Finding Ms. Write by JaeMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Consignment
by Elaine Burnes
New England, Bookstore, writer, bookstore owner
A bookstore owner and a writer hook up. Certain angst develops when the bookstore owner realizes what a writer can do if you piss them off (though different writer than one dating). Makes her afraid.
Okay story.
Rating: 3.7
November 5 2016
Cherry Park Pulp
by Jove Belle
New York (I think), 1950, writer
It's 1950 (I think, based on a line that it's been five years since the war ended) and a housewife has a book club. Her husband is cheating on her with one of her a) neighbors; b) friends, but the housewife doesn't really care because she's actually a lesbian. Oh, and secretly she's a successful lesbian writer (as in she's released lesbian pulp under a pen name).
Barb's book club has a shocking suggestion - the books lately have been boring, let's read lesbian pulp. Barb's somewhat panic-y that somehow they'll learn that she's a published author of lesbian books and somewhat distracted by Muriel - one of her friend's nieces who is 'obviously' a) a lesbian and b) flirting with her.
Several book club meetings go by. They've read several lesbian books. Muriel's flirtations increase with each meeting until . . . fumbling occurs. More stuff happens. The, abrupt, end.
Interesting story but it was kind of abrupt.
Rating: 3.45
December 28 2016
Books, Renovations, and a Vespa
by Melissa Grace
An editor attempts to do edits while renovations are going on at her house (where she also happens to work). One of the people who wander over to work on the place is a woman named Jo. Jo and Virginia Wolf (the editor) flirt and do flirting like stuff.
(view spoiler)
Rating: 2
December 31 2016
Kindred Spirits
by Lea Daley
Grief, partner died, age-older-grey-hair
A story about two women whose partner's died (separately and by different means). One, whose partner passed away a while ago, attempts to help the other whose partner died six months ago.
A year or more passes.
A really nice, lovely story.
Rating: 4.98
January 13 2017
Between the Lines
by A.L. Brooks
London, Publishing Company
Creepy stalkerish vibe. Made me physically ill.
A woman works in a publishing company in London. She gets warned when she starts working there about a real ‘player’. That player openly, shortly thereafter, asks the main woman out. She – the main woman is horrified and shuns her. Attempts to date another woman though there is no spark.
Begins receiving notes – like inside her locked locker, in her purse, etc. That’s the creepy stalkerish vibe part. That’s just . . . wrong. Icky. Horrifying. Gross.
Rating: 0.005
January 14 2017
Romance on a Side Note
by Chris Zett
Book finder; mystery; family
Short, sweet. About an elderly lady looking for her long lost pen pal & the woman helping her look (from the POV of the helper) - hmms.
A woman works as a book finder – wandering book sales and the like, looking for specific books people want found. While at a library sale she gets knocked down by a woman screaming ‘mine!’ Did she really get involved in a fight at a library book sale? Or . . did she not? Turns out the woman who knocked her down is using a walker and claims she isn’t used to it – blames it on the accident.
And, it turns out, that woman was looking for a specific book. One she and another person wrote notes to each other in. When both, well at least one, was a kid – her family moved suddenly so she wasn’t able to let the other know. It’s been a really long time now, but she’d like the book again and heard of the sale.
The book finder, without being asked to do it, and on her own, begins a search. Along the way she bumps into a friendly librarian who she gets help from. And a little bit of flirting as well.
Neat story.
Rating: 3.9
January 15 2017
Wrote Trip
by Cori Kane
Age: 20s; Age: 30s; roadtrip; slice of life; age difference, Author/writer
Nice snippet, liked the characters. Ended abruptly. Not an actual full story.
Ooh – I was going to go with ‘no idea what this one is about, can’t recall it now’ but I believe this one is the hitchhiker one – woman in her thirties driving along – she has one last book in a trilogy to write but she just can’t get into it, so she needs a trip, a vacation from it all. Along the way she spots a woman on the side of the road and impulsively stops to pick her up – she has found that driving by herself on a roadtrip to be super boring.
Neat enough snippet – the two, the 20 year old hitchhiker, and the 30 year old author, have a nice little conversation. With flirting.
Rating: 4.12
January 15 2017
Orphans' Christmas
by Kathy Brodland
Age: 50s; Age: 60s; Holiday; Christmas
Nice story about retired people having a Christmas meal together.
Now this one I remember – I just don’t know what all else to write – one couple holds a Christmas meal for ‘orphans’ – people who are ‘celebrating’ Christmas by themselves. Including the main character. This is an older group of people – grey hair, the weight of years (and fat), the busted leg, the wheelchairs, etc.
Rating: 3.77
January 15 2017
Vegan Delights
by Hazel Yeats
Neighbors flirt with each other, write each other erotic stories involving themselves.
And that’s basically all I remember. And I only remember that because I’m reading it in front of my eyeballs. I really have no recollection of this story. And my helpful little snippet isn’t telling me anything – isn’t getting me any recall of the story. Mmphs.
Rating: 3.22
January 15 2017
Cruise
by Jacelle Scott
Cruise, Age . . . grey hair
Two women go on a cruise – share the same room. But they didn’t know each other beforehand – they just got ‘shared accommodation’ rooms on the cruise to nowhere cruise-ship.
My snippet I wrote in my status updates isn’t really fair – ‘well that one was kind of creepy’. I meant that in how I kind of didn’t like either character, and how condescending one was and . . well, stuff.
Rating: 3.15
January 18 2017
Sex Sells
by Jae
Writer, Editor
A woman is in public talking on the phone – specifically with her editor. She’s thinking of how to kill someone (then saying so loudly – again in public). Editor mentions something about how those books that include romance tend to sell a lot more copies than books like what the author currently writes (mysteries). They discuss this. Then fumbling over what a ‘date’ means.
Neat story. I want more stories involving these two characters. I like them. Sadly this is more of a snippet than anything else. It’s not even really a full short story. More of a snippet.
Rating: 4.15
January 18 2017
Faux Pas
by Anastasia Vitsky
Humor, BDSM, Writer
A wife of a writer tries to distract her wife by wearing new underwear (one of which says ‘spank me’ on them), then asking her BDSM author wife to spank her. The wife is distracted, confused, and not realizing what’s going on (not that she isn’t turned on by her wife, she just isn’t getting the message).
Leads to much fumbling around and humor. I read something recently that mentioned how the reviewer liked how the people in the sexual acts seemed ‘real’ in what they were reading (a cracking knee as a person stands, etc.), well here we have something similar. ‘Realness’. I might have given a slightly higher rating if there wasn’t ‘surprise’ BDSM sprung on people.
Rating: 4.20
January 18 2017
Overall
Consignment
by Elaine Burnes - 3.7
Cherry Park Pulp
by Jove Belle - 3.45
Books, Renovations, and a Vespa
by Melissa Grace - 2
Kindred Spirits
by Lea Daley - 4.98
Between the Lines
by A.L. Brooks - 0.005
Romance on a Side Note
by Chris Zett - 3.9
Wrote Trip
by Cori Kane - 4.12
Orphans' Christmas
by Kathy Brodland - 3.77
Vegan Delights
by Hazel Yeats - 3.22
Cruise
by Jacelle Scott – 3.15
Sex Sells
by Jae – 4.15
Faux Pas
by Anastasia Vitsky – 4.20
Overall rating: 3.38708
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