Pipe of Thorns

IMG_0197This story will be published later this year in an antho being prepared by http://devilhousepress.com/


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13 responses to “Pipe of Thorns”

  1. RG,
    wonderful, thanks for reposting.
    Paul.

  2. Always left wanting more…

  3. What TFP said…

  4. the sex scene was really sexy and I loved how the story ends

  5. Tender and cruel at the same time. What an ending.

    1. Thank you for the feedback. So glad you like it. Non-HEA endings are not terribly popular these days.

      1. One place where you can find fans of the Non-HEA ending is in the hentai game community. Story games like Bible Black or fan made RPGs like Corruption of Champions have what they call ‘Bad Ends’ which is usually a chance to engage in some darker fetishes without derailing the main plot. Just remember to save your game. In fiction that can be harder to pull off unless you do like the ending to Clue or Scott Pilgrim with a last minute reboot.

        1. I don’t get on well with story games. I figure, I write what I write. It’s not like most writers gets paid much for writing anyway. I don’t feel it is a matter of pulling it off. I think readers have been groomed to be facile, idiots who can’t bear anything that makes them uncomfortable without being bribed with the promise of a sugar lump at the end.

          If I have 5 readers who are willing to walk into a story with me, I’m a happy camper. I’m lucky to have many more than that.

          1. I fully endorse writing for yourself and then after that maybe other people will like the same sort of stuff you like. At the same time, I have no illusions that I am writing as a profession. I’ve put some thought into doing a story game style book but for me that’s the nostalgia of all the ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books I read as a kid.

            1. Kenn Nickell Avatar
              Kenn Nickell

              I would rather read an awsome story with all facits of life used to make me involved and truely, beautifully anticipating the next word,sentence, phrase, storey line. Tbe storey moving like watching a movie.

              Thank you.

  6. I don’t comment on your stories as much as i should, to say the least. I enjoy this piece, but in a sense it confused me…I was wondering what your motivation for writing it was

    1. I wrote this story specifically in response to an anthology call for a book called ‘The Garden of the Perverse: Fairy Tales for Twisted Adults.’ So my motivation was to write a fairy tale. It needed to include magic of some sort. It needed to have a quest. And it needed to have an element of the horrific, because all fairy tales have that.

  7. Anastaria Avatar
    Anastaria

    Im so sad because im reading these comments and linked interview and now i want to read it so so so bad! I must read everything youve done :C

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