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Subject: {ASSM} CR 373 - Celestial Reviews -- Special Halloween Issue
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Celestial Reviews 373 - Oct 28, 2000
Note: Here are the Top 10 Reasons Trick-or-Treating is Better
than Sex
10. Guaranteed to get at least a little something in the sack.
9. If you get tired, wait 10 minutes and go at it again.
8. The uglier you look, the easier it is to get some.
7. You don't have to compliment the person who gave you candy.
6. Person you're with doesn't fantasize you're someone else.
5. 40 years from now, you'll still enjoy candy.
4. If you wear a Bill Clinton mask, no one thinks you're kinky.
3. Doesn't matter if kids hear you moaning and groaning.
2. Less guilt the next morning.
AND....
1. If you don't get what you want, you can always go next door!!!
Second note: In the spirit of the season, I am reposting some
reviews of stories that combine sex with Halloween-like themes. I
interpreted this topic loosely -- including stories with ghosts,
vampires, and costume balls, as well as specifically Halloween
stories. Many of these are old reviews {marked by an asterisk *},
and I have not revised the originals. For some of the reposts we
were unable to find links. Perhaps the original authors will repost
these stories.
Watch out for your local incubus or succubus tonight!
THIS WEEK'S JOKE:
Did you hear that next week Tipper Gore is going on the Presidential
Campaign with her husband?
To prepare herself she shaved off all the hair from her private
parts. She will sit on the stage with him and have her legs apart
without any panties on.
Her message?
"Read my lips. No more Bush".
BONUS HALLOWEEN JOKE:
An intrepid photographer went to a haunted castle determined to get
a picture of a ghost, which was said to appear only once in a
hundred years.
Not wanting to frighten off the ghost, the photographer sat in the
dark until midnight when the apparition became visible.
The ghost turned out to be friendly and consented to pose for one
snapshot. The happy photographer popped a bulb into his camera and
took the picture.
After dashing into his studio, the photographer developed the
negative and groaned. It was underexposed and completely blank.
Moral: The spirit was willing, but the flash was weak.
THINGS YOU HEAR AROUND HALLOWEEN THAT SOUND DIRTY BUT AREN'T:
I'd like to get a little something in the sack tonight.
Can I eat your Zagnuts?
Have your mom check it before you put it in your mouth.
You scared me stiff!
Just get on your hands and knees and bob your head.
She's got a couple of nice pumpkins on her porch.
He's got Candy spread out on the living room floor!
=====================
Celestial Reviews Index:
=====================
"The Music of the Night" by Tiramisu (operatic sex) 9, 8, 8
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Rui_Favorites/www/Halloween/the_music_of_the_night.htm
"Witches" by Maria Gonzales (Sexual Armageddon for witches)
10, 10, 10
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/MariaGonzales/www/
"Halloween Party" by artie (ceremonial sex) 9.5, 10, 10
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/artie/www/hpv01.html
"Eternal Rest " by Jack of All Trades (graveyard sex) 10, 10, 10
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/j/wwwoat/ OR Rui's Halloween page
"A Wife's Gift: A Halloween Romance" by Redman (melancholy
romance) 10, 9.5, 9.5
"Succubus in Blue Checks" by DrSpin (succubus sex) 10, 9.5,
9.5 http://www.asstr-mirror.org/Rui_Favorites/Halloween/
"Welcome To The Hotel California" by Mr Slot (horror story)
9.5, 10, 10 http://www.asstr-mirror.org/Rui_Favorites/Halloween/
"Dark was the Path" by Delta (mysterious sex) 10, 10, 10
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Delta/Dark%20was%20the%2
0Path
"Only in My Dreams" by Pami (mysterious sex) 9.5, 8, 8
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Pami/www/only_in_my_dreams.html
"Gamma: A Tale From The Dork Side" by JVB (sex in numbers)
10, 9, 9 http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/jvb/www/
"Home in time for Melrose" by Pariah Dog (violence) 10, 10,
10
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Rui_Favorites/www/Halloween/home_in_tim
e_for_melrose.htm
"Halloween" by Lyndon Brown (Halloween sex) 9.5, 9, 9
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Rui_Favorites/www/Halloween/halloween.ht
m
"The 70th Sin" by Shon Richards (witch sex) 10, 10, 10
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Rui_Favorites/www/Halloween/the_70th_sin
.htm
"Threefold Return" by Dreamfire (witches & sex) 10, 9, 8
"All Hallows Eve" by blankpage (FF dreamlike sex) 10, 9, 9
http://x65.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=686654545
"Come With Me" by Tiramisu (romance) 10, 10, 10
http://x60.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=686759092
=====================
Reposted Reviews:
=====================
"From Whose Bourne No Traveler Returns." by Trey Gallant
(hypnosis) 10, 10,10
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=540838211
"Masks" by Ann Douglas (ff Halloween party cumming out) 9,
10, 10
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Ann_Douglas/www/masks.htm
"The Kiss: A Ghost Story" by Desdemona & Poison Ivan
(spooky sex) 10, 10, 10
http://members.tripod.com/files/Authors/poisoniv1/www/
or
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Desdmona/www/
"A Night at Indian's Hollow" by Shon Richards (unusual sex
rituals) 10, 10, 10
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2000/26360
"Trick or Treat" by Saucy Wench (Halloween sex party) 10, 10,
10
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2000/23801
"Trick and Treat: Halloween 1980" by Celeste (Halloween sex)
10, 10, 10
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/5020.txt
"Halloween Party" by WifePose (wife watching) 7, 8, 8
"Costumes" by Lord Malinov (Halloween orgy) 10, 10, 10
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/5182.txt
"Going Home" by Kim (romantic ghost story) 10, 10, 10
http://baird.pair.com/kim/home.htm
"Predator: A Tale for Halloween" by The Bear (scary sex story)
10, 10, 10
http://baird.pair.com/baird/predat11.htm
"Queer Halloween" by Vickie Tern (transgender revenge) 10,
8, 8
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1998/16795.txt
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1998/16794.txt
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1998/16793.txt
"Ghost" by Wgnmkr (ghostly masturbation) 9, 9, 9
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/1538.txt
"The Body Swap" by Dawn (TG witchcraft) 10, 10, 5
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/2870.txt
"Private Tasting" by Artie (witchcraft) 9.5, 7, 7
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/artie/www/PrivateTasting.html
"All Souls Night" by Marawuti (erotic gothic novella) 10, 10,
10
http://www.brainkick.com/~marawuti/soulnite.html
"The Fearless Vampire" by Poison Ivy (vampire sex) 10, 10, 10
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/5192.txt
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/5191.txt
"Love You Forever" by Rahul L Iyer (Halloween romance) 7, 6,
6
"Masks -- A Horror Story" by Tom Bombadil (Halloween) 10,
10, 10
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Collections/ASSTR_Collection/Tom
_Bombadil/Tom_Bombadil.The_Masks.txt
"Meeting Amanda" by Backrub (sex with a vampire) 10, 10, 10
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/BitBard/www/forray/backrub/amanda.html
"Intimate with the Vampire 2.0" by Rocket88 (vampire sex) 10,
10, 10
"The Warlock" by Rocket88 (witchcraft & whippings) 6, 9, 9
"Diana" by Mary Anne Mohanraj (mysterious outdoor sex) 10,
10, 10
http://www.mamohanraj.com/Stories/diana.html
"Wet Dreams" by Backrub (mind control & dreams) 10, 10, 10
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/BitBard/www/forray/backrub/wet.html
"Tales of the Seeding" by Wollstonecraft (Primitive sex rituals)
10, 10, 10
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/BitBard/www/forray/wollstonecraft/seeding.
html
"Porno TV: The Munsters" by Shelby Bush (sitcom parody) 10,
9.5, 9.5
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/194.txt
"Bed and Breakfast" by RC (ghostly sex) 9.5, 9.5, 9
http://www.rcwrites.com/bedbrk.html
"Night of the Wolves" by Lysander (bestiality) 10, 9.5, 10
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/World_of_the_Darkside/F
avorites/lysander.txt
"Princess" by Parker (TG Halloween Party) 10, 9.5, 9
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Collections/Old_Joe%27s_Collectio
n/TG/Princess.txt
"The Addams Family: Eddie Comes to Visit" by Shelby Bush
(sitcom parody) 10, 9.5, 9.5
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/195.txt
"Halloween" by RC (vampire sex) 10, 9, 9
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1998/11948.txt
"Boo!" by PleaseCain (mutilation station!) 10, 10, 10
http://members.aol.com/pleasecain/hackhous.htm
"Brown Mountain Incident" by Charles Baudot (mysterious Mm
encounter) 10, 9, 9
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Collections/nifty/gay/adult-
youth/brown-mountain-incident
"Temptation" by PleaseCain (poetic meditation) 10, 10, 10
http://members.aol.com/pleasecain/eden.htm
"True Love" by Dafney Dewitt (murder on Halloween) 10, 9, 9
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Collections/ASSTR_Collection/Dafn
ey_Dewitt/Dafney_Dewitt.True_Love.txt
"Haunting Memories" by Gaetana (haunted house) 9.5, 8, 6
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=540988616&fmt=text
"Goodnight Kiss" by Ben Zonah (vampire sex) 8, 8, 8
"Ghost: The Long Goodbye" by Unknown Author (ghostly sex)
4, 3, 3
=====================
Here are the Reviews:
=====================
"The Music of the Night" by Tiramisu (tiramixu@yahoo.com).
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Rui_Favorites/www/Halloween/the_music_of
_the_night.htm
The husband has taken his wife to Paris to see The Phantom of the
Opera as a special Halloween Treat. At Intermission, she wanders
through a mysterious door and has phantasmagoric sex under unusual
circumstances - or did she?
Here's a good example of a grammatical imprecision: "At 42, she
still looked good, and she knew it.... Even better than when they
were married, he would say." Question: Are they still married? The
author could have clarified this by saying, "Even better than on the
day they were married."
Genuine opera aficionados might give this story higher ratings than
I did. The story tries to catch the mood of the opera, but I really
can't tell you how effectively the author succeeds.
Ratings for "The Music of the Night"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
"Witches" by Maria Gonzales (maria1971@aol.com).
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/MariaGonzales/www/
I have drawn a conclusion about this author. Either she (1) has done
her research very thoroughly for this story, (2) she is an extremely
creative person, or (3) she is a witch herself. I say this because
what she describes in this story is EXACTLY the way real witches
operate. The judges got it wrong at Salem, and the stuff about
brooms and wiggling the nose is baloney. What Maria describes in
this story is the most accurate description of real witchcraft that
has ever been published. I'd tell you how I know this, but then I'd
have to put a curse on you, and you really wouldn't like that at
all.
To put it briefly, the narrator of this story (Amber/Bunny) is the
Pre-Ordained One, who is to lead the other witches in battle against
the Unspoken One. That's about it, but it makes a lot more sense in
the context of the rest of the story.
Let me just comment on one Principle that is exemplified in this
story. I call it the Batman Principle, in honor of its main
exemplar. Whenever an Evil Villain would overpower Batman and Robin,
the villain would set up an elaborate Rube Goldberg device that
would kill the Heroes after the Evil Villain had gone his/her way.
Inevitably, the Heroes would alter the Rube Goldberg sequence and
escape. The Batman Principle has been applied elsewhere, most
notably in James Bond movies and in the old Lone Ranger television
shows. The earliest known example occurs in Beowulf, and the most
recent example occurred during the Republican vendetta against Bill
Clinton and the lovely Ms. Lewinsky. In the present case,
Amber/Bunny teleports to safety just before she can be eaten for a
snack by the rottweilers that the Unspoken One left to carry out her
Evil Plan. As you may have guessed, the secret is not to get fucked
by a banana.
Ratings for "Witches"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Halloween Party" by artie (artie@netgate.net).
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/artie/www/hpv01.html
Alex goes to a Halloween party with Jill, a sexy lass whom he has
just met at his Silicon Valley place of work. The party consists of
him plus six sexy women, clothed in white robes and nothing else.
That's the dress du jour - white robes and nothing else, except that
Alex gets a blue robe with his nothing else.
Alex is your basic good ole techy. He even washes his hands
absolutely every time he goes to the bathroom.
If you ever get invited to a Halloween party at which the six sexy
women get you naked and tie you down to what appears to be an altar
in the middle of the room in which they all disrobe, become
suspicious, especially if the newly naked and nubile women start
chanting.
Ratings for "Halloween Party"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Eternal Rest" by Jack of All Trades
(jackofalltrades@post.com).
The story begins with fifteen-year-old kids studying "The Telltale
Heart" in English class. As you probably know, this story by Edgar
Allen Poe is the best short story ever written. In a macabre mood
from the story and after the moral equivalent of a double dare, the
friends decide to spend Halloween night in the local Eternal Rest
Cemetery. They plan to sit around and tell ghost stories and cook
marshmallows until they fall asleep.
I personally know one very short ghost story. Two girls were walking
past the graveyard one Halloween night. "Do you believe in ghosts?"
said one. "No," said the other, and vanished.
In the present story, after the other three guys scare them, Doug
and Molly go off to a separate part of the cemetery and kiss and
practice being more grown up. Turns out, Molly has been lusting
after Doug since 5th Grade Sex Ed. Not quite adults yet, they
interrupt their sexplay to go and throw a cherry bomb to scare the
other three. They split, and.....
<heh heh heh>
Ratings for "Eternal Rest"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"A Wife's Gift: A Halloween Romance" by Redman
(redman@seductive.com).
The author refuses to use story codes with this story. Good for him.
Story codes are an oversimplification, and they would certainly have
been misleading in this case.
Here's the deal. Robert and Janet meet and fall in love at a
Halloween party. They have a baby daughter and then are blissfully
happy for twenty years, at which time she dies during a botched
operation. Robert is deeply distraught, but then comes Halloween.
You can either try to guess the ending or just go ahead and read
this story. It's a bit melancholy, but quite good.
Ratings for "A Wife's Gift"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5
"Succubus in Blue Checks" by DrSpin (drspin@newsguy.com).
The dog dies shortly after the mysterious child walks in, wearing a
blue-checked uniform dress and sandals. The girl, that is, not the
dog - wearing the blue-checked uniform dress and sandals, that is.
I don't really understand the rules of succubae. Heck, for that
matter, I don't understand why a female succubus isn't a succuba,
with a plural of succubae.
To compensate for my ignorance, I longed onto my computer and
entered the URL www.succubus.com. The computer churned away for
several seconds, during which I had the vague feeling that someone
was watching me from inside my computer. "Host unknown." Right.
Unknown is not the same as non-existent. I mean, I entered
www.god.com and got the same message. Now, this next part is hard to
believe. I entered www.devil.com and found myself transported to
GoTo.com, with an offer of assistance.
This author has amazing power. I don't know how he did this to my
computer. Just read the damn story, or something worse may happen to
you.
This is one spooky story.
Before I leave this story, let me add some final notes. Wondering
what kind of a world I had gotten myself into by reading this story,
I tried a few more web sites. To my immense relief, www.pussy.com
still took me to a page that showed two barely legal teens licking
each other's tongues; but even there they wanted my credit card
number before they would activate the bathroom cam for me. In
desperation, I tried www.incubus.com and got a message that said,
"connection refused." Thank God - if anyone can find him or his
host.
I'm not one to belabor a point, but after the experience described
above, I felt the need for redemption. At www.redemption.com I
discovered that redemption came through a card game that involves
bondage. So I sought forgiveness, only to find out that I had to
write my life story into a little box and press the return key.
Right. What kind of fools do these people take me for?
Ratings for "Succubus in Blue Checks"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5
"Welcome To the Hotel California" by Mr Slot
(dalech33@optusnet.com.au).
Frank Malone has been accused of child abuse by the ten-year-old
daughter of the police chief of Black Rock. Of course, Frank
proclaims his innocence; the humble schoolteacher would never do
such a thing. But his reputation has been ruined, and so he must
leave town. During his exodus he stops for the night at a lonely
hotel. "Welcome To the Hotel California," says the young girl.
Welcome, indeed.
Although this is really a generic horror story, I'll grant that it
at least peripherally hits the Halloween theme. The words to the
Eagles' song, "Welcome To the Hotel California," will have a clear
and specific meaning for you after you read this story.
Ratings "Welcome To the Hotel California"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Dark was the Path" by Delta (delta@nym.alias.net).
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Delta/Dark%20was%20the%2
0Path
This story reminded me of Nathaniel Hawthorn's style. I think
Hawthorne would have enjoyed Halloween, although I don't think he
celebrated it. At least the people he wrote about didn't celebrate
Halloween. The Puritans took their witches and goblins and
mysterious elements of the night seriously. Celebrating Halloween
the way we do would have been a sacrilege for them.
Some readers and authors recently held a discussion on a.s.s.d.
about whether location makes a difference in a sex story. The
answer, of course, is both yes and no. No, if the author wants to
focus so heavily on action that the location really plays no role;
but yes, if the author chooses to make the ambience an important
part of the tale.
In this case, the location is almost the whole story - which is
interesting, because as we read the story we don't have the
slightest idea where that location is. The mysterious atmosphere
makes us wonder what is going to happen; and even after it happens,
the atmosphere leaves us wondering what really happened.
In most cases, if a reader says that she doesn't know what happened
in a story, that means the story really sucked - in the negative
sense of the word. In this case, it means you should check the story
out yourself.
Ratings for "Dark was the Path"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Only in My Dreams" by Pami.
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Pami/www/only_in_my_dreams.html
Kathryn has been having unusual dreams lately. Therefore, she has
begun keeping next to her bed a notebook in which she can record the
events in the dreams, so that she can reconstruct and analyze them
later, and a dildo, so that she can bring the dreams to resolution
and get back to a more blissful sleep. This recurrent dream thing
eventually starts wearing Kathryn out. This is because the notebook
is still blank, but her assortment of sextoys has expanded
considerably. Masturbation has, as the Bard put it, gotten out of
hand. And that can wear a girl out.
Dreams merge with reality, and eventually Kathryn has a real but
mysterious lover for Halloween.
A large number of details go unexplained. A major difference,
however, between this and the preceding story is that the absence of
explanations created more of an annoyance to me than a sense of
interesting mystery. What IS the connection between the lover and
the dreams? What's the connection with Halloween? Why does Kathryn
suddenly undergo a personality transformation? The story is by no
means awful; it's actually pretty good. All I am saying is that it
would be a better story if we felt that there were answers to these
questions, even if we don't know what those answers are. As it is, I
was left with the gnawing feeling that the author had some
interesting ideas and just couldn't quite find a way to tie them
together into a really coherent story.
Ratings for "Only in My Dreams"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
"Gamma: A Tale From The Dork Side" by JVB
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/jvb/www/
Since the title of the story lists the main character's name as
Gamma, I was a little perturbed to find her referred to as Gemma
throughout the story. I would have expected Gamma to be constant in
a story like this.
OK. If you didn't notice that the preceding paragraph included a
really clever pun, then you'll have to rely on the witty repartee in
the dialogue in order to enjoy this story.
Basically, two college kids dress in Halloween costumes and then
guess what the other's is supposed to represent. The guy is Spidey,
but the girl's is a little more abstract. Indeed, I'm not sure it's
even rational.
As I said earlier, stick with the clever repartee. It's a pretty
good story.
Ratings for "Gamma"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"Home in Time for Melrose" by Pariah Dog
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Rui_Favorites/www/Halloween/home_in_tim
e_for_melrose.htm
First off, this story presented me with a problem about which my
students often complain. When I tell them to look up the correct
spelling of a word in the dictionary, they say, "But how can we look
it up, if we don't know how to spell it?" Usually, the answer is to
guess at logical possibilities.
However, this author refers to the use of a "ball pain hammer." Now
first, I'd like to point out that most guys should stay away from
people who seriously believe that this sort of tool is somehow
associated with balls and pain. Ouch! But seriously, although I knew
what a "bawpeen" or something like that hammer was, I had no idea
how to spell it. So I found an online hardware store and perused
their catalog under hammers. There it was, between wood hammers and
cross pein hammers.
The correct spelling is "ball pein hammer." Or maybe Ball Peen
hammer or Ballpeen hammer or maybe something else. It turns out that
not even the hardware stores know how to spell the words. I'm going
to stick with what I learned from the Blacksmith's Gazette, which
calls it a "ball pein hammer."
The pein on the hammer, the Gazette tells me, is shaped like a half
sphere or ball, hence the ball pein designation. The face of the
ball pein is generally a slightly rounded form, which pushes metal
in all directions when the smitty strikes the soft metal with it.
Geometrically, the face is a segment of a very large sphere, while
the pein is the shape of a much smaller sphere. The ball pein is
very good for texturing the surface of the metal, and the pein may
be used when you are simply thinning a piece of metal and you want
it to move out in all directions while becoming thinner.
Previously, I had heard the term ball pein hammer used only once,
and that was by a gangster in a movie, whose stooge used the
instrument to destroy the knuckles of a person who had fallen behind
in his loan payments. I asked my husband if he had one, and he told
me he liked to rivet with his ball pein.
The ball pein hammer is probably the most common smith hammer
available. It is commonly used by auto mechanics today, and it can
often be found in the second hand stores and junk shops. I found a
set of three on eBay, with bidding starting at $4.75. The
advertisement said that they had been used to tame some rowdy
cowboys. Does that sound kinky, or what?
It's a good idea to have a range of sizes of ball pein hammers. The
Gazette said they are probably one of the most basic hammers you'll
ever use.
In the present story, the use of the ball pein hammer is ill
defined, except to say that the protagonist used it to destroy his
dashboard while getting his radio to stop playing rap music. Other
tools play bigger roles, as the guy goes berserk and wreaks serious
havoc. Equally disturbing are the man's thoughts about his wife and
his boss, which involve a buzzsaw and some problems of marital
infidelity. Normally, I don't enjoy mindless violence; but hey, this
is Halloween, and this is a good insight into how the mind of a
severely dysfunctional mass murderer might work.
Note: There's really not much sex in this story, unless sex is what
accounts for the sticky stuff on the ball pein hammer.
Ratings for "Home in Time for Melrose"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Halloween" by Lyndon Brown (indysheets@hotmail.com).
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Rui_Favorites/www/Halloween/halloween.ht
m
The well-hung teenager takes his "little sister" to the Halloween
play. He's called into action, serving as a substitute pantomime
horse. Because of size restrictions, he's forced to go without
underpants. For whatever reason, several of the moms are without
similar accoutrements. The moms learn to appreciate Deadeye Dick for
the devotion he shows for Erin, as well as for some of his other
characteristics. In fact Erin and her brother have a full social
calendar for the next three months, but nothing on school nights.
Ratings for "Halloween"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"The 70th Sin" by Shon Richards
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Rui_Favorites/www/Halloween/the_70th_sin
.htm
The year when I was in eighth grade in a Catholic elementary school,
the nuns decided that we should celebrate Halloween "the right way."
That is, we were required to each dress like a saint. The next year
I understand they refined the rules, and I can understand why.
Several boys came dressed as girls - one, as a remarkably seductive
woman whom he said was the foundress of a religious order, shortly
before she got religion. We had no idea who he was. The only way we
eventually identified him was by ruling out every other member of
the class, one by one.
My best friend dressed as a prostitute - actually, as Mary
Magdalene. What I remember most, however, is that I enraged her with
jealousy, by dressing as a nun. I was normally shy, but the costume
emboldened me; and I flirted shamelessly. You have to keep that in
the perspective of a Catholic elementary school of the late sixties.
My friend the whore flirted too. The simple fact the boys responded
more warmly to the nun's flirtations than to the prostitute's was a
revelation to both of us.
But back to the present story, which has nothing in common with what
I have said so far, except that it's about a fallen nun. The present
story takes place around the beginning of the 19th century. The
narrator of has been assigned to interview the poor woman before she
will be burned as a witch at dawn and to record her sins. The fallen
nun explains in scintillating detail - much of it in summary fashion
-- all 69 of her sins. Then she commits her 70th sin. You'll have to
read the story to find out what the 70th sin is.
Note that each sin is counted only once. Thus, having oral sex with
a hundred guys would count as only one sin. What this means is that
this is not a Catholic nun, because that would have been a hundred
sins, according to Sister Mary Vindicator., who was born around the
beginning of the 19th century and who taught me about sin.
{Actually, it would be more than a hundred sins, if you later
reflected with pleasure upon the experience.}
This is an extremely well-written, erotic, and thought provoking
story.
Ratings for "The 70th Sin"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
"Threefold Return" by Dreamfire (ddamanita@hotmail.com).
Lynn is hot for Bill, a premed student who won't give her the time
of day. Coincidentally, Lynn is also Cailyn, a witch-in-training.
Therefore, with the help of a co-witch, Cailyn casts a love spell on
Bill. Of course, she has to follow the rules for witches, which are
surprisingly similar to Asimov's rules for robots, with a slightly
greater emphasis on nubile nakedness. Plus the threefold return.
I don't know much at all about witches. In a final disclaimer, the
author points out that covens don't really work this way, and that
magick doesn't really work this way either. But that still leaves us
with an interesting story. I think I would have enjoyed it more had
I known a little more about covens and magick.
Ratings for "Threefold Return"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
"All Hallows Eve" by blankpage
(blankpage1027@hotmail.com).
http://x65.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=686654545
Halloween stories cover a wide range. It's astonishing to see the
variety of thoughts and emotions that people associate with
Halloween - ranging from maniacal murders to ghost stories to
romantic longings for union with lovers who have gone away.
This one is a poignant love story about a woman who longs for the
woman upon whom she had depended for love, comfort, and protection.
It's difficult to explain. If tender FF love is your thing, then
this may be your special Halloween story.
Ratings for "All Hallows Eve"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
"Come With Me" by Tiramisu (tiramixu@yahoo.com)
http://x60.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=686759092
Once upon a time, on Halloween in 1950 to be exact, a young man and
a young woman consummated their love. At that time, they made a pact
to meet again in fifty years, no matter what else might happen. And
they do.
This is an excellent romantic story.
Ratings for ""Come With Me"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
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Reposted Reviews:
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* "From Whose Bourne No Traveler Returns..." by Trey Gallant
(vargas111@yahoo.com).
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=540838211
Like many stories, this one begins with a traveler stranded on a
country road on a dark and stormy night. Fortunately, there is a
stately home on the nearby hill. Even more fortunately, the person
who answers the door is a black-haired beauty with fair, almost pale
skin and mysterious eyes. Unfortunately, she is a succubus on the
prowl.
I know very little about succubae, except that I think a single one
should be called a succuba, if she is female, as most of them tend
to be.
The most serious flaw in this story is the statement that the woman
had been "watching discretely." That should be "discreetly." We
English teachers know things like that, and it makes us just barely
pre-orgasmic when we find somebody misusing a word like this. If the
woman were watching discretely, she would look for a while, then
stop, then look again, then stop, ad infinitum or nauseam. Also,
note that "ad nauseam" ends with "am," not "um." That's because
"nausea" is a first declension noun.
Also, if I were writing this story, I would replace Lilith's "And it
is so hard to get good help these days" with "And it is so good to
get hard help these days." But that would probably alter the mood of
the story.
Ratings for "From Whose Bourne..."
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "Masks" by Ann Douglas (ann_douglas@hotmail.com).
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Ann_Douglas/www/masks.htm
This is an interesting idea for a plot. A woman experiences a
seizure at the beauty shoppe. Her beautician's assistant saves her
life; and since the woman will be indisposed for a while, the young
beautician's assistant decides to go to the Halloween Ball with the
tickets that woman will be unable to use. This young woman is a
straight, staid hetero who has been dissatisfied with her love life,
and she discovers that the Ball is a lesbian party. Things heat up
considerably. The only further detail I'll give you is that she goes
to the Ball dressed as a devil, and rightly so.
Ann does her usual good job of integrating character development and
normal people with hot sex scenes. Doubtless, Ann is a harmless,
heterosexual schoolmarm in real life, but she certainly has a flair
for making ff sex sound like a lot of fun. In addition, she does a
good job of introducing interracial sex without degrading people by
imposing stereotypical sex drives on ethnic minorities.
The main flaw in this story is some careless grammar. Ann's style
and timing are excellent. She just fucks up her grammar from time to
time. But as they say, what do you want, perfect grammar or great
sex?
Ratings for "Masks"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "The Kiss: A Ghost Story" by Desdemona & Poison Ivan
(desdmona22@aol.com).
http://members.tripod.com/files/Authors/poisoniv1/www/
or
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Desdmona/www/
Caroline is a young lady who sleeps around like there won't be a
tomorrow. But her life is somehow incomplete. She hears a voice
calling her in the darkness. It's a ghost, who wants her to kiss him
so that he can become real.
Will Caroline kiss this voyeuristic apparition? Of course she will.
Read the story for more details. The dialogue is especially well
done.
Always be careful when you have promiscuous sex in a house that has
recently been purchased from the estate of a man who disappeared
under mysterious circumstances. And be nice to your mother when she
calls on the phone - no matter what you happen to be doing at the
time.
Ratings for "The Kiss: A Ghost Story"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "A Night at Indian's Hollow" by Shon Richards
(lordshon@aol.com).
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2000/26360
Often it's best that I not tell you specific details from a story.
But in this case I can tell you exactly what happens, because after
I do so, you still won't know what happened.
So here's the deal. The narrator has just turned 21, and so he is
eligible for the town's Halloween lottery for the first time. And he
wins - that is, he gets to be Fertility Wolf while the Lesser Gods
make their rounds on Halloween. Of course, this pairs him up with
the Moon Harlot; but, as you know, that doesn't mean that he's
allowed into her pants or anything like that.
At the first several houses they visit, the residents choose the
bane, but eventually one chooses the blessing, and so the narrator
is allowed to extend his blessing to the lady of the house.
I hope this all makes sense to you. It was a very nice story.
Ratings for "A Night at Indian's Hollow"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "Trick or Treat" by Saucy Wench (wenchsaucy@aol.com). The two
friends crash a Halloween party -- one as a red-haired witch and the
other as her sexy black cat. Their goal is to see who can be the
naughtiest. Three scenes are described in detail, several others in
passing. In real life you shouldn't do the things they do. You
should also take your Halloween candy to the hospital and have it
xeroxed -- er, x-rayed -- before you eat it.
For a simple Halloween Fuck Odyssey, this is pretty good stuff. The
two ladies don't get stopped by the cops or hook up with truckers or
a motorcycle gang or have car trouble and get help from a farmer's
daughter on the way home. They don't get back to Brandi's and make
frenzied love until sunrise. No, they scrub off their makeup, take
showers (alone), brush their teeth, and go to bed (also separately).
But they both sleep with big, satisfied smiles on their faces. For
an explanation of the smiles, read the story, even if Halloween is
already over.
Ratings for "Trick or Treat"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "Trick and Treat: Halloween 1980" by Celeste (Reposted by
Bookman Archives).
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/5020.txt
This story is by the OTHER Celeste, not by the prominent sex goddess
who writes reviews on a.s.s.
Here we have a story about three college women living together. One
has been down in the dumps because of a recent break-up; and then
right before the Halloween party, the sexier chick becomes
suspicious about the fidelity of her boyfriend. So the first woman
is going to dress like the Invisible Woman and try to seduce the
boyfriend of the second woman -- one of those soap opera moves that
so often work out well. Anyway, the guy takes her to the attic and
fucks her brains out, but the other woman fails to show up; but who
cares?
Some of the scenes from the seduction are unusual and interesting.
For example, how would you react if a woman you were flirting with
filled her celery stick with dip, ripped a whole in her costume, and
inserted the snack into her pussy? Anyway, a good time is had by
all.
Ratings for "Trick and Treat"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "Halloween Party" by WifePose (wifepose@aol.com).
The husband has been begging his wife to wear in public her cute
little French maid uniform. His cock practically jumps out of his
pants when she agrees to wear the costume to the Halloween party and
to let nature take its course with the other merrymakers. Things go
pretty much as planned, and she makes it with Robin Hood and his
roommate while her husband watches. They never see these two men
again -- but maybe next year at the party they'll get equally lucky.
Ratings for "Halloween Party"
Athena (technical quality): 7
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
* "Costumes" by Lord Malinov (malinov@mindless.com).
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/5182.txt
The author does an excellent job making the lewd and lovely, lithe
and lascivious Diana seem eminently fuckable long before the real
action commences. Rarely a day goes by when Diana doesn't surprise
the narrator, and today she has decided to brighten their daily
ambiance with a simple but tasty -- er, tasteful -- orgy. However,
the main action occurs in her retelling of her first multiple-
partner debauchery, while the narrator stimulates her to orgasm. In
fact, if you are currently taking a course where you are required to
report on a story that runs parallel to the Canterbury Tales, this
one might be a good selection.
The tail within a tale takes place at a Halloween party during which
inhibitions have disappeared and people are using sexually explicit
tactile clues to guess the identities of the still-masked people. As
usual at such fictional parties, a good time is had by all. The
titillation of sex with known-but-unknown sexual partners is
extremely well done. The author has orchestrated an orgy in a manner
that would make Mark Aster and the Allen Sisters proud to
participate.
Ratings for "Costumes"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "Going Home" by Kim (kim@nym.alias.net).
http://baird.pair.com/kim/home.htm
This romantic, sentimental story may not score high on the peter
meter; but it's a very well written, touching story that takes a
serious look at what life after death may be like for the dead
person and the loved one who is left behind. There's really not that
much to say about it. You should read it not when you're looking for
an orgasm, but when you're in the mood for a serious thought or two.
Ratings for "Going Home"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "Predator: A Tale for Halloween" by The Bear
(thebear@io.com).
http://baird.pair.com/baird/predat11.htm
Gary is seated at a bar on Halloween, looking around at all of the
people in costume. He himself is wearing a rubber mask of Quasimodo,
but not the kind and gentle Quasimodo of the insipidly revisionist
Disney film. This mask shows a tortured, scarred, angry face -- the
face of Quasimodo as he must have looked when he murdered his
master, and when he went into the charnel chamber to die with the
dead Esmerelda in his arms. Gary likes the mask, because it makes
him look on the outside the way he often feels on the inside.
Gary is a dysfunctional person. But he is safe, because in his back
pants pocket he has a very large knife.
Finally, Gary sees The Girl for tonight. Her smile reminds him of
his sister, a real slut whore who had always smiled like that before
that one night.
How do we get from here to a small, brown cat going unnoticed out
through the dance club to the street? Well, it's Halloween! You'll
have to read the story to find out.
Ratings for "Predator"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "Queer Halloween" by Vickie Tern (VickieTern@aol.com).
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1998/16795.txt
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1998/16794.txt
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1998/16793.txt
Jerry is a fucking, two-timing son of a bitch. Or at least he WAS.
However, Jerry has a wife who doesn't just get mad; she gets even.
And in a Vickie Tern story that means Emasculation Station!
The revenge unfolds at the company's Halloween party, to which she
forces him to go as a gay man, while she goes as a shameless slut.
This author is a genius at transgender complications and clever ways
to humiliate and subdue wandering husbands; but this story didn't
catch my fancy as much as some of the author's other stories. On the
other hand, it's still a very creative Halloween story.
Ratings for "Queer Halloween"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
* "Ghost" by Wgnmkr (Wgnmkr@aol.com).
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/1538.txt
A guy goes into a haunted hotel room; and while he naps, a ghost
with a raging hard-on possesses his body and gives him erotic
dreams. When he wakes up, he jerks off. It's a simple but
interesting story.
Ratings for "Ghost"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
* "The Body Swap" by Dawn (dawn_tg@hotmail.com). Guest
review by BillyG. {Note from Celeste:
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/2870.txt
This was sent to me as a text file. The title on the story in this
text file was "The Body Swap," with no author listed. After BillyG
wrote this review, I tracked the story down in DejaNews, where it
was listed as "The Switch: A Bewitching Tale of Gender Reversal by
Dawn <dawn_tg@hotmail.com>. PLEASE put your name and the title of
the story with your manuscript - preferably on the top two lines.
Otherwise, people will simply be unable to find your stories.}
It has happened to me several times that I've wanted to experience
what it was like to be a woman. These have always been in those
tender moments of sexual ecstasy and transportation when ego lines
were blurred, when I lost definition of where I ended and my lover
began. In those moments, I've wondered what it would be like to
experience such sexual bliss as a woman. When Celeste gave this
story to me for review, I thought it might approach such light-
hearted and sensuous considerations. I'm sorry to say, that was not
the case.
At the outset, let me say that this story is well written with a
strong plot. A plot, I might add, that grows increasingly dark and
for me, a little disturbing. It is not a sexy story -- in fact,
there's almost no sex in it at all. In brief, it's about a strong-
willed woman, Erica who is, as it turns out, a witch and her less-
than-strong husband, Steve. The witch proposes a body swap, just for
the experience.
The resultant new Erica, the former Steve, turns out to be an ultra
feminine who delights in her new status and more, becomes totally
submissive and dependent on the new, super-male Steve. The story
takes on a darker side that for me, was not attractive. Those males
who would rather be female might not understand that those of us who
are content in our maleness might find the obvious direction of this
story unsettling.
At the conclusion of the story, it had become evident that it was a
modified transgender story with elements of non-loving domination.
For all of that, it's compelling and moving.
Ratings for "The Body Swap"
Technical Quality: 10
Plot & Character: 10
Appeal to reader: 5 (Marks off for the uncaring and
manipulative
tone of the story.)
* "Private Tasting" by Artie (artie@netgate.net). Guest review
by Mike Hunt.
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/artie/www/PrivateTasting.html
Psst. Wanna read a story about wine tasting? It could be
educational, depending on your level of knowledge about wines and,
uh, witches. Yes, there's a bona fide witch here in the story, who
drugs and seduces and turns the taster into the tastee. But the
story goes from Point A to Point B, with none of the interesting
side trips that either the wine tasting or supernatural themes could
present. Too bad.
OK, so I'll cut the writer a little slack, because Halloween
approaches, and drugs and witches are encouraged this month, at
least in my church. But really, in the other 11 months, who would
care about a pedestrian story that glosses over the magic that could
be witchcraft while plodding through a sequence of "I obey" "You
obey?" "I will obey" (repeat 3 times) that makes the Nutritional
Content Chart on the back of my Rice-A-Roni box look positively
interesting by comparison.
I'm being too harsh. It's a decent story, but falls into all the
obvious traps: the physical description of the female comes in the
opening set-up. There's no cloak and little dagger in the story.
Convenient appliances just happen to be available (the witch even
has a handy blood-testing unit to scan for herpes! --not to mention
an electric wine-chiller in the cottage in the hillside.) Just
saying someone's a witch doesn't make them a witch; it's up to the
writer to paint it all in. The writer, artie, didn't.
Uh, what was that twinge in my shoulder?
Ratings for "Private Tasting"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 7
Mikeus (appeal to reviewer): 7
* "All Souls Night" by Marawuti [novella] (Reposted by
Bookman Archives). Guest review by Green Onions.
http://www.brainkick.com/~marawuti/soulnite.html
{Note from Celeste: Wulf is a recurring character in this author's
magic and sorcery stories. I gave "Night in Vosgraad" high ratings
in CR 89.}
"My name is Wulf . . . and I am what might generously be
called a creative freelance contractor. What this means in
real terms is that I lie, cheat, and steal (usually from
people who deserve it, mind you -- I have some integrity) to
make a living."
Sounds like the beginning of a classic Bogart movie, or a Chandler
piece, right? Our Hero's not exactly what you'd call a 'gentleman'--
he's been through his ups and downs and just doesn't fit too neatly
into the mainstream of middle-class Litharnaian life with its grimy
inns, busty barmaids, rusticated yokels, ancient traditions,
overweening central governments and just about every imaginable
Weird Creature this side of H.P. Lovecraft.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if Robin Hood had been
crossbred with a curious mixture of Bogart, Marlowe, and James Bond
and the resulting swashbuckler's DNA got accidentally spliced in
with that of the sheriff in Mel Brooks' 'Blazing Saddles' (don't
forget to add the obligatory Eye of Leslie Nielsen and a tiny pinch
of Alfred E. Neumann's giggle)--just before our _potpourri_
protagonist falls into a time tunnel transporter and gets
unexpectedly beamed back into the world of _Dracula_ because the
transporter's operator was too busy masturbating and reading a.s.s.
on her laptop to pay any attention to the controls?
I bet you have. And if so, then this witches' brew of harmless
erotic literary fun is for you ("_Bon Appetit_!").
Um . . . did I say "harmless?" Well that doesn't mean that our
friend doesn't occasionally end up tied to the bedpost overhearing
one tall, busty, blond vampiress (think Brunhilde masquerading as
Dolly Parton--or is it vice-versa?) explain in a suitably sultry
voice to her companion:
"Human blood is an exquisite intoxicant, and blood taken
when a human is at the height of ecstasy is the finest you
can consume. The master spared this one so that you could
have him, and see how passion can make the blood hot and
delectable."
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
The story begins on its namesake of 'All Souls Night' in
Litharnia, whilst our hero is out not-so-innocently plying his
questionable trades when he meets Khaera, a young (but not _too_
young) barmaid "with a graceful, wavy cascade of ravenswing hair,
and dark, wicked eyes that latched onto mine as tightly as a dwarf's
fist around his last gold coin."
Therein begins a chain of bizarre, violent, sexy, scary and
satirical circumstances which eventually (in the tradition of J.R.R.
Tolkien and Monty Python) take Our Hero on a Great Quest.
Like James Bond, he's accompanied by a female sidekick (Livia)
whose life he's saved in the natural course of being a superhero.
It's hard not to notice that Livia bears a remarkable physical
resemblance to the young Mia Farrow ('Rosemary's Baby').
<RRRRRRRRR---IIIIIII-----PPPPPPP>
(That's the sound of a record being scratched as the phonograph
is suddenly stomped on by a lurking raven.)
Actually this is the nineties and we don't have record players
any more, so those descriptions were way off base. In this gender-
swapping modern equivalent, it's _her_ quest, she rescues _him_, and
he's *her* sidekick. ("'Ye Gods. Save a man's life and he thinks
he's your frigging husband!'")
To learn more about their travels, travails and triumphs, you'll
have to read this story for yourself--but if you don't mind violence
and enjoy any of the genres involved (humor, gothic, satire, horror,
fantasy, adventure, or just plain erotica), you'll like this
extremely funny, ironic, dynamic, vivacious and well-written sexy
novella.
I usually like to annoy authors by ending my reviews with a few
officious remarks regarding possible improvements to the work, but
in this case I fear that I am almost certainly dealing with someone
whose magical literary powers might turn me into a silent pillar of
quivering bloodspattered salt were I to even conceptualize a mere
monosyllable of such blasphemous blarney.
So I ain't gonna misbehave: instead I'll save my sin and head for
the Chronicles of Litharnia--a place wherein I'd advise Ye, O
Hallowed Reader, to tread most carefully in deed.
Ratings for "All Soul's Night"
Venus (plot & character): 10
Athena (technical quality): 10
Green Onions (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "The Fearless Vampire" by Poison Ivy. Guest review by Mike
Hunt.
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/5192.txt
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/5191.txt
I've seen enough of them, and I've hated almost every one. Stories
told in present tense, I mean. "I feel your hands on my body. You
move to kiss me. Our lips touch." That sort of melodramatic
nonsense. There's something that just doesn't ring true about
'present tense' stories, but authors who write that way say "I just
type at the keyboard and describe what's going through my head, so
it's in present tense."
I remember someone (Celeste?) saying the trouble is that the reader
isn't sitting in the author's imagination in the present tense, so
while it may be interesting for the writer it rarely works for the
reader. I don't often get past the first couple paragraphs of these
stories, frankly. In fact, I HATE them. So why did I love this
story?
Poison Ivy lets me inside her head. Really inside, believably
inside, and I begin to feel what she feels as she suffers life's
daily mundanities. I'm reminded of Taria's "Walls Have Ears" where
the kid is going "Fuck fuck fuck fuck, I have to take out the
garbage" except in this story it"s fear in the elevator, loathing
the fat coworker, waiting for the 5:00 whistle, or any number of
other everyday moments brought to life. Here, somehow, present tense
works, and it's a refreshing change.
The title sets up an expectation which doesn't pay off until the
last 10% of the story, however, and I couldn't help being distracted
wondering when the supernatural, or the horror, or whatever would
finally appear. When it did it was somewhat of a letdown, especially
considering how much I enjoyed the first part of the story.
That said, it's a dandy, and if you're in a semi-Halloweenish mood,
try this one on. To give you a summary would be fruitless; the title
doesn't quite guide you either. "The Fearless Vampire" is mostly
story, a little sex, not too much vampire, and sort of fun for a
cold dark night in October.
Ratings for "The Fearless Vampire"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Mikeus (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "Love You Forever" by Rahul L Iyer (Rahul.L.Iyer@rose-
hulman.edu).
The guy's fiancee dies in a car crash two days before Halloween, but
she returns from the dead on that Great Feast to make love to him.
This story needs a lot of development.
Ratings for "Love You Forever"
Athena (technical quality): 7
Venus (plot & character): 6
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 6
* "Masks -- A Horror Story" by Tom Bombadil
(stbush@iglou.com).
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Collections/ASSTR_Collection/Tom
_Bombadil/Tom_Bombadil.The_Masks.txt
This story arrived the day after I posted my Halloween Special Issue
of Celestial Reviews; but better late than never! The story begins
with a John contemplating his imminent demise -- that is, he is
waiting to be killed as part of some kind of ritual that evening,
after being held in chains for a year since last Halloween. We don't
initially know the complete rationale, but it sure sounds spooky --
and morbid. In stark contrast, this first plot alternates with
another in which Wally and Jennifer are participating in a festive
soiree being conducted by some student athletes on the eve of All
Saints Day -- that is, some football players are having a Halloween
beer bash. A vampire countess and a beautiful witch crash the
Halloween party. Needless to say, these two are the real McCoy. The
connection between the two plots is that the party crashers are
recruiting for their next cycle of human sacrifices. This story is
certainly vivid and well written; but it's not for the weak of heart
-- or stomach. Don't say I didn't warn you!
Ratings for "Masks"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "Meeting Amanda" by Backrub.
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/BitBard/www/forray/backrub/amanda.html
Here we have what my psychology professor referred to as an
approach-avoidance dilemma. (When the prof told us about it, she
talked about pigeons; but I'm pretty sure I still have the idea
right.) I had never read a Backrub story I _didn't_ like; but I had
never read a vampire story that I _did_ like. The tension alone, of
course, would have made a less sophisticated woman cum in her
panties; but I was wearing none. Therefore, I boldly went where I
had never gone before....
What I like most about Backrub is his/her use of language and
imagery: "From twenty feet away she looked like a living statue,
weathered brown but taut and strong. Her short black hair barely
moved with her movements." That's beautiful. The yet unknown woman
was coming to life for me, but remaining mysterious. The imagery
remained vivid as the story got hotter. To find out more, you'll
have to read the story. I still don't plan to look for vampire
movies, but I do plan to read more Backrub stories. And for some
reason I just remembered it's about time for me to give blood again.
Ratings for "Meeting Amanda"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "Intimate with the Vampire 2.0" by Rocket88 (rick84@
mindspring.com).
A story like this has two strikes against it when I start reading
it. Strike one: I don't like senseless pain as a part of sexual
relations. Pain and violence are reasonable under the right
circumstances; and I'll even grant that there are occasions when it
can be pleasurable to be either the giver or receiver of pain.
However, I think people who enjoy being tortured by another person
often have serious emotional problems. And so I expect the author of
a story that involves pain or violence to show me that there is a
point to this activity. Strike two: I don't believe in vampires. I
find "Dracula" so boring that I have never watched the entire movie.
I think the notion of vampires is generally silly.
Under these circumstances you may be surprised to know that I really
liked this story. Strike two evaporated first: lots of things that
are generally silly can become interesting if I suspend my disbelief
and if the author does a good job of presenting the story. That's
what science fiction is all about. For that matter, that's what most
of this newsgroup is about. My other objection evaporated just as
easily: sure, there was pain and violence in this story; but it
occurred in a surrealistic context that seemed to have a point to
it. If I granted that there may be preternatural beings that have
the power to seduce people and steal their souls, then this kind of
activity made perfect sense.
If the author's goal was to give me nightmares or to make me live in
fear or anticipation that things like this might happen to me, then
he has failed (I hope!). However, if he wanted to entertain me with
a damned good story, then he has succeeded. Now, here's my favorite
part: this story was originally submitted about two months ago.
Here's what I said about it in CR 45:
"As I have said before, I am not an aficionado of vampires,
werewolves, witches, or other preternatural forces. Nevertheless, I
think this story has considerable potential --especially for people
who understand the ground rules of vampires better than I do. The
problem with this story is that it lacks even rudimentary
proofreading. The author is obviously intelligent, and so he/she
attempts to use fairly sophisticated ideas and sentence structures
to convey his/her plot. But the mistakes are so glaring as to
convince me that the author simply doesn't want to spend the time to
make the story reader-friendly. I mean, does the author really think
that it makes sense to "lye" in a motionless embrace? Lye is a
chemical that cleans my plumbing. And then near the middle of the
story I read these lines: "The fire grew more intense.
MailFirst....Save As... She said. MailTheres pleasure.Save As... And
with out another word she opened her mouth and gently covered mine."
This garbled writing may be the result of a faulty mailer rather
than poor writing skills; but it certainly is annoying. In addition,
throughout the story the verbs are frequently screwed up. As I said
earlier, the author is obviously intelligent; and so he/she
sometimes starts using a past perfect tense or the subjunctive mood
correctly, but then all of a sudden we're in the present tense and
indicative mood. There are several instances of misplaced modifiers,
like this one (which also contains a comma splice): "It was if she
never used these feet to walk, scented and soft, I put her toes into
my mouth using my tongue to wet them." Literally, this sentence
means that the guy sucking the toes smelled nice and was soft; and I
doubt that's what the author intended. A few lines later we hear
about "the beating of her hart." A hart is a male deer. What does
the author really mean here: "...my mind soured as I clung tightly
as the sweat that gummed my body to hers was causing my arms to
slide." I think the guy's mind "soared", but the sentence clearly
says that it turned sour! Here's one more that I kinda liked: "My
flesh was ripped and I needed to explode, I wanted orgasm, I started
to beg to her. Mailplease dont stopSave As..." Finally, I think a
succubus is a ghostly visitor that goes under the person being
visited; this critter sounds more like an incubus. {Note: I was
wrong about this; the author was right. I checked.}
"I don't derive sexual satisfaction from making fun of authors'
mistakes, and I don't mean to give the impression that I want to
humiliate this author. For me to say that a vampire story has
potential means that it _really_ has potential. I myself recently
spelled "waist" incorrectly in Celestial Reviews (although I was
actually copying the words of a different writer). Mistakes happen.
But when mistakes accumulate, readers get annoyed and wonder why the
author hasn't gone to the trouble of preparing the text properly.
Creative ideas are the most important part of a story, and I think
this story may have creative ideas. But there's no reason why
creative ideas cannot be presented more coherently than this.
"It's not just English teachers who get upset at this. English
teachers may be the only ones who know why they're upset; but
readers in general will find this presentation to be annoying. I
urge this author and others like him/her to take advantage of my
offer to find free volunteer proofreaders. This could possibly have
been an excellent story if the author would have given it the care
it deserves. (Rating: 4)"
As you will notice from the title, this author accepted my
invitation to receive proofreading assistance; and that's why this
is labeled version 2.0. There are two major differences between the
present and the previous version of this story. First, the grammar
and style no longer stand in the way; the reader can now react to
the ideas of the author and can feel the emotions that the author
wanted the reader to feel. Second, I don't know this for certain,
but I imagine the proofreader challenged the author by asking him to
clarify some of the ideas that originally seemed unclear.
It is important to point out that these improvements are not just
something that please English teachers. Ordinary readers - no, I'll
go further -- even borderline imbeciles who themselves communicate
only by grunting and yanking on their penises would have been mainly
confused by the original version but will enjoy this story in its
present format. If this sounds like an advertisement for my
proofreading service, so be it!
Ratings for "Intimate with the Vampire"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "The Warlock" by Rocket88 (Rick84@mindspring.com).
An immediate problem that I had with this story was that the text
was full of enigmatic characters that were symbolized by squares on
my screen. These were very distracting. I used the global
replacement function on my word processor, and I quickly and
automatically changed them all to open quotes, end quotes, and
apostrophes. I encourage you to do something similar to minimize
distractions when you read this story.
This story involves witchcraft and the "black arts." I view
witchcraft as it is treated in this story to be a form of fairy
tale. Because I have not been excited about fairy tales since my
early childhood, I have lost touch with many of the assumptions that
underlie witchcraft stories. My most current knowledge of witchcraft
is derived from Elizabeth Montgomery, to whom I am deeply indebted
for indirect sexual pleasure, because that enchanted creature has
often improved my husband's mood while he has watched reruns of
"Bewitched." I have some sincere friends who say they are witches
and practice a pagan religion, and they object to stories that focus
on magical black arts. I guess that's more than you need to hear; my
point is that I am reviewing this story as an outsider -- a non-
enthusiast who is generally unimpressed with spells and arcane
ceremonies. I am reviewing this story primarily because the author
emphatically asked me to do so.
Because of the reservations stated in the previous paragraph, I
approached this story with considerable trepidation. I was pretty
sure I either would not understand it or I would hate it. The story
focuses on Gina, an attractive woman, and Louis, a visiting
professor at the University of Chicago with a specialization in
antiquities. Louis is really a warlock (a male witch). Gina is
especially fascinated by his whips. I found the description of how
Gina got interested in spankings during her childhood to be
interesting and realistic. Louis needs to administer a ritualistic
beating to a consenting female human in order to achieve some sort
of rapture and return to a different world. He attaches the willing
Gina to an unusual torture device and administers the beatings,
which she enjoys immensely. Rapture comes, and poof! he is gone and
she is transported back to her home in Rockford, Illinois.
Actually, I was fascinated by the story. I achieved a zero level of
pre-orgasmic moisture, and I don't recommend that anyone actually
participate in such activities; but I was fascinated. I think bdsm
enthusiasts will enjoy this story, and it enabled me to achieve a
better understanding of sadism and masochism. As with many other
stories, however, I am still struck by the constant repetition of
silly, distracting grammar errors that could easily have been
removed prior to posting. Not a bad story. (Rating: 7)
* "Diana" by Mary Anne Mohanraj
(moh2@midway.uchicago.edu).
http://www.mamohanraj.com/Stories/diana.html
The young man, just a few years out of college and a bit
disillusioned with the way his life has gone, has gone off for a
couple of days of hiking in the Berkshire forest. Thinking he is
alone, he is surprised to hear the sound of a woman's voice; and
when he follows that sound he comes to a clearing in which there are
seven blonde women and one red-head -- all beautiful and all naked.
What has he stumbled onto? He realizes that he won't be welcome, and
he starts to retreat; but suddenly he is summoned to join them. Does
this sound interesting? Then read this well-written story. If you're
familiar with Robert Frost's poetry, you'll probably get a little
more out of it than you would otherwise. And it won't hurt to recall
that Diana was the Roman goddess of the hunt and of the moon and the
protectress or women.
I love this author! I'm tempted to make my students read this story
for English class, but then I'd have to explain where I got it.
Actually, it will be easier simply to forbid them to read it;
they'll enjoy it more that way.
Ratings for "Diana"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "Wet Dreams" by Backrub (BCKRUB@aol.com).
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/BitBard/www/forray/backrub/wet.html
The protagonist in this story has the power to sense out women's
dreams and their thoughts that occur when their senses are not fully
awake. He is able to have wakeful sex with them and yet leave them
with the feeling that it was all a dream. (The author doesn't
explain how the protagonist prevents conception; but that may be
expecting too much from an a.s.s. story.) The story describes in
vivid detail one specific encounter. Would this kind of power be a
blessing or a curse? You read the story and decide. The author does
a great job of combining a sense of the mysterious and the realistic
throughout the story. It's almost like a dream itself. Oh, no! Maybe
I'm dreaming right now. Maybe HE's controlling this dream! You don't
think that warm feeling I'm getting in my pussy.... (Rating: 10)
* "Tales of the Seeding" by Wollstonecraft.
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/BitBard/www/forray/wollstonecraft/seeding.
html
This is a set of narratives from the different perspectives of
people who are extremely unsophisticated in their sexual knowledge.
We could be dealing with cave dwellers, with people on a remote
island not yet conquered by "civilized people," or with aliens whose
sexual accouterments resemble those of humans. What is fascinating
is that the descriptions all refer to sex (sometimes in very graphic
terms) without ever using either the formal (intercourse, vagina,
etc.) or informal (fuck, cunt, etc.) terminology that we normally
encounter in such stories. The author does an amazing job -- I
caught only one mistake, where the author used the word "come" to
describe an orgasm. In addition to playing with words, the author
does an excellent job of building anticipation and creating a mood
of mystery. I loved it. This is a really creative, ingenious story.
(Rating: 10)
* "Porno TV: The Munsters" by Shelby Bush
(stbush@iglou.com).
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/194.txt
The author simulates an episode from the old Munsters TV series.
There are three separate plots, which blend together, just like on
TV: (1) Herman and Lilly get it on with the electrodes connected to
the generator in the headboard, (2) Grandpa turns into a bat and
gets some pussy, and (3) Marilyn loses and regains (!) her
virginity. I have reviewed about a thousand stories, and this is the
first one in which a woman REGAINS her virginity.
Ratings for "The Munsters"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5
* "Bed and Breakfast" by RC (74734.271@compuserve.com).
http://www.rcwrites.com/bedbrk.html
A man arrives at a New England bed and breakfast inn; the owner
assigns him to a back room; and the owner's daughter becomes visibly
upset over this assignment. What's her problem? I always tell my
students that when the author catches their attention like this,
they should try to guess what might happen next. Then as new
information emerges they should adjust and modify their initial
guess to suit the new context. I have done this in the past with
Deirdre's stories, and so I'll try again here. So what's the
problem?
One possibility is that the room is simply adjacent to the
daughter's own room. She might be a shy lass, and having a well-hung
stud next door might make her nervous. That hypothesis sounds dull.
Or the room might previously have been occupied by someone near and
dear to the girl -- perhaps her first true love who subsequently
died under unfortunate circumstances. This hypothesis sounds good.
Or the room might be haunted. The second hypothesis sounds best so
far.
I'm glad I mentioned that last possibility, because Abigail (the
daughter) grabs the visitor and warns him that when the place was
first built, the owner's daughter resided in that room. She had been
arrested and executed. Her ghost still haunts that room. Our
foolhardy boarder laughs gently and resolves to stay. It's time to
revise my hypotheses.
It's almost certain that a ghost will appear. One possibility is
that the ghost will have her merry way with our wayfarer and send
him happily on his way. {Since the narrator lived to tell the story,
he probably won't die during sexual ecstasy.}
Another possibility is that Abigail will join in the festivities.
A third possibility is that Abigail IS the ghost. I like this
theory; but I'd have to see her naked to verify it. More likely,
Abigail might be intimately involved in some way with the ghost.
Soon we find out the ghost's crime: having sex with another woman.
Colonial New Englander's frowned on that practice, which was akin to
witchcraft.
Interestingly, at his point I had to pause: was the boarder a man or
a woman? I glanced back over the earlier text. Although I had
assumed this was a man, the text didn't tell. A few lines later I
read that bras and panties from the suitcase were strewn about the
room. So we have either an unusual man or a woman here. I'll go with
the woman theory. This forces a major shift in my thinking: we now
have a (presumably) middle-aged woman, an attractive young woman,
and the ghost of a young woman who had been executed by Puritans for
lesbianism.
I'm going to stop telling the story now. As you know, ghosts operate
under different rules in different stories; and part of the fun of a
ghost story is finding out what those rules are in the current tale.
All I can tell you now is that this ghost is capable of engaging in
sexual activities that are extremely satisfying to human females.
Ratings for "Bed and Breakfast"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
* "Night of the Wolves" by Lysander (lysander@vnet.net).
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/World_of_the_Darkside/F
avorites/lysander.txt
"You'll be fine, Judith. As long as you let your instincts guide
you." The band of women have been engaged in an orgy of dancing and
sex with one another; but all this is simply a preparation for the
arrival of the wolves. The monthly ritual consists of the women
fucking with the wolves from the time of the animals' arrival until
the moon goes down.
I have never been an enthusiast of bestiality stories, but this one
was interesting -- to say the least. Before I read this story I
knew, of course, that Romulus and Remus (and probably Wolfman Jack)
had been raised by wolves, and I had read "Call of the Wild," but my
knowledge of wolves as potential sexual partners was limited. Now I
am much better informed.
The story is well written. The author says this is his most popular
story. However, I don't think it is his best; I think "Summer
Dreams," "Grey," and the unfinished "Droit du Signeur" are all
better. Nevertheless, this is an excellent story. While reading it,
I found myself mumbling internally, "This is silly! Why would a wolf
act like that?" This is exactly what the author wanted me to think.
By the end of the story everything had fallen into place.
Ratings for "Night of the Wolves"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "Princess" by Parker.
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Collections/Old_Joe%27s_Collectio
n/TG/Princess.txt
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.
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
* "The Addams Family: Eddie Comes to Visit" by Shelby Bush
(stbush@iglou.com).
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1997/195.txt
This story is actually a combination of "The Munsters" and "The
Addams Family." Eddie Munster comes to visit the Addams children.
After some enjoyable torture, Wednesday Addams gives head to her
brother Pugsley. Just as Eddie is about to get the thrill of his
life from Wednesday, the full moon takes effect; and Eddie runs off
to the bathroom, where he turns into a werewolf -- actually, a
werewolf cub. Although she's a bit distressed at Eddie's
disappearance, Wednesday takes the cub to her room.
Since this is a sitcom episode, Morticia and Gomez are engaging in
raucous sex in the background; and Uncle Fester is jerking off
somewhere in the shadows. Gomez has a French fetish. Morticia speaks
imperfect French. "Manger moi. Respondez s'il vous plait" is close
enough for Gomez; after all, this is a sex fetish, not a French
language lesson.
Meanwhile, Wednesday has taken Eddie the Werewolf to bed, thinking
he's a stray puppy. When she starts to masturbate, Eddie behaves in
a beastly manner.
Meanwhile, Cousin Itt joins Morticia and Gomez for a "menage
e'tois." I don't know if incest is a meaningful concept in a family
like this. What could be the logic behind an incest taboo in a
family that could only be improved by genetic mutations? Kay Sarah
Sarah, as the French say!
If you know absolutely nothing about the monster shows of the
1960's, you might get lost in this story. But I enjoyed it
immensely. And there's more to come!
Ratings for "Addams Family"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5
* "Halloween Story" by RC (74734.271@CompuServe.Com).
http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year1998/11948.txt
Diane goes to a Halloween party dressed as a sexy maid. She is the
center of attention until she meets the woman dressed like Elvira
the vampire. She can't help herself. She leaves with the vampire,
and then strange things happen to her.
Ratings for " Halloween Story"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
* "Boo!" by PleaseCain (pleasecain@aol.com).
http://members.aol.com/pleasecain/hackhous.htm
Warning: This story contain gratuitous sex and violence. But hey,
what would Halloween be without gratuitous sex and violence?
It's an interesting setup; I'm surprised I haven't seen it on this
newsgroup before. The young man is playing the part of a vampire and
the young woman a witch at one of those haunted houses that spring
up around Halloween to traumatize and thrill the little children of
America. Business is slow, and the boss closes early and tells the
vampire and witch to lock things up when they leave. One thing leads
to another, and pretty soon the sex gets steamy, and then she
decides he wants him to act like a real vampire. And that's only for
starters! Next comes the gratuitous sex and violence.
Ratings for "Boo!"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "Brown Mountain Incident" by Charles Baudot
(wboyden@freenet.vcu.edu).
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Collections/nifty/gay/adult-
youth/brown-mountain-incident
This story combines a placid man-boy sexual encounter with a ghost
story -- actually with an old urban legend theme. The man is
traveling through the mountains and comes upon a 10-year-old
hitchhiker who is cold, wet, miserable, and lost. He takes the boy
in. The sexual contact is so innocuous that only a person who has an
allergic reaction to any mention of sex with an underage child would
react with hostility. Nevertheless, the guy probably is technically
guilty of sexual abuse of a minor -- except that it's hard to prove
a case against a guy who has had sex with a ghost.
I plan to look for more stories by this author.
Ratings for "Brown Mountain Incident"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
* "Temptation" by PleaseCain (pleasecain@aol.com).
http://members.aol.com/pleasecain/eden.htm
Hmmm... What kind of story is this? A lovely woman is sleeping
beneath a tree. She is a part of the beauty of nature, and a
disembodied voice caresses her and meditates on her loveliness.
Nothing really happens. It's all anticipation. This is a completely
different kind of story -- perhaps more a poem than a story; but
it's very nice.
Ratings for "Temptation"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
* "True Love" by Dafney Dewitt (ii361@cleveland.Freenet.Edu).
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Collections/ASSTR_Collection/Dafn
ey_Dewitt/Dafney_Dewitt.True_Love.txt
This is not really a sex story. It's really a story about true love
gone wrong on Halloween; but since it's written by a regular author
of sex stories, I thought I should include it in the Halloween issue
of Celestial Reviews.
The boy is being interrogated by the police about the murder of his
girlfriend. She died from a blow to the head from a shovel in a
cemetery, and her body was buried there. The boy claims to be
innocent. Read the story for details.
Ratings for "True Love"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
* "Haunting Memories" by Gaetana (gaetana@aol.com).
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=540988616&fmt=text
Two adolescent boys and a girl sneak into a house that they consider
to be haunted. They find no ghosts, but they do discover that some
transients have been living there. They steal a few items and run
home, where they are severely punished by their parents. Nobody has
sex with anybody else; but some pornographic magazines are among the
stolen items they steal, and the girl gets a severe spanking from
her father.
Since this story was cross-posted to alt.sex.spanking, I suppose the
spanking is supposed to be the erotic part of the story; but no own
reaction was that there was no sex at all in this story. I won't
deny that some spankings can be sensuous; but it doesn't make sense
to me to believe that it's a sexual experience every time a child
gets a beating from his or her parents. This child broke a rule; she
experienced pain; and she pretty much decided not to repeat the
offense. If this were all there is to sex, then it would be a lot
easier to convince kids not to do it until they grew up!
Ratings for " Haunting Memories"
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 6
* "Goodnight Kiss" by Ben Zonah (benz@fan.net.au).
Through some sort of confusion, this story has not yet appeared on
alt.sex.stories. I hope the author tries again.
A young woman who has been lost in the forest is saved by a
mysterious young man. As a reward for his kindness, she makes love
to him in his rustic cabin. Since this is a special Halloween issue
of Celestial Reviews, you would be correct to assume that there is
an element of mystery to this story. However, since this story
depends partly on surprise, I cannot tell you what that element is.
You'll have to read it for yourself.
Ratings for "Goodnight Kiss"
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
* "Ghost: The Long Goodbye" by Unknown Author.
The guy has died in an auto accident; but as his spirit leaves the
body, it decides to stop off and say good-bye to Rachel, his one
true love. Unfortunately, when the ghost scoots into Rachel's
window, she is making love to someone else. So he goes into the
other guy's body and has sex with Rachel, but he finds this
experience to be unsatisfactory; and so he goes back to the hospital
and enters the body of a woman who looks like Rachel and makes love
to an insipid intern. Then he goes into somebody else's body and
calls Rachel on the telephone and tells her to come on down to the
hospital, because he's dying. She comes, but he isn't dying after
all, and she remembers him making love to her in the other guy's
body, but then he dies. I think.
My impression is that there's a creative idea in here someplace, but
it's hardly worth the trouble to look for it. Authors should
proofread and polish their stories a little bit before they post
them.
Ratings for "Ghost: The Long Goodbye"
Athena (technical quality): 4
Venus (plot & character): 3
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 3
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