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Celestial Reviews 257 - February 11, 1998

Note:  Did you hear about the guy who had tried every diet in the world in an
attempt to lose weight? He tried the Scarsdale diet, the Navy diet, Weight
Watchers, etc.; and none worked. He was reading the paper one day, when he
noticed a small ad which read:  Lose weight $1.00 a pound.  And it simply
listed a telephone number.

Having little to lose, the man called the number. A sultry female voice on the
other end asked, 'How much weight do you want to lose?' The man responded,
'Ten pounds.'. The voice replied, 'Very well. Put you check in the mail, and
we'll have a representative over to your house in the morning.'

About 9:00 am the next morning the man heard a knock on the door. There stood
a beautiful redheaded woman, completely naked except for a sign around her
neck stating, 'If you catch me, you can screw me'.  Well, the overweight
fellow chased her upstairs, downstairs, over sofas, through the kitchen, all
around the house. Finally he did catch her; and when he was through enjoying
himself, she said, 'Quick, go into the bathroom and weigh yourself!'. He did
just that and was amazed to find that he had lost ten pounds, right to the
ounce!

That evening he called the number again. The voice on the other end asked,
'How much weight do you want to lose?'The somewhat less overweight man
replied, 'Twenty pounds.'.  'Very well,' the voice on the phone told him; 'Put
you check in the mail, and we'll have a representative over to your house in
the morning.'

At about 8:00 am the next morning the man received a knock on the door. When
he opened the door he saw a beautiful blond dressed only in track shoes and a
sign around her neck stating, 'If you catch me, you can screw me'.  The chase
took a while longer this time, but the man finally did catch her.  When he was
through, she told him, 'Quick, run into the bathroom and weigh yourself!' He
ran to the bathroom and found he had lost another 20 pounds!

'This is fantastic!' he thought. Later that evening he called the number again
and the voice at the other end asked, 'How much weight do you want to lose?'.
'Fifty pounds!' the man exclaimed. 'Fifty pounds?' the voice asked. 'That's an
awful lot of weight to lose at one time.'. The overweight man replied, 'My
check's already in the mail. You just have your representative over here in
the morning.' Then he hung up the phone.

About 6:00 am the next morning the man got out of bed and got all fancied up,
ready for the next representative. At about 7:00 am he heard a knock on the
door. When he opened the door he saw a large gorilla with a sign around his
neck stating, 'If I catch you, I'm going to screw you.'

Second note:  I think the Story Links have been a useful addition.  I'd like
to express my appreciation to Sandman, who has been supplying the links that
the guest reviewers and I have been unable to obtain ourselves for each issue.

Third note:  I have had several inquiries recently regarding "Tie Fighter" by
Walter Slaven.  I may be mistaken, but my recollection is that Walter is in a
position where he cannot post because of his job - I think he might be a
special prosecutor or a White House intern or something like that. Although it
was not complete at the time I last reviewed it, "Tie Fighter" is one of the
best stories ever posted on this newsgroup.  I hope someone can find a way to
repost it.

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

- Celeste

      "Inn" by Uther Pendragon (romance) 10, 10, 10
          http://w9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=322865614
      "The Trick" by Spoonbender (turning a trick) 10, 10, 10
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8197.txt
      "Always the Same" by Sven the Elder (hot flirtation & 
            romantic fuck) 10, 10, 10
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8139.txt
      "Friends and Lovers" by SandMan (romance) 10, 10, 10
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7881.txt
      "Fighting Rose's Corner" by Nick (Celestial sequel) 10, 8, 8

Guest Reviews: 

      "Study Partner" by DevoSpudC (academic sex) 9, 9, 9
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7915.txt
      "School Daze" by Gargoyle (high school sex fantasy) 
            8, 9, 9
          http://w9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=291344172 
          http://w9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=291210183 
      "Dance of the Worm" by Peter (nice friendly sex) 8, 9, 9
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8028.txt
      "The Two of Us" by Vickie Tern (TG femdom) 9, 7, 3
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8152.txt 
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8153.txt 
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8154.txt 
      "Slippery Fun" by Unknown Author (suck & fuck story) 7, 1, 1
          http://w9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=322388931
      "My Three Sisters" by Tom and Emerson Laken-Palmer (incest 
            fantasy)10, 10, 10
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8083.txt
      "Michele" by Stephen Peters (kiddysex) 9.5, 7, 0
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8026.txt
      "A Meeting" by Bob (bdsm) 8, 8, 8
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8194.txt
      "Love at First Sight" by Tom (love story) 5, 6, 5
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7391.txt
      "Bronze Lust" by A Pulp Fan (action adventure sex) 10, 10, 10
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8112.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8113.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8114.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8115.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8116.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8117.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8118.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8119.txt
      "A Friend in Need" by Phil Phantom (king of the herd fantasy) 
            9, 7, 7
          Part (1/2) http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7483.txt
          Part (2/2) http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7488.txt

Reposted Reviews:

    * "Soft Ball or My Best Position" by Taria (shower sex)
            10, 10, 10
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8289.txt
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8290.txt
    * "Marie" by Friar Dave (emerging adolescence) 10, 10, 10
          http://w9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=323632711 
          http://w9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=323632721 
    * "Catty Corner" by SueNH (voyeurism) 10, 10, 10
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8223.txt 
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8224.txt 
    * "The Black Box" by Emerson Laken-Palmer (mind control)
            9.5, 8, 8
          http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/8205.txt
    * "Rain" by Mark Aster (voyeurism & sex on the beach)
            10, 10, 10
          http://w9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=178772411
    * "Rain" by M.M. Twassel (voyeurism & emerging sexuality)
            9, 10, 10
          http://members.aol.com/Mmtwassel/rain.htm

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

"Inn" by Uther Pendragon (anon584c@nyx.net).  From the very beginning, when
the man picks up the woman in the restaurant (or is it vice versa?), I thought
I knew pretty much where this story was going.  I was right, but I still
enjoyed getting to the "surprise" ending.  However, I think I still had better
refrain from telling you too many details.

In brief, the man and woman meet in the restaurant, dine together, and then
retire for tender but hot sex.  This author has written scenes like this so
often that they have become routine, but they are still very, very nice
romantic scenarios.

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

"The Trick" by Spoonbender (Theodore@spoonbender.demon.co.uk).  This is one of
those stories whose entire impact is achieved by its cleverness.  If I tell
you anything at all about it, then it won't be clever at all, and the story
will really suck, in the bad sense of that term.  Let me just assure you that
I am hard to trick, and this one did trick me - at least a little bit.  It's a
short but excellent little story.

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

"Always the Same" by Sven the Elder (sven@brass-neck.demon.co.uk).  Most
Americans named Jay are males.  From this story we learn that there is at
least one female in Britain with that name.  Sven can tell she's a female from
the nice way she fills out her leotard while they work out together at the
club.  Jay has been flirting with Sven, and she can perhaps tell that he is a
male by the nice way his half-erection fills out his shorts.  Raging hard-ons
just don't work really well on exercise machines - at least if one wants to
continue the original exercise and not digress to another.

Today when Sven leaves the gym, he finds Jay distressed because it is raining,
and she doesn't want the rain to fall hard on her body.  I just wanted to see
if I could say the words "hard on" in a sex review without direct reference to
the ole muttondagger.  But really, it's raining with thunder and lightning;
and so Sven offers Jay a ride home, even though by this time her lithe and
lovely, lewd and lascivious body is covered in a baggy warm-up suit.

Well, I suspect you can see where this is going.  That's right, they share
sausage and eggs between the legs while the summer storm thunders away in the
background.  The intensity of flirtation is extremely well done.  A young and
aggressive woman can be a real turn-on to a man, or so I'm told.  I happen to
know from personal experience that things very much like this do happen in
real life during thunderstorms after exercise.

Ratings for "Always the Same"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Friends and Lovers" by Sandman (sandman@bitsmart.com). Sandman's stories are
archived at ftp://asstr.ml.org/pub/Authors/sandman/index.html.

In their very young teenage years (the story doesn't really say how young),
Cal and Kathy spent many an enjoyable day innocently and pleasantly
discovering each other's bodies.  Then Kathy's parents moved away; and the
friends were separated until they happened to meet during their college days.
That day they make it as far as Kathy's Toyota before falling into a
passionate embrace. Then they meet again many years later, when they are both
married and committed to their families.  Finally, they meet once again in the
winter of their lives.

"Like two ships that pass in the night, or two thieves stealing time and
pleasure where they can find it. So are the Days of Our Lives."  Or something
like that.

This story is long on sentiment.  But it moistened my pussy as well as my
eyes.  In short, this is an excellent story that blends sex and emotions into
a genuinely erotic story.

This story also contains the accidental quote of the year: "There was
something fascinating about what he was seeing that he couldn't quite put his
finger on."  

Ratings for "Friends and Lovers"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Fighting Rose's Corner" by Nick ().  This is a follow-up to my story entitled
"The Review," which was originally posted in CR 250 as part of my review of
DG's "Call of Desire" (which was also rated the Number 5 story of January
1998). In order to make really good sense out of the present story, you really
ought to read my story first, which is archived at
http://www.qz.to/erotica/assm/Year98/7611.txt.

In my story, the fictional Celeste (c'est moi) was trying to write a review,
but my husband came on to me and distracted me from my writing task.  After I
am thoroughly aroused, the phone rings, and my husband decides to increase our
enjoyment by banging away at me even more industriously.  The climax, so to
speak, comes when he fucks me in the ass while I continue to converse on the
phone with a rather prudish woman, who presumably knows not what is going on.

The present story continues from the perspective of  the other woman (Rose)
after she has hung up the phone.  I won't try to summarize the details.  My
overall reaction was that I was flattered that someone would enjoy my story
enough to try writing a follow-up.  However, my feeling is that this sequel is
far too introspective.  

It's dangerous to praise one's own stories; but one of the best features of my
story was that it conveyed most of the sexy idea through action.  This sequel
goes into Rose's background and her innermost thoughts - but there is no real
action.  I personally still enjoyed the story very much; but I think a reader
without a vested interest would prefer that the author show us what Rose has
done rather than just summarizing her sexual background.

And so I am going to propose a contest.  Maybe not a contest - perhaps I
should call it an invitation.  The challenge is to write Chapter 2 of  "The
Review."  Follow it up in some creative manner.  One possibility would be to
try again from Rose's perspective, but that is not the only option.  You can
do anything you want, but you should try to be consistent with my original
story.  I think this could be fun.

Note that SueNH and some co-authors have done something similar in the withSue
stories.  For example, her Catty Corner became Across the Catty Corner in
cooperation with Backrub.  Likewise, Mat Twassel wrote a sequel from a
different perspective to Mark Aster's "Rain".  TEX did this in an almost
opposite way in "Raped Teen Burglar."  I'm sure there are other examples.  In
fact, if you feel an urge to expand upon someone else's story, go ahead and
try.  My advice is that you cite the other story accurately in your disclaimer
and that you seek the cooperation and approval of the person whose story you
are expanding.

I won't put a time limit on this.  If you're interested, give it a try.  And
if you know of other sequel-stories that I have missed, let me know, and I'll
try to post a complete list.

Ratings for "Fighting Rose's Corner"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

"Study Partner" by DevoSpudC (cwilson9@ix.netcom.com).  Guest review by Dart.

This is a very pleasant, gentle, and modestly erotic story.

Jessica and Vicki are together in the library. Vicki is studying, and also
chastising Jessica for being distracted by the gorgeous young man she's
watching through a window near their table. Jessica has a calculus exam the
following day which she really needs to pass, and she's behind; and Vicki
enjoys pointing out to her that she hasn't the freedom to idle away her time
gazing at young men. Jessica agrees and applies herself to her studies. Prim
Vicki, meanwhile, leaves Jessica to struggle with her studies by herself,
since she has a class.

Like all good calculus students, Jessica becomes so engrossed in her studies
that by the time she thinks she's in reasonably good shape for the exam, it's
after ten and the library's deserted, except for a shy-appearing young man who
smiles at her when she finally looks up. She smiles back. She's about to ask
him what he's studying, when he drops his pen. She waits while he bends down
to retrieve it. He doesn't reappear where she expects; and she never does find
out, academically at least, what he was studying. But by the time she's back
in her room, she's a lot more relaxed.

I would have liked a sentence explaining why Vicki never returned to the
library after her class. Also, Vicki was sometimes referred to as "Vicky."
Finally, the author begins a sentence: She had ceased wearing bras some ago as
..., when I think he means: She had ceased wearing bras some time ago as .... 

Ratings for "Study Partner"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 9
Dart (appeal to reviewer): 9

"School Daze" by by Gargoyle (gargoyle@northernnet.com). Guest Review by
Sandman (sandman@bitsmart.com).

Imagine if you will a school where attendance is dropping, seriously
jeopardizing the school's funding.  Well, our narrator puts things back on the
straight and narrow, by abandoning the straight and narrow.  From now on, all
female teachers must wear skimpy outfits and being exhibitionists at heart
they all fall willingly into line and show as much flesh as possible. 

We know this is a fantasy because at least in MY high school, there were more
than a few teachers that would have caused me to ditch school if they tried to
pull anything like this.   In fact, it is my belief that our "health" teacher
was specifically selected because no sane teenage boy, however raging the
hormones, would ever be aroused by words such as "penis" and "vagina" when
uttered from her lips.

The first chapter in this 90K story briefly introduces us to the various
teachers.  The subsequent chapters are a more thorough exploration of the fun
each teacher has with her students. This begins with simple exhibition and
moves very quickly into finding out exactly how many penises can be stuffed
into a teacher at the same time.  By golly math can be fun!  If you have six
teenage boys with raging erections how many orgasms will the teacher have?
If I had word problems like that in school, maybe I wouldn't have to go
rooting around for my calculator so often!

I have to admit this story was fun.  I also have to admit a bias.  A bunch of
adult women having sex with high school boys is perfectly OK by me.  If School
Daze had been about a bunch of adult men having sex with high school girls, I
probably would have had significant problems with the story, regardless of the
fantasy aspect.  That thought is profoundly deeper than anything you'll find
in this story.

"School Daze" was totally unrealistic. There were some awkward sentences, a
few misused words, a lack of transitions to smooth the reading; but it was
outrageous as hell, and I enjoyed it.   If you're looking for fun,
uncomplicated, fantasy sex you'll probably like this one a lot.

Athena (technical quality): 8-- Needs a good proof, not too
      distracting.
Venus (plot & character): 9-- Lots of sex, stayed a fantasy.
Sandman (appeal to reviewer): 9-- It's not a classic, but I enjoyed it.

"Dance of the Worm" by Peter. Guest review by Mark Aster.

This is a nice, warm, sexy human-interest story, about a young man who has no
luck with random superficial girls his own age, but meets a pretty slightly-
older woman at a dance class and, well, gets along very well with her.  In the
back seat of the car.

This story is more in the true-life-experience genre than the literary-sex-
story genre; which is to say, not that it's true, but that it reads like it
might be, like it might be a friend telling the story to you.  The story as
story has a few imperfections; I found the first two or three sections rather
beside the point, or at least too long for what they did.  The diction is
awkward in a few places, but nothing seriously distracting.  My only complaint
about the story or the sex is that the idea of making love in the back seat of
a Datsun makes my leg-muscles cramp up!  <grin>

Recommended as a heartwarming story of nice friendly sex, with some dirty talk
thrown in as a bonus.

Ratings for "Dance of the Worm":
Athena: 8 (basic correct writing)
Venus: 9 (friendly and sexy and convincing)
Mark: 9 (nice story)

"The Two of Us" by Vickie Tern (VickieTern@aol.com). Vickie Tern's stories are
archived at http://library.gaycafe.com/nifty/
transgender/by_authors/vickie_tern

This is a femdom story, but female values hardly triumph. The story is about
the forced (?) feminization and enslavement of a man by his wife. But it is
also deeply misogynistic - the woman telling the story expresses beliefs about
how we should behave which I found both repellent and archaic.

As a reviewer I'm from a different world. I adore my husband and the narrator
has nothing but contempt for hers. I'm a feminist and the narrator despises
women. I have to accept the narrator's world view is part of something a large
group of readers find profoundly erotic but which, in this case, passes me
completely.

It is well-written, hypnotic in its assurance, but falls down in its POV. The
tale is told as though the narrator were talking to a friend, and this
approach is often successful. But the speaker goes on and on - it's a very
long story - without apparently pausing for breath. I couldn't help wondering
how long any listener would have put up with this without interjecting a
question or response. 

I know *I* had some questions, like "Why didn't you just divorce him if you
loathed him so much?" or "Exactly how unhappy do you both want to get?" but,
aw, fuck it, this is sex fantasy, not RL and I respect the fact some people
will love every minute.

I can cheerfully accept it's not my thing. What I find hard to handle is the
hatred of both women's roles and male inadequacy expressed. The only life
jumps into the story as the narrator describes great experiences with
passionate huge-dicked men. I wish *she'd* stuck to that. Or *he'd* stuck to
that - whatever....

Ratings for "Two of Us"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 7 (falls down on narrative voice)
Bronwen (appeal to reviewer): 3 (it *is* well-written, and a few 
      bits flickered some appeal)

"Slippery Fun" by Unknown Author (rocketscandy@hotmail.com).  Guest review by
Sven the Elder.

Right from the word 'go',  from the point of view of this reviewer, this story
gets two strikes against it.  There is no clear idea as to who the author is
and there is spam for a story site at the start and finish of the story.  The
latter, particularly, *SMELLS*!!! If I want to be spammed I can do so by
trying to find stories in what used to be a.s.s - I do *NOT* want to find it
within a story I am trying to read. I do not refer to where an author has a
reference to their own site, but rather the sort that reads, and I quote :

"  Would you like thousands of erotic stories in many different topics?
         Cum to http:..."

As to the missing author name - was the poster the author, or has someone
decided to steal this story, remove the authors name and then just post it?
Sadly it is impossible to tell, perhaps the *real* author will stand up and
either claim or reclaim the story. Who knows.  Rant mode off!! - And I haven't
even read the story yet.

The story is a somewhat uninteresting suck and fuck story involving a lesbian
four-way with a follow-up of some equally uninteresting MF to close.  The idea
may well be taken from the screenplay of one of the poorer quality porn videos
that seem to float around.  There are a number of credulous assumptions and
zilch in the way of plot. It isn't even good one-handed fiction.  There would
appear to be little in the way of technical errors, but having read it once I
am not about to go back and waste time a second time. Advice to possible
readers - if you like this sort of thing it may well be of interest - If you
like your stories to have a start, middle and end, look elsewhere, this was
not worth reading.

Ratings for "Slippery Fun"
Technical quality: 7
Plot & character:  1          
Sven (appeal to reviewer):  1

"My Three Sisters" by Emerson Laken-Palmer (Sxjames@aol.com). Guest Review by
BillyG.

It's almost embarrassing to admit that I like action movies, particularly the
mindless, unbelievable-hero type filled with gratuitous violence and killing.
I suppose the embarrassment arises from the fact that in my real life I abhor
violence.  Yet, in the action movies, it's sufficiently distant from reality,
I don't take it seriously.

There's a strong carry over into the stories in this newsgroup   I
particularly dislike stories of rape and non-consensual exploitation when it
"sounds" real.  On the other hand, I can enjoy an erotic story that's clearly
and deeply embedded in fantasy.  Such is the case for "My Three Sisters" by
Emerson Laken-Palmer (ELP).  

ELP's stories are usually well crafted, establishing the very human
personalities of the players with skill and introducing the erotic scenarios
with credibility.  That, of course, is what helps create the eroticism. At the
same time there's an overlay of fantasy that allows me to enjoy a story that
delves into non-consensual as well as exploitive incestuous sex.  A literary
double standard?  Sure.

Tom's a horny 15-year-old boy who's surrounded by females, his sisters.  The
oldest and token sex pot is Rachel, a beautiful cheerleader type who's a year
older than Tom and largely oblivious of him.  She's his voyeuristic and
masturbatory fantasy and for the moment, he's largely unaware of his one-year-
younger, tomboy-kid-sister Susan.  Finally, his 11-year-old sister Christa is
nothing more than a tattle-tale pain in the butt.

Stumbling onto his older sister, drunk in the bathroom at a teenage party, he
undresses, plays with and finally fucks her, all in a strangely loving way.
As it turns out, that's it for them but it does open the doors in a convoluted
manner for Tom to "force" his baby sister initially into a sexy spanking
scene, ostensibly as a way of shutting her up.  Later, their sex escalates in
a consensual albeit kinky way.  (Keep in mind that sex with an 11-year-old
girl, consent or not, is exploitive and NOT OK.)

As you might have imagined, the really hot one is his tomboy sister, Susan.
They have the closest emotional connection and have great affection for each
other.  That they secretly lust for each other might be anticipated, but still
comes across a delightful "surprise."  I liked this story and it scored well
on my peter-meter.

Ratings for "My Three Sisters"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
BillyG (appeal to reviewer): 10

"Michele" by Stephen Peters (Sxjames@aol.com). Guest review by Anne747
(Anon747@aol.com).

One of my biggest flaws (well one of them at least) is that when I don't want
to do something I can be the world's worst procrastinator.  I really didn't
want to review this story.  Oh, I could have sent it back to Celeste, but I
try not to do that very often, since having her pre-read them would defeat the
purpose of guest reviewers.  And actually, even if she had read it, she might
figure it would slip under my 'ick' radar (if there is such a thing).

Okay, quick review, then my semi-rant.  John, a 34-year old architect with a
masters in civil engineering, has an affair with his 15-year old neighbor.
That's really the whole story.  It is written as a 'true story' with a
disclaimer at the end about it being fictional (although something the author
wouldn't mind doing from his comments).  So that's it - you like reading about
grown men fucking little girls - you'll love it.  It's reasonably well
written, although a spell check would have picked up a couple of errors.

Now, here are my problems with the story.  First, I can't figure out why, but
the author has a phone number for a voice mail system at the end.  I can't
help but wonder if he hopes an impressionable 15-year old will read the story
and call him.  God, I hope not.  Second, the author tries to make John the
victim of the story.  Poor John, seduced into fucking the poor teenager.

See, Michele is from a soon to be broken home.  She's running away from a
fight at home the first time they meet.  He invites her in and befriends her.
Along the line he realizes he's attracted to her, but fights it.  Of course,
when Michele arrives at the door, all wet and upset that her father has called
her a whore, John succumbs to her plea for him to screw her.  Yes, that's just
what a confused child from a bad home life needs - sex.

I don't know, the whole thing just turned my stomach.  Of course the author
even goes to the extent of letting you know how emotionally hurt he was by the
whole thing, and the moral struggle he went through before deciding to fuck
the young girl.  Oh, and she tells him not to feel guilty, because she really
wanted him to fuck her.  Such a nice touch (ick).

Ratings for "Michele"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 7 (probably higher if you buy into the 
      motivation)
Anne747 (appeal to reviewer): 0 (yep, disliked it that much)

"A Meeting" by Bob (McPeery@Bellsouth.net).  Guest review by Kim.

This is a "first attempt" by Bob to post a sex story, so it says here. Oooh,
Bob, ya ready for this? I'll take it slow at first...

Two unnamed people, a woman and a man, meet on a flight to London, he a
computer engineer, her a flower buyer. They hit it off, and arrange a date for
that evening. No jet lag for them, oh no, it's off to a very strange
restaurant with an odd line in entertainment.

After eating their way though a lovingly detailed menu, they settle down to
watch the floor show. This consists of the spectacle of a woman getting tied
to a sawhorse and then getting beaten to orgasm by a guy in a long black cape
wielding an assortment of implements of corporal punishment. Now you might
expect this to be a bit racy for a first date, but not our couple, soon
they're back at her hotel getting up to their own little bit of spanking fun.

Having warmed her ass once, they decide they will continue there dom/sub
relationship by flying off to Paris, as you do. Once there, a much more
detailed meeting of Master and willing submissive takes place, involving such
whimsy as her undressing him using just her teeth. It all ends with them
cuddling each other to sleep. Maybe not everyone's idea of a romantic story,
and while not entirely gentle, then certainly loving, none the less.

As a story, it lacks much of a coherent narrative, but it's really an excuse
for the linking of the BDSM scenes. The English was a bit lacking in places,
but nothing too wayward. I did notice a technical error. I haven't been to
London for a long time, but they didn't have single pound notes even then. But
then again, this could be set in the past (apart from the fact that the guy is
a network engineer, which I don't think have been around for all that long).
Ah well, whatever, I doubt it makes much of a difference, all things
considered.

Generally I quite like consensual spanking stories, though I personally don't
care for dom males, but hey, it wasn't written just for me. Not too bad for a
"first attempt".

Ratings for "A Meeting"
Athena (technical quality): 8 (Nothing really bad)
Venus (plot & character): 8 (Precious little story, but good sequences)
Kim (appeal to reviewer): 8 (Read a lot worse, specially first time 
      efforts)

"Love at First Sight" by Tom (tje@mail.nls.net). Reviewed by James.

This is as close to Perfect as I have ever read. Which makes things seem, but
only in retrospect, predictable. You see, this is a story with symmetry.

Mary and Jack live in a carefree world - world whose only blemish is the crude
fragrance of lilac bushes beside Jack's driveway. They are made for each
other. She is as innocent as he is experienced. There is no evil or ugliness,
only love and beauty - and the Perfect ending.

For all this Perfection there were times when I got drawn in. I could imagine
Mary's angelic figure -the awe of Jack as he realized he had found the one he
would give everything up for. In this story, anyone who has been in love will
find empathy.

Whilst I liked this story - with its interesting, mild, interludes with Jack
and Marsha, and, Jack and the English school teacher - it was not without some
unwelcome distractions. For instance, I did not need to be told over and over
again that "They were the same height". Some of the paragraphs are also way
too large - making the story feel too long (even though it takes less than 20
minutes to read). 

To conclude, this story might feature some sex, but first and foremost it is a
love story. And, at the end of the day, not one I feel inclined to recommend.

Ratings for "Love at First Sight"
Athena (technical quality): 5
Venus (plot & character): 6
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5

"Bronze Lust" by A Pulp Fan. Guest review by Igor.

This is a story featuring Pat Savage, a well known pulp heroine, cousin to the
famous Doc Savage, and a two-fisted scrapper in her own right. Patricia,
however, takes on a whole new dimension in this lustful saga of erotic-action
adventure.  There is enough unadulterated raw sex, lesbian activity,
gangbanging, oral sex, anal sex and three-way sex to satisfy everyone and keep
both cocks and nipples stiff throughout all of the eight chapters of this
sexual adventure.

Briefly, we find our heroine witness to a street kidnapping following a
delicious lesbian romp with her close friend, Melissa.  True to her pulp
image, she immediately takes pursuit and sets in motion events that lead her
to uncover a Nazi plot to steal a secret weapon.  With Doc and the fabulous
five away, Pat's on her own and loving it. She manages to get herself captured
by the gang of nefarious cut-throats who are about to sell our country out,
turning the kidnapped inventor and his weapon over to the Nazis.  While
awaiting the arrival of the Nazi submarine, our captors have ample time to
concentrate on the lovely bronze bombshell, tied deliciously bare and naked to
a cot.  Events of the night leave our heroine soaked in sexual sweat and
dripping with cum as all of the gang members satisfy themselves, each
according to his own peculiar sexual proclivity, on the body of her person.
Pat is, however, a far cry from the helpless victim of gang rape, but rather
is caught up in a frenzy of sexual lust, desire and orgasmic overkill.

Needless to say, rescue is eventually achieved when Doc and company return,
track our wayward heroine down, and foil the Nazi plot.  Later, a fantastic
menage-a-trois culminates the climax to this lustful yarn in a vivid scene.

This is a very well written story with good, true to form, character
development and non-stop action.  The author did a good job with characters
that appeared in other stories, but you don't have to be a Doc Savage fan to
enjoy it.  I hope that the author will favor us with additional pulp heroines
in lusty, action adventures.

"Bronze Lust" is high caliber reading and very highly recommended.

Ratings for "Bronze Lust":
Technical Quality - 10
Plot & Character -- 10
Reviewer Appeal -- 10

"A Friend in Need" by Phil Phantom (slutmissy@hotmail.com).  Guest Review by
DG.

Imagine, if you will, a fortyish guy with an average job, a house in the
burbs, a wife, and a kid.  It's Sunday afternoon, and he's watching football
on TV and having a couple beers.  He's feeling a little sleepy, so he pops the
footrest on his recliner, leans back, and closes his eyes.  While he's
snoozing, he enters his own private fantasy universe, a strange place we might
call... Testosterone Land.

Let's follow this typical American family man and see what happens:
Testosterone Land doesn't seem all that different at first.  The guy still
lives in the burbs with his wife and son.  But then we notice some subtle
changes... for starters, he's now the big shot in the neighborhood - the guy
with the nicest house and the most money.  He and his wife hold wild parties
every week, where everyone gets stinking drunk and wife-swapping is rampant.
His own wife is aggressively bisexual, and they enjoy comparing notes on which
of the neighborhood wives have the juiciest pussies.  

He has his way with any number of women (his wife doesn't mind a bit), but he
has one special mistress - a respectable married woman who just can't say no
to him, much to her shame.  He fucks her whenever he wants, right under her
wimpy husband's nose.  In fact, she's even given birth to a couple of his
kids, who have red hair just like him so everyone knows who their stud-daddy
is.  

As for his son, he's a chip off the old block:  he's only 17, but he's already
popped most of the cherries in the neighborhood. Just to make things
interesting, there's one really hot wife who won't sleep around - even with
him, the big cheese of the neighborhood.  But then her husband dies and leaves
her broke.  Now he's in good shape, because his wife decides to turn her into
the family maid/sex slave... 

What's that?  He's waking up - what a shame.  Uh oh, it's his wife calling
him.  He's got to get up out of his recliner and mow the lawn.  Too bad.  He's
already looking forward to his next trip to Testosterone Land.

Ratings for "A Friend in Need"
Athena (technical quality): 9  
Venus (plot & character): 7  
DG (appeal to reviewer): 7

* "Soft Ball or My Best Position" by Taria (Taria29c@aol.com).  Guest review
by Cellist.  {Note from Celeste: This was reposted as a Valentine for M1ke
Hunt.}

Neither Fiddler nor Piper were available for this review, so Celeste turned it
over to me, Cellist.  The story is about a sexy young lady who plays second-
base on a coed softball team.  I have played second bass in the past, but now
I play cello. 

The story takes place in the romantic environment of a sweaty softball game.
One day a sorta cute guy shows up as a substitute, but he wants to play second
base, which position is already taken by the narrator, as I have said.  His
name is Mike Hunter, but with some modification of the name he hopes some day
to become a short story writer of sorts. I guess I should stop beating around
the bush and come out and say it:  this is a parody of a Mike Hunt sex story.
As a result of some incredible coincidences Mike and the young female baseball
enthusiast have to shower together; and as fate would have it, they fuck their
mutual brains out.

Fuck!  Now there's an interesting word. It's a word redolent of baseball
imagery.  That's why Taria chose this scenario for her story.  In a story
about softball this word and its immediate derivatives can express any of the
following:

    Greetings      How the fuck are you?
    Immensity   Look at the size of that mother on first base.  {fucker
understood}
    Insignificance    That little fucker can't hit for shit.
    Dismay         Safe? The fuck he was!
    Trouble        Well, I guess we're fucked now.
    Aggression    Fuck you! {brings automatic ejection and a fine}.
    Safety           Don't fuck with the big mother on first base.
    Disgust          Fucking Celeste!  This review is stupid!
    Confusion      Where the fuck is the ball?
    Synonym for "very"   This story is fucking good.
    Difficulty       I don't understand this fucking game.
    Despair          "Fucked Again by Celeste" by Mike Hunt.
    Argumentation   You goddam motherfucking son-of-a-bitch cocksucker! {And I
don't like you either!}
    Fraud           I got fucked by the umpire on the third strike.
    Incompetence     The umpire fucked up again.
    Distraction     He was fucking with a fan behind the dugout.
    Displeasure    What the fuck is going on here?
    Disbelief         That was an unbefuckinglieveable call!
    Disbelief, dismay, confusion, etc.    Fuck!  What's my wife doing in this
bar?
    Inevitable defeat   We're fucked!  {because the other team is fucking
good!}
    Retaliation      Up your fucking ass! {automatic ejection and fine}.
    Paradoxical impossibility   The umpire can go fuck himself! {But how?}
    Telling time    The game didn't start till 8-fucking-o'clock.
    Physics     I can't hit the fucking curve ball.
    Maternal instinct--  Goddam motherfucker! {automatic ejection and fine}.
   Sexuality    Holy fuck!  Where did you learn to do that?

Taria's best use of the F-word is her double-entendre reference to Mr. Hunter
as a "pretty sneaky fuck."  On the downside, her most serious faux pas was
saying that Mike gave her cunt the two-finger Boy Scout salute: the Boy Scout
use three fingers - ask a girl scout (obviously, because their salute is with
three fingers also.) Taria doesn't write quite like Mike Hunt, but who does?
This is both an excellent parody and a superb story in its own right.

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

* "Marie" by Friar Dave.  When she was a little under 11 years old and had a
body that was a bit advanced for her age, Marie made an important discovery.
She could become close to and even have sex with nice men, and she could turn
them on and still have them treat her right, and it could be fun and sweet and
pleasurable and not hateful or hurtful or scary.

The problem was that soon she loved sex, and she was used to getting it pretty
much when she wanted it. And she was often horny as hell.  To use Marie's own
expression, she was making Lolita look like a nun.

Marie's initial sexual contacts were with boys near her own age.  She quickly
graduated to more mature boys and to adult men.  Once she had experienced the
more mature partners, she lost interest in younger boys.  She progresses to
numerous hot, sexy adventures.

If we accept this as fiction - a nice story - then we're OK.  If we look at it
as a case study - which is the format the author uses - then our choices are
to regard this story as either (1) a very unusual set of circumstances or (2)
a far-fetched fantasy.  The FACT is that there is an overwhelming tendency for
girls who become sexually active this young to have adult lives that are at
best far below their potential at and worst just plain miserable.  I have
worked with kids who have been sexually active.  I am not talking about "kids"
who get married and start a family when they are 17.  I am talking about kids
who start having constant sex when they are under 12 years old.  In general,
when they become adults, they have no idea what real love is about.  They've
lost their childhood.  They almost invariably either drop out of school or
just sit in a desk until the law permits them to leave.  They enter into a
series of shallow sexual relationships as adults, and they almost never have
what a sensible person would call a stable family.  My guess is that by their
fiftieth birthday half of the kids I have known like this will be dead after
an unhappy life.

I also serve as an informal counselor to a large number of well-adjusted
teenagers (by being the sponsor of various organizations), and my impression
is that the sexual experiences of these kids begin much later in life.
Articles and case studies published in scientific journals confirm my
perception.

It's possible that I'm getting a biased sample in my real life contacts.  I
work with kids who are dysfunctional, and so maybe I just don't see the well-
adjusted kids who have been having frequent sex since they were 11 years old.
It's POSSIBLE that the world is full of wonderful children like Marie who
become sexually active before they turn 11, who are never sexually exploited,
and whose lives are not permanently screwed up because of their early sexual
experiences.  These kids would not come to my attention, because they look
like normal kids and don't advertise the fact that they're fucking one
another's brains out when I'm not looking.  It's also important to note that
even with the dysfunctional kids it may be the problems in the rest of their
lives that lead to early sexual behavior rather than vice versa.  

What I most emphatically want to say is that I do NOT believe that any of you
readers who started your sexual careers at a really early age are necessarily
scarred for life because of this.  On the other hand, I hope you have the
honesty to admit that maybe life would be better were it not for some early
problems and mistakes.

Marie discovered early in this story that sex could be fun and sweet and
pleasurable and not hateful or hurtful or scary.  I learned the same thing
from my mother and from the happy environment in which I grew up.  Mom didn't
let me look at porn magazines when I was really young, because they would
"give me a wrong impression of sex and love." My father and mother were very
affectionate in front of us, and I knew that someday I might get lucky and
have a similar relationship.  She knew what kinds of movies I watched and
casually offered me advice, including the encouragement to "save myself" for
somebody I truly loved.  I had a full childhood and a happy athletic career in
high school; and I cannot imagine my sex life being much better than it is
right now - except when I get interesting ideas from these stories.  My advice
to my own daughters has been similar; and had I ever suspected that one of
them was engaging in precocious sexual behavior I would have done what I could
have done to lead her to a more adaptive lifestyle.

Having stated my personal philosophy in the previous paragraphs, now I'll say
that this is still an excellent story.  It's "realistic" in the sense that
these events COULD happen to a person that would grow up to be a normal,
functioning adult.  And if you read the whole story, I think you'll discover
that Marie's eventual opinion of her life story is not all that different from
my own.

The story is also just plain enjoyable - even to a person like myself who
would discourage such behavior in real life.  I have close friends and
relatives who adamantly insist that anything that's immoral, unwise, or
unrealistic cannot be enjoyable.  That's just plain stupid.  When I watch Star
Wars, I don't worry about the impact on their families of killing the storm
troopers of the Evil Empire.  When I watch a movie about a clever bank
robbery, I don't worry about the fact that such activity would ultimately
influence how banks would operate and probably cause hardship for families
with marginal incomes.  Get real!  It would be fun to rob a bank and get away
with it (although I would never do it and it couldn't really be harmless in
real life), and it would also be fun for a 12-year-old to pull a train with a
bunch of friendly 16-year-olds.  Not wise, perhaps, but certainly fun.

Some people cite this as Friar Dave's best story.  I liked "Inger" better, but
this one is still an excellent story.

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

* "Catty Corner" by Sue (SueNH@aol.com).  I loved this story.  So many writers
on a.s.s. can describe hot sex; but Sue has the knack of putting it into the
context of a really creative story.  This one comes with a double whammy - a
voyeur watching a voyeur and then the voyeurs watching each other.  I just
resolved earlier today to be a little rougher in my ratings.  I also resolved
to give my husband a break from passion tonight.  Oh, well; there go my
resolutions.

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

* "The Black Box" by Emerson Laken-Palmer (Reposted by who@why.not). Guest
review by Anne747.

I'm trying to think of a way to review this story without giving away the
plot.  So, I'll say the story is about mind control with a twist.  I guess I
don't get the point of mind control stories.  The biggest charge I get out of
sex is knowing the other person (or people) want to have sex... and with me.
Oops, since we're talking about stories, make that with each other.  A magic
box or special powers just don't seem all that sexy.

When you meet someone that might not want you, well, the fun part is getting
them to the stage where they do want you.  The slow seduction can be a great
thing.  It can be hard to translate this well into an erotic story.  Having a
'magic' solution just seems like an easy way out of explaining the scene, and
making it more realistic.

Don't get me wrong, this isn't really a bad story.  You will have to read it
to see what I mean about the twist.  I should mention that it's also an
interracial story.  The narrator wonders about his own racist attitudes at
times.  The thing is, I wonder if a black woman would ever shout, even in the
throes of lust - "Lick my nigger pussy, white boy!"  I suppose the answer is
you never know.  There is a lot of overkill on the description of the woman in
my book.  However, I know this is put in to emphasize the black/white
relationship.

Ratings for "The Black Box"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 8
Anne747 (appeal to reviewer): 8
  
* "Rain" by Mark Aster (MyFrThAl@aol.com).  "Doesn't it get boring - all the
time with the same guy?"  That question came not from an a.s.s. pervert, but
from my teenage daughter a few years ago.  My answer was, "You would expect it
to get boring; but surprisingly, no - not so far."  I raise the same question
every time I read another story in the "My Friends the Allens" series; "Isn't
this going to get boring."  I mean, all the author ever seems to write about
is this wonderfully hot stud traveling with and servicing two well-adjusted
and well-endowed young nymphomaniacs.  The sex is almost invariably hot and
consensual.  It's gotta get boring some time.  But not yet.

In this episode, Our Hero reclines on a beach with one of the Allen sisters,
while they watch another couple initiate and consummate passionate sex nearby.
Naturally, the voyeurs get turned on as well and make passionate love
themselves, as a gentle rain begins to fall on them.  The description, the
environment - the entire picture evoked in my mind as I read this story was
really beautiful.  Another excellent story!

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

* "Rain" by M.M. Twassel (mmtwassel@aol.com).  "An orgasm is "like winning all
the Nintendo games at once."  Those words are spoken by an 18-year old girl to
an 11-year-old boy while both of them are watching from seclusion as two
couples make it on the nearby beach.  The author has taken the story entitled
"Rain" by Mark Aster, which I reviewed in the last issue of CR, and has
introduced the perspective of the young boy and the other girl watching from a
nearby sand dune.  I don't want to tell you much more about the story; you
should read it for yourself.  It's a really sensitive and sexy story of
emerging sexuality.  Although its title is "Rain," it's listed in the postings
as "More Rain."

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

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