Dawn, Lust & Mortality
T.S. Eliot said that
“Midnight shakes the memory as
a madman shakes a dead geranium.”
For me it’s dawn. I’m not scared of the dark. I find it enclosing and comforting, but that very first light… I hate what it does inside my skull. As if, with those first rays, the full weight of my own mortality slams down upon me like an enormous dusty tome containing the history of some extinguished civilization notable only for its idiosyncrasies.
Identity, Projections & Betrayal
For those of you who have been reading me a while, you’ll notice that I’ve been a little fictionally quiet of late here. There are a lot of things that have contributed to this.
The whole site/blog fiasco was a big distraction, of course, but I was being somewhat subdued before that. Also, I’ve been doing some writing of a private nature.
Finally, I’ve been looking over my work and having some serious discussions with myself on the subject of identity: mine, my characters’, and the way I see the people I know through this medium.
Click
I’ve been experimenting with writing from a male POV, trying to get better at it. Click is a fictional short story set in Cambodia. It contains violence and nonconsesual sex and is meant to be quite disturbing. If this sort of content upsets you, please do not read it! I’d really like to acknowledge two […]
The Place of the Narrator in Erotic Fiction
I just got asked a number of questions on writing erotica. The requirement was for nice concise answers and one of the things that defeated me was my attempt to discuss the place of the narrator in erotic writing. In any piece of writing, there is a three-way going on between the reader, the story […]
This New Home
Well, it’s taken me a couple of days, and some of the smaller series are still missing, but this is going to be my new blog home, as well as the repository form my writing. Although it was something of a shock to find out that someone hated me with such intense vemon, that they […]
More Podcasting
I’m very pleased to announce that Amanda has kindly read Chapters One & Two of The Illustrated Teacher. Powered by Podbean.com Powered by Podbean.com Or you can visit my Podbean Page and download them. If you’d like to read along, the series is housed here
Podcasts & Good Erotica
Nobilis Read, of Nobilis Erotica Podcast, has made an animated and very entertaining version of my erotic satire “The Other Side.” If you’d like to read along with it, the original story is here. Please take the time to listen to some of Nobilis’ other wonderful pieces of audio erotica. He’s got a special touch […]
What Men Want
In responding to my post on writing erotica for men, Sinner, of Black As My Soul, has written really good survey of the pieces of erotic lit that stood out in his mind, and a dissection of what made them good. Very worth your reading time. Erotica and What Men Want, One Man’s Theory
Therapy
It wasn’t possible to mistake her. The woman who pushed through the glass doors and entered the coffee shop looked exactly like her photograph. This was a relief. Philip had gone to a number of first meetings only to discover these women had sent him pictures of someone completely different. Ironically, what they looked like, […]
Penny Red
She has penny-red hair, my Tina, and freckles spilling tan confetti over milk-white skin. She is big-boned, thick, meaty, and muscular; it makes me want to bite her. And when I press my face into her neck, she smells like “Lucky Rabbit” candy; I salivate like a lunatic. We are in the south of Spain, […]