My story on the biggest speculative erotica anthology podcast in the universe
I have been a fan of erotica writer and editor Nobilis Reed since discovering his work in the Coming Together charity erotica anthology series. I had contributed a story to Coming Together: Girl on Girl, and all contributors had free access to ebook copies of other books in the series. Two favorite Coming Together books of mine are Arm in Arm in Arm and In Flux; they’re both edited by Reed and are collections of sci-fi/fantasy/horror, or speculative fiction, erotica. Speculative erotica brings together two of my great reading loves, so of course I had to give writing that kind of fiction a try.
For three years in a row, I participated in the Black speculative fiction magazine FIYAH’s Voices on FIYAH event in which writers would pledge to generate a certain amount of words in speculative fiction over the month of November to create a total of at least 50,000 words; this was a play on the National Novel Writing Month’s 50,000-words-in-one-month competition. To make my participation all about writing for fun and not profit, I dug up an old story beginning I wrote in one of my notebooks when I was a college undergraduate. The story was derived from the Afro-Asiatic myth of King Minos, his Queen Pasiphaë and the bull that was the sire of the infamous Minotaur. I changed the setting of the myth from Crete to an imaginary island of multicultural people, eliminated Minos and made my Queen Pasiphae and her family Black.
The full Pasiphae draft I created for Voices on FIYAH is 20,000 words, but I created a 4,000-word short story separate from that manuscript to shop around to erotic journals and anthologies. This month, I scored a publisher: Nobilis Reed has created an audio podcast of my story and posted it on Nobilis Erotica, what he calls “the most prolific erotica podcast in the known universe.” This is the first time I’ve had writing of mine turned into an audio work.
“Pasiphae’s Lover” is now available for free listening and downloading. If you want an ad-free version of the podcast, go to Nobilis Reed’s Patreon page and support him there. He pays his writers and story readers, so your patronage puts money in the pocket of many creative people like me.
