The editors of Sliptongue Magazine, with their most discerning and refined palate, have chosen my "culinary" exploration, Blind Tasting, for permanent display within their eternally-revolving virtual dessert showcase.
All courses, a full meal. Bring your utensils and an empty stomach.
My most excellent friend, writer Donna George Storey, has been examining different aspects of the writing life in a kind of intime online writers' workshop and has focussed on the second-person narrative voice for the past few days.
I weighed in, having written a few stories from that POV -- one that is curiously almost universally maligned -- including a little tale entitled "The Lonely Onanista," which has enjoyed some success despite the fact that it uses a voice one is supposed to avoid at all costs.
I said that in my mind the YOU of second-person placed any prospective reader right in the "driver's seat" -- a good thing! They'd just land there from above, in position -- sitting, knees bent, hands up with fingers curled as if already gripping the steering wheel -- like in old television commercials. (Or am I making that part up?)
I go into some detail about the background of the story and why I chose that particular voice to tell it.
My story BLIND TASTING got a lovely write-up today from my generous and supportive friend Donna George Storey. She said some very nice things with her usual spot-on turn of phrase and linked my work thematically to recent events in Blogville, both local and global.
Writing can be such a lonely endeavor that such moments of uplift and encouragement, from a fellow scribe whose works I appreciate likewise, taste very sweet indeed -- no pun intended.
Thank you, Donna! I lift my dripping Caipirinha glass in your direction!
Below, Carmen Miranda, singing Tico Tico, paralleling her cameo appearance in my story.
All month you can read BLIND TASTING, my suburban tale of debauchery -- a ménage à huit variation. It's featured in the February 2009 Erotica Fiction Gallery on the Erotica Readers & Writers Association website.
BLIND TASTING is the story of four couples who share a gourmet palate, among other delights. Something is surely cooking in this one...
Scroll down to this woman lying on the couch. My story, The Gift of the Magic Lump of Coal, is an erotic parody of the classic O. Henry Christmas tale, The Gift of the Magi.
It's at Sliptongue Magazine, a refined website devoted to literary erotica. They describe themselves thusly:
Literary fiction, with both humorous and dark erotic content. Emotion saturated tales that bring about a surge in the bloodstream, shivers in the spine, swells of laughter, or any combination thereof.
I am most honored to be there.
I find it serendipitous and amusing that their logo complements my story.
(I had this tale online previously under a different pseudonym; I killed her off in the name of pseudonymic efficiency).
Donna George Storey, writer extraordinaire, who has been my inspiration (and open-hearted friend) in the Land of Erotica Scribing since Day One, has done a most generous Q & A with me on her blog, where I say more than a few words, mostly about my story, The Lonely Onanista, and other things—including handkerchiefs, corduroy, Champagne, wallpaper, Craigslist, Mother Theresa, who I'd have for dinner, autobiography, imagination, my back burner and other creative monkey business. You can read it all here.
Literary erotica, often with a surreal element. Quirky, filthy yet refined.
"Glorious madness!"
"Wonderfully strange."
"Original and fresh."
"A lovely fusion of the surreal and the sublime."
"Intelligent, sensual and deliciously filthy."
"A master with language and magical ideas."
"Witty, inventive and sexy."
"A quirky talent for words and stories."
"Superb, surprising, surreal."
"EllaRegina is a pervert of the highest order."
"EllaRegina is a very talented writer who knows how to weave a tale and how to make the eroticism sparkle." — (Review) ; Ashley Lister, Erotica Readers & Writers Association
"...delightfully playful story telling." — (Review) ; Steven Hart, Erotica Revealed
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