By
Cheyenne Blue (Guest Blogger)
Hello
everyone, and firstly, huge thanks to Lisabet for once again hosting
me on her blog.
I’m
here to talk about my second anthology, First: Sensual
Lesbian Stories of New
Beginnings.
The
theme for First may seem obvious—you’re probably thinking
this is another anthology of first lesbian sexual experiences. Well,
yes… and very definitely no.
When
I pitched the idea to Ladylit, I wanted to build a collection that
took a wider sweep over the landscape of first times. I hoped for
stories that captured the emotions that accompany first experiences,
whatever they may be. And that is what I got. The fifteen stories
that make up First have captured anticipation, fear,
excitement, redemption, anger, wonder, exhilaration,, and of course
love and lust and these emotions are woven into a plethora of varied
tales.
Of
course, there are some very fine stories of first time lesbian
sex in this erotic collection—it wouldn’t be complete without
these stories.
I
hope you enjoy the anthology.
Blurb
Dive
into these fifteen sizzling tales of lesbian love and romance and
experience the wonder, the joy, and the magic of new beginnings.
A
woman sees her lover for the first time after years of blindness. For
the first time in her life, a top trusts her girlfriend enough to let
her take control. A connection forged in a bar in New Mexico
encourages a breast cancer survivor to take a lover. Stories of new
love and first lesbian encounters intermingle with other emotional
and physical firsts, and the excitement of new experiences: an around
the world flight, the thrill of a carnival, and even the first time
to see the sea.
With
fantastic stories by favorite writers such as Sacchi Green, Harper
Bliss, Annabeth Leong, Allison Wonderland, and Jeremy Edwards, the
variety in this anthology means there is something for everyone.
Table
of Contents
Roses and Thorns by Annabeth Leong
The Opposite of Darkness by Harper Bliss
The Talkies by Jeremy Edwards
Before the Bus Comes by Tamsin Flowers
Whole Again by Brenda Murphy
Pulling by Sacchi Green
The First Peonies by Ivy Newman
Repossession by Emily L. Byrne
That Summer by Vanessa de Sade
Amelia by Cheyenne Blue
The Ghost of She by Jillian Boyd
The Sum of Our Parts by Andi Marquette
Soar Spot by Allison Wonderland
Sea by Rosie Bower
Dissolving by Cela Winter
First:
Sensual Lesbian Stories of New Beginnings
is available direct from Ladylit Publishing
Or
from Amazon at the following links:
Add
it to your Goodreads Shelf:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26220970-first
My
own story "Amelia" is my take on the disappearance of
Amelia Earhart, the legendary pilot who disappeared while attempting
an around-the-world flight. Here's the start of that story:
When the fuel
finally runs out, the engines splutter and fall into silence. Now
there’s only the thud of her heart in her ears, the quiet sky and
its heavy-bellied white clouds. The increasing panic that had
consumed her as she’d tried and failed to contact the ship that was
supposed to guide her in to land vanishes. Amelia is calm now, with a
clear-headed detachment. She’s an experienced pilot; she knows how
the Electra will glide, how it will swoop over the winds of the
Pacific, descending, descending, until she bellies down in the ocean.
Next
to her, Fred, the navigator whispers “Oh my God, oh sweet Jesus,
save our souls” over and over, and one part of her mind thinks how
predictable he is, turning religious as the plane and the sky part
company and the possibility of death arises.
“Stop
that,” she snaps. “Look for land. Howland Island should be here,
according to you.”
He
stares at her with wide frantic eyes, and she thinks, not for the
first time, that the two of them are mismatched as pilot and
navigator. She doesn’t even like him much--his inane conversation
irks her, as does his habit of releasing gas, blaming the altitude of
flight. The thought flashes through her mind that if the Electra
crashes into the ocean she might die next to this buffoon, instead of
with her husband, or one of her lovers. She shuts that thought out
and scans the water. Howland Island is small and flat to the ocean.
They could be almost on top of it and not know.
Fred
is now reciting the Lord’s Prayer. She flicks him an irritated
glance. His eyes are closed. She shouts at him to open his goddamned
eyes and look for land, and he might manage to put off meeting his
maker for a while longer. He does as he’s told, and they both
search the ocean as the plane sinks lower, floating though the layers
of wind and air currents, the sea below and Fred's heaven above.
They
both see the island at the same moment. It's small, a tiny droplet of
land in the expanse of water. It’s dead ahead, and they are too
high, it’s too close, and she has no hope of banking or circling
back to it. She has to put the plane down sharply and hope there is
somewhere forgiving for the plane’s resting place. Amelia adjusts
the controls, the little plane shudders, responds, noses down at a
steeper angle. Too sharp, she knows, but this is their only option.
Her fingers sure on the wheel. She can do it, she knows that. She
sees dense green vegetation, and a flock of birds that come bursting
out, startled by the silver plane above them that must look like some
giant bird of prey.
There
is somewhere to land. A lagoon—softest blue, shimmering
aquamarine—ringed by jungle, a narrow collar of land around this
jewel. She can see the lagoon is shallow—there’s the lazy flap of
a ray in the clear water—and she levels out the Electra so that its
belly is nearly skimming the water. Fred is tight-knuckled beside
her; no doubt he thinks he procured this miraculous island by the
power of his prayer.
Cheyenne
Blue’s
erotic
fiction
has
been
included
in
over
90
erotic
anthologies
since
2000,
including
Best
Lesbian
Erotica,
Best
Women’s
Erotica,
Sweat,
Bossy,
and
Wild
Girls,
Wild
Nights.
As
well
as
First:
Sensual
Lesbian
Stories
of
New
Beginnings,
she
is
the
editor
of
Forbidden
Fruit:
stories
of
unwise
lesbian
desire
(Ladylit).
Her
collected
lesbian
short
fiction
is
published
by
Ladylit
as
Blue
Woman
Stories
– volumes
1
to
3,
with
more
to
come.
Under
her
own
name
she
has
written
travel
books
and
articles,
and
edited
anthologies
of
local
writing
in
Ireland.
She
has
lived
in
the
U.K.,
Ireland,
Colorado,
and
Switzerland,
but
now
writes,
runs,
makes
bread
and
cheese
and
drinks
wine
by
the
beach
in
Queensland,
Australia.
Check
out
her
blog
at
www.cheyenneblue.com,
on
Twitter
at
IamCheyenneBlue
and
on
Goodreads
at
https://www.goodreads.com/CheyenneBlue
