Garden Exiles
I can’t tell you what happened. If I were to detail the event, list its stages, the sensations and the feelings, what I said, what he said… It would be like narrating a car-crash. The moment metal kissed, the sound of the glass shattering, the nanosecond of engine roar, the eon of silence in which […]
For the Sh! Christmas Pleasure Hunt – Princess
To celebrate, we’re hosting our Christmas Pleasure Hunt and Sh! are kicking off their Filthy Friday! Authors playing along are: Janine Ashbless, Justine Elyot, Kay Jaybee, KD Grace, Lexie Bay, Lily Harlem, Lucy Felthouse, Remittance Girl, Sommer Marsden, Tabitha Rayne, Tamsin Flowers, Victoria Blisse That’s quite a line up, no? The aim of the game […]
Fixed in Amber
Malaga, June 21, 1990 The marine bows with stiff formality and releases his armful of red carnations onto the cafe’s stainless steel table. They blanket it, cascading over onto the pavement beneath. “Flores bonitas para una mujer bonita,” he says in broken Spanish. “It’s okay, I speak English.” “Pretty flowers for a pretty girl.” He’s […]
Who Do You Write For? Are we simply producers of product? Can I get a refund?
This question should haunt every writer. Certainly, there is no writing course in the world that doesn’t confront students with it. It seems like an easy one to answer, but it has levels of complexity that, for the most part, only get discussed within their own, embattled spheres. There is, philosophically, the overarching issue of […]
The Quitter
I sat on the cabin’s rickety porch, looked out at the rain coming down in sheets, and jonesed for a cigarette. Two days into my self-imposed detox exile, I was pretty confident that my third attempt to quit smoking was going to end in failure. Both previous attempts to quit had been played out in […]
Mine.
I don’t usually write this kind of straight-up erotica. But we’ve been discussing the shortcomings of D/s representations in 50 Shades of Grey, lamenting the fact that the author felt the need to make the protagonist so absurdly innocent, observing the fact that, for all the BDSM trappings, the sex was strangely vanillaish. Dangerous Sweets […]