, but I still find a
story like this to be extremely stimulating.  Any sensible woman would.  So
will most sensible men.

Ratings for "The Insatiable Flirt"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"The Hunter" by The Erotic Pen (sarlim@aol.com).  Medieval fantasy stories
are often uninteresting to me.  You see, I have this sneaking suspicion that
magicians are imaginary and that people and animals cannot really change
their shapes at will.  Medieval magick stories are often confusing to
outsiders like myself, who don't understand the ground rules.

This author has managed to avoid the major pitfalls and has written a very
nice love story about a hunter who rescues a maiden from three men who are
about to slay her.  She nurses him back to health and makes tender love to
him, but then she mysteriously announces that she cannot remain the love of
his life.  As he leaves for home, he realizes that the maiden was really the
bear he had been hunting.

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

"Taking it in the Shorts" by Jamie Phillips (jimadam@cybertours.com).  {In
the postings this story is labeled simply "In the Shorts."} Mike Hunt is
going to be really upset that he didn't think of the story label for this one
in my table of contents - "short comings."  See, the guy in this story thinks
he's God's Gift to Women; but he's not, because he has a "shortcoming": "he
comes in his shorts" - as in premature ejaculation - getting so turned on
that he comes before entry.  Personally, I think that's also Austin's problem
on DOOL, but network television isn't ready for that plot yet.

This is not an earth-shaking story - except, perhaps, in Hemingway's sense -
just a cute little story about how a girl gets even with a boy who has said
behind her back that she's a slut.

Minor problem time: If a guy takes a girl's aureole into his mouth, he's
having an other-worldly experience.  The area around the nipples is called
the areola. An aureole, you see, is a circle of light or radiance surrounding
the head or body of a representation of a deity or holy person; in short,
it's a halo.  {The term is also used by astronomers to refer to the corona
around the sun.}  The word these authors undoubtedly mean to use is "areola"
(also referred to as "areole" when it is a specifically biological term),
which refers to a small ring of color around a center portion, as about the
nipple of the breast or the part of the iris surrounding the pupil of the
eye.  I have seen other bizarre spellings, including "aereole" - a word which
doesn't exist but which would appear to be related to "aer" or "aero," a root
that refers to air or gas.  I suppose this spelling could suggest that the
lover was nibbling an aperture through which air or gas might be expunged -
but I rather think this is a simple spelling error.  Anyway, when my husband
makes love to me, I prefer that he nibble on an areola when the spirit moves
him.  If he wants them both, they're called either areolas or areolae.
 There's also a noun called areolation.  That sounds like a good title for a
story.

Ratings for "Taking it in the Shorts"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Tern (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Elizabeth" by Seurat (Dantedibby@aol.com).  Guest review by Anne747.

First, for those who may not know, I don't really get into BDSM-style pieces.
 I thought I would say that before I start, so you would realize that my
review may be flavored by that.  However, the challenge of reviewing
something that might not appeal to me was too tempting to turn down.

I'm not sure I can summarize the story without giving away the plot.  All I
will say is that it's a tale of lust, greed, and control.  There are a few
twists and turns in the piece, although I'll have to say I kind of saw them
coming.  That could actually be a sign of my own warped and twisted mind,
since I love to mess with the reader's train of thought when I can.  I
usually love stories where the unexpected happens.

The characters are well drawn, and the author has done a reasonable job of
keeping the flow of the piece going well.  I found the <inserted text> of a
character's private thoughts slightly distracting.  I can't come up with a
better solution for a newsgroup posting, but if this goes onto a website,
perhaps italics would be a more appropriate choice.  I understand the need to
know her thoughts, but it just took away slightly from the flow of the piece.
 The "control" scene went a little slowly in my mind; but then, for those
more into this type of piece they might see it as a slow build-up to the
climax (hmmm... pun intended).

Ratings for "Elizabeth"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Anne747 (appeal to reviewer): 6 (sorry, just didn't convert me!)

"How I Spent My Summer Vacation" (also called "Vamp") by Waldo.  Guest Review
by Vickie Tern.

Waldo's stories tend to be long, slow getting under way, carefully
constructed, reliable, persuasive, and solidly satisfying.  In fact some of
them already risk becoming "classics," more respected than read.  His plots
are never predictable, and he can do amusing or torrid scenes with the best
of them -- he IS one of the best.  But sometimes his writing seems too
deliberate, solemn, somehow lacking spontaneity and spice.  He makes it easy
for new readers, in this case providing a Table of Contents and a Story
Summary to warn off those who may find themselves turned off.  This makes
things seem even more ponderous.  Stay with it though, and you see that
everything matters, nothing has been arbitrary or irresolute.  You can trust
Waldo.  He's a good read.  Eventually also, a fun read.   

Mostly he writes media-genre "TG" stories (archived at
http://www1.mhv.net/sapphire/waldo.htm), tales of gender-swapping that people
usually read for the same reasons they read wife-swapping or adultery
stories, for the dangerously delicious wickedness of it all, to feel they're
breaking rules and transgressing boundaries (what dumb mix of metaphors gave
us "pushing envelopes"?).  Most TG fans risk primary sexual identity in their
imaginations in order to gratify secret and perverse desires.  Yum!  I myself
write for such fans, and also to test out the subordination of the sexes --
though somehow my TG tales always come out Femdom, a woman always finally in
charge of some humiliated hapless male.  

Not Waldo.  He has too strong a sense of irony to wallow in the pleasures of
the perverse, too much concern with motivation, and how things feel, too much
plain curiosity.  His gender-switching is more to put characters into wholly
unfamiliar predicaments, then to see how they cope, if they can deal with the
unthinkable at all.  A man become a woman?  What's different?  What's
unexpected?  What then?

So "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" puts a TG spin on the old Vampire genre,
those novels and movies that are really about sexual desire -- one taste and
then you can't ever again get enough of it.  In Bela Lugosi's day the
eroticism was disguised as drinking blood.  But consider.  There's this
debonair European Count suddenly in the diaphanous virgin's bedchamber, who
leans over her to kiss her neck, and the next morning she's a compulsive
seducer, eyes gleaming in lust?  Or there's this temptress called a "Vamp" in
1920's movies, strangely exotic (though the original, Theda Bara, came from
Staten Island), a Medusa who mercilessly lures men to her bejeweled body and
then destroys them?  Conversion to a thirst for blood?  C'mon!  Anyhow,
that's where Waldo is.  In this story, one bite on the neck, maybe not even
that, and instead of joining the living dead, eating flies, avoiding mirrors,
and sleeping in coffins, awake or asleep you experience exotically enhanced,
intensely high-powered sex as yourself and as others of the other gender, in
all possible permutations.

Of course you have to get there first, and that's a fun part.  This is also a
lightly satirical "academic" story, beginning and ending in a classroom.
 That's where a mysteriously seductive stranger first challenges a prissy
Professor to justify his latest book on the non-existence of Vampires by
visiting her castle deep in Dracula country.  He's a second-rate skeptic
intent "to prove that this is a hoax" instead of exploring a real question
such as Why do people Want to Believe in Vampires in the First Place (see
answer above).  But he strokes his beard, consults his Dean, and assembles a
research team consisting of a fat woman scholar (lesbian), a football stud
(hetero), a gorgeous dish (ambitious), and a true-believing religionist
(soft).  Then off they go.

Anyone can enjoy this part who has ever been amused or exasperated by
professorial egos, garrulous student showboating, or the perfect tits on that
inaccessible doll in the third row.  The academy as well as the whole vampire
tradition is solemnly ransacked and parodied.  Then when we get to the castle
where erotic desires are awakened and acted out, and people are transformed
and re-transformed, who can't enjoy it?  Even our cautious if libidinous
professor gets more than he'd anticipated, and I don't mean merely that he
gets to give himself a blow job.

Heavy duty stuff.  Triple 10, of course.

Ratings for "Elizabeth"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Tern (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Nancy Comes to Work" by the Erotic Pen (Sarlim@aol.com).  Guest review by
Mike Hunt.

This is a simple story simply told. In fact, you barely need to read more
than the title to figure out everything that happens. Nancy visits her
husband at work on a weekend. They have sex. It's husband and wife sex, but
(of course) it still has "pinched nipples", a "hot, wet clit", and "she
cums."

All the words are there, but the action didn't carry me along as it does in a
more interesting story. The author has a jarring tendency to jump tenses, as
in "Since I hadn't eaten anything yet today I told her..." and "my hands
moved to her breast.... My mouth traces a trail from her mouth." It's not a
critical flaw, it just detracts from a smooth read.

There's not a lot wrong with this story. There's just not a lot right with
it, either. The best thing I can say about it is "it's short." There's very
little character development, virtually no plot, and one short sex scene. Ho
hum.


* "Singapore Girl" by Friar Dave (friar_dave@mhbbs.com).  The guy meets and
becomes enamored with a beautiful and successful businesswoman from Singapore
whose name is June.  They help each other carry out some of their mutual sex
fantasies.  He also has another beautiful lover named Annie, whose greatest
virtue besides her beauty and intelligence is her spontaneity and freedom
from inhibitions.  The guy quickly discovers that June has a kinky streak; to
his astonishment she takes special delight in being fisted.  Her ultimate
request is for him to tie her up and do what he likes to her until she
literally passes out from the sexual pleasure.  The guy manages to satisfy
her needs; as near as I can figure she came in continuous orgasms for about
three and a half hours.  Although originally she disliked giving head, by the
end of the story she is proficient at it.

This is a good story, and it's a lot hotter than my factual summary
indicates.  However, it's not a perfect story; there are too many loose ends.
 For example, why make such a big thing out of her bias against lesbians if
that bias plays no part in the story?  Why introduce the other women, if they
play no important part in the story?  I suspect that the author had planned a
threesome but lost interest.  The story is hot and enjoyable, but it's not
Friar Dave's best work.  It's still good, mind you - just not his best work.
 (Rating: 8)


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

* "Honeymoon" by Parker.  After giving the preceding three stories high
ratings, I sat down at my computer to read my first Parker story.  This one
is about a man who gives his beautiful young wife a surprise gift for their
honeymoon - her former English professor as a sex slave.  Needless to say,
the professor had been a prissy but sexy bitch (so far that sounds accurate),
and so she probably deserved this reduction to chattel servitude.  They
humiliate her in various ways while they satisfy their sexual urges.  The
story also gives a description of this alleged slave trade.  If this really
happens, it's a bunch of crap.  I'm trying not to be a prude.  I see the
point in and actually enjoyed the voyeurism in deirdre's "Couch." I also gave
a high rating to "Run," which had an sm/slavery twist; but it didn't dwell on
how much fun it would be to degrade someone.  In "Dreamwalk" the neighbor
dominates the man who narrates the story; but it's actually a nice kind of
domination - she actually likes the guy.  I'm not trying to be unfriendly;
and I realize there are valid differences in lifestyles and interests.  But
when somebody writes a story that describes how interesting it would be to
turn a passerby into a degraded specimen of a human being (granted, she was
already an English teacher), am I being a bigot to say that this is really
kind of sick and to worry about the mental health of people who enjoy this
kind of garbage?  I would appreciate serious comments, not flames.  I'm
really trying to understand.  Here's the crux of the question:  If Jeffrey
Dahmers wrote a grammatically correct, clear, detailed description of how he
drilled holes into the heads of his victims while they were still alive and
then had sex with them before he killed and ate them, am I supposed to accept
this as a "lifestyle choice"?  And if I found my husband jacking off while he
was reading this description after Dahmers published it on a.s.s., would I be
paranoid to think he had a serious problem?

Ratings for "Honeymoon"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 3

* "Office Girl" by Parker.  The college girl has accepted a boring summer
job.  Someone from another company offers her a large amount of money for
some survey results.  She agrees to the terms, but she gets caught stealing
the information.  Either she must do what her superiors demand or they will
report her to the police.  She has become that saddest wretch of a.s.s. - the
moral (or immoral) equivalent of the trapped tenant farmer or coal miner
locked into the company store; she has become a sex slave.  The story
describes in detail some creative forms of humiliation to keep the girls
ensnared in what used to be called white slavery.

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

* "Princess" by Parker.  This is listed as Parker25.  It has been posted
recently, and so it should be available on Deja News.  I hope someone will
repost it quickly on a.s.s.  {I originally wrote this as part of a Halloween
Special Issue of CR.}

Stephen is a computer geek who has been invited by Janice Sweet to be her
date at Cindy Parker's Halloween party.  Janice is the most beautiful girl in
the school, and she has just broken up with the most handsome jock.  Stephen
is tempted to back out when he finds out that Janice wants him to dress like
a girl while she dresses like a guy; but Janice is very persuasive.  She
promises him lots of sex later on; and she's not lying about that!

The costume goes on very nicely; Stephen has become Stephanie.  Janice
hurries off to help Cindy prepare for the party, and Stephen arrives alone at
Cindy's house in time for the party.  Only it's not a costume party!  He's
the only one dressed in a costume; but nobody notices, because he looks like
a real girl in normal clothing.  There's no way out; so he continues to play
the female role.

It turns out that Janice is simply using Stephen to get even with Biff the
football jock for dumping her.  Use your imagination.  How would a pretty
little bitch use a dork dressed up like a cute little girl to get even with
her brutish ex?  That's right!  And pretty soon he finds himself doing the
entire football team.  At least he gets to be a cheerleader.

Ratings for "Princess"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

* "Scarlett's Cove" by Ann Douglas (annd@pop.tiac.net).  Ann Douglas has
recently announced her retirement from active erotic story writing.
 Coincidentally, someone else has reposted all her stories.  I can't fit all
of those reviews in this issue of CR, but I'd like to repost a review of one
of my favorites.  In addition, I'd like to add that Will Rogers never read a
story by Ann Douglas that he didn't like.

The story centers around the visit of two friends to a Caribbean Club Med
type resort that caters to lesbians and bisexuals.  Although both women are
lesbians, they are not habitual lovers - just friends.  After some
preliminary fun, Jeanette finds that Arlene has entered her into a sort of
charity bachelor auction - the other women will bid to have Jeanette for
their date for the evening.  I think I have told you enough about the story.
 It's a hot plot with hot sex.  I might add that Jeanette is a high school
teacher and many of us often wish we could touch our favorite students the
way she does - but somebody might take that comment the wrong way.

Ann writes many different kinds of stories, and I enjoy them all; but this
story is a good example of what Ann does best: an interesting and sexy plot
woven into an exotic environment embellished with accurate information about
varied cultures.  In addition, the author enriches the narrative with sexy
flashbacks and side plots that heighten the tension and allure of the main
storyline.

As I have said many times before, although I suspect that all sensible women
would enjoy sexual activities like those described in this story, I myself
have never engaged in full genital lesbian or bisexual activity.  However,
after reading this story, my defenses have begun to crumble.  If by some
chance I would ever be bereaved of this wonderful guy that humps me on demand
like Mark Aster's studly hero and then found myself on an exotic Caribbean
island with a beautiful, rich former student who was professing her love for
me after purchasing me for an exorbitant price in a charity auction - well, I
might give it a thought.  Hell, I think I'll give it a thought right now!

I'm reminded of the words of my daughter, who every year proclaims that "this
is my best birthday ever."  This is the best story ever by Ann Douglas.

Ratings for "Scarlett's Cove"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10



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