Celestial Reviews 204 - August 2, 1997
Note: I posted some information about killfiles and zipped files in
the last issue of CR. What I posted was generally accurate. However,
as someone astutely pointed out in an a.s.s.d. discussion, I really
don't know much about technology and I was just paraphrasing what more
knowledgeable people had told me. This discussion is continuing on
a.s.s.d., where it belongs and where more competent people are handling
the debate.
Second note: I have neglected Parker in my reviews. Parker is a good
writer, but most of his stories simply deal with topics that don't
interest me. I am reposting my reviews of the three Parker stories I
have reviewed. In addition, I have "commissioned" guest reviews of two
of his other stories (as if I really had the authority to "commission"
anything). If there is anyone out there who would like to guest review
some more of Parker's stories, I would be happy to hear from you.
Final note: Remember: even though someone else may be posting my reviews
for me, my e-mail address is still Celeste801@aol.com.
- Celeste
"After School Special" by Unknown Author (teacher sex)
8, 8, 8
"The Words" by L.P. (cyber-romance fruition) 8, 8, 8
"Surprise" by DaTurnOn (dreamy threesome) 8, 8, 8
"On The Other Side of Seduction" by ElSol (seductive
romance) 6, 5, 5
"Begging on all FOURS" by Puppylicks (sex slavery &
bestiality) 6, 5, 3
"The Insatiable Flirt" by Anne747 (ff shower sex)
10, 10, 10
"The Hunter" by The Erotic Pen (magick & romance)
10, 9, 9
"Taking it in the Shorts" by Jamie Phillips (light-hearted
revenge) 10, 10, 10
Guest Reviews:
"Elizabeth" by Seurat (bdsm & control) 9.5, 9.5, 6
"How I Spent My Summer Vacation" by Waldo (vampires
& TG) 10, 10, 10
"Nancy Comes to Work" by the Erotic Pen (office
rendezvous)
Reposted Reviews (because the stories have recently been reposted):
* "Singapore Girl" by Friar Dave (anal sex, fisting, bondage,
etc.) 10, 8, 8
* "Honeymoon" by Parker (Slavery/bdsm) 10, 8, 3
* "Office Girl" by Parker (blackmail & white slavery)
10, 10, 9
* "Princess" by Parker (TG Halloween Party) 10, 9.5, 9
* "Scarlett's Cove" by Ann Douglas (hot lesbian romance)
10, 10, 10
"After School Special" by Unknown Author (teacher sex). An After School
Special is an occasional television show that appears in the late
afternoon in the United States with the purpose of enlightening children
in an entertaining atmosphere. This story is about a different sort of
After School Special. The narrator is a teacher who flirts with Miss
Daphne Mason and is invited to the book closet for a session of hot sex.
Although the terminology is stereotypical and the plot predictable, this
is a fairly hot story.
Ratings for "After School Special" Athena (technical quality): 8 Venus
(plot & character): 8 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
"The Words" by L.P. (kspeyt@hotmail.com). Her sex life was sterile and
uninteresting, until she found the Internet, where she was able to let
her inhibitions down and let the sexy and charming self emerge from
inside her. Then she found herself actually having orgasms with this
man on the telephone. Now she is going to meet him in person.
I guess part of the appeal of cyber-romances that eventually come to
fruition is that the participants often know each other even before they
meet. The rendezvous is a blind date, but not a blind date. In this
case, the man and woman had talked about everything: birth control,
their children, what they read, the music they listened to.... Since
they had exchanged sexual fantasies ad nauseam, it was only a matter of
acting them out, following the game plan. This sounds like something
Dear Abby or Dr. Ruth would approve of.
I found the use of very short sentences and numerous sentence fragments
to be a bit choppy and distracting. The author should either work to
perfect that style (as Hemingway did) or consider using a more
conventional style to combine thoughts and to subordinate one idea to
another. All in all, however, this is pretty sexy stuff.
Ratings for "The Words" Athena (technical quality): 8 Venus (plot &
character): 8 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
"Surprise" by DaTurnOn (Almond423@aol.com). I give my students the
following advice: "Your ideas are more important than grammar, spelling,
and punctuation; but that doesn't mean that these skills are
inconsequential. When you're writing something formal for someone who is
likely to judge you, use the grammar, spelling, and punctuation rules
that are in the grammar handbook. When you're allowed to be creative,
it's sometimes OK to cast aside the rules of grammar, spelling, and
punctuation; but you should have a purpose in doing so. For example, if
you decide to use your own rules for capitalization, this can be
effective; but when you choose to do this, you are essentially inventing
your own system. Your readers can no longer rely on conventional rules
to understand you. Using unconventional grammar, spelling, and
punctuation is often much more difficult than simply applying the
standard rules."
This author chooses to use no capital letters at the beginning of
sentences. As I start the story, I'm not sure why she does this; but as
a reader I am willing to go along with her. Maybe she wants to suggest
that the narrator is moderately illiterate. Maybe she wants to express
a feeling of urgency. Maybe she just wants to show that she's a free
spirit. The only real disservice this deviation accomplishes is that it
makes it a little harder for me to find the beginning of a sentence if
my eyes wander. I guess I better not let my eyes wander. Maybe that's
why the author does this.
Near the beginning I also notice that sometimes sentences end with
periods, but sometimes they end with four dots - but then sometimes four
dots occur between phrases in the middle of sentences. Sometimes
paragraphs end with nothing but empty space. Is the author trying to
say something? Maybe she's just saying she doesn't care much about
punctuation.
So then in fifth paragraph I see the sentence "Derek... this is my gurl
Naomi...." I would have expected, "Derek, this is my girl Naomi." Now
I am wondering, why does she call Naomi a "gurl" rather than a "girl"?
Since the author makes other "mistakes" on purpose, I am left wondering
why she has done this. What is a "gurl"? A few sentences later I find
this sentence: " his eyes widen.... looking at the woman that turns him
on..." Grammar books tell me to use "who" not "that" when referring to
a person. Is the author making a statement? Is she trying to suggest
that the woman is more of an object than a person. I doubt it. I
suspect the author simply screwed up the grammar; and by this time I
suspect that she simply misspelled "girl" as well.
Near the middle of the story a paragraph begins with a capitalized "He."
Is there some significance to this? I suspect carelessness - but I am
obsessing.
The story is a simple description of a woman sharing her girlfriend with
her boyfriend. I think the author is trying to use a train-of-though
approach; but I did NOT find it to be all that effective. I think it
interfered with this story. This author used the same general style in
"Dreamland," and Stubby (who wrote the guest review) liked that style in
that story - calling it poetic. I have read "Dreamland," and I think
the author did a better job of using this style in that story. I think
"Dreamland" was a better story than this one; but this is still a very
good, sexy story.
My advice to this author is the same as what I say to my students: using
unconventional grammar, spelling, and punctuation is often much more
difficult than simply applying the standard rules. I think the gimmick
worked once, and now it is beginning to stand in the way. Nevertheless,
I hope to see more stories by this author. I admire people who are
willing to try both different ideas and different approaches to
presenting these ideas.
Ratings for "Surprise" Athena (technical quality): 8 Venus (plot &
character): 8 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
"On The Other Side of Seduction" by ElSol (Commander Jameson repost).
The guy has seen a female coworker he likes in the computer lab and has
decided to bed her. He begins his slow and devious process of
seduction. He's a geek, a weirdo, a stalker. The seduction drags on
and on, and then the narrator discovers that he is the one who has been
seduced! Imagine that.
This story is labeled "real." My advice to the author is to make it less
real and more interesting. "Real" stories are what make anthropology
courses boring, unless the teacher does something to liven things up -
something like having an angle or focal point to the stories.
The verb tenses in this story are confusing. Sometimes the present
tense indicates habitual action; sometimes it indicates what is
happening "now," but "now" changes as the perspective shifts. Then we
find ourselves in the past tense - where are we? It gets worse as the
story goes on.
Finally, I found this sentence: "I put a husband between us...." The
author is obviously referring to something like a cushion. Then by
massaging her shoulders the narrator makes the woman lean back into the
"husband." The author has obviously used spellcheck and has
accidentally used global replace to insert "husband" for something else,
but I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is. Can you?
Ratings for "On The Other Side of Seduction" Athena (technical quality):
6 Venus (plot & character): 5 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 5
"Begging on all FOURS" by Puppylicks. The full heading for this story
was WOMEN INVITED TO READ "Begging on all FOURS.... .....", if you DARE!
:)" It really wasn't all that nerve shattering; actually, it was just
another sex slavery story, based on the notion that "woman have richer,
wilder fantasies than men.... Men are only beginning to perceive the
true nature of woman's being.... They have created a false image of her.
She's' neither an angel nor a bitch in heat. If she is no longer an
enigma, She's' certainly an everlasting source of wonder and rich in
unexplored possibilities in every domain of life....." Oh, and the guy
has his faithful dog Rusty work her over as well.
Well, at least one intrepid woman has dared to read this story, even if
she thinks that men have to be stupid to believe this kind of shit.
This is actually an ad in which the other is trying to solicit a woman
who would like to perform these services for the him and Wonder Dog (not
the dog's real name). Good luck. {I don't know why FOURS is all caps
in the title - maybe Rusty was licking the author's asshole or something
when he wrote it.}
Ratings for "Begging on all FOURS" Athena (technical quality): 6 Venus
(plot & character): 5 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 3
"The Insatiable Flirt" by Anne747 (Anon747@aol.com). It is certainly
possible to write a better story than this. It lacks character and plot
development. But it really does a good job at what it's supposed to do:
describe the actions and atmosphere surrounding a first-time quickie
between two female friends in the shower.
I am not going to describe the intimate details: you can discover all of
those in ten minutes by reading the story yourself. As I have said many
times in the past, I am a monogamous heterosexual woman, but I still
find a story like this to be extremely stimulating. Any sensible woman
would. So will most sensible men.
Ratings for "The Insatiable Flirt" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus
(plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"The Hunter" by The Erotic Pen (sarlim@aol.com). Medieval fantasy
stories are often uninteresting to me. You see, I have this sneaking
suspicion that magicians are imaginary and that people and animals
cannot really change their shapes at will. Medieval magick stories are
often confusing to outsiders like myself, who don't understand the
ground rules.
This author has managed to avoid the major pitfalls and has written a
very nice love story about a hunter who rescues a maiden from three men
who are about to slay her. She nurses him back to health and makes
tender love to him, but then she mysteriously announces that she cannot
remain the love of his life. As he leaves for home, he realizes that
the maiden was really the bear he had been hunting.
Ratings for "The Hunter" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot &
character): 9 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"Taking it in the Shorts" by Jamie Phillips (jimadam@cybertours.com).
{In the postings this story is labeled simply "In the Shorts."} Mike
Hunt is going to be really upset that he didn't think of the story label
for this one in my table of contents - "short comings." See, the guy in
this story thinks he's God's Gift to Women; but he's not, because he has
a "shortcoming": "he comes in his shorts" - as in premature ejaculation
- getting so turned on that he comes before entry. Personally, I think
that's also Austin's problem on DOOL, but network television isn't ready
for that plot yet.
This is not an earth-shaking story - except, perhaps, in Hemingway's
sense - just a cute little story about how a girl gets even with a boy
who has said behind her back that she's a slut.
Minor problem time: If a guy takes a girl's aureole into his mouth, he's
having an other-worldly experience. The area around the nipples is
called the areola. An aureole, you see, is a circle of light or radiance
surrounding the head or body of a representation of a deity or holy
person; in short, it's a halo. {The term is also used by astronomers to
refer to the corona around the sun.} The word these authors undoubtedly
mean to use is "areola" (also referred to as "areole" when it is a
specifically biological term), which refers to a small ring of color
around a center portion, as about the nipple of the breast or the part
of the iris surrounding the pupil of the eye. I have seen other bizarre
spellings, including "aereole" - a word which doesn't exist but which
would appear to be related to "aer" or "aero," a root that refers to air
or gas. I suppose this spelling could suggest that the lover was
nibbling an aperture through which air or gas might be expunged - but I
rather think this is a simple spelling error. Anyway, when my husband
makes love to me, I prefer that he nibble on an areola when the spirit
moves him. If he wants them both, they're called either areolas or
areolae. There's also a noun called areolation. That sounds like a
good title for a story.
Ratings for "Taking it in the Shorts" Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10 Tern (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Elizabeth" by Seurat (Dantedibby@aol.com). Guest review by Anne747.
First, for those who may not know, I don't really get into BDSM-style
pieces. I thought I would say that before I start, so you would realize
that my review may be flavored by that. However, the challenge of
reviewing something that might not appeal to me was too tempting to turn
down.
I'm not sure I can summarize the story without giving away the plot.
All I will say is that it's a tale of lust, greed, and control. There
are a few twists and turns in the piece, although I'll have to say I
kind of saw them coming. That could actually be a sign of my own warped
and twisted mind, since I love to mess with the reader's train of
thought when I can. I usually love stories where the unexpected
happens.
The characters are well drawn, and the author has done a reasonable job
of keeping the flow of the piece going well. I found the <inserted
text> of a character's private thoughts slightly distracting. I can't
come up with a better solution for a newsgroup posting, but if this goes
onto a website, perhaps italics would be a more appropriate choice. I
understand the need to know her thoughts, but it just took away slightly
from the flow of the piece. The "control" scene went a little slowly in
my mind; but then, for those more into this type of piece they might see
it as a slow build-up to the climax (hmmm... pun intended).
Ratings for "Elizabeth" Athena (technical quality): 9.5 Venus (plot &
character): 9.5 Anne747 (appeal to reviewer): 6 (sorry, just didn't
convert me!)
"How I Spent My Summer Vacation" (also called "Vamp") by Waldo. Guest
Review by Vickie Tern.
Waldo's stories tend to be long, slow getting under way, carefully
constructed, reliable, persuasive, and solidly satisfying. In fact some
of them already risk becoming "classics," more respected than read. His
plots are never predictable, and he can do amusing or torrid scenes with
the best of them -- he IS one of the best. But sometimes his writing
seems too deliberate, solemn, somehow lacking spontaneity and spice. He
makes it easy for new readers, in this case providing a Table of
Contents and a Story Summary to warn off those who may find themselves
turned off. This makes things seem even more ponderous. Stay with it
though, and you see that everything matters, nothing has been arbitrary
or irresolute. You can trust Waldo. He's a good read. Eventually
also, a fun read.
Mostly he writes media-genre "TG" stories (archived at
http://www1.mhv.net/sapphire/waldo.htm), tales of gender-swapping that
people usually read for the same reasons they read wife-swapping or
adultery stories, for the dangerously delicious wickedness of it all, to
feel they're breaking rules and transgressing boundaries (what dumb mix
of metaphors gave us "pushing envelopes"?). Most TG fans risk primary
sexual identity in their imaginations in order to gratify secret and
perverse desires. Yum! I myself write for such fans, and also to test
out the subordination of the sexes -- though somehow my TG tales always
come out Femdom, a woman always finally in charge of some humiliated
hapless male.
Not Waldo. He has too strong a sense of irony to wallow in the
pleasures of the perverse, too much concern with motivation, and how
things feel, too much plain curiosity. His gender-switching is more to
put characters into wholly unfamiliar predicaments, then to see how they
cope, if they can deal with the unthinkable at all. A man become a
woman? What's different? What's unexpected? What then?
So "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" puts a TG spin on the old Vampire
genre, those novels and movies that are really about sexual desire --
one taste and then you can't ever again get enough of it. In Bela
Lugosi's day the eroticism was disguised as drinking blood. But
consider. There's this debonair European Count suddenly in the
diaphanous virgin's bedchamber, who leans over her to kiss her neck, and
the next morning she's a compulsive seducer, eyes gleaming in lust? Or
there's this temptress called a "Vamp" in 1920's movies, strangely
exotic (though the original, Theda Bara, came from Staten Island), a
Medusa who mercilessly lures men to her bejeweled body and then destroys
them? Conversion to a thirst for blood? C'mon! Anyhow, that's where
Waldo is. In this story, one bite on the neck, maybe not even that, and
instead of joining the living dead, eating flies, avoiding mirrors, and
sleeping in coffins, awake or asleep you experience exotically enhanced,
intensely high-powered sex as yourself and as others of the other
gender, in all possible permutations.
Of course you have to get there first, and that's a fun part. This is
also a lightly satirical "academic" story, beginning and ending in a
classroom. That's where a mysteriously seductive stranger first
challenges a prissy Professor to justify his latest book on the non-
existence of Vampires by visiting her castle deep in Dracula country.
He's a second-rate skeptic intent "to prove that this is a hoax" instead
of exploring a real question such as Why do people Want to Believe in
Vampires in the First Place (see answer above). But he strokes his
beard, consults his Dean, and assembles a research team consisting of a
fat woman scholar (lesbian), a football stud (hetero), a gorgeous dish
(ambitious), and a true-believing religionist (soft). Then off they go.
Anyone can enjoy this part who has ever been amused or exasperated by
professorial egos, garrulous student showboating, or the perfect tits on
that inaccessible doll in the third row. The academy as well as the
whole vampire tradition is solemnly ransacked and parodied. Then when
we get to the castle where erotic desires are awakened and acted out,
and people are transformed and re-transformed, who can't enjoy it? Even
our cautious if libidinous professor gets more than he'd anticipated,
and I don't mean merely that he gets to give himself a blow job.
Heavy duty stuff. Triple 10, of course.
Ratings for "Elizabeth" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot &
character): 10 Tern (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Nancy Comes to Work" by the Erotic Pen (Sarlim@aol.com). Guest review
by Mike Hunt.
This is a simple story simply told. In fact, you barely need to read
more than the title to figure out everything that happens. Nancy visits
her husband at work on a weekend. They have sex. It's husband and wife
sex, but (of course) it still has "pinched nipples", a "hot, wet clit",
and "she cums."
All the words are there, but the action didn't carry me along as it does
in a more interesting story. The author has a jarring tendency to jump
tenses, as in "Since I hadn't eaten anything yet today I told her..."
and "my hands moved to her breast.... My mouth traces a trail from her
mouth." It's not a critical flaw, it just detracts from a smooth read.
There's not a lot wrong with this story. There's just not a lot right
with it, either. The best thing I can say about it is "it's short."
There's very little character development, virtually no plot, and one
short sex scene. Ho hum.
* "Singapore Girl" by Friar Dave (friar_dave@mhbbs.com). The guy meets
and becomes enamored with a beautiful and successful businesswoman from
Singapore whose name is June. They help each other carry out some of
their mutual sex fantasies. He also has another beautiful lover named
Annie, whose greatest virtue besides her beauty and intelligence is her
spontaneity and freedom from inhibitions. The guy quickly discovers
that June has a kinky streak; to his astonishment she takes special
delight in being fisted. Her ultimate request is for him to tie her up
and do what he likes to her until she literally passes out from the
sexual pleasure. The guy manages to satisfy her needs; as near as I can
figure she came in continuous orgasms for about three and a half hours.
Although originally she disliked giving head, by the end of the story
she is proficient at it.
This is a good story, and it's a lot hotter than my factual summary
indicates. However, it's not a perfect story; there are too many loose
ends. For example, why make such a big thing out of her bias against
lesbians if that bias plays no part in the story? Why introduce the
other women, if they play no important part in the story? I suspect
that the author had planned a threesome but lost interest. The story is
hot and enjoyable, but it's not Friar Dave's best work. It's still
good, mind you - just not his best work. (Rating: 8)
Ratings for "Singapore Girl" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot
& character): 8 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
* "Honeymoon" by Parker. After giving the preceding three stories high
ratings, I sat down at my computer to read my first Parker story. This
one is about a man who gives his beautiful young wife a surprise gift
for their honeymoon - her former English professor as a sex slave.
Needless to say, the professor had been a prissy but sexy bitch (so far
that sounds accurate), and so she probably deserved this reduction to
chattel servitude. They humiliate her in various ways while they
satisfy their sexual urges. The story also gives a description of this
alleged slave trade. If this really happens, it's a bunch of crap. I'm
trying not to be a prude. I see the point in and actually enjoyed the
voyeurism in deirdre's "Couch." I also gave a high rating to "Run,"
which had an sm/slavery twist; but it didn't dwell on how much fun it
would be to degrade someone. In "Dreamwalk" the neighbor dominates the
man who narrates the story; but it's actually a nice kind of domination
- she actually likes the guy. I'm not trying to be unfriendly; and I
realize there are valid differences in lifestyles and interests. But
when somebody writes a story that describes how interesting it would be
to turn a passerby into a degraded specimen of a human being (granted,
she was already an English teacher), am I being a bigot to say that this
is really kind of sick and to worry about the mental health of people
who enjoy this kind of garbage? I would appreciate serious comments,
not flames. I'm really trying to understand. Here's the crux of the
question: If Jeffrey Dahmers wrote a grammatically correct, clear,
detailed description of how he drilled holes into the heads of his
victims while they were still alive and then had sex with them before he
killed and ate them, am I supposed to accept this as a "lifestyle
choice"? And if I found my husband jacking off while he was reading
this description after Dahmers published it on a.s.s., would I be
paranoid to think he had a serious problem?
Ratings for "Honeymoon" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot &
character): 8 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 3
* "Office Girl" by Parker. The college girl has accepted a boring
summer job. Someone from another company offers her a large amount of
money for some survey results. She agrees to the terms, but she gets
caught stealing the information. Either she must do what her superiors
demand or they will report her to the police. She has become that
saddest wretch of a.s.s. - the moral (or immoral) equivalent of the
trapped tenant farmer or coal miner locked into the company store; she
has become a sex slave. The story describes in detail some creative
forms of humiliation to keep the girls ensnared in what used to be
called white slavery.
Ratings for "Office Girl" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot &
character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
* "Princess" by Parker. This is listed as Parker25. It has been posted
recently, and so it should be available on Deja News. I hope someone
will repost it quickly on a.s.s. {I originally wrote this as part of a
Halloween Special Issue of CR.}
Stephen is a computer geek who has been invited by Janice Sweet to be
her date at Cindy Parker's Halloween party. Janice is the most
beautiful girl in the school, and she has just broken up with the most
handsome jock. Stephen is tempted to back out when he finds out that
Janice wants him to dress like a girl while she dresses like a guy; but
Janice is very persuasive. She promises him lots of sex later on; and
she's not lying about that!
The costume goes on very nicely; Stephen has become Stephanie. Janice
hurries off to help Cindy prepare for the party, and Stephen arrives
alone at Cindy's house in time for the party. Only it's not a costume
party! He's the only one dressed in a costume; but nobody notices,
because he looks like a real girl in normal clothing. There's no way
out; so he continues to play the female role.
It turns out that Janice is simply using Stephen to get even with Biff
the football jock for dumping her. Use your imagination. How would a
pretty little bitch use a dork dressed up like a cute little girl to get
even with her brutish ex? That's right! And pretty soon he finds
himself doing the entire football team. At least he gets to be a
cheerleader.
Ratings for "Princess" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot &
character): 9.5 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
* "Scarlett's Cove" by Ann Douglas (annd@pop.tiac.net). Ann Douglas has
recently announced her retirement from active erotic story writing.
Coincidentally, someone else has reposted all her stories. I can't fit
all of those reviews in this issue of CR, but I'd like to repost a
review of one of my favorites. In addition, I'd like to add that Will
Rogers never read a story by Ann Douglas that he didn't like.
The story centers around the visit of two friends to a Caribbean Club
Med type resort that caters to lesbians and bisexuals. Although both
women are lesbians, they are not habitual lovers - just friends. After
some preliminary fun, Jeanette finds that Arlene has entered her into a
sort of charity bachelor auction - the other women will bid to have
Jeanette for their date for the evening. I think I have told you enough
about the story. It's a hot plot with hot sex. I might add that
Jeanette is a high school teacher and many of us often wish we could
touch our favorite students the way she does - but somebody might take
that comment the wrong way.
Ann writes many different kinds of stories, and I enjoy them all; but
this story is a good example of what Ann does best: an interesting and
sexy plot woven into an exotic environment embellished with accurate
information about varied cultures. In addition, the author enriches the
narrative with sexy flashbacks and side plots that heighten the tension
and allure of the main storyline.
As I have said many times before, although I suspect that all sensible
women would enjoy sexual activities like those described in this story,
I myself have never engaged in full genital lesbian or bisexual
activity. However, after reading this story, my defenses have begun to
crumble. If by some chance I would ever be bereaved of this wonderful
guy that humps me on demand like Mark Aster's studly hero and then found
myself on an exotic Caribbean island with a beautiful, rich former
student who was professing her love for me after purchasing me for an
exorbitant price in a charity auction - well, I might give it a thought.
Hell, I think I'll give it a thought right now!
I'm reminded of the words of my daughter, who every year proclaims that
"this is my best birthday ever." This is the best story ever by Ann
Douglas.
Ratings for "Scarlett's Cove" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot
& character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10