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I have to thank @quietriot_girl for prompting this post. We had a short exchange on twitter about it. She has some very insightful takes on things. Please visit her site. Photo: miss_blackbutterfly I once knew a man with a deeply rooted shoe fetish. He didn’t just like shoes, or think they were sexy on...
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Caroline Nevin, an artist, (@RubiesAreBlue) tweeted up this Italian documentary: Il Corpo Delle Donne (The Bodies of Women). This project took off as a matter of urgency. It all started with the observation that women–real women–are an endangered species on television, one that is being replaced by a grotesque, vulgar and humiliating representation. We...
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I try not to bring too much of the concrete world into this blog because, for the most part it’s a place for fiction. However, this particular event has been on my mind for a long time – burning holes in my stomach, like a slumbering coal. I caught this video again, on @jojinbo‘s...
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The very lovely and talented CD Christian suggested that an interesting ‘moral of the story’ for a fable, parable or fairytale would be: “Don’t let someone take and eat your heart.” I thought it had so many possibilities both literal and metaphorical, ephemeral or visceral, liminal or concrete. So, I lay down an informal...
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I”ve received quite a number of emails and DMs on twitter asking me what the moral of the last story, Salt of the Earth, was since it read so much like a fable or a parable. Firstly, I’d like to explain a little of how the story came about. I’ve been going through a...
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I’ve arrived home in time to find the most wonderful present awaiting me. Steven Hart at Erotica Revealed has reviewed my Coming Together Presents: Remittance Girl anthology. It is the sort of review that any writer would give their eye teeth for. Hugely positive and generous, it’s always nice to read a review and...
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I just finished reading Dae’s post at Sadistic Excess. It left me in an oddly weepy mood. Not because he’s going to take his writing down, or because he’s decided to embark on something new. I think it made me sort of ashamed. He, like a number of other bloggers I know, is very...
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Both Kitty Thomas and Pillow Talker wrote posts on this topic. And a long and frustrating twitter discussion then led to a chat session with various other people. Kitty Thomas’ post: “The Short Skirt Defense” is here. Pillow Talker’s: “My Reply to Kitty Thomas” is here. There are very few erotica publishers who will...
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“The mastodon hours lumber their way into extinction, sinking wearily into the sticky tar pit of the evening†In the last piece of flash fiction, I used the above imagery – a metaphor – that prompted the following comment from Oatmeal Girl: “I could hate you for this. I was going to say I...
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I decided to write this post in coordination with the release of my novel, The Waiting Room, partly because reviewing Emma Holt’s edits forced my head back to Cambodia, and partly because, for those of you who have already read the novel, I thought a discussion about setting in the story might be interesting....
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