I have two pieces running at ERWA this month. Both of them are very strong stories told from the feminine.
You can read them in the galleries at these links...
"Have A Nice Day."
It's a story about mothers-in-law and the havoc they can cause for young lovers. In this case it's a story of Zombies, and how zombies happen...
I wasn’t going to let her kill me. I wasn’t going to let them kill
me. The whole crushing force of the women who had come before me, who
had lived before my time with him. She sat like a matriarch on a throne
wagging jeweled fingers on her dead hands while she attempted to
orchestrate our future. My mother-in-law.
She’d already killed him. The man who was going to be my husband.
I had the evidence. My poor, poor Charles.
“Make us a cuppa, will you love?” She only pretended to be crooning.
I never could stand the way he jumped to attention when she issued
a command. Even now she was still issuing them. From beyond the
grave and he couldn’t let go of her. That year we first met he was
making her tea every Sunday. She hated me. Because I was alive.
Looking back I think she added something to her tinctures. Datura
leaves. The poisonous flowers hung like fairy lanterns all around the
garden next to her oleanders. I never could trust her.
There is a very romantic part to this story in terms of "the erotic" so please go and have a read!
The second story is
"l'heure bleue."
That's a ghost story. What happens when we think back to other lovers? It's not as if women ever forget, is it? In the story my character Sophia (which means knowledge) is haunted by an old, old ghost that she has seen in the web. It's the middle of the night and Sophia can't sleep.
“I was able to love,” she wrote, after seeing him on the screen. “Again.”
The moon hung like a tiny lantern surrounded by night clouds
drifting in a rushing wind. Nothing was clear anymore, about the sky
or the stars or the planes flying about and what they might be. She
stood for a long time in the cold and brittle light of almost total
darkness looking up into the heavens. The pages of her journal
fluttered on the desk, before she tore them out completely and crumpled
them in her fist.
“Come to bed, Sophia.”
Brace called her back from her depths, his voice stronger than her
darkness, stronger than the cold of the clouds and the night sky
filled with uncertain stars.
“I’m waiting.”
“It’s so cold out,” she said.
“I’m warm.”
Her hands were icy as she slid them across his chest. “Brrrrr,” he laughed. “You’re freezing.”
He smiled as he pulled her toward him, in the way that husbands smile, that’s different than the way a lover smiles.
“Am I?”
“Take off your clothes and come to bed. It’s late”
“You’re always right Brace, aren’t you?”
“Do you think so?”
“You’re always very sure of everything.”
“I am what I am.”
“I suppose we all are.”
“Come to bed.”
His arms were warm as they tucked themselves around her, pulling
her in against him, but her mind had shifted elsewhere on some kind of
different plane. Brace rolled his back to her. “Go to sleep.”
But Sophia couldn’t sleep. Not anymore, not after hearing that voice,
and seeing the photograph. She and Brace never talked about the past
or the other people they had been with. What would have been the
point?
In the warmth of the bed, against Brace’s back, in the heat of the blankets—her mind kept drifting backwards.
To read the rest, visit the site at the links above. Literary Erotica for adults.
xxoo!
Valentine
ps: I write heterosexual Literary Erotica.
pss: I'm very excited to be published in a book that you can purchase here... look for my short story called "Flowering" -- there are so many fine stories in the book. By the absolute tops in the genre. Savor these reads about sex and the human heart...
