Tag: Theme: Books & Literature
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New Novel, New Anthology!
Hi, hello, hello! Firstly, BETWEEN THE STACKS, an erotic anthology of various short stories featuring books, readers, and libraries, is now out as an eBook, and the paperback is in the works! Featuring a variety of authors including myself and Achilles King, across a range of stories and vibes. My own short is based off…
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TeratoCon 2025 Write-up
Had a spectacular time talking monsters at the very first special convention! Yesterday, I had the delightful privilege of attending the very first TeratoCon at the Future Inn in Bristol, an 18+ convention for monster lovers with a special focus on all things monstrous, especially on monsterfucking and monstrous romance! I had an initially bumpy…
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A Queer Indie Author’s Experience of 2024
Looking back on my top stories, sales stats, and best experiences of the year past, and looking to the year ahead! A screenshot from Kindle Direct Publishing, showing my orders processed on Amazon in 2024–1548. Hello hello! I’ve just been in the process of attending to my yearly tradition, ordinarily attended to in the last days…
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Crimson Peak: A Love Letter To Gothic Romance
Adoring thoughts on Guillermo Del Toro’s 2015 masterpiece. This review and bit of analysis is related to the talk I’ll be giving on Crimson Peak tomorrow, responses to misogyny and marginalisation in and around Gothic fiction, and how much of this social conservatism is mirrored in BookTok and modern retorts to problematic fiction. All proceeds…
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The Real Harm in “Harmful Content”
Exploring the true harm in “harmful content” and “problematic” media. Originally published in An Injustice! We live, unfortunately, in a world increasingly defined by people’s lack of media literacy. It isn’t as simple as people not reading, because people do — as schools and universities increasingly cut or allocate resources away from English literature, history, and other…
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Close Reading: A Deep Dive into the Process
An in-depth guide into applying analysis to a piece of text and extrapolating meaning. A close reading is what we call an in-depth analysis of a piece of text, which might be in the case of fiction a short story, or for novels and novellas might be a portion or an extract from the text.…
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The Secretary
Category: Gen, Setting: 1960s, Theme: Anxiety Disorders, Theme: Books & Literature, Theme: Grief & Loss, Theme: Homophobia, Theme: Men Who Love Men | Homosexuality, Theme: PTSD & C-PTSD, Theme: Retirement, Theme: Sailors & Sailing, Theme: Secretaries & Personal Assistants, Theme: Sexual Abuse & Rape, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery, Theme: Veterans & Retired Soldiers, Theme: World War II, Theme: Writing, World: Magic Beholden
Short story. A young woman goes to collect her inheritance. 4.1k, rated M. Content warnings for loss of a loved one and non-graphic references to sexual assault. Sarah had never even known the man, so when the letter had come, it had been a surprise. She hadn’t even been sad at first — she’d felt somewhat guilty…
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Two Plates
Category: M/M, Kink: Age Gap / Age Difference, Kink: Kissing, Rating: M, Theme: Banter & Flirtation, Theme: Books & Literature, Theme: Bookshops & Antique Stores, Theme: Cats, Theme: Food & Cooking, Theme: Isolation & Loneliness, Theme: Men Who Love Men | Homosexuality, Theme: Neighbours, Theme: Queer Community, Theme: Sex Shops & Porn Stores, World: Magic Beholden
Romance short. A crotchety bookshop owner receives regular visits from the sex shop-owner across the way. 3k, rated M. Just something short and sweet, with a grumpy old man reluctantly letting his neighbour in. Age gap, kissing, lots of banter and sharp back and forth. Note some mentions of past sexual abuse. Ezra’s back aches, his…