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Review: Bound to Serve (Mina Murray)

I don’t think I’m in a minority when I say I’m drawn to erotic stories about couples, ones that have been together for some time, who have a sort of relationship you can believe stretches out past the pages.

In Sudden Sex, the new anthology edited by the incomparable Alison Tyler, we’re served up stories that park you right in the middle of the action, giving you a one-handed read from the start. What made “Bound to Serve,” by Mina Murray, my cup of tea is, in spite of being thrown into the se...

Intermission

There’s not much to see here, and, for that, I apologize but, in the same breath, I don’t.

I’m working, y’all. Like I have a career or something.

I’m in the middle of two projects, having just finished one with Laila; I’ve got submissions to attend to, and editing to roll around in. My blogging, as it is, has fallen by the wayside. I’m not sure if you should be sad or appeased, some kind of grateful. I’m a babbler, so maybe you’re lucking out in being able to simply skim (an aside: I’m a big fa...

Clothing and confidence, and the lack of both.

I am not a clothing type of person. Well, that’s not entirely true: I love clothes, and love the look of them, the idea of them, the browsing and putting together of outfits. That said, I have very very poor self-esteem, some body dysmorphia, and a keen sense of laziness that makes most outfits beyond my reach. I am, truly, a jeans and t-shirt kind of person.

I have been lucky enough to never had much reason to dress outside of this: I work from home now, and the jobs I had in the past were in...

Check yourself, spell check.

I can’t spell.

I admitted this earlier, and I’m back to say: it’s true. Sadly, sadly true.

This is not from lack of trying. I’m not a stupid person, and both of my parents were teachers. I come from an era before the internet, when spelling questions were answered with “go look it up in the dictionary.”

[an aside: has this ever made sense as a piece of advice? Look it up? How the hell am I supposed to find it if I don't know how to spell it? If I knew where to find it, I wouldn't need the damned...