Word Lovers

29 Sunday Jun 2014

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Word Lovers

Mini (Approx. 500)

Sometimes the book read like an epic fantasy. Long, drawn out, at times incredibly boring. Other times it read like a fast-paced thriller. Adrenaline pumping, convoluted, with a plot so contrived that sense had blatantly been thrown out the window. Occasionally, it became nothing but an angst-ridden drama that left her debating the simplicity of her own life and the entitled preoccupation of others.

And then there were the slicked, earmarked pages where the words tumbled without constriction, flowed without obstruction and fucked their way across the old vellum with little regard for who saw.

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Published An Indomitable Fire (f, ss, m/f)

14 Saturday Jun 2014

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An Indomitable Fire has been published, a fantasy short story of about 4200 words. This story features Bradd and Cerci from Thawing Out and Water Play so you can also go check those stories out to see the first two pieces of their story.

There are a lot of random name generators floating around on the internet. Most are fun to play with but normally never give anything of any real merit. Mostly, I’ll use them when I’m bored and hoping some of the randomly thrown together words might spark something. That’s what happened in this case. “Drum of Ooze” popped up and I instantly thought of Cerci and Bradd and what kind of fun they might have with something like that. They do tend to be my fun-loving, slightly humorous couple.

I’m publishing today instead of tomorrow because I’m going to be out of town tomorrow. The trip extends past next Sunday as well, so instead of attempting to do anything weird while I don’t have access to a computer I’m going to skip next Sunday and begin again the Sunday after. So…

Sunday, June 29th: Word Lovers – They parade, unashamed of their wantonness.

An Indomitable Fire

14 Saturday Jun 2014

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An Indomitable Fire

Short Story (Approx. 4200)

Moonlight stretched across her room. A thin shaft of it that rippled as the clouds rushed across the sky. Cerci blinked, clearing her vision before she focused on the face hovering so close to hers she could feel hot breath and smell fresh lemon from his after dinner ritual snack he stole from Witch Ales’s stash.

“I need your help,” whispered Bradd.

She smiled and snuggled deeper under her blanket, anticipating a leisurely fuck to drag her back to sleep for the rest of the night. “Come on in.”

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Published Bed of Starlight (f, ss, m/f)

08 Sunday Jun 2014

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Edited May 12th: Bed of Starlight has been removed. You can find it in the collection Nothing But Seaweed & Other Stories coming May 29th, 2015.

Bed of Starlight has just been published, a fantasy short story of about 1700 words with an M/F pairing.

I texted my sister a while back, asking her to “give me a magical item.” She wrote back “magical ladder” and thus I wrote this story on that prompt. It’s probably obvious in the story or at least it would be once you read this.

Next Saturday, June 14th: An Indomitable Fire (fantasy, short story, m/f) – An unquenchable burn within their nerves.

This next story will feature the two characters, Bradd and Cerci, from Thawing Out and Water Play. Also, I’ll be publishing on Saturday instead of Sunday because I won’t be able to publish on Sunday.

Published Under the Black Stars (f, ss, m/f)

01 Sunday Jun 2014

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Edited May 12th, 2015: Under the Black Stars has been removed. You can find it in the collection Nothing But Seaweed & Other Stories coming May 29th, 2015.

Under the Black Stars has been published. It is a short story of about 3200 words with a sort of M/F pairing.

I wrote this story a few years ago for a specific call. I wanted to make it more erotic, but that would have been against the mag’s guidelines. Instead, I culled the story down to make the word count and didn’t write everything exactly how I would have.

(Which is an argument against writing to calls/mags. Writing to market is a good skill to cultivate, but it does have its downsides when it comes to potentially ruining what a story would/should have been.)

Stumbled across it a few months ago and decided to give it a little uplift. Went through and did some re-writing, no longer feeling I couldn’t have as strong of an erotic element.

It’s not exactly romantic as many of my other stories are, but I don’t think the original idea really leaned toward anything seriously romantic.

Next Sunday, June 8th: Bed of Starlight (fantasy, short story, m/f) – Their love transcends space.

Published Nothing But Seaweed (f, ss, m/f)

25 Sunday May 2014

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Edited May 12th, 2015: Nothing But Seaweed has been removed. You can find it in the collection Nothing But Seaweed & Other Stories coming May 29th, 2015.

Nothing But Seaweed has been published, a fantasy short story of about 3400 words featuring a M/F pair.

This particular story actually sat for a long time with only the WIP title at the top: Seafoam Cavalry. No notes, no characters, not even a first line. I would open the document every once in a while and fumble through a sentence or two. Then I’d usually delete it and move to something else. Then, for another long period of time I had a paragraph sitting there that was supposed to help start the story and only served to stagnate it even more.

The biggest problem was that I was trying to write the story in a more here-and-now style and voice that was losing the majesty of the idea. I didn’t want to get into the gritty details. I didn’t want to explain away everything. I just wanted to evoke a particular set of emotions.

When I realized that, I was finally able to get this story written.

Next Sunday, June 1st: Under the Black Stars (fantasy, short story, m/f) – They spend their deaths reaping the evil in their hearts.

Published The Muddy Layers of Love (f, ss, m/f)

18 Sunday May 2014

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The Muddy Layers of Love has been published. This story is about 5400 words and features a M/F pair.

I’ve been experimenting with some ideas revolving around the concept of multiple suns. Completely fantasy oriented because I don’t want to get into the true science behind the idea of stars and their gravitational pulls and how more than two might be scientifically impossible. I probably will try to incorporate a few (and I mean a few) realities if a story leans that way, but so far I haven’t had the need to worry about tidal or weather issues or even delve into the massive differences in animal mutations and how they would have adapted to that environment.

At this point, I’m assuming—though I haven’t done the complete sketch—that the world would have to revolve around all of the suns, meaning that at certain times in the given ‘year’ that some suns would be closer/farther away than others. With the addition of magical elements associated with each sun, that distance might become incredibly important, meaning that depending on how long an orbit is (which at this point I’m considering being potentially decades/centuries) that the world’s magic, or at least it’s dominant power, could be constantly in flux. Thus the idea for finding ways to capture and concentrate power when a sun is close.

It’s an idea in progress.

This story doesn’t actually have a lot to do with the suns, but I did have some references to them so I wanted to make a mention as to what that was about. In fact, this story has far more to do with mud than anything else.

Next Sunday, May 25th: Nothing But Seaweed (fantasy, short story, M/F) – The beauty of the cavalry is only surpassed by their cruelty.

The Muddy Layers of Love

18 Sunday May 2014

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The Muddy Layers of Love

Short Story (Approx. 5400)

Neveah hesitated, her sopping hair held in one hand, her drenched dress scrunched up in the other and her chest heaving from her breakneck run through the woods. The humidity sat heavy in her lungs as the last trickling of a summer rain pattered in the leaves above her head and dripped into the mud with tiny plunks. The ripples bounced off each other like her thoughts, keeping her focused on that mud and what it contained.

Or rather, who it contained.

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Published Sweet Kiss of Distraction (f, ss, m/m)

11 Sunday May 2014

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Sweet Kiss of Distraction has been published. It is a fantasy erotic short story of about 3800 words with a M/M pairing.

This story features the pair, Lianal and Samouru, from Saltwater Conjurer. Their story is a little open-ended with a lot of space for potential in their future, sort of like Bradd and Cerci from Thawing Off, so it lets me go back and add depth to the characters and their relationship a little at time.

I actually wrote an entirely different beginning and had two versions of what was supposed to be the same story going on at the same time with two different perspectives. When I finally made a choice and tossed the other beginning, the story flowed out far easier. Plus, the other version had aspects of dialogue and internal thoughts that were starting to seem suspiciously whiny and obnoxious, which was exactly what I was trying to avoid.

<3 Also, Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there <3

Next Sunday, May 18th: The Muddy Layers of Love (fantasy, short story, m/f) – He dragged her down, refusing to release her.

Sweet Kiss of Distraction

11 Sunday May 2014

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Sweet Kiss of Distraction

Short Story (Approx. 3800)

It’d been almost a month since Samouru had officially joined the crew of the Boundless. Almost a month since Lianal had first experienced his tats roiling under his skin, vibrating with combined desire as he’d pressed into Samouru on an old mattress in a second-rate tavern. Samouru, while not the most skilled lover Lianal had ever been with, had been enthusiastic, overly responsive when Lianal had traced the kraken that encircled the left-hand side of Samouru’s lower torso.

Just the reaction of their conjurer tattoos would have been enough for Lianal to go back, seeking more. But…

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