Celestial Reviews 91 - June 15, 1996

Note: I have been receiving more requests than usual that ask, “Where can I 
find these excellent stories that you review?” It is really impractical for me 
to send stories to individual readers or even to respond in practical detail 
to this question. If an author sees a review of his/her story reviewed, I 
would encourage him/her to repost it.  

It's OK with me if authors attach my review; as long as they don't change it.  
Also, I am maintaining a database of the stories I review; and if I notice a 
story being reposted after I have reviewed it, I'll try to repost the review 
of that story as soon as possible.  If you contact me when you repost, I'll be 
more likely not to miss your story.

Since readers have often commented that they cannot find the stories I 
have reviewed, because they disappear from the posting services too 
rapidly, I have implemented the suggestion of posting the author's e-
mail address with the review.  I don't see this as breaking 
confidentiality, since I am getting the address out of the publicly 
posted story anyway.  Please remember that the best way to get the 
story is from the postings.  (If a thousand people read a story and all 
thousand of them request it directly from the author, this would be an 
unreasonable burden.)  If this policy poses an inconvenience to 
authors, I would appreciate it if they would let me know. 

One good idea is to look for stories written by authors you have 
learned to respect.  In Question 16 of my FAQ I list several authors 
whose stories I myself look for.

Finally, one reader tells me that he has almost set up a Web page that will 
include all 100 of my reviews of the Top Stories of 1995 along with the actual 
stories.  This is almost too good to be true, but I think the page will be 
ready within the week.  Watch this space for further announcements!

- Celeste

      “Sweet 16” by CGStories (rape) 3, 3, 1
      “Love Letters with a Cyber Virgin” by Lee J Kool (cybersex
            fantasy) 6, 4, 2
      “Lipstick” by SweetSprng (submission & humiliation) 
             9, 8, 6
      “Freshman Daze” by Ptolos (high school sex) 7, 7, 5
      “Picnic” by RC (sex in the outdoors) 10, 9, 9
      “Tammy's Game” by Tammy Ng (virtual sex) 10, 10, 10
      “Intrusion” by Joe Parsons (Quickie) 10, 7, 7
      “Tonya Harding: Slave-Girl” by Your Friendly Author 
            (therapeutic sex slavery) 10, 10, 10
      “Sandwich” by Frank McCoy (childhood incest) 9.5, 7, 7
      “Encounters” by LibbySweet (ff romantic sex) 9, 9, 9
      “Please Speak into the Flowerpot” by Mark Aster
            (surveillance sex) 10, 8, 9

“Sweet 16” by CGStories (an453065@anon.penet.fi). The burly black 
bartender accepts the girl’s panties from the equally black rapists and 
puts them in a drawer with lots of others.  “Another white bitch is 
going to lose her cherry and probably get a black baby in her belly.  
All the panties in the box are from white girls, all teenagers.  High-
class, pampered young bitches who come in for a beer, and get fucked 
instead.”  The Naked City has a thousand tales to tell, and this is one 
of them.

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday the night has taken a turn for the 
worse for Cindy..  Her boyfriend has brought her to a bar in a 
disreputable part of the city, where the bartenders never ask for ID.  
Therefore, he hoped to get her drunk and pop her cherry.  But he went 
to take a leak, and now these assholes have taken his place and have 
told him to go away while they rape his girlfriend.

Guys who ejaculate whenever they think of a white pussy and a black 
cock will most likely enjoy this story, even though I’ve already told 
you all the good parts.  More discerning readers will notice that this 
story has a few loose ends.  Like why doesn’t the boyfriend just call 
the cops when the rapists tell him to leave? Or what would keep the 
police from looking into the drawerful of panties when they 
occasionally investigate a rape? Or why hasn’t word leaked out by now 
that little white bitches should avoid this place if they don’t want to 
be serviced by nasty black studs?

The story ends with Cindy over eight months pregnant - with twins yet.  
She’s seriously upset, but she has decided not to tell her parents that 
the father is a black man.  That would disgrace both her and her 
family.  Assuming her parents are no smarter than anyone else in this 
story, they will probably never notice - unless, of course, the twins 
are boys who grow up to rape white girls in sleazy bars.

Good grief!

Ratings for “Sweet 16”
Athena (technical quality): 3
Venus (plot & character): 3
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 1

“Love Letters with a Cyber Virgin” by Lee J Kool 
(ljkool@concentric.net). This is a story that evolved from a cyber-
romance - private communications that have been proclaimed to 
constitute a “story.”  The introduction ends with a cryptic warning: 
“If you're under eighteen, don't read this.  It's too sexy for you.”  
That’s not true.  This story should be required reading for all 
children; they would be so confused that they would probably lose 
interest in sexual activity.

As near as I can figure, the two lovers meet in a cafe somewhere in the 
desert and then walk through a cornfield where the leaves rustle under 
their bare feet until they go into a barn that has a stairwell leading 
to a four poster bed where the guy ties the girl down and drives her 
out of her mind before she returns the favor for him.  Much of this is 
impossible or at least unlikely, but I think the authors were trying to 
be surrealistic.  It was very difficult for me to figure out who was 
doing what to whom.  The grammar was largely incoherent (e.g., one 
author used no capital letters - I think for some unknowable stylistic 
effect - and the other was inconsistent) and the hand-offs from one 
writer to another were clumsy.

I think this story was probably very meaningful - possibly even 
beautiful - for the two people originally involved in the cyber 
romance.  But I couldn’t get interested in it myself.

Ratings for “Love Letters with a Cyber Virgin”
Athena (technical quality): 6
Venus (plot & character): 4
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 2

“Lipstick” by SweetSprng (sweetsprng@aol.com).  Sweet is the name of a 
lady who is the sextoy of a dominant guy named Fred.  The story is a 
fairly clear description of how Fred makes Sweet do sexy things and 
eventually humiliates her in the restroom of a restaurant. She is 
willing to submit her strong and willful nature to Fred’s control, and 
from this submission Fred derives a rich and heady feeling of power.  
For her part, by giving herself over to Fred, Sweet feels a freedom 
that she has never known before.

I have read a lot of D/s stories, and I certainly look at some of them 
in a different light than I would have a year ago.  I recently watched 
a TV talk show in which a woman was being interviewed after breaking up 
with her dominant boyfriend.  Nobody in the audience could understand 
that the breakup had nothing to do with the apparent abuse; the woman 
stated that she found it sexy to be humiliated by her former boyfriend.  
The breakup occurred because she “felt a need to grow.”

This story does little to enlighten non-believers like those in the 
talk-show audience.  However, if you’re already a True Believer who can 
understand why a woman would be attracted to a guy who would take her 
into the men’s restroom and humiliate her, then you’ll probably like 
this story.

Ratings for “Lipstick”
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 6

“Freshman Daze” by Ptolos (ptolos@aol.com).  The girl is a high school 
freshman and the guy is a junior; and so I guess that’s why the term 
“sophomoric” popped into my mind when I read this story.  It gives a 
brief description of the joys of feeling a girl up and popping her 
cherry out in the bleachers while the principal is inside giving the 
introductory speech to kick off the new school year.  This is not great 
literature - just the written version of what 80% of high school guys 
claim to have done about twice a week.

Ratings for “Freshman Daze”
Athena (technical quality): 7
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5

“Picnic” by RC (74734.271@CompuServe.COM).  The man is a bit upset 
because his wife is late picking him up after a hard day at work.  
Eventually he realizes that she is not taking him home, and his 
interest and lust begin to increase.  She takes him to a secluded spot 
in the park - the spot where they first made love a long time ago.  The 
picnic basket contains not food but sextoys.  A good time was had by 
all.  And hypnosis - somebody got hypnotized - or did he?

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

“Tammy's Game” by Tammy Ng (Deidre Ng@aol.com).  A friend of mine once 
tried to introduce me to the Japanese game called Go.  I was bored with 
it and told her I would rather play a game called Cum.  Tammy Ng has 
hit upon the same idea from a different perspective.  Her insight is 
that men seem to be overly excited about video games that involve war.  
Not only do the games consume vast amounts of time that their lady 
friends would like to see put to better use - these games also develop 
attitudes that are at least mildly inimical to romance.  Tammy’s 
solution is to develop an arcade game that focuses on bringing Virtual 
Tammy to orgasm.  Bonus points would be given for keeping her in a high 
state of excitement until the final, blissful explosion.  This 
libidinous recreation would have the advantage of getting guys 
intensely interested in activities that possess socially redeeming 
values.  Persons successful at the game could transfer their newly 
developed skills to the partners whom they would normally ignore while 
playing games like Mortal Kombat.

Tammy describes two versions of her game in detail.  I think there is 
great potential here.  It would be fun if other authors would build on 
this idea by suggesting alternate versions of this game or by writing 
stories about people who participate in such a game.  It would also be 
fun to see somebody develop the actual game!

Ratings for “Tammy's Game”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

“Intrusion” by Joe Parsons (jmp@cyber-mall.com).  The author is in real 
life the operator of a phone-sex service.  He writes these stories as 
commercials.  I hate the phone-sex ads that fill up a.s.s. and 
a.s.s.d., but I enjoy Joe’s advertisements.  I respect a person who 
gives me something to entice me into his service; and if I ever do call 
a phone sex line, I’ll be sure to think of his.  In fact, I may even 
give his number to those religious fanatics that keep coming to my 
door.

This is a very short story about a quickie.  It’s not a bad story, but 
there isn’t much to it - just wham, bam, thank you ma’am.  I guess 
that’s OK, but Joe has written much better stories.

Ratings for “Intrusion”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

“Tonya Harding: Slave-Girl” by Your Friendly Author 
(an587309@anon.penet.fi). What did that sweet little ice skater do to 
deserve all the vituperation she receives on this newsgroup?  An even 
better question - what would possess an apparently sane man to write 
over 40,000 words about this fair damsel and her evil step-sister 
Nancy?  Beats me!

In this story Tonya receives Abuse Control Therapy from Dr. David 
Liebenschmerz, a kindly psychologist who comes upon Tonya in a Portland 
park while she is in the throes of depression over the unjustly 
negative vibes she gets from everyone around her.  The doctor 
volunteers his services to help Tonya regain her self-concept and 
resume her normal, adaptive lifestyle.

First the good doctor gives our miscreant mistress of the ice a severe 
beating - 50 whacks on the bare buttocks with a sturdy paddle.  This 
hurts like hell and raises welts; but Tonya finds it to be sexually 
stimulating and resolves to continue the treatment, which will take 
place on the Liebenschmerz country estate.  I honestly think I myself 
would feel something other than sexual arousal if someone did this to 
me; but Tonya is - to say the least - an unusual and mildly 
dysfunctional person, and so I accepted this reaction as plausible.  
After all, the bruises from the beating were nothing a little 
masturbation couldn’t cure.

The story is a veritable Odyssey filled with wonderful events.  The 
enema and catheterization sounded a bit uncomfortable, but Doc 
Liebenschmerz helped out by pinching her clitoris until she relaxed.  
Being blindfolded, gagged, and (of course) bound in the back of a van 
traveling down a highway while possessed by an urgent need to defecate 
and go wee-wee helped Tonya develop self control.   Everything for a 
purpose!

I almost forgot to tell you. Dr. Liebenschmerz has an assistant: Nancy 
Kerrigan.  As you may recall, she was Tonya’s archrival at the Olympic 
debacle who subsequently made snotty remarks during a parade at Disney 
World.  This might sound like a framework for a catfight story; but Ms. 
Kerrigan is here as part of the therapy.  You’ll have to read it 
yourself; its kinda hard to explain.  Basically, Tonya has to confront 
her guilt and/or pay the piper.

Dr. Liebenschmerz is actually a humanitarian.  This therapy is good for 
Nancy as well as for Tonya - and he gets a few jollies himself.  
Mistress Nancy tortures Tonya, and naturally Tonya has to find a way to 
make amends to the Goddess of Ice.  I wonder how she’ll do that!  

OK.  So I couldn’t resist having a little fun with the plot; but I 
don’t think the author will object.  I really don’t like torture 
stories; but there are certain people - including the goody-goody 
characters in televised fiction and a few celebrities like Saddam 
Husein, Joey Buttofucko, and Tonya Harding - who fall outside my rules 
of normal morality.  Even Ghandi would enjoy reading about these people 
suffering discomfort and ignominy.

The author is quite creative in his presentation of the story.  He 
mixes pleasure and pain, reality and dreams, sense and nonsense - all 
these in such a way as to make even me wonder what the hell would 
happen next.  We even get high-quality bestiality - mostly in authentic 
Freudian dream sequences.  And there’s much more.  Eventually, I was 
forced to admit that there was a certain logic to the plan - this 
therapy was so crazy, it just might work!  I doubt it, but it beats 
anything else I can think of to reform Tonya - assuming Mother Theresa 
is unavailable.

Ratings for “Tonya Harding: Slave-Girl”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10

“Sandwich” by Frank McCoy (mccoyf@millcomm.com).  This author posted 
several stories this past week.  I have time to review only one of them 
here. "Sandwich" is a game that the narrator played as a child.  One 
sibling would be sandwiched in bed among the three others, while they 
frolicked naked in the pre-dawn hours before their parents woke up - 
and whenever else they got a chance.  The game can be played by 
anywhere from two to as many as want to join in.  It's best when at 
least three players are involved, and probably better if there are more 
boys involved than girls, though not necessarily.  The lucky person in 
the middle gets to be the "filling" and has every hole stuffed (if 
she's a girl) or both holes stuffed and his prick buried in someone 
else's hole, if he's a boy.  The game even has a scorekeeping system.  
For example, a player gets two basic points, for each person he/she 
gets off simultaneously. The narrator had an almost unfair advantage at 
collecting bonus-points, since she could usually start climaxing the 
moment she felt one of her brothers’ cocks slide up into her overheated 
little pussy and didn't stop until the last of them had gone limp and 
soft inside her.  Guys can’t do this - at least not in the real world.  
But the brothers didn’t seem to mind.

In real life, of course, this game would be a really asinine idea.  
There’s a sensible balance between repressing children’s sexuality and 
having them fuck one another’s brains out.  I thought the story was 
pretty juvenile; but I guess that’s the idea - the narrator is supposed 
to be a 13-year-old exploring sex with her brothers.

I don’t mean to spoil the ending, but their mother eventually catches 
them in the act.  At first she seems upset, but then she says, “What 
the hell, you might as well finish.  But I don’t condone this sort of 
thing.”  Then (and only then) the big brother explains to the little 
girl that she might be pregnant.  This could be unfortunate, because 
inbreeding often leads to lowered intelligence in the offspring; but 
that may not be possible in this family.  

Ratings for “Sandwich”
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7

“Encounters” by LibbySweet (LibbySweet@aol.com).  A woman who has 
recently broken up with her girlfriend is walking along a beach, 
feeling drawn to romance by the general ambiance.  An extremely sensual 
and free-spirited woman calls out to her and joins her, and soon they 
are exchanging backrubs and eventually orgasms.  This story supports my 
theory that most sensible women can enjoy hot sex without having a 
penis on the scene.

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

“Please Speak into the Flowerpot” by Mark Aster (MyFrThAl@aol.com).  My 
relatively low ratings (low for this author, that is) occur because 
this is simply a vignette, not a complete story.  What we have here are 
sounds and only sounds - what private investigators might hear, for 
example, as they sit in their cleverly disguised utility truck, 
listening through earphones to the sounds they can pick up from the 
tiny microphone they cleverly hid in the flowerpot of the people under 
surveillance.  This leaves a lot to the imagination - and that can be a 
lot of fun!

Ratings for “Please Speak into the Flowerpot”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9