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1. "Vee", a story in the charity erotica anthology FELT TIPS. (December 12, 2012) Buy it here.
2. Betting the Farm (April 7, 2012)
After her father's funeral, Elly has come back to the family farm to pack up the heirlooms and arrange for the sale of the property. What starts as a lonely night turns into something more when a thunderstorm brings a beautiful stranger to her door... (Buy it here.)3. "Wishful Thinking", a story in the Bandit Creek anthology FOOL'S GOLD. (April 1, 2012)
CeeCee tells Ruth about her past, but how truthful is she? (Buy it here.)4. Prohibited Passion: A Bandit Creek Historical (January 15, 2012)
During Prohibition, a pastor's daughter in a small town meets a taxi dancer from Chicago. She falls in love, but a woman like that is going to be trouble... (Buy it here.)-
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THE PARIS GAME
On the darker side of Paris, it’s dangerous to not pay your debts…A singer in a jazz club past its prime, Sera Durand must come up with thousands of euros to pay back her boss, a ruthless gangster. A confrontation with her ex, an art dealer profiting on the wrong side of the law, leads her into a questionable wager, but one that could solve her problems.
Marc Perron knows a winning proposition when he sees one. Seducing a shy young woman of Sera’s acquaintance will be the easiest thing in the world, and the prize, to have Sera in his bed once again, is worth the chance of losing a sizable sum. What he didn’t expect was the depth of Sera’s desperation.
When one of his deals goes awry, Marc’s solution could cost them more than money…
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1. THE ARTIST'S MUSE
Broke and desperate after her girlfriend leaves her for a man, Colette finds a job as an artist’s model. She’s expecting the artist to be an older man, but when she arrives for an interview, she’s surprised to meet a striking young woman, Lise Beauclerc. Her relief at not having to pose for a man turns to infatuation as she observes Lise during their sessions, creating fantasies in her mind during the hours she poses.Colette has no idea if Lise would return her affections and when she finally gets up the courage to ask her out, their connection is more than she’d ever hoped for. However, a few days later, Lise introduces her to Marcel, her former fiance. They seem intimately involved and Colette is devastated. Will her dreams of Lise be unrequited?
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Category Archives: The Unabashed Francophile
Movie: Rust & Bone (De rouille et d’os)
I wasn’t sure what to expect of this film, having only read the barest of blurbs before I saw it as a part of the Calgary International Film Festival. It caught my notice because it was French language, and it … Continue reading
Article: Language is Music (from the New Yorker)
I just read a fascinating article posted in the New Yorker, by Mary Hawthorne, entitled LANGUAGE IS MUSIC. Most of the piece is a response (from various translators) regarding an editorial by Lawrence Summers in the NYT, which opined that, … Continue reading
Today is Bastille Day
Or in French: la Fête Nationale. It commemorates the storming of the Bastille in 1789, which you may recall as the beginning of the French Revolution. After the Revolution, France became a republic. There are three ideals of the republic … Continue reading
The Unabashed Francophile Post, Part 14: My Trip to Paris (5)
After a very long lie-in, recovering from our night at Le Bilboquet, we spent the remainder of the day in gorgeous Montmartre. Montmartre is, of course, the home of the strikingly beautiful Sacre Coeur basilica. It sits at the highest … Continue reading
The Unabashed Francophile Post, Part 13: Papercraft Paris
Found on boingboing, this is a fun little papercraft set to make anywhere into a miniature Paris. I used it to cheer up my cubicle at work. Now, instead of just looking out at the snow, I can look at … Continue reading
The Unabashed Francophile Post, Part 12: My Trip to Paris (4)
After three busy days I spent the fourth resting. I caught up on some reading (the novel ‘The Outsider’ by Camus) and watched episodes of the television series Largo Winch on M6. In 2003, the second series of the show … Continue reading
The Unabashed Francophile Post, Part 11: My Trip to Paris (3)
Oh, my third day in Paris was a lot of fun! After a nice lie-in, we went to the Cimetière du Montparnasse. There are hundreds of famous people buried here (including the chess great Alekhine, philosopher Baudrillard, Charles Baudelaire, Guy … Continue reading
The Unabashed Francophile Post, Part 10: My Trip to Paris (2)
In re-reading my journal, I’d nearly forgotten that the summer of 2003 was a bad one for Paris. When I was there in June, the temperatures hovered around 30C, but later in the summer, a number of elderly people died … Continue reading
The Unabashed Francophile Post, Part 9: My Trip to Paris (1)
I went to Paris in June of 2003, as a very generous birthday gift from my parents. My father was working there for six weeks. I hadn’t been working at all, having been diagnosed with a chronic illness, and without … Continue reading
The Unabashed Francophile Post, Part 8: Daniel Auteuil
Daniel Auteuil is one of the very few actors whose films I will watch without reserve. If I could find more of his films here, I’d be in heaven. The first film I saw was Sade. Set during the French … Continue reading
