Jean Robert’s Review of ‘Slip of the Lip’
For those of you who participated in the ‘Slip of the Lip’ challenge, and for those of you who have read it, Jean Roberta has written a wonderful review of it up on the ERWA Blog. “A remarkable number of these short pieces look self-contained in the way that an acorn is a self-contained object […]
My Guest Spot on a Good Parts Podcast & further thoughts on POV
Firstly, I want to thank Nobilis, Helen E.H. Madden and Ann Regentin for inviting me to participate in their Good Parts erotica writing podcast on the subject of 1st and 3rd person POV in erotic writing. This is amazing threesome hosts a writing blog at http://thewritethreesome.blogspot.com/ and you can subscribe to their podcast at http://thegoodparts.libsyn.com/
Bangkok Thoughts: The Strata of Cities
Like a well-made B52 (which is what I have imbibed too many of before writing this post) the heart of Bangkok is a stratified city, both spatially and spiritually.
Geocentricity
I’m feeling cruel today. Words crowd my brain, teetering at my fingertips like cudgels. I don’t want to play your dearest friend, proxy mother, saintly virgin, or ghost. Either fuck me or fuck off.
Extremadura
Do you wonder if it is hard for me not to visit your well of cool water? I am mad with thirst, like a beast of burden dragging its plow through half a world of rocky, unbroken soil. Many times I have sent myself into exile. Never once has it hurt like this. photo: Kalense […]
Mercy Altar
Twitter is both a terrifyingly addictive blackhole of time, and an amazing place to meet people that, otherwise, you might never come across. It was there that I discovered Hazel Dooney, an Australian artist. She wrote an interesting blog post on self-sanctification. Like me, she was not brought up in a religious family, but also […]
Withdrawal
I wanted with such ferocity. And for a long time, the wanting seemed a pleasure in itself. Sticky droplets budded on the surface of my skin before a single touch. But desire grows strange, stale in this tight, airless place. Tiny crystals of bitter need, glitter-sharp, glassy shards sparkle along the stems of my unmet […]
Cusp
Today I found Your cock, still tucked In the sleeve of my summer kimono. The season is turning: Time to replace the flight of dragonflies With a shower of golden maple leaves. Time to accept That the summer sun Has grown mild and indifferent. I’ll nestle you In a beautiful lacquer box And bury my […]
Five Questions
I seldom blog links, but this one is well worth a read. Charles Baxter says that there are five questions all writers need to ask themselves about their writing: …One is, what do these characters want? Second is, what are they afraid of? Third is, what’s at stake in this story? Fourth is, what are […]
Dark Garden – Podcasted
I’m back at his doorstep. This place I’ve sworn I’ll never return to. Many times.
I feel dirty, ugly, as I ring the bell, and uglier still when he answers the door wearing nothing but a pair of baggy trousers. His feet are bare, his hair disheveled, he hasn’t shaved in a while. He’s not handsome, or well built, or even particularly well hung and, worst of all, he has a laugh that makes me cringe. I do my very best not to make him laugh.
I have recorded and uploaded an audio version of Dark Garden. You can listen to it below, or visit my PodBean Page