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The Sugarmakers
Happy Valentine’s Day (or La Saint Valentin for the French speakers amongst us). Here’s a sweet little story for you to read with your morning pancakes. (This is sex, y’all. Just sex.) It was mid-February–almost La Saint Valentin–which meant it was time to tap the maple trees. Albert’s favorite time of the year since he…
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The Proposal
(screenshot from Pride and Prejudice, 2005 version) Originally published in Trembling with Fear, August 20, 2023 “…how ardently I admire and love you.” The young man waited, apprehensive, in the silence that followed. Her temperament could be… unpredictable. The black mass writhed on the floor of the gazebo, glimmering in the moonlight in the manner…
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The girl who love, love, loved snails (and slugs)
I wrote this story for my friend Jen, she’s the best. Please be aware that this story contains body horror, zoophilia-adjacent thoughts, and some very slimy descriptions of sex between a human woman and a giant slug. If you are not prepared to read that, you should leave now. Laurel worked at a pet store,…
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The Book In Me
Drabble originally published in Trembling With Fear, July 16, 2023 (image from Getty Images) There’s a book in me, and I want to get it out. A great book, with swordplay and romance and everything. But it’s not easy to spawn a book. First I used pencil and paper, then MS Word, even ChatGPT, but…
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The Interview
Sarah and Philippe sat together in the interview room. It felt claustrophobic, plain and cramped with barely enough room for them to sit. They’d been there for almost an hour, and Sarah was growing concerned. She glanced around the room again—cinder block walls painted a faded yellow, an equally faded brown linoleum floor, a dull…
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A Flash in the Dark
Published in Trembling With Fear, March 12, 2023 (link) I walk past the basement door and hear a cry. “Mom!” “Ben, what are you doing down there?” “I am looking for glue.” “In the dark?” That’s odd. “There is light here.” A flash sweeps the bottom stair. “Help.” “Okay. But then you have to finish…
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The House on the Beach and The Unicorn
I wrote the first version of “The House on the Beach” in 2018, when I was writing a lot of fan fiction featuring an MMF polyamorous triad. I’m not poly, but I loved those characters and I wanted to play around with them – usually, to make them all happy together. But I also wanted…