NEIGHBORLY GESTURES: SHANNON MIDDLETON
Shannon Middleton is one of the main characters in the Neighborly Gestures series. She is Adam‘s next-door neighbor and ex-sister-in-law who never thought he was the right man for her sister, Susan. There’s been no love lost between the former in-laws since Adam and Suzy got their divorce. Shannon takes…
NEIGHBORLY GESTURES: ADAM
Adam is the point of view (POV) character in the Neighborly Gestures series. He is a bitter man who lives alone in the childhood home he once shared with his ex-wife, Susan. Since the divorce, he has also had frosty relations with her sister, Shannon, who lives in the house next door with her…
NEIGHBORLY GESTURES, SERIES
A Taste of Mint is the first short story in the Neighborly Gestures series, where we follow a woman's journey to sexual
A CUP OF TEA
When your enemy becomes your neighbor, and your neighbor becomes your community, everything becomes... complicated. A month has passed since Shannon and Adam's first "negotiation." She's been avoiding him. No more angry notes. No more interactions. She just waves as she jogs past. Adam expected that to be the end,…
A TASTE OF MINT
Helicopter mum, Shannon, has to sell 1,000 boxes of cookies if her daughter is to secure a place in a prestigious Leadership Program. Tragically, her only hope of reaching that goal is to ask her minted, ex-brother-in-law, Adam for help. They may be next-door neighbors, but this is a man…
LET’S MAKE MORE PRIMAL MEMES TOGETHER
Thursdays are strange. Squirrels have their weekly elections. My dog keeps practicing “Mandy” by Barry Manilow. Cheese...
LETO ARMITAGE: WORK IN PROGRESS JUNE 2023
Since the last time I updated folks on my literary labors I’ve put out Catgirl from Saturn, a Yuri non-explicit story that...
RECOMMENDED READ #2 LOUIS L’AMOUR
Louis L’amour is best known as a voice of a very American genre, the Western. His novels and short stories...
FUCK
When indie erotica author Amy's bank card gets frozen at the airport, a stranger's Twitter reply changes everything. Ben doesn't know why he offered a ride to the furious woman tweeting about missing the Author Non-Conference. Maybe it's her profile pic. Maybe it's that he recognizes the particular brand of…
ADD SALT FOR SWEETNESS
NEWS & UPDATES: Seclusion and experience, these are the poles between which writers are torn. The adage says that writers write and that is true. But it is also true that writers must have some well to draw from and that pool is experience. For those that remix ideas that…