Why A Summer Fling Makes You Feel More Alive
In the good old days when I was still promiscuous, a summer fling was as much a part of the holidays as a new bikini, a suntan and, as often as not, a broken heart that healed almost as quickly as it was broken.
On my first summer fling, I lost my virginity on a beach in Spain. My last summer fling – all life is cyclic – was in Barcelona after an intercambio – a learning technique where you interchange English and Spanish for an hour and, given the guitars strumming in the café’s along the Ramblas and the whiff of rebellion in the air that hot afternoon, the interchange of bodily fluids with José Antonio, the wild-eyed student from the Universitat Autònoma, was as inevitable as the sea coming into shore.
I say last summer fling in the literal rather than literary sense, in as much as I have spent all my spare moments these several weeks writing a new short story I called Bringing Angels to Life for the new Gratis anthology Summer Fling. Thick and juicy, steamy with sensuality and surprises, the collection is Out Today and FREE everywhere you can find good books.
I use the word ‘good’ advisably, as this 4th collection of short stories brings together a group of the finest writers exploring like space travellers the far reaches of the erotic universe – and beyond. Most of these names will be familiar to readers and, if not, they soon will be.
Summer Fling Stories
Isabelle’s Submissive July – by Emily Tilton
A Day in Brighton – by Hedonist Six
The Fashion Model Diplomat – by KM Dylan
Dear Diary – by M.J. Carey
Marsala Sweet – by Molly Synthia
Generation Game – by Secret Narrative.
Bringing Angels to Life – by Chloe Thurlow
What I personally enjoyed reading this collection was that in every case the writer has clearly spent a great deal of effort editing their work to present stories with no wasted words, every gesture and nuance driving the narrative to climaxes that, for the most part, achieve two goals: providing what the audience expects, but not in the way they expect it.
A satisfying short story weaves fine lines more than broad strokes. Explanation is death. Short story writers are experimental, indie by nature: they think visually, avoid cliché and seek out fresh ways to explore love, passion, romance, regret and all the human foibles and feelings that follow a summer fling.
One more thing, my short story is about a disheartened waitress who meets a handsome stranger and discovers that every time she has an orgasm it brings an angel to life. What more needs to be said? Well, nothing.
Just get Gratis Summer Fling. I mean, it’s FREE, after all.
Buy Links (which should read free links)
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Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gratis-chloe-thurlow/1122089212?ean=2940151957519
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25704749-gratis
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