Author Name: Valerie Brundage
Book Name: Another Creature
Goodreads Link: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10909501
Publisher: Torquere Press
Cover Artist: BSClay
Release
Date: October 7, 2015
Blurb:
Whispers in the
dark and soft, wet touches in Luanne's dreams suggest she is not as
alone in her seaside cottage as she'd thought.
Who will win the
key to Luanne's broken heart: her on-again, off-again lover, Karen, or the
tentacled creature haunting her dreams?
Pages or Words: 10,400 words
Categories: Contemporary, Erotica,
Fantasy, Lesbian Romance, Paranormal
Excerpt:
Instantly Karen suspected something
was amiss. The heat and the beads of sweat around Luanne's cheeks, the wet on
her neck below her ears. All betrayed Luanne's discomfiture.
Karen walked around.
Looked around.
"Can I...?" She
headed towards the kitchen. Luanne heard her stir the coffee, clink a cup on
the counter.
"Coffee?" Sugar
spoon. Fridge door. Luanne leaned over and glanced at Karen in time to see her
finish pouring milk. Return to the fridge, clink, clink.
Every sound had texture.
Luanne looked around, could not see.
A wisp, a black shadow.
The trail of a memory like a dream receding even as she tried to grab onto it,
make it tangible.
Karen returned to the
room, her hand empty. Luanne felt drunk. She thought of asking, "Where's
your drink?" but decided the words would come out slurred and Karen would know,
so she said nothing.
She wasn't even entirely
sure how long Karen had been there. She half-entertained the idea that it had
been Karen all along, in her half-asleep hallucination. But the sticky residue
of the Melusine's caresses still stuck along her thigh, along the sides of her
breasts.
She covered herself up as
best she could without doing the buttons again. Didn't want to appear too
modest. A lost cause.
But Karen liked her like
this. A little off balance. It reminded her of the times when they would get
together in a moment, never with the intention of fucking each other. Never for
a drink, never just for dinner. It was always a kind of girls night out when
other plans had fallen through. Casual in which no agenda opened up
possibilities and slowed time.
A couple too many glasses
of wine, watching TV late into the night. And they would end up in their
pajamas and one would put their lips on the other's back. At the shoulder,
where the skin showed, just a little loose. Then a shirt would open, and
fingers would slide down to nipples. And then slide down further, down each
other's backs. Then into the crease of each other.
No words. Drunk. Give me
another drink. She was not sure she told herself she was not sure and
she continued.
"Are you all
right?" Luanne walked to the bedroom. The windows at the floor were open,
lower casement stuck out erect. It wasn't cool, but humid.
Karen didn't see anyone
else around. Luanne said nothing.
"Have you been –
touching yourself?"
Karen stood, her hand on
the sill by her head. Waiting. She'd wait forever but she knew Luanne wouldn't
let her. Luanne walked to her and kissed her.
Her lips were cool. Dry.
She pushed them closer, mashing her face passionately with Karen's.
Karen leaned back, let
Luanne maul her. "Thank you. I thought..."
"Shh." Karen was
a vacuum which Luanne couldn't help but fill.
She was taken over. Still not sure what was happening. A
dream, a fainting in which she'd been overtaken by her sexual urges – her blood
rushed from her head and became lightheaded as Luanne tasted her.
Meet the author:
Valerie began writing three months after her divorce,
realizing two surprising dreams within a few months. It was more than her
imagination that was being held back, and she’s enjoying writing about those
dark sexy urges as much as acting on them. She’s currently working on a book
based loosely on her promiscuous years before she got married.
Where to find the author:
Twitter: @valeriedreaming
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