Showing posts with label hate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hate. Show all posts

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Sunday Snog / New Release: Divided We Fall (#multiracial #charity #kiss)



I’m showcasing my newest book today, a 7500 word short story entitled Divided We Fall. I wrote this piece in reaction to the flood of hate and prejudice we seem to be drowning in these days. All proceeds from this book support Planned Parenthood, who provide essential health services to women, especially impoverished women, in the US and around the world.

Since this is a Sunday, I’ve got a brief kiss excerpt for you, as part of Victoria’s Sunday Snog blog hop. I will also donate $1 to Planned Parenthood for every comment I get on this post.

When you’re done here, I hope you’ll head back to the Sunday Snog launching page, for more sexy kisses.

Blurb

Hate takes too high a toll

Linhs three year old brother has wandered out of Viet Village into Niggertown. Despite the danger, she has no choice but to go looking for him in hostile territory. She manages to convince the rifle-toting guard at the entrance to the black ghetto to help her search, using a mixture of bribery and bravado. As they comb the desolate streets of Niggertown, seeking any trace of Duy, Linh discovers that the barrios inhabitants arent necessarily the violent, drug-addled brutes shes been taught to hate, and by the time Linh and Steel have rescued the injured toddler and spent a long night hiding in a derelict building, she has come to understand who are their real enemies.

Please note: This book includes racial slurs that might not be considered acceptable by some readers. Using these terms was deliberate, and necessary, since they are symptoms of the inter-group prejudice and suspicion that provide the main conflict in this story.

Snog Excerpt

It feels natural to move from eating to kissing. Giggling like kids, we lick the jerky grease from each other’s lips. His are full and plump, softer than Hai’s, but his stubble scratches my cheeks in a way no Viet man’s ever would. I seal his mouth with mine, tasting the sweet-tart remnants of his tomatoes. He threads his fingers through my hair, tugging at the roots while he consumes me. Each strand is a fuse, lighting firecrackers in my pussy.

I open to his probing tongue and give him control, at least for a while. Steel plunges deeper, thrusting hard, fucking me already though we’re still dressed. The thought arouses me so much I take back the initiative. Wrapping my arms around his neck, I use my weight to push him back onto the piled bedding. My lips slide away from his. I lap at his prickly chin, nibble along his jawline, plant tiny kisses at the pulse point of his throat. Gradually I work my way down his hairless, sticky chest, tasting tomato juice and sweat. When I run my tongue along the scar, he groans and grabs my ass, arching up to grind his swollen bulk against my clit. That makes me moan, at least until he flips me over and silences me with more kisses.

Hands in the darkness—my hands, his hands—fumble with zippers, claw at waistbands, shred the fabric we can’t push out of the way. Finally, there’s skin and heat and hardness, his cock an apt fit to his name, sliding into my liquid center. He moves like a vast wave, surging, cresting, breaking inside me, then gathering power once again. I rock on the swell of his relentless, delicious rhythm. Sometimes I drift, letting the pleasure sweep me out to sea. Sometimes I fight, gasping for breath, drowning in raw sensation.

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So leave me a comment. Tell me what you think we can do to stem the tide of hate. I’ll donate a dollar to PPA for each person who joins the conversation.


Thursday, December 1, 2016

Responding to hate (#charity #love #lgbtq)


Hope for Pulse anthology

So there’s a lot of talk now, about fighting the hate that was stirred up by the recent U.S. election. Many of us have been shocked and distressed by the casual cruelty in the words of the new President-elect and his supporters. Statistic show that hate crimes—attacks on members of minorities, on the disabled and on women—have increased significantly over the course of the campaign and especially since the election itself. Some people now feel that it’s okay to physically attack people different from them, people they don’t trust, people on the “other side”.

That’s not us, we say. We care. We have compassion. We’re going to fight those right-wingers, crush those damned bigots, emasculate those deplorables who can’t make it in today’s world, so they have to take it out on someone more vulnerable. We’ll battle to the very last breath to wipe them out...

Um...do we really think we can fight hate with more hate? I don’t think so. Violence breeds violence (for instance, many abusive parents were themselves abused as children), and negativity simply triggers even stronger negative reactions from the opposing side. Hate is not a solution.

I know this may sound ridiculous, but I am convinced the only way to fight hate is through love and understanding. That means recognizing that everyoneno matter what their politics or religion or views on abortion or gay rights—every person has his or her own world view, his or her own reasons for believing and acting in a certain way. We can disapprove of a person’s opinions or actions, but when we condemn the individual rather than the actions, we’re falling into the same trap as the haters. Labeling a person as the enemy, inhuman, makes them the Other, and implies that it’s okay to hate them, even hurt them. That accelerates the spiral of distrust and violence.

What can do we do, then, to hold back what seems like a rising tide of inhumanity? Start by being human ourselves, modeling compassion in our own lives the greatest extent possible. That includes opposing injustice and evil when we can. We can demonstrate to bear witness. We can sign petitions. We can run for office, or volunteer for causes that uphold humanity. We can (as I do) write stories and give them away to support charities that work against the hate.

Each of us can make a contribution. But I truly believe we need to start by letting go of the hate and anger that turn other human beings into inhuman targets. Otherwise we’re no better than they are.

For a list of the charitable anthologies that include my stories, see http://www.lisabetsarai.com/books_antho.html