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Subject: Celestial Reviews 122 - Oct 2
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Celestial Reviews 122 - October 2, 1996
Note: A reader recently wrote to ask me if I ever heard of a story called
First Love, with characters named Matt, Jen, and Ryan. He says it is more
story than sex. The only story I know of that is labeled "First Love" is
subtitled "The Loves of Sir Richard" by Christine Morgan. It has
characters named Vrushenka, Richard. and Marinka.
Does anyone out there know anything about either of these stories? If
someone will repost either or both of them, I'll review whatever is
posted.
Second Note: Here are the names and addresses of some people who archive
their own or others' stories:
Ann Douglas (http://www2.inow.com/~jfjellst/AnnD)
Deirdre (http://serv1.tech-one.com/~bill/deirdre)
Elf Sternberg (http://www.halcyon.com/elf/index.html)
Estragon's (ftp://unix.tpe.com/pub/estragon)
and (http://www.tpe.com/~mule)
Jordan Shelbourne (http://www.u36.com/~jordan)
Mark Aster (http://users.aol.com/myfrthal)
Mary Anne Mohanraj (http://www.iam.com/maryanne/)
Patrick Donovan (http://world.std.com/~drwho/erotica.html)
Sisters Ng (http://members.aol.com/deidreng/index.htm)
Tooshoes (http://www.netcom.com/~tooshoes/PenPartners.html)
Warthog (http://www.connect.net/linetwo/stories.html)
The rec.arts.erotica web site is http://www.netusa.net/~eli/erotica.html
TG stories by several authors are archived at
http://satchmo.physik.TU-Berlin.DE/~zirzlaff/nienor/pub/Stories/Nostrumos_
Book/
Simon bar Sinister has a Mind-Control Story Archive at
http://www.galaxy.net/~simon/
Robot Fetish stories are posted at:
http://users.aol.com/robotdoll/asfr.html
Superheroine erotica stories can be found at
http://www.indra.net/~sharonb/aurora.htm
Some hot femdom stories can be found at
http://www.webcom.com/~akasha/
Vickie Tern's stories can be downloaded for free at
http://library.gaycafe.com/nifty/transgender/by_authors/Vickie_Tern
I assume other TG authors could be located at the same site by dropping
Vickie's name and using the index.
The Wulf stories (and apparently some others) are archived at:
http://www.teleport.com/~marawuti.
If any of these are no longer current or if there are others I should add,
please contact me. I am interested only in free, non-commercial sites.
However, I'll also plug the following organization; although they charge
for membership, they GIVE stories away to non-members. (I suppose they
hope you'll eventually join.)
The BackDrop Club offers a service of helping people who are looking for
a specific file, story, or a chapter or section of a story. If you are an
adult and know the name of the file you wish to receive, send a request
using the following format:
TO: file.archives@backdrop.com
SUBJECT: (the name of the file you wish as a single word)
I HAVE used this service myself, and it is my opinion that it is NOT a
rip-off. If you need more information, contact robin@backdrop.com. The
BackDrop Club also has a Web Page at http://www.fantasies.com.
Finally, Deja News is a search engine available on the World Wide Web. It
is possible (without additional cost beyond your service that accesses the
Web) to find most of the stories I review by entering a few key words into
the search box. To expedite matters, I suggest using "alt.sex.stories" as
part of your search strategy. You'll get a short list of "hits," one of
which will include the story you are looking for. You then click on the
story's brief title, and the whole text pops up on your screen, where you
can save it to disk - even if your service does not give you access to the
a.s.s. newsgroup. A similar free service is offered at
http://www.reference.com.
- Celeste
"Wide Brown Eyes" by Mary Anne Mohanraj (romance)
10, 10, 10
"Glissando" by Mark (very hot non-sex) 10, 10, 10
"Sweetness" by Estragon (femdom) 10, 9, 6
"My Master's Gift" by MountainTop (bdsm) 10, 9, 6
"The Watcher" by Peter (voyeurism) 9, 9, 9
"The Plumber" by Fin Haddie (sex during a service call)
10, 9, 9
"Strip Dice" by MarkJoel (bdsm) 10, 10, 10
"Quickie" by ButtBytr (quick anal sex) 10, 7, 10
"Spring" by Anonymous (exhibitionism & bestiality) 7, 8, 10
"Wide Brown Eyes" by Mary Anne Mohanraj (moh2@midway.uchicago.edu). This
is a very good story - but it's not a really great SEX story. The plot
does contain sex, but it all occurs off-stage. The main focus of the
story is on the personality development of the central character, who
reminisces about her past while she does routine chores in the present and
plans her future.
I once got in trouble from an intelligent but irate reader for leaving
Mark Aster's "Rocks" off my monthly Top 15 list. When I read that
complaint, I immediately checked my records. I had given the story
straight 10's; my only sin was in leaving it off the monthly list when
there were plenty of other stories that were at least equally good and
more sexually explicit. Aster had even apologized when sending the story
to me, saying something like, "This isn't really a sex story, but here it
is anyway." There was no overt sex in it; just personality development
that made the adult activities of the Allen Sisters more understandable.
However, even though I stood by my decision to leave that story off my
monthly list, I had to agree with my correspondent. Serious readers often
find that complete, interesting details do much more than "just" fill in
background details. They make the full story sexier; and taken in their
full context, they can be pretty sexy themselves.
Many of Mary Anne Mohanraj's stories are similar. They are not really as
appropriate for this newsgroup as they would be for a more general forum.
There's no good reason that the present story has to be hidden away with
other under-the-counter material that might scandalize innocent eyes.
This is a simple, straightforward, good story that alludes to sexual
activity. I was happy to have an opportunity to review it because (1) it
is a good story in its own right and (2) reading it made me feel I knew
this author a little better, and I like that feeling.
As for details of the plot - I can't give you any. She tells it better
than I can, and too much information would ruin the plot for you. This is
another good story.
Ratings for "Wide Brown Eyes"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Glissando" by Mark (MarkB@aboy.demon.co.uk). The guy has failed in his
attempts to get lucky in the Netherlands the night before; but now that he
has sobered up, it looks like things might take a definite shift toward
the better. At first I thought I was going to read my first story of
Strip Yahtzee - a game to which the Dutch are apparently addicted, at
least in its non-striptease format; but that lead didn't pan out.
Then the guy does get lucky. Real Lucky. The target of his emotions can
barely keep her hands off him while they go up the steep stairs to his
apartment and he bites her on the ass. When they enter the room and the
clothes stop flying, there she is: her feet a good meter apart, braced
against the onslaught she momentarily expects; her legs, slim and white,
straight and locked, angled towards each other so that the eye is led up
along the smooth curving thighs to their apex; and there is her cunt,
spread and opened, pink and gleaming, moistening the trim crinkles of its
surrounding light brown hair; above that, the asshole, nestled between the
impossibly perfect geometries of her buttocks, which are thrust out by the
arch of her spine. Her hands are resting on the back of the sofa, and she
is looking over her shoulder in the direction of his throbbing erection.
Then things get really interesting; but you had better check this one out
for yourself.
Ratings for "Glissando"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Sweetness" by Estragon (rgt@well.com). Several years ago, when he
appeared to me in a dream, I gave Joseph Conrad some advice. "Joe," I
said. "I have three pieces of advice for you. First, you should never
have written 'Heart of Darkness' as a long story within a story. All
those single quotation marks within double quotation marks drive people
crazy. Not even the most interesting storyteller in the world can hold a
group's interest for seven or eight hours when you focus on the fact that
it's one lengthy narration. People start to yawn; and they think your
story is boring, when it's really exciting."
"Holly shit! (Or maybe it was "By Jove" - it's been a long time.),"
shouted Conrad, as he moved his newspaper onto his lap in an attempt to
conceal his growing erection. He had apparently never been around an
intelligent and attractive woman before; and after all, this was MY dream.
"You're right! How could I have been so stupid? Numerous American
school children will grow up thinking I'm as boring as their old aunts and
uncles at family reunions."
He paused and looked at me with lust in his eyes. "What are the other two
pieces of advice you have for me?"
Surprisingly, my cunt juices were not running at all. I was simply not
turned on by this man. I suppose the problem was that I HAD read "Heart of
Darkness" - once in high school and once in college and once as a
thirty-five year old adult who was required to teach it to high school
students. I had hated it the first two time and had enjoyed it immensely
the third time; but my earlier experiences had left me with a Pavlovian
response set that made it impossible for me to feel attraction for this
man, even though I now acknowledged him as a literary genius and even
though in my dream he looked a lot like Paul Newman.
I was jarred from my reverie; but this very awareness of my daydream
within my dream forced me to realize that maybe the whole thing was a
dream and that Joseph Conrad was not really asking me for advice. That
thought mixed with the notion that maybe Conrad would be upset about the
fact that my feelings for him did not match his lust for me; and I felt a
vague fear that perhaps he would retaliate by writing an interminably long
short story about me that would make generations of school children hate
me because they would not understand me and would have to read about me
when they would rather be having sex.
"The Nigger of the Narcissus," I replied. "What ever possessed you to
give a story a title like that?"
"For God's sake!" he shouted. As we waved his hands in exasperation, he
moved his newspaper aside, revealing his tented crotch that made obvious
his feelings for me. "Give me a break! English is my second language. I
wanted to call him an African American, but my publisher changed it." The
glint in his eye told me that either he knew I was right or he wanted my
body desperately. Both possibilities reinforced the notion that this was
a dream; and within my dream I debated with myself about whether or not I
should wake up. I plunged ahead.
"What you really should have done was use the style from 'The Secret
Sharer' in all your stories. That was one of the best stories I ever
read. Clear. To the point. Philosophically insightful, yet
interesting."
As I said these words, Conrad's anger subsided almost instantly, leaving
him metaphorically naked in front of me, filled with lust for my body and
obvious admiration for my literary insights. I was beginning to like him
a lot better too. And then I blew it. All I wanted to do was seize the
opportunity and make him feel really good; but I blew it.
"Just think!" I added. "Wouldn't it have been great if you would have
written 'Moby Dick' in the same style that you used with 'The Secret
Sharer'?
I awakened pretty soon after that. Needless to say, I did not make love
to Joseph Conrad that night, even in my dreams. On a hunch, the next
morning I checked my bookshelves, and "Nigger of the Narcissus" still had
the same title and "Heart of Darkness" was still an interminably long
narrative within quotation marks. And yes, Herman Melville was still the
author of "Moby Dick." I sat down that evening and reread "The Secret
Sharer"; and it was still one of the best stories I had ever read.
Somehow Estragon brings out the classical literary critic in me. I have
long wanted to share this dream with someone, and I knew that Estragon
would feel honored to be associated with Joseph Conrad in this review.
The present story reminded me of my dream because it is written as a
lengthy narrative by a character within another story. Quotation marks
within quotation marks ad infinitum ad nauseam. It's not too late,
Estragon! Don't use this style - or you'll wind up like Joseph Conrad!
Estragon lives in a world where young boys trade service - after-school
missions to stores and libraries and launderettes, assistance with
homework, plain waiting-in-case-of-need, not to mention various acts of
pointedly pointless exertion - for the opportunity to remove their clothes
and stand at attention or kneel before young girls, pleading with them for
permission to masturbate in their presence or to endure some other shame
to make them feel queenly. I've never met any males like this (except in
a metaphorical sense); but I guess I am willing to grant them at least
hypothetical existence. The main plot of the story evolves around
Estragon listening to a guy named Renny Polhemus, who is describing his
attempt to be properly submissive to his niece Amy. If you really like
femdom stories, you might enjoy this one. If not, you'll probably
categorize this with something by Joseph Conrad.
Ratings for "Sweetness"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 6
"My Master's Gift" by MountainTop (Topspace4@aol.com). Like some of my
students, I spend a lot of my time in a world of blissful ignorance.
Sometimes this results in cultural deprivation. For example, when I read
this story, I had to look in the dictionary to find out what a "quirt" is.
It's a riding whip with a short handle and a lash of braided rawhide. My
husband doesn't own one. If I asked him why, he would say something silly
like "because I don't own a horse." If he told me to put on my play shoes
so that we could have sex, I would get my Reeboks, presumably so that we
could make easier progress into the woods. I suppose my husband acts this
way because he is a lazy shit who doesn't want to go through the trouble
of or of dragging me by the hair into the woods while I wear four-inch
heels. He thinks that restraint refers to something he must show in the
supermarket when he knows I'm not wearing any underpants and I take my
time picking out the bananas. Neither he nor I know what a breast clamp
looks like. But I don't know any better, and so in my blissful ignorance
I just seduce him and get seduced through boring strategies of reciprocal
flirtation that give the impression that he loves and respects me as much
as I do him. Well, different strokes for different folks, I guess.
I DO have a common ground with this author. Blindfolds and feathers I can
understand - even feather dusters applied to parts of the body that have
no apparent surface dust. And ice cubes too. But I associate these with
pleasure and playful teasing, not with torture and pain. The lady in this
story really gets off on what Robert does to her; and Robert certainly
seems pleased with himself and is richly rewarded. The author says that
this story is written primarily for submissive females. I suppose I don't
fit that category. I suspect that women who do fall into that category
(as well as men who need women who fall into that category) will enjoy
this story more than I did.
Ratings for "My Master's Gift"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 6
"The Watcher" by Peter (beowulf@xenon1.win-uk.net). This is the first
story I have seen by this author. I hope he reposts it for general
consumption. It's about a man who is a night security guard for a large
company. In addition to the boring views of nothing happening that he
must watch every night, one of the cameras is focused on a window several
hundred yards away in which a beautiful woman customarily plays with
herself every night. Tonight she is unexpectedly joined by several
partners. I don't want to tell you more, because discovery is a large
part of the fun with this story.
Ratings for "The Watcher"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"The Gentlemen's Club" by PleaseCain (pleasecain@aol.com). This
incredibly short story is incredible. Hampton-Davies and Spillsworth and
the other gentlemen are sitting around the club eating vagina when an
uncouth bloke comes in and offers them some pussy. They rebuff him and go
about their regular routine. Really!
Ratings for "The Gentlemen's Club"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"The Plumber" by Fin Haddie (sgoodman@primenet.com). As is so often the
case, the plumber is late. As is also so often the case, the homeowner
eventually gets tired of waiting, leaves the door unlocked, goes to take a
shower, and emerges to find the plumber hard at work in the bathroom. As
is not often the case, however, the homeowner is a guy who has been
massaging his tool in the shower and the body in the plumber's jumpsuit
belongs to a woman. His immediate concern, of course, is whether she's a
union plumber.
The man has to go away to do a job at work while the plumber finishes
working on his plumbing. When he gets back, he finds her in the shower,
and he observes her through the translucent screen massaging her own
tools; and when she emerges she really fixes his plumbing. This is pretty
hot stuff!
Ratings for "The Plumber"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"Strip Dice" by MarkJoel (markjoel@ix.netcom.com). The woman meets a
stranger and takes him back to her apartment to play strip dice - low
roller removes an article of clothing. After he wins all her clothing, he
rolls one more time and wins her body for the evening. He agrees to let
her out of the bet. He'll put his finger to the outside of her pussy. If
it's dry, then she's free to do whatever she want to do. If she's wet,
though, he's going to make her his obedient little submissive all
night...and she will love every minute of it. He does; she isn't, but she
is; and she does.
But problems ensue. She has a roommate who needs a ride home. The hotel
is booked completely and it is necessary to negotiate a special deal to
get a place to frolic for the evening. And she has to follow all his
instructions while she goes through this process; and his instructions are
a little more complicated than simply, "roll over and spread your legs so
that I can stick this thing into you.". It's very titillating stuff!
This is one of those stories that puts bdsm into a context that even a
non-aficionado like myself can enjoy.
The story includes an interesting vocabulary mistake: "She removed her
other sock...her feet now bare. Well, he'd better be a pedophile, because
her feet was all she planned on showing him!" A pedophile is a person who
feels a strong sexual attraction to children - not an attraction to feet.
The author has tried to mix the Latin root ped- (foot) with the Greek
ending -phile (love of) to get a word meaning "love of feet." The problem
is that a word already exists that combines the Greek root pedo- (child)
with -phile to get "love of children." The Greek root for foot is pod-
(as in podiatry). Logically, I would expect the Greek word for a person
with a foot fetish to be podophile, but none of my dictionaries lists such
a word. Somebody out there must know the technical term for a foot
fetish. I would appreciate it if you would tell me.
Ratings for "Strip Dice"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Quickie" by ButtBytr (buttbytr@ix.netcom.com). The main shortcomings of
this story are (1) that it's really not a complete story - there's no plot
development at all; and (2) it takes that annoying second-person (your)
perspective that often makes it hard for readers to identify with the
characters. If we ignore those two limitations, it's actually excellent
stuff.
The author admits that sex with lots of foreplay is usually best; but
quickies have their place. I agree. Likewise, stories with lots of
development are usually best, but mini-stories that just go slam, bam,
thank you ma'am also have their place. I agree again. As for the
perspective - this author made me think he was talking to me, as he
described approaching me unseen from behind, getting down on his knees,
putting his arms around my thighs, pulling my ass into his face, while I
push my butt back against his face, and he not too gently quickly pulls my
panties down and continues his licking, this time licking the luxurious
bare skin of my mounds of flesh. But if I tell you more, we'll have more
in this pre-quickie than there is in the story.
I plan to check out a few more stories by this author.
Ratings for "Quickie"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"Spring" by Anonymous (dekion@dave-world.net). The woman loves animals.
She keeps her puppy handy to lick her cunt when she needs stimulation. The
woman also has a proclivity toward exhibitionism. For example, in one of
her bras she has cut has holes exactly the size of her nipples. They poke
through the bra, and if one of them gets the least bit hard the exposure
just makes itself that much more so. She loves to wear these bras when
she knows she will be in a place public enough to keep her husband from
jumping her, but secluded enough she can rub her nipples and play with
them, or (even more agonizing) rub them on her husband.
I am especially fond of stories about happy husbands and wives who have
children but omit them from their sexual activities and who do things that
are harmless, provocative, and enjoyable but which would be considered a
little bit kinky by people who are inflicted with puritanical morality.
This story exceeds my own limits once in a while, and I wish this author
would have cleaned up the style a little; but otherwise, it fits the bill
nicely.
Ratings for "Spring"
Athena (technical quality): 7
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10