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The first Wednesday of each month, members of IWSG announce a question that members can answer in their IWSG Day post. These questions may prompt you to share insight or a personal experience or story. Remember, the question is optional.
IWSG was founded by Alex J. Cavanaugh and is a forum of writers who gather to talk about writing and the writer's life.
The awesome co-hosts for the June 3 posting of the IWSG are Pat Garcia, J.Q. Rose, and Natalie Aguirre!
June 3 question: Writers have secrets! What are one or two of yours, something readers would never know from your work?
OK, my secret came out of my mother’s underwear drawer.
Now before you go thinking kinky of me...
You should know my mother was an avid reader...
On the bookshelves in our living room was an eclectic mix: Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Balzac’s Droll Stories, One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, Shelley’sFrankenstein.
(These books had fantastic illustrations)
Also: Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Tolstoy, DeFoe, Dickens, Robert Frost, Homer, Lewis Carol, and dozens more.
And on the coffee table were the bestsellers of the early ‘60’s: Hawaii, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Agony and the Ecstasy, plus stacks of Reader’s Digest monthly selections.
One hot summer day when I was eleven, I was talking with my mom in her bedroom as she ironed my dad’s shirts, and I spotted a paperback book on her bed.
She saw me look and, faster than a cheetah chasing a wildebeest, she snatched that book and stuffed it in her underwear drawer.
Well, curious, as all kids are,
I went into that drawer the next day, which happened to be Wednesday—her weekly coffee klatch with the neighbor women—and found buried treasure under the underwear!
The Carpetbaggers
and...
Tropic of Cancer.
So you're probably guessing...
That many Wednesdays after that...
When my mother was at the coffee klatch...
I went into her underwear drawer...
And read...
Not just those two paperbacks...
But many more.
But many more.
Needless to say...
I got an eye-opening early sex education...
And...
I never looked at my parents quite the same way after that.
But to better answer today's question...
Readers may not know from this blog...
I sometimes write erotic short stories.
Anyone surprised?
So?
Whats your dirty little secret?
Well, it doesn’t have to be dirty.
I sometimes write erotic short stories.
Anyone surprised?
So?
Whats your dirty little secret?
Well, it doesn’t have to be dirty.
Always,
Em-Musing
7 comments:
LOL! I remember when I was about 12-13 a friend brought her mom's copy of The Happy Hooker to school. Like you, I got an education all right.
Good thing you didn't look in your father's drawers...
Oh my! Yes! My mom bought those "dirty" gossip magazines and hid them under the cushions on the couch. Cute story. Thanks for sharing!
JQ Rose
Fun and funny story! Not sure I ever got near my mother's underwear drawer!
When I was 11, I remember reading books just because adults told me not to. I feel you!
With Love,
Mandy
I was about 14 when I found a box of books hidden in my mother's closet. They weren't on the best seller list or classics by any means, but they sure gave me an education! Interesting link to the past that makes me wonder if you ever talked with your mother about this. I didn't.
I think if I were in your situation when I was 11 I would have done the same (looking in books that were forbidden for us kids to read)! I used to skim through the adult level paperbacks in the grocery stores when I was around 11 or 12. I did it with a novel adaptation of "Alien" and a mystery novel titled something like "Murder In the Kitchen". Funny how when you're a kid and what you know can be traumatising for you to read or look at your inclined to do it anyway! lol
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