Short Fiction Friday: “This Is What I Want” by Megan Hart
Short Fiction Friday is a feature I’ve seen on my dear friend Courtney’s blog, Once Upon a Bookshelf and on Audra’s blog, Unabridged Chick. Credit goes to them. I am but a sheep in need of knocking through some short stories … baaaaa.
“This Is What I Want” by Megan Hart. © 2007. Found in Naughty Bits 2: An Anthology of Short Erotic. © 2010 Spice Books. ISBN 9780373605415. Source: NetGalley
Synopsis
Eve Grant has been hurt in the past and so she decided to come up with an online alter-ego, Eris Apparent (because her computer will never let her down like men have). Eris posts a daily sex blog full of various fantasies all about an unknown man, and has quite the following. Eve loves the instant gratification she gets from the website, it’s a thrill to refresh the page to see what new comments are there. Ignoring a memo about personal web surfing on company time, Eve begins checking her blog from work. Leaving her desk unattended one morning to grab a cuppa, the IT specialist—”six-foot-four of gorgeous and a half inch of fantastic”—Lane DeMarco gets a peek while fixing her computer. Soon Eris has a new follower — Tell_Me — and slowly they go from commenting to each other on the blog to steamy instant messaging. But what happens when her online playtime collides with her real life?
Review
Once again, Megan Hart delivers.
No one reads erotica for the plot, but Megan always weaves the two together, giving us an actual story as well as some, okay a lot of, steamy goodness. The plot, while good, is predictable (we the reader know that Tell_Me is Lane despite Eve’s cluelessness and of course, they eventually get together) but who cares? I read erotica to escape, to forget about the craziness of a day.
And Megan gives us that, and for that simple reason I’ll always recommend her. She knows how to write a fantastic sex scene. No awkward adjectives or nouns to be found here, and I love how the h/h are never really described too terribly much, leaving the reader to picture someone of their choosing perhaps? *wink*


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