Celestial Reviews 135 - Nov 16, 1996

Note:  One of the authors asked me when the deadline is for making my 
list of Top 100 stories of 1996.  The answer is that any story that I 
review for the first time in 1996 is eligible for that list.  The story 
could have been written in, say, 1994; but if I reviewed it for the 
first time in a 1996 issue of CR, then it’s eligible.  Stories that 
were previously reviewed (in 1995) are NOT eligible, unless they have 
been revised and this revision is called to my attention.  I cannot 
promise to review everyone’s stories; but I do try to review any 
stories that are e-mailed directly to me or called to my attention.  
Right now I have a backlog; but if you sent me a story more than a 
month ago, you might want to assume that something went wrong and send 
me a reminder.

- Celeste

      “Jolly Lott” by Uther Pendragon (humor) 10, 8, 7
      “Above & Beyond Call of Duty” by J. Boswell (stripper sex)
            10, 8, 8
      “A is for Aphrodisiac” by Dulcinea (hot but gentle sex)
            10, 10, 10
      “Girls of Delta Theta Phi” by Ann Douglas (ff romance)
            9, 10, 10
      “Snow Cave” by P.D. Michael (cold threesome) 10, 9, 9
      “Thursday, 10:45” by Mark Aster (medical examination)
            10, 10, 10
      “Livinia” by Friar Dave (complex romance) 9.5, 10, 10
      “Something to Talk About” by OddManOut (anal sex)
            10, 8, 8
      “A Word for Annie's Fuck Hole” by M M Twassel (sexual
            fantasies & innuendo) 10, 8, 8
      “Making the Sale” by Mary Anne Mohanraj (D&s) 10, 9, 9
    * "The Passing of Seasons" by Linda B (emerging adolescence 
            & hot ff sex)
    * “Interview2" by Deirdre (oral sex) 10, 8, 8
    * “Julie" by Deirdre (anal sex) 9, 5, 4
    * “Key" by Deirdre (voyeurism & submission) 10, 8, 7
    * “Lake" by Deirdre (bondage & ff sex) 10, 9, 9
    * “Landlady" by Deirdre (sex slavery) 10, 9, 8
    * “Lawyer" by Deirdre (ff sex) 10, 9, 9
    * “Lunch" by Deirdre (sex slavery) 10, 8, 7
    * “Mall” by Deirdre (ff anal sex) 10, 10, 10
    * “Merge" by Deirdre (sex slaves) 10, 9, 9
    * “Model" by Deirdre (mostly anal sex) 10, 8, 7
    * “Mom" by Deirdre (masturbation education) 10, 9, 9
    * “Month" by Deirdre (Surprise!) 10, 10, 10
    * “Motel" by Deirdre (infidelity) 10, 8, 8
    * “Mouth" by Deirdre (oral sex) 10, 8, 7
    * “Move" by Deirdre (weird sex) 10, 8, 7
    * “Movie" by Deirdre (spouse watching, anal sex, etc.) 10, 9, 9

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

“Jolly Lott” by Uther Pendragon ().  The author wrote a tale about a 
pirate sexually exploiting his winsome captive.  Then he replaced all 
the dirty words with clean words - specifically, with the names of 
prominent American politicians who are very clean because they have 
spoken out against pornography.
 
Ratings for “Jolly Lott”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

“Above & Beyond Call of Duty” by J. Boswell.  Susan needs a few bucks 
to make ends meet, and so she joins up with a strip-o-gram service.  
She really gets into it, and she earns big tips by going above and 
beyond the call of duty when she mingles with the guests at the parties 
after she strips and delivers her birthday message or whatever.  It’s a 
simple story, but sometimes simple is simply good enough.

Ratings for “Above & Beyond Call of Duty”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

“A is for Aphrodisiac” by Dulcinea (dulcinea@aol.com).  Dulcinea is 
great at telling simple stories about the simple aspects of lovemaking.  
Other authors - notably Uther Pendragon - do an equally good job of 
taking these little details and combining them into more complete 
plots.  Pendragon’s stories are like a love affair; Dulcinea’s are like 
a quickie.  There’s room for both in my world.

The main focus of this story is the man using the scent of his precum 
as an aphrodisiac to awaken his wife for a quickie in the morning .  
This combines with the surrounding flirtations and innuendoes to make a 
very nice story.

Ratings for “A is for Aphrodisiac”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

 “Girls of Delta Theta Phi” by Ann Douglas (annd55@nyc.pipeline.com).  
When Courtney comes home to visit her mother, she brings her friend 
Nicole with her.  Nicole is 30 years younger than Cynthia, who is four 
years shy of being three times the age of her daughter, who is ten 
years younger than Nicole.  If you cannot apply simple algebra to 
determine the exact ages of all three women, stop reading this story 
right now and do your math homework!

Cynthia is a bright, self-confident woman who is not upset to discover 
that her daughter is a lesbian.  Nor is she upset by the fact that 
Nicole is a black woman with whom her daughter is having recreational 
sex.  As a matter of fact, she is so non-upset that she eventually 
develops a romantic interest of her own in Nicole.  Actually, it’s more 
complex than that; this story contains a story within the story.  This 
is an excellent plot that concludes with some hot sex.

Ann writes wonderful stories.  She often fails to get perfect ratings, 
because the stories contain proofreading blunders.  Among numerous more 
traditional errors in the present story I found this gem:  “...the two 
of them had stood up late into the night celebrating.”  They _stayed_ 
up late into the night - unless they were doing it standing up - which 
would be a possibility in a different story.  The last time I heard 
stood used this way was in a quote by either Yogi Berra or Dizzy Dean: 
“I shoulda stood in bed!”  It came right before, “He should slud.”  I 
suspect that Ann inserts these grammatical innovations in order to keep 
horny English teachers from getting too aroused by the sexual content 
of her stories.

Ratings for “Girls of Delta Theta Phi”
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

“Snow Cave” by P.D. Michael (pdmm@gold.interlog.com).  Maude has been 
abandoned by her husband in a blizzard.  She and two men have burrowed 
into a snow cave, where it is necessary to cuddle together to keep 
warm.  Of course, it also helps to do something that generates a little 
heat in order to maintain the level of warmth needed to sustain life.  
The idea of making love with two eager strangers in a cocoon of 
sleeping bags in a pitch dark cave certainly does have its erotic 
elements. With any luck there'd be a snow cave for the night.

Ratings for “Snow Cave”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

 “Thursday, 10:45” by Mark Aster (MyFrThAl@aol.com).  Maybe I should 
change doctors!

Ratings for “Thursday, 10:45”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

“Livinia” by Friar Dave.  Hubris can be a serious problem.  The term 
refers to “an overweening pride” or over-confidence typically shown by 
heroes in classical tragedies immediately before their downfall.  I 
haven’t used the word “overweening” since I wrote that definition on an 
exam nearly 20 years ago; but I have had my share of hubris.  In the 
present case, I figured that I knew Friar Dave so well that after I had 
read in Part 1 about him having passionate sex with a hot Filipino 
woman with a cute daughter, I figured I had the story pretty well 
figured out.  They would make love in numerous interesting ways; he 
would become a devoted father figure for the daughter; and Livinia and 
our hero would get married and live happily ever after.  

Then at the beginning of Part 2 my mind was jarred to discover that the 
hero already had a wonderful but open relationship with another 
beautiful woman who sometimes liked the same ladies that the hero 
liked.  That’s hubris for you.  The opposite of hubris is Socratic 
humility; and it will be more useful in the present situation.  I know 
nothing except that I know nothing about this story, and I had better 
get back to it.  It sounds both hot and interesting.

Surprises abound in this story.  Soon we learn that Livinia was 
essentially a sex slave in the Philippines, but through some good luck 
she managed to get away with her daughter to the United States.  We 
also discover that Livinia has a confused sister with some lesbian 
proclivities, and that Livinia is one of those proclivities.

In addition to teaching English I have done a lot of work with sexually 
abused women.  The main difference between Livinia and most of the 
woman who have been through similar experiences is that she is still 
alive and even adaptively functional at the age of 30.

The story is realistic, sensitive, and sexy.  Friar Dave’s writing 
style is not as sharp as it has been in most of his other stories, but 
maybe he got wrapped up in the plot too.  I found this to be a most 
enjoyable story.

Ratings for “Livinia”
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

“Something to Talk About” by OddManOut (nobody@REPLAY.COM).  The man 
and woman have very little in common.  However, at the end of their 
date they neck, and even though she doesn’t talk a lot, he eventually 
sticks his cock into her ass.  She likes it a lot, and it gives them 
something to talk about.  It’s a simple story that could have used a 
little more action, but it was well written.

Ratings for “Something to Talk About”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

 “A Word for Annie's Fuck Hole” by M.M. Twassel (mmtwassel@aol.com).  
This story is full of sexy innuendo, but I’m not sure what really 
happens.  The narrator had been in love with Annie, but she dumped him 
and he married her college roommate Laura.  No it is five years later 
and Annie is divorced and is visiting Laura.  While Annie takes his 
diary to her room and reads his most intimate thoughts, Laura cuddles 
up with her husband and says things like, “"What do you think it would 
feel like falling asleep inside of Annie? and Do you wonder whether she 
ever cries when she fucks, or if she laughs, or what sex words she 
uses?" 

The story ends with Laura asking the narrator "if he has thought of a 
name for Annie's fuck-hole yet.  That question originally arose in the 
narrator’s dream.  I have no idea how she knew the question even 
existed in his mind.  Loose ends like that confused me as I read the 
erotic vignettes in this story.

Ratings for “A Word for Annie's Fuck Hole”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

“Making the Sale” by Mary Anne Mohanraj (moh2@midway.uchicago.edu).  
Some jobs have less intrinsic motivation than others.  Teachers, of 
course, have a wonderful life.  We get to interact with eager learners, 
intelligent colleagues, and skillful administrators who are determined 
to make our work as easy and effective as possible.  Some people are 
less fortunate.  I have always felt sorry for toll-booth operators, who 
must stand in those isolation booths for hours on end, doing nothing 
but occasionally giving change to the uncaring motorists whose only 
goal is to get away from them.  And then there are the poor wretches 
who sell shoes.  In general, these are usually highly educated, 
emotionally stable people who have been laid off by NASA or who 
couldn’t quite hack it as a school crossing guard.  They grovel on 
their knees to give pleasure to often insipid or downright nasty people 
who seek self-aggrandizement through the satisfaction of a foot fetish.  
This is the story of one such peddler.

Of course, there are some ups as well as downs to this kind of work.  
For example, Bob has little trouble inhaling the aroma of the sexy 
redhead’s pussy while he slides the shoe onto her foot and imagines 
what else could happen.  Then she follows him into the storage area, 
grabs his crotch, and says, “"I want you.  It's been hours since I've 
gotten laid, and if I don't get to fuck someone soon I'm going to 
explode.  I need that huge hard cock of yours!  My pussy is dripping 
for you, salesman."  It’s amazing what a hard-working guy sometimes has 
to do to make a simple sale.

Ratings for “Making the Sale”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character):9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

* "The Passing of Seasons" by Linda B (an274617@anon.penet.fi).  I try 
to wait until all the parts of serialized stories have been posted 
before I post my review.  I have seen seven parts of this story, and 
the seventh says it will be continued; but I am going to go ahead and 
post my review now, since I haven't seen an eighth part yet and don't 
think there is one.  

This is an exceptionally well written, sensitive story about the 
intimate relationship between two young girls.  It's almost like a good 
Judy Blume story - except, of course, that teenagers read Judy Blume, 
whereas they would never think of reading stories on a.s.s., which are 
prohibited to them.  In fact, I think it is possible that Linda B may 
actually be Judy Blume, prematurely reincarnated and living in that 
literary commune in a Waldenesque setting near Sulfur Springs.  
{Incidentally, if you think Judy Blume writes only for kids, you should 
read her "Smart Women," which is probably available in your local 
public library.}

This author is intimately attuned to the emotions likely to be felt and 
expressed by teenagers trying to establish their sexual identities.  I 
myself am a happy heterosexual, but I recall feeling many of these same 
emotions (if not the same activities) that Jenny and Sarah express in 
this story.  (I have no intention of revisiting my discussion of 
whether practically all adolescent women experience these emotions. 
They do; but I have promised not to make an issue of that theory.)  
This is a really good story.

This story is also being archived at 
"http://www.cybercity.hko.net/toronto/wjm/archive/". Thus far only 
chapter one is available at the web-site.

The author has an interesting disclaimer, which reads in part: "If you 
are a teenager, we as adults don't think that you should read this, 
even though you are sexually mature and probably have much more sexual 
desire than we do. We are merely jealous of your sexual virility. 
Please leave us alone to *fantasize* about being your age once again. 
I'm sorry but you'll have to wait until you're at least 18 before you 
can have your own fantasies. Preferably you should wait until you're at 
least 30 or older, that way you can really have something to fantasize 
about: your very own teenaged years!" <Hear, hear!> <Well said!> 
<Touche!> <Applause>

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

* “Interview2" by Deirdre.  In the last issue of Celestial Reviews I 
reviewed Deirdre's "Interview" and then boldly predicted what 
"Interview2" would be about.  I was wrong.  Actually, Deirdre simply 
repeats the previous story with a male inserted into the previously 
female role.  It's a really interesting twist.  I recommend that you 
read "Interview" before reading "Interview2."

Ratings for "Interview2"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

* “Julie" by Deirdre.  This story never really gets off the ground.  
Julie's life is in a rut, and her friend takes her to visit a guy who 
will do different things with her - like fuck her in the ass.  Deirdre 
has written a lot of stories that are better than this one.

Ratings for "Julie"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 4

* “Key" by Deirdre.  A woman is upset because she and her husband are 
not getting along, and she knows he still has in his possession sexy 
pictures of her.  She recovers them and turns them over to her friend 
for safekeeping; but the control has simply passed from her husband to 
her friend.

Ratings for "Key"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

* “Lake" by Deirdre.  Mom is visiting her daughter at college when the 
child casually lets it slip out that her roommate is, of all things, a 
lesbian!  Mom doesn't like this idea one bit.  But Casey says not to 
worry - the roommate doesn't like college kids, just older women.  Now 
where do you think this story is going?  Well, that's what I thought 
too; but I was wrong!

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

* “Landlady" by Deirdre.  I'm going to try to predict Deirdre's plots 
again today.  In this one a woman will go to pay her rent, but will 
find the landlady in tears over the fact that she suspects the landlord 
of being unfaithful.  The woman will comfort the landlady by having sex 
with her.  After a few weeks of intimacy, the woman and the landlady 
will realize they are deeply in love; and they will decide to tell 
their spouses about their new relationship.  When they go upstairs to 
break the news to their spouses, they will find the woman's husband 
wearing a mask and swinging a small whip while he sodomizes the 
landlord.

What really happened: one woman shares an apartment with another.  The 
landlady takes the woman shopping and encourages her to buy some sexy 
clothing.  When they get home, the landlady asks her to put on a brief 
striptease act.  Shortly thereafter the woman discovers that the 
landlord and landlady have made her roommate into a sex slave and that 
they seem to have similar designs on herself.  I wasn't even close, was 
I?

Ratings for " Landlady "
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8

* “Lawyer" by Deirdre.  This plot should be easy to predict; so I'll do 
both a general and a specific prediction.  The general prediction 
(which I confidently know will be correct) is that a person of one 
gender will visit a lawyer of the other gender to seek a divorce from a 
person of the same gender as the lawyer.  The lawyer will either simply 
seduce the client or turn the client into a sex slave who will be 
loaned or rented out to wealthier clients.  (Of course, this plot 
assumes that lawyers have gender.)  More specifically, a female client 
will be seeking a divorce from her husband, whom she accuses of being 
abusive because he wants to whip her and have anal sex with her.  The 
lawyer will help the woman gain the divorce, but he will also use mind 
control tactics to make the woman lust for whippings and anal sex.  The 
woman will join the lawyer's stable of sex slaves, whom the lawyer 
rents to wealthy clients.  The first client the woman services will be 
her husband.  Needless to say, I wasn't even close.  This is a story 
about simple ff sex with a woman who happens to be a lawyer.  It was a 
good story, but I think even Deirdre would like mine better.

Ratings for " Lawyer" (Deirdre’s version)
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9

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

* “Lunch" by Deirdre.  After my previous two experiences, I have 
resigned from trying to predict Deirdre's plots.  After all, I have 
begun to suspect that she is using my guesses as plots for subsequent 
stories.  Lunch.  I mean this one could involve sex *at* lunch or sex 
*for* lunch, and I refuse to get into a mental tither over a 
preposition.  What actually happens is that a salesman asks to see the 
Boss without an appointment.  The Boss goes out with this guy for 
lunch, then calls back saying she'll be late, then later, then that 
she'll take the day off, then the next day off, then the next two 
weeks....  If this were an ordinary Sherwood Anderson story we would 
not know what to think, but since this is a Deirdre story we suspect 
sex at the roots of this unusual tardiness.  You'll have to read the 
story to find out more.

Ratings for " Lunch "
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

* “Mall” by Deirdre.  Two female friends are having drinks at the 
mall.  “Wouldn’t you like to lick that ass?” says one, as a hot 
babe in a bikini walks past.  Gulp, says the other.  This story 
is really hard to summarize.  It’s short.  Read it yourself.  It 
will hold your attention.  It certainly did hold mine.

Ratings for “Mall”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
 
* “Merge" by Deirdre.  I'm going to try another *in vivo* review.  This 
approach is fun, and it's also a good way to read a story.  If you have 
reading problems, you should try this yourself: always make predictions 
and confirm or reject them while you are reading the story.  Even if 
they don't realize they are doing so, good readers use this approach 
automatically.  One of the reasons good grammar and effective writing 
styles (like Deirdre's) are important is because these factors enable 
readers to make and test their predictions without being distracted by 
extraneous garbage like run-on sentences.  I learned this information 
in a graduate course on teaching reading to adolescents; and I have 
found it to be true.  So if you need an excuse to read these stories, 
tell people you're developing your reading skills by making and testing 
hypotheses while reading fictional textual material.  The same approach 
works with textbooks and business reports.

After reading the first few lines I have concluded that the title 
refers to a business merger: companies will merge, and employees are 
worried about being laid off.  I have no idea how sex will fit into 
this story yet; but since the initial focus is that no one will be laid 
off, I'm going to assume that they'll all be kept as sex slaves.  
(French artists have blue periods.  Deirdre wrote all these stories 
within the last two months, and I think she's in a comparable period - 
a sex-slave motif seems to be dominant right now.  It's as good a guess 
as any.)

Several paragraphs later, our protagonist is attending a meeting with 
seven other women.  I still don't know whether Henderson (the new owner 
of the company) is a man or a woman.  I'll read on.  Wait a minute!  
People are walking around nude at the meeting!  Did I miss something?  
I just checked; and up till now I've had no evidence that people were 
naked.  This was an interesting surprise. Now Tamera (our protagonist) 
is going naked into the next room, where a bunch a people dressed in 
suits are checking out her external sexual machinery.  This is a 
drastic change from what I thought I was reading, but my theory of sex 
slaves isn't looking bad at all.

Some sort of selection process is taking place, and Tamera is rejected 
because it takes too long for her vagina to become properly lubricated.  
But her mouth seems to function effectively when it is joined to the 
test apparatus.  Sex slaves is sounding good.  To make a long story 
short - sex slaves it was!  You'll have to read the story to get all 
the details.  I enjoyed this weird story even though I was on the track 
all the way because of my wild guess; a person encountering more 
surprises might enjoy it even more.

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

* “Model" by Deirdre.  The guy meets an old girlfriend who has started 
to work with models in the fashion industry.  She offers to let the guy 
meet some supermodels, and to his dismay one of them invites them to 
her house for a party that evening.  Pretty soon the model has the two 
of them serving as her sex toys.

Ratings for " Model"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

* “Mom" by Deirdre.  The girl's friend talks her into her first 
masturbation experience to the tune of some Playgirl pictures in the 
friend's mother's bedroom.  The mother returns home unexpectedly, 
catches them, and sends her daughter to her room.  When she finds out 
that the girl has never masturbated, she decides she had better teach 
her to do it right.  Pretty soon the girls decide that it would be fun 
to try to seduce each other's mothers.  And that's only the start of 
it!

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

* “Month" by Deirdre.  This is my new all-time favorite Deirdre story.  
Remember the movie "Indecent Proposal"?  Well, Deirdre ups the ante.  A 
supermodel is offered $10 million for a single month of unspecified 
work.  She figures the work must have something to do with sex, and so 
says she's not interested.  When the person persists in making the 
offer, she tells her manager to call his bluff by making a counter-
offer of $50 million.  To her amazement, her counter-offer is accepted.  
The deal is this: she will be flown to an island at a secret location 
and will stay there for a month, at the end of which she will be 
returned safely and uninjured to where she started.  If she cannot be 
certified to be safe and uninjured, she will receive $200 million; 
otherwise she keeps just the $50 million.  What the hell? says the 
supermodel, for that price I can do anything.  And besides, what can 
possibly go wrong?  And so she accepts the offer.  Can you resist a 
story like that?

Deirdre is at her best in this story: an excellent setup and 
unpredictable twists in the plot.  However, since I carefully applied 
Deirdre's Law (If something can go wrong, it will go wrong; and it will 
involve what Senator Exon will consider to be a sexual perversion.), I 
felt really good about being able to predict about 78% of what happened 
by the time I was only 63% of the way through the story.

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

* “Motel" by Deirdre.  Three couples have gotten together at a motel.  
Some of them want to continue talking, but one man is tired; and so he 
goes to one of the other rooms to go to bed.  Now what perverse things 
will Deirdre do with this setup?  Actually, nothing really perverse - 
just suggestive.

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

* “Mouth" by Deirdre.  "Wow! You have the perfect mouth for giving blow 
jobs."   Now, this happens to be true of myself; but never has a 
stranger mentioned this fact upon first meeting me.  I'm not sure how I 
would react; but I decided to read the rest of this story to learn how 
Deirdre's heroine would handle it.  By finding out what she would do, I 
figured I could plan to do the opposite and thereby avoid becoming the 
sex slave of my new admirer.  After reading the story, I have decided 
to take the safe way out and say, "Thank you!  And a person who looks 
like you is to be commended for appearing in public."  The lady in this 
story, of course, takes a different course of action.

Ratings for " Mouth"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

* “Move" by Deirdre.  This is a _Stepford Wives_ story in the tradition 
of Sherwood Anderson, pursuing the age-old question: "What do men 
_really_ do when there are no women around?"  The first inkling of 
impending doom occurred shortly after the husband accepted the new job: 
he was getting cold feet after he first met his future employers, but 
his wife insisted that he take the job.  The second clue came when the 
wife went for a job interview of her own at the company: the secretary 
simply said that the boss was busy and persistently tried to kiss the 
wife.  The third clue came when the gang from the Welcome Wagon showed 
up, and one of them said, "Isn't she pretty?  This is going to be 
great!"  If we need one more clue, we can find it when Veronica shows 
up on the doorstep, starts unbuttoning the wife's blouse, and says, 
""You'll do just fine!"  With all this going on, it wouldn't surprise 
me if the men were all gathered together in the Board Room having the 
husband give them blow jobs!

Ratings for " Move "
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

* “Movie" by Deirdre.  It's easy to tell that this is a Deirdre story.  
It's entitled "Movie," and there's no movie in it - the two women start 
to go to a movie but decide not to. What actually happens is that one 
of the two people who are not going to the movie asks the other one if 
she would like to have sex with her.  The second woman says that's not 
a turn-on for her; but maybe she would compromise if the first woman 
would do her a favor.  More evidence of Deirdre.  Then we find out that 
the favor involves anal sex with the second woman's husband.  
Definitely Deirdre.  Finally, we find whips, multiple couples, and 
deception.  No question: Deirdre.

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