Forays into Fiction is a place for my original stories in various genres/topics, cozy, historical, supernatural, romantic, mystery, transgressive, YA, wherever the muse takes me.
A story may contain incidental mentions of sex or intimacy, because that is part of life. If you’re specifically seeking erotica, why not visit Velvet Affairs or subscribe. That’s my dark fiction sub-domain, and what I share there is NSFW.
My serials can be found in a separate list. Stories there range from flash fiction to longer - perhaps 2K words.
Short Fiction
Here are the short stand-alone pieces of fiction I’ve published here. I will re-post this list as I share more.
Sweet Like Chocolate
This is a very British story, the candy & the bands I mention were around at the end of the 1970s and into the 1980s
Whitby's Less Famous Vampire
Eighty feet above sea level, I survey the red rooves of the town of Whitby. The wind buffets my lean body and runs chilly fingers through my unkempt hair. The North Sea is peaceful tonight: A primrose yellow moon reflects fragmentedly on its surface, but the presence of this lighthouse on which I perch is testament to how cruelly that dark body of water…
[CW: mature content]
Vacation Temptation
It was pleasant beside the pool. The sun beating down on the dark triangles of her bikini was making her tingle and the spicy scenes in the e-book she was reading added fuel to that fire. Melissa reached for her frosted glas…