I just got word that my story"Lovely Rita, Meter Maid" has been accepted for The Mammoth Book of Uniform Erotica, edited by Barbara Cardy (Running Press, 2015) on Thursday, and pending publisher approval, that my story "Toads, Diamonds and the Occasional Pearl" has been accepted for The Princess's Bride, edited by Sacchi Green (Cleis Press, forthcoming). I've also got a story up for Best Lesbian Erotica so it's been a good run so far. :-D
In other news, my erotic romance novel, Medusa's Touch, is moving along through major revisions. I'm hoping to get those done soon, plus another going over, then out to an editor if all goes well in the next two months.
In the next couple of weeks, I'll also be posting excerpts and info from Forbidden Fruit, the new anthology from LadyLit Press that includes my story "The Further Adventures of Miss Scarlet." Stay tuned!
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Guest Blog Post: Nobilis Reed on "The Monster Whisperer"
My guest today is author, editor and podcaster Nobilis Reed, here to talk about his new serial, "The Monster Whisperer."
The "Monster Whisperer"
serial started off as a simple parody, but it became much more than that, and
I'm excited about the directions it's going.
I've been involved with tentacle
erotica for a while now. I've edited two anthologies (one of which, Coming
Together: Arm in Arm in Arm[1] is still available) and written a number of
short stories, with all sorts of premises. In some quarters I'm kind of known
for it. Along the way I played around with the expectations regarding the
relationship between the monster and the human in the story; some had the
traditional tropes from hentai, but in other stories I explored other
directions.
The Monster Whisperer series
started off as a parody of a certain TV show about humans and their
relationships with dogs. In this program the host often admonishes the humans
to maintain a calm, assertive energy that felt to me like it had a strong
parallel to the stereotypical sexual dominant. And since my mind runs in those
directions, this thought carried through to what kind of pet owner would be a
submissive? Someone who kept a tentacle monster, of course.
I wrote the first story as a
simple day-in-the life of Dale Clearwater, as she goes about her business of
providing guidance to folks who keep tentacle monsters as sexual partners,
often advising them to express fear and excitement to bring out the dominant
nature of their creatures. I published it in my podcast, and that was kind of
that.
And then the story started getting
feedback. Lots of feedback. People really liked Dale, really liked the fact
that she was publicly, unashamedly kinky in a galaxy that didn't always
appreciate it; that she was courageous without being violent and sexually
submissive without being weak. They also liked that nobody really cared that
she was bisexual.
And I had to admit, I liked her too.
So I wrote another one. At this
point I wanted to make it clear that sex with a tentacle monster was not
bestiality, so I started working on the psychology of the tentacle monsters.
This involved deciding where it was that they came from, and how their
intelligence was different from humans.
A big help in this regard was my
friend Ann, who has two parrots, arguably some of the most intelligent (and
obstinate) creatures humans keep as pets. Also quite useful were some theories
about dolphin intelligence that I came across. In the Monster Whisperer
universe, tentacle monsters are sentient creatures, but since they don't use
symbols or language, it's not an intelligence that's easy for humans to
communicate with or understand.
That exploration becomes a theme
in the episodes that followed, as Dale stumbles upon the secret of tentacle
monster intelligence, and begins to fall into a deeper rapport with them.
Since a long format story,
especially a serial, needs to have multiple plot threads, I gave Dale a human
ex-lover, and enthusiastic protégé. Both of these relationships have
complicated sexual undertones.
And since I wanted to explore the
attitudes toward tentacle monsters in the rest of the galaxy, I introduced a
terrorist organization devoted to liberating tentacle monsters and returning
them to their "wild" state, and a martial arts monastery where the monks
refine the art of defense against tentacle monster attacks.
Life hasn't been easy for Dale
Clearwater.
Here's an excerpt from the
beginning of the first episode:
A calm voice sounded in the
darkness of Dale's room. "Ma'am?"
There was a stirring among the
blankets, but nothing more.
"Ma'am," said the voice,
somewhat more stridently, "You need to wake up." A small red light
appeared over the door.
"Ten minutes." Blankets
muffled the words.
"I'm sorry, Dale. I'm afraid
I can't do that."
Every light in the room suddenly
turned on, accompanied by blaring trumpets and thundering drums. Dale sat
upright in her bed. "Alright! Alright! I'm up!"
The noise stopped and the lights
dimmed except for an indirect glow from the ceiling. "My apologies, ma'am,
but it is my responsibility to make sure you do not break your
appointments."
She groaned and tried to burrow
back under the covers. "They can't wait for me to get a decent sleep?
What's the rush?"
"We will be landing at New
Amsterdam Four in approximately ninety minutes. Three clients have requested
your services. One of them is the Governor's wife, ma'am. She has paid extra
for an expedited appointment, and she can be particularly troublesome if people
are not seen to be making all haste in fulfilling her demands. I thought it
best to awaken you."
Dale yawned, stretched, blinked,
and rubbed her eyes. "I see. Do I have time for a workout?" Dressed
only in a thin nightdress, Dale felt goosebumps prick up on her skin, but she
paid them no attention. She would be warming up shortly.
"I have taken the liberty of
preparing the Nalcheka, ma'am. I have concluded that it would be the best
choice."
The woman rolled out of bed, and
began windmilling her arms and rolling her head. "Thank you, Vi. Why the
Nalcheka?" she asked as she stepped out the door.
As she walked along the curving
corridor, the voice followed her, coming from whatever console was closest.
"While the Storazoid is in greater need of your attention, a typical
session takes fifty minutes or more, and I decided to let you sleep. I have
scheduled the Storazoid for your evening workout. The Nalcheka has been
somewhat agitated lately, so I picked it instead."
Dale looked through the
transparent panels making up the wall to her right as she passed, surveying the
creatures on display. "Excellent choice, Vi." She stopped at a large,
circular opening in the transparent wall, and stretched her back, arms and legs
in a series of gymnastic poses. Her deep splits and graceful arabesques were
performed with remarkable ease.
"Should I activate the
cameras, ma'am?"
"Of course, Vi. We never know
when we're going to get something exceptional."
After finishing her routine Dale
touched the control plate next to the door. It rotated a quarter turn and then
rose up out of the way.
Instantly, tentacles shot out of
the opening, grabbed Dale around her abdomen, wrists, and ankles, and pulled
her in. She shrieked as her flimsy nightdress was ripped from her body and the
shreds thrown to the spongy floor beneath her.
The creature holding her was a
three-meter sphere, covered with crater-pocked stony plates. From the gaps
between the plates, long green tentacles emerged, each with a specialized organ
at the end. Some, like the ones gripping Dale's body, split into clusters of
smaller tentacles and served as hands. The ones stabilizing its body against
the floor and walls were thicker, ending in heavy paddle feet. A few terminated
in large eyeballs, unblinking orbs with star-shaped pupils in their livid red
irises.
Dale struggled against the monster's
grip, thrashing her arms and legs and shouting at the top of her lungs.
Suspended in midair, however, her struggles had no impact on the beast. Its
powerful limbs held her spread-eagled while three of the creature's eyes moved
in to inspect her from only centimeters away. Their attention darted from
landmark to landmark, focusing for one moment on her dainty, elegant face, the
next on her shoulder-length black hair, then on a jiggling, chocolate-tipped
breast, then on the narrow triangle of pubic hair between her thighs.
After a few minutes of wandering,
one of the eyes stopped moving, staring directly into Dale's eyes, so close
that she could see little else beyond its staring orb. She could just barely
see the meandering of the other two eyes in her peripheral vision, focusing on
the lower part of her body.
The hand-like arms coiled around
her body, drawing her closer as they shifted their coils, freeing some of their
length to allow the tentacle-tips to roam over her body. The ones on her arms
crept toward her shoulders and then down onto her breasts, squeezing and
pinching until they found her nipples, soft-peaked in the chill air. The one
around her waist slid down her spine to settle between her buttocks, making its
way between the warm globes toward the delicate pucker of her anus.
The tentacles wrapped around her
legs shifted and rolled to bring their dexterous tips into contact with her
sex. They slid in and around her cleft, stroking the delicate flesh with tender
but insistent grace. Her cries, which had been full of alarm when she was first
snared, shifted to gasps and moans as the numerous arms continued their varied
stimulations.
She heard a grinding sound as the
creature's plates shifted, and a new tentacle emerged. This one was simpler than
the others, a simple cylindrical shape that tapered down to a small egg-shaped
bulb. The green color gradually turned an eggplant purple toward the
sphincter-pierced tip. As it stretched upward, the Nalcheka drew her body down
upon it, until the end bumped up against the naked lips of Dale's pussy.
She thrashed even harder as the
creature fumbled for entrance, but her struggles succeeded only in delaying the
inevitable. The two manipulators focused on her pussy drew her outer lips
apart, and the bulb slid inside.
For a moment, Dale froze, except
for the heaving of her chest as she panted for air. The creature's
tentacle-cock was deep within her, pulsing and squirming as if to find a way to
push even further. She squealed again, tensing her muscles as if to force the
invader out, but every time she managed to eject it the slightest bit it slid
right back in as soon as she relaxed.
As she gradually quieted, exertion
and ecstasy combining to drain her of every ounce of energy, the beast became
even more agitated. The pulses and thrusts of its penetration took on a frantic
pace, and a quivering energy ran through the entire creature. Its arms
positively vibrated with tension, making its touch even more stimulating to
Dale's overpowered nervous system. She cried out in ecstasy as a climax
convulsed her body.
The event triggered something in
the Nalcheka. It stiffened, and a deep rumble, like the sound of a distant
avalanche, echoed in the chamber. Its tentacles stopped mid-grope, and the
pupils of the creature's staring eyes narrowed to tiny pinpricks of black. One
second passed. Two. The only sound was the gradually fading sounds of Dale's
orgasm.
And then a flood of pale green goo
squirted out from around its stalk, running down Dale's legs and the creature's
shaft to dribble a sloppy puddle onto the floor beneath her. The flow surged,
then slackened and stopped. With a snap, the tentacles retreated under the
stony shell and the plates clamped shut, leaving a surface indistinguishable
from any common boulder. Dale dropped into the slime and fell onto her back,
splashing more of her body with the viscous substance.
She lay there for a few seconds,
trembling breaths shaking her body, then sat up and squeezed the junk out of
her hair. "Cut!" she said sharply.
"Video stored, Ma'am,” said
Vi. "An excellent performance."
"Oh, don't flatter me,"
she said as she picked herself up and gingerly made her way back to the door.
"I only got one of the 'positor arms to come out. The fans expect a
double, at minimum." She sighed and flicked a load of goop against the
wall. "Oh, well, hold onto it. We'll see what we can make of it once the
appointments are handled."
You can find the entire first
episode of Monster Whisperer for free on my podcast, in audio format[2]. The
other episodes can be obtained by buying the podcast app from the iTunes[3] or
Amazon[4] app stores. If that isn't an option for you, I've also posted ebook
and audio versions on Scribl[5].
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