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 […]
Coming Together : Neat – Call for Submissions
Coming Together: Neat is an ebook line of single titles (10K-50K words) edited by Will Belegon. As with all Coming Together publications, diversity is the keyword. Thus, all colors and flavors of erotic fiction are welcome.
ALL proceeds from the sales of Coming Together: Neat titles will be placed in a microlending account at Kiva, where they will help entrepreneurs in 3rd world countries launch or expand their businesses.
Breath
Listening to the roadmap of his pleasure, it is breath that describes the intricate architecture of both need and sensation. Words, as Derrida says, are slippery things: hard to catch and harder even to hold. Meaning slithers into crevices, hides in folds, is coated or diluted in effluvia. But breath hides nothing. The slow even […]
‘A Slip of the Lip’ Challenge
I have posed a challenge for erotica writers: to write the most innovative, least cliche-ridden, hottest and compelling kissing scene in less than 1000 words. This challenge is being run on the ERWA Erotica Readers & Writers mailing list. So, if you’d like to participate, please join ERWA. It’s a great place anyway, and the […]
Sex in the Library
My apologies for not posting this fun collection of stories back up sooner. These stories were written in response to the Sex in the Library Challenge that I posed a while back. All the rights to the stories appearing on this site are held exclusively by the author and appear here with permission. Please comment […]
Arachne
I sit in the corner of the room, shadowed from the blades of late afternoon sun split by the blinds. But the couple on the bed are bisected light and dark, zebra flesh moving, tangling, meeting in the still air. Her long hair, artfully two-toned, mixes metaphor with the lighting. The muscles beneath her pleasantly […]
Some comments are just too…too…too!
I do get the very occassional nasty comment. They are rare, actually. But considering what I write is pretty tame compared to, say, most literary fiction writers, it amuses me when a really good one comes along.
Remember ‘The Exorcist?” The voice that Linda Blair spoke with when her head twirled around and she said: “Your mother sucks cocks in hell“?
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.