Celestial Reviews 83 - May 11, 1996
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- Celeste
“Coercion” or “Never Too Late To Start” by
Wollstonecraft (forced sex) 10, 10, 10
“Sue's First Threesome” by Paul Penrose (Threeway
sex) 6, 5, 5
“Explorer Delight” by Xtec (mini-orgy) 6, 5, 5
“Yardboy” by Boptop99 (sex with the kid next door)
5, 5, 5
“One of Those Days” by Delta (mind control) 10, 9.5, 9.5
“Delurk and a Story” by Karen C01 (sex slavery) 9, 8, 8
“Reasons” by Wollstonecraft (pregnancy & wandering)
10, 10, 10
“Butterflies for Dinner” by Martha (dream fantasy)
9.5, 8, 6
“Tennis” by Jon Hallmark (athletic & sexual training)
10, 9.5, 9.5
“Temptation” by D.A. Ignatius (seducing one’s husband)
10, 10, 10
“Coercion” or “Never Too Late To Start” by Wollstonecraft
(an285729@anon.penet.fi). The woman’s husband is impotent. She has
been working with a man to whom she is attracted, and she is certain
the attraction is reciprocal. She’d love to have his baby, but nothing
is likely to come of the relationship. Then one night a burglar breaks
into their workplace and forces them to have sex while he watches.
Actually, this plot sounds kind of lame the way I tell it; but I
thoroughly enjoyed this story.
Ratings for “Coercion”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
“Sue's First Threesome” by Paul Penrose (ppenrose@citilink.com). Sue
and Her Guy are recent high school graduates in love. They want to
spice up their sex life, and so they invite the waiter at a bar to join
them at their favorite make-out spot. The story doesn’t have much of a
plot - at least not yet; the writer just describes things as they come
into his head. If you want to read about a girl getting real wet while
her boyfriend fucks her and watches a stranger join in, then I guess
you might enjoy this story.
Ratings for “Sue's First Threesome”
Athena (technical quality): 6
Venus (plot & character): 5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5
“Explorer Delight” by Xtec (xtec@aol.com). The man has received a
military promotion, and he and his wife are having a big party to
celebrate. The woman gets drunk, and one of her husband’s friends asks
her if she would like to drive his Explorer, since she and her husband
are interested in purchasing one. After a short test-drive, he invites
her to the barracks to see the Explorer Video. When he goes to take a
leak, he slips a sex video into the VCR; and of course they fuck their
brains out when he returns from the john. She is quite impressed with
his virility, which she attributes to the fact that he is Hispanic.
The author doesn’t tell us the ethnic background of the woman or her
husband; but we can infer that she is herself neither Hispanic nor
black. (Why would a black woman be impressed by the size of a Hispanic
cock?) My guess is that she and her husband are both Italian or maybe
Scottish.
On the way home she gives James (the Hispanic guy) a blow job in the
Explorer (hence, the title, I think). He even promises to fuck her in
the ass the next time. Actually, the woman was pretty drunk, and maybe
this was really a black stud story. I even suspect that was a Bronco,
not an Explorer. This guy doesn’t sound like any Hispanic guy I’ve
ever known!
Since she has never been unfaithful before, the woman is a bit nervous
about telling her husband about this incident; but everything turns out
fine, because a sexy chick of undetermined ethnic ancestry is leaving
her husband’s bed just as she gets home. She is sort of surprised that
they had sex without the Explorer Video to stimulate them, but she and
her husband have a great time relating their mutual experiences and
fucking one last time before they fall happily asleep.
Ratings for “Explorer Delight”
Athena (technical quality): 6
Venus (plot & character): 5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5
“Yardboy” by Boptop99 (boptop99@aol.com). Kathy is 38. Years, not DD.
Of course, she may also be a 38DD, but we don’t know that. Justin is
15. Also years, not inches. Nobody has a 15 incher - not unless you
measure the circumference lengthwise. Then even Pee Wee Herman would
make the cut, so to speak. Anyway, Kathy’s husband has recently dumped
her for a younger woman - a bimbo who lacked the depth of character
that Kathy will display in this story. Justin is a yardboy who looks
like a Greek god or at least like that stud from the Coke commercial.
Three months of celibacy has been too much for Kathy, and so she
decides to jump Justin’s bones.
Actually, I’ve oversimplified. Kathy is much more complex and ethical
than that. First she goes to her bedroom and masturbates; but then
Adonis (Justin) comes knocking on her door. What’s a girl to do? I
mean, all those characters in Greek tragedies and in Shakespeare and in
Thomas Hardy and in Days of Our Lives - they all try to resist Fate;
and what good does it ever do? “Listen, Justin, my hair's all wet,''
she calls. "I don't want to come down to the kitchen. Come upstairs to
my room and we'll talk about what you can do for me around the house
today.'' What, indeed!
“Ohhh, Mrs. Andrew, you feel so nice!” That’s “nice,” not “nicely.”
It’s important grammatical niceties like that which enable a good
author to let the reader know who is doing the feeling and who is
being felt. Later, Kathy spreads her legs for Justin, her eyes fiery
with lust. That’s right - “fiery.” If you’re going to read this
story, you might as well learn something. The inversion of letters
when “fire” becomes “fiery” is an example of metathesis - or so one of
my professors told us one day while I was quietly masturbating in the
back of the classroom during a really boring lecture. Now that I think
about it, maybe the eager lips of a 15-year-old Adonis on my clit would
have felt nicer than my fingers at that time.
If I don’t find a really good story soon, I’m going to have to jump
somebody’s bones myself!
Ratings for “Yardboy”
Athena (technical quality): 5
Venus (plot & character): 5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5
“One of Those Days” by Delta (an248969@anon.penet.fi). I feel honored.
Delta read my review of "Turn of the Cards" by RC, in which I compared
that author’s work to Deirdre’s mind control stories. Delta pointed out
to me that what Deirdre does well is to _not_ allow the reader to get a
clear grasp of what is going on. Never does Deirdre tell how the mind
control is being achieved. We can _guess_, but we never know. Deirdre
does give subtle clues which point in certain directions; but the story
can never actually be figured out - and that is the strength of writers
like Deirdre and Sherwood Anderson.
Once an author unveils a mechanism, be it hypnosis, a mind control
machine, or simply the power of personality, the reader is open to
skepticism. Deirdre, by dint of not explaining anything, avoids this.
Her stories are very short; usually they are more vignettes than
stories. They start in the middle, and they usually end in the middle,
too.
When reading many of Deirdre's stories, the reader is held by the same
fascination as a person watching a train wreck. A “weak” character, by
taking the easy path, becomes entangled in something which a show of
will would have prevented. We think how easily such a thing could
happen, all the while being repelled by the thought, yet fascinated as
the character spirals downwards into the trap to which s/he has opened
her/himself.
The other thing about Deirdre's stories is that they often focus on
“anal delights” which are still a bit taboo, and this raises the ante
somewhat. Delta suggested that perhaps the anal aspect is a draw for
me personally. Perhaps I have misled my readers. I DO enjoy anal sex;
but it’s not as if I take it up the ass every night. The fact that
other people consider it to be a special taboo or a distinctive form of
humiliation probably adds to the intimacy I share with my husband
during our relatively rare but highly pleasant anal activities.
Anyway, Delta has written a mind control story. I cannot tell you much
about it, because a major part of your enjoyment will flow from trying
to figure out what is happening. Read it and “enjoy” - as the story
says in its concluding statement.
Ratings for “One of Those Days”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5
“Delurk and a Story” by Karen C01 (karenc01@aol.com). OK - It’s
getting close to exam time; so here’s a test question for you aspiring
doms and subs. Assume the woman has been accepted as a probationary
submissive by her dom of choice. Assume also that he has met with her
for breakfast and that he has instructed her to go to the bathroom,
remove her bra and panties, and bring these items back to him. Of
course, this will mean that the woman will have to perform at work all
day in a state of semi-nakedness with her hardened nipples pressing
against the fabric of her blouse, arousing herself and everyone around
her - but that’s not the test question. The question is this: if while
she is in the restroom stall removing the designated items the woman
gets an inspiration to masturbate and thereby bestows on her dom a pair
of panties that is soaked with the aroma of her cum juices, is this a
good thing or a bad thing?
What scares me is that I knew the answer!
Those of you who are interested in sex slavery will enjoy this story
more than I did. It’s apparently the first in a series.
Ratings for “Delurk and a Story”
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
“Reasons” or "You're a Real Contradiction, Ain't You?" by
Wollstonecraft (an285729@anon.penet.fi). This story was inspired, in
part, by an article in Psychology Today that outlined recent theories
on the female orgasm.
Don and Kathy are in love and want to have a baby together. As good
luck would have it, they are married (to each other!), but as bad luck
would have it, Don has to go out of town on business for a month just
when Kathy knows she will be most fertile. Can this happy marriage
survive this trauma? I know enough from watching “Days of Our Lives”
to suspect that their marital bliss will be disrupted. Stay tuned for
the next paragraphs!
As soon as Don leaves, Kathy desperately misses him. To make matters
worse, she has just stopped taking the pill; and so she is "more
responsive," as her doctor, who displays Psychology Today along with
Cosmopolitan and Readers Digest in his waiting room, put it. So when
she finds herself getting horny watching a sexy show on television, she
reaches for the vibrator and responds happily to its stimulation. As
we fade to commercial, Kathy is recovering from the best orgasm she has
had in the long week since Don has been absent.
But wait! Something’s gone berserk on my mental TV screen. People are
humping, but that’s not Don and Kathy! It’s not even Bo and Hope or
John and Marlena and/of Kristen! It’s a bunch of primitive tribesmen
and women! My mental TV screen has merged my soap opera with the
Discovery Channel! I am reminded of those days back in the library of
my Catholic school when the boys used to read National Geographic so
that they could see the Naked Natives of Namibia. But I digress. A
primitive woman is describing her difficulties getting pregnant. Not
having a gynecologist or Psychology Today, she is acting on the theory
that her infertility problem arises from the fact that her mating hole
doesn't suck at her mate's skin staff the way other women’s do.
Neither Doctor Ruth nor Psychology Today could put it more elegantly.
Now the story becomes a bit technical. The woman belongs to a tribe of
hunters and gatherers. While she is out gathering and her several
mates are elsewhere hunting, she is approached by a wanderer who is
wandering and who fucks her in such a way as to make her mating hole
suck quite vigorously at his skin staff. Now the men in the tribe no
longer satisfy her; and the woman begins to wander while she gathers,
looking for her wandering man. The Country Music Television channel is
beginning to encroach on my already confused mental imagery!
My mental TV image is fixed. I’m back with Kathy. She still misses
Don, but she has joined her friend Sandy; and the two of them are going
to a hot night spot together. So that they won’t have to stand around
waiting in line to get in, Kathy is dressed to kill. I’m back on the
familiar turf of the American TV soap opera. The dialogue in the bar
is again familiar: "Waiting for your husband?" The stranger’s voice is
deep and smooth and sends shivers down Kathy’s spine. "No," she
replies, aware that she might become a wanderer. "Waiting for me, then.
Come dance with me." I’m on well-known ground now - As she spirals
toward eternal damnation, Kathy again and again says no but means yes
and the stranger fucks her brains out repeatedly and they both cum
ecstatically and she’s sure as hell going to be pregnant with this
guy’s baby. Poor Don!
I have to talk to the cable company. We’re back on the Discovery
Channel again. The aboriginal woman has wandered and has found another
man with a cock and stamina that legends are made of. He rams her so
solidly that she knows for certain that she is now with child. I have
to talk to the cable company; I am getting the picture from the
Discovery Channel but the soundtrack from the porn channel - all I hear
is grunting; these people don’t even converse before or after mating.
Once the guy gets her pregnant, the woman stops showing her old
enthusiasm for sex and the man leaves her. I sense a transition back
to ordinary TV.
Back to normal! Kathy is acutely aware that she has been unfaithful to
Don; but she can take consolation in the fact that this is an American
soap opera and she is now pregnant with someone else’s baby. Maybe
she’ll move to Salem or to Aramid. She’s worried that Don will see the
bruises that cover her body and suspect something has happened. I
respond mentally: “Cut the guilt trip, honey. What do you think Donny
Boy has been doing these past ten days?” But there’s good luck: Don is
going to be away for two weeks longer than planned; the bruises will
heal, and he may never find out about Kathy’s infidelity. All she has
to do is lie a little and sleep with him. Yeah; that always works on
the soaps. “But what about the baby?” you ask. And what if Sandy
realizes she is in love with Don and blackmails Kathy or seeks lesbian
fulfillment?
That’s all I’m going to tell you. You’ll have to read the story
yourself to find out who has whose baby and the answers to your other
questions. My apologies to Wollstonecraft. This really is a creative
story. As you can tell from the rating, I enjoyed it immensely.
I wonder what that article in Psychology Today really said.
Ratings for “Reasons”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
“Butterflies for Dinner” by Martha (an481005@anon.penet.fi). This
story was posted under the title “Dream Fantasy.” It may be a close
call, but I wouldn’t have done it that way. I would have withheld the
information that this is a dream fantasy (rather than reality) until
the end. If the reader knows it’s a dream, I don’t think the story is
quite as interesting.
In addition, dreams have a value and meaning unique to the dreamer.
It’s often difficult to explain them to someone else. I have tried to
write down my own dreams in the middle of the night so that I could
tell them to my husband in the morning. {I did this to counter the
hostility I used to get when I woke him up to tell him about them
immediately. Apparently I’m sexy - but not THAT sexy!} When I’d read
my notes in the morning, I’d usually find they weren’t even all that
interesting to me.
I have found some of Deirdre’s stories to read like good dream stories.
They evoke the surrealistic sensation that “this must be happening but
it can’t be happening.” The present story is by no means awful; and I
think it is plausible that a person having this dream would find it to
be really exciting. However, I wasn’t as excited by it as by my own
dreams or by Deirdre’s bizarre reveries.
I hope this author writes some more, so that I can get a better sample
of her writing.
Ratings for “Butterflies for Dinner”
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 6
“Tennis” by Jon Hallmark (an507138@anon.penet.fi). When Alex Agassi
plays tennis so well and looks over at the Lovely Lady applauding his
efforts, have you ever wondered exactly how this Line of Inspiration
works? This story explains one theory. It tells how a fine Mistress
turned an average tennis player into a champion by using many of the
techniques we have seen discussed in D/s stories right here on a.s.s.
Ratings for “Tennis”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5
“Temptation” by D.A. Ignatius (DarkNites) (jash@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu).
“The CEO of Fieldbrook has to be at this charity ball.” So says the
husband. But the wife of the CEO would rather ball the CEO than go to
the ball. Therefore, she tempts him at home before they leave for the
festivities. He makes it to the ball and finds another beautiful woman
coming on to him while he is at the podium - and he with his wife’s
lipstick barely dry on his cock! His wife wards off this predator and
continues to flirt with her husband. But has she gone too far? She
doesn't care if they are married; there is a limit to what it is legal
to do under the eyes of a hundred people.
A limit - but a very generous limit. She is so relieved that at least
this isn’t going to be a repeat of the Ladies Room Experience that she
doesn't even mind when he tears off her panties and plunges into her in
the room at the Regency. Based on personal experience, I have no
problem believing that this story is very, very plausible.
Ratings for “Temptation”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10