Dirty Poetry

There you have it, the beginning of another episode of Dirty Poetry,

using the word poetry very loosely. This episode is couple of

stories about libraries and librarians. Before we get to the

goddesses who bring life to these hallowed halls, let’s give some

credit to the students and researchers who find their adventures back

in the stacks. Our first story is about a grad student who, in a haze

of exhaustion, discovers what she is really looking for.

Between The Pages by Z.S. Roe

That was Between The Pages written by Z.S. Roe who describes

himself as a book lover, a tea addict and by trade, a glass worker.

Z.S. Row is primarily a poet but nevertheless has 10 published short

stories, the latest being what Grew Before the Sun, which was

published in the Big Book of Orgasms, Volume 2 that came out in 2022.

For many of us who came from a time before there was an internet,

libraries were our window on the world. Like diving into an ocean,

there was always so much more to explore. They were all, large and

small, places that were cherished and revered. They were, and are,

populated by brilliant women. Brilliant women who work so hard at

being contained and proper. But to my eye, they are goddesses who

bring life to hallowed halls. And they are always so much more a

woman than their work allows them to be.

When I was young, I would travel to one of the great libraries,

sometimes several hours on a bus. There were statues by famous

artists at the entrance and great art hung in the halls. The main

reading room was huge, long and cavernous with a high arched and

vaulted ceiling. As you entered there was the scent of old books with

the promise of ancient knowledge for those who would dig. All of it,

free to the people. It was a hallowed and solemn place.

For a time, I would go there every week or two. The subject I was

interested in those days was propulsion units. This caught the

attention of a particular research librarian who set herself on the

hunt for me. I would stop by her desk to pick up her list of

references and the bundle of photocopies she had collected for me

from the latest journals and sometimes even restricted government

research. She was brilliant. And beautiful. When there was occasion

to come around the desk, I could catch the faint flowery springtime

perfume of my librarian mingled with the scent of fresh photocopies

copies on her desk. All of that with the bassnote of old books and

leather that permeated the place. Those memories have not faded.

I do have a confession though, it was not until very recently that

I realized that I am not the only one who has fantasies of the

Goddesses who inhabit libraries. I’m not the only one who thinks

intelligent women are sexy. Who knew? Joe Cocker sings ‘you can

leave your hat on’. Well, as far as I'm concerned, you can leave

your glasses on too. No doubt, the libraries were where my

fascination with intelligent women began.

And speaking of intelligent, interesting women. Our next story is

written by Susannah Indigo. Susanna Indigo is a character in her own

right. She is, and has been for many years, a very active and

prolific erotic short story author. She has edited many erotic short

story anthologies. She founded in 1998 the erotic literary journal

Clean Sheets, which, in it’s day, was a home to many great erotic

writers. She has since co-founded and is currently an editor at Slow

Trains, a general literary journal that covers a wide range of

subjects. Many of today's greatest writers have found a home there.

The next story that I have for you, I read years ago and it...

Stay

with me for this episode of Dirty Poetry. Go ahead. Take it all. The

whole enchilada.

This episode of Dirty Poetry is about shopkeepers who happen to be

big women. Women like sex. Big women like sex. Let's see how that all

turns out. Let's give a listen to our first story.

Small Packages by Tenille Brown

That story, Small Packages was written by Tenille Brown, who

describes herself as a shoe shopping, wine drinking southern writer.

She is an author of erotic short stories who has been at her trade

for quite some time. She's been published in over 30 different erotic

story anthologies among them Fast Girls, Making The Hookup, Best

Bondage Erotica, F Is For Fetish, and the anthology that our stories

in this episode come from, which is entitled Curvy Girls edited by

Rachel Kramer Bustle.

Ms Bustle has edited over 30 erotic story anthologies. Her erotic

short story writing has been published in over 100 anthologies. She's

been an editor at Penthouse on television appearances, and had

regular magazine columns. Our Curvy Girls anthology comes to us from

a name that you probably recognize Rachel Kramer bustle

In this anthology, Curvy Girls, she asked April Flores to write

the forward. In that forward. Ms Flores says, “For the longest time

we've been told the lie that being thin equals being beautiful, happy

and desirable. And somewhere along the line we've also been led to

believe that fat people don't enjoy sex or possibly that we're not

worthy of enjoying sex.” All right, let's back up a little bit

here. April Flores is herself a big beautiful woman and, in addition

to many other things, she is a model and a porn star. In the forward

to Curvy Girls she says, “Women enjoy sex. Fat women enjoy sex. I

am one of those women and have had the extreme privilege of being

able to explore and express my own sexuality within my work. I've

been able to live out many fantasies while making an effort to send

my message of body and size positivity. I am an exhibitionist by

nature and performing in adult films and posing for photographers and

artists has allowed me to expand on my exhibitionism. I've been so

lucky as to have been able to broaden my sexuality by working with a

diverse range of performers who representative variety of races,

gender identities and levels of experience with each shoot. I have

learned from my partner and have been able to take away something

new. In my opinion, confidence is what makes someone attractive. You

have good sex when you feel good about yourself, regardless of your

body size. The characters and curvy girls are enjoying every bit of

their sexuality and I enjoyed experiencing their sexuality too.”

Amen Sister. Confidence is sexy, and we all want to be sexy.

The next story in this episode also from the Curvy Girls anthology

is written by Lolita Lopez. Ms Lopez is actually a serial novelist.

She generally tells her stories in a series of novels. Her writing

style is what she describes as super sexy science fiction. Her titles

include Dead Sexy Dragon, one of the Dragon Heat series, Caught By

Menace, one of the titles from the Grabbed series, Margaritas and

Mayhem from the Holiday Menage series. In 2021 she was invited to a

group writing project with some of today's greatest science fiction

writers that was published under the title Cyborg Redemption. In this

episode of Dirty Poetry, Ms Lopez, known to her friends and fans as

‘Lo’, has written an erotic short story about a big beautiful

woman. Lo is a Texas girl and she's written us a sexy short story

about a shopkeeper in Houston. A baker...

And there you have it, just a taste of the Dirty Poetry yet to come.

Stay with me for all the rest of this episode of Dirty Poetry, using

the word poetry very loosely.

Our first story is about a group of old

friends who have known each other for years and years. They've

traveled together and had adventures and have been a part of each

others lives for a long time. They know each other well. They have

for a long time, had a monthly card game. Everything was always

friendly and normal... until tonight... when things got strange.

Let's take a listen.

That was Heads-Up Poker. Written by

Susan Di Placido. Ms Di Placido is a prolific author. She has, to

date, published ten novels and one collection of short stories. Her

stories almost always involve gambling and card playing and many of

them are set in Las Vegas. But regardless of the setting, Ms Di

Placido always manages to work in a lot of steamy spicy sex scenes.

Her work has been recognized and awarded in the literary world. Her

short story, “I, Candy” won the Spirit Award at the 2005 Moon

Dance International Film Festival. Her short story collection,

American Cool won the bronze medal in the 2008 IPPY Awards and it was

a finalist for the 2008 Indie Book Awards. Her novel Shuffle Up and

Deal was nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for

Best Erotic Fiction in 2010. Susan Di Placido’s work has been

published in many places. Among them, Maxim Jakubowski’s Mammoth

Book Of Best New Erotica in both volume six and volume seven, Zane's

Caramel Flava, Run Devil Run, Slow Trains Literary Review, Rebellion:

New Voices Of Fiction, Clean Sheets and Susie Bright’s Best

American Erotica 2007, which is where we found our story, Heads-Up

Poker.

Let's take a moment and address the

elephant in the room. Okay, one of the elephants in the room. You

might notice that both of our stories in this episode of Dirty Poetry

are written by women, one of them decidedly lesbian, but both stories

are told from the perspective of heterosexual men. This kind of

gender bending perspective shift is, and always has been, common

among the authors of erotic literature. As readers and listeners,

these stories allow us to walk a mile in someone else’s panties.

And our authors also take an equally joyful turn at that switch. In

fact, part of the beauty of both erotic literature and our own erotic

imagination is, that in the privacy of our own minds, we can all

allow our imaginations, our desires and hungers, to roam freely, to

venture into places that we would never allow to happen in our real

lives. With all of our real life expressions of sexuality that are so

tender, loving, comforting, well... okay, even with the ass slapping,

hair pulling excitement that we want in our real life sexuality,

still there are places, many places that our imagination goes that we

would never allow to see the light of day. Good writers take us to

these forbidden places and bring us safely back again from the

adventures of foreign travel in exotic lands. With our own erotic

fantasies encouraged to take wing, our sexual imaginations are now

allowed to travel to places that are unlikely, improbable. Places

that stretch the boundaries of what sexuality is, and occasionally

even jump the fence into the impossible. Stories that can arouse

possibilities that we would have never imagined. But somehow they

become real for us for just a few brilliant moments in the privacy of

our own minds. It is there, in the privacy of our imagination that we

can begin to discover our own most primal sexual arousals. It is

great writers with their wild tales, with their exotic erotic...

It's a good one.

The reading in this episode of Dirty Poetry is entitled “A Life Of Seductions” written by Nancy Sasha Long. This is an erotic short story that appeared in the anthology Seductions, Tales Of Erotic Persuasions edited by Dr Lonnie Barbach. Our editor, the good Dr Barbach has this to say in the introduction;

“When I think about the most erotic moments of a sexual experience, I am drawn to the delicious and unpredictable build up, the dance of seduction.

Our story tonight is the story of a woman who's fantasies become so constant, so all consuming,

Our editor, Dr Barbach and the author, Nancy Long had this to say about our story;

“Rather than moving towards someone, the motivation behind some seductions is to escape from a certain set of circumstances.