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Recently defected from the world of public education, I am a freelance copywriter by day and a novelist by night. Other secret identities of mine include housewife, mother, bellydancer, graduate student, and Pagan High Priestess (minister). You might like to think of me as a Renaissance woman, a modern pansophia.

Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Sensuality

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There was no self-consciousness between the girls as regarded their new-found intimacy. All the nervous fumbling that had preceeded their encounter was forgotten and replaced by an irrepressible desire to be in each other's company at all possible moments. They were the closest confidants and most energetic playmates, as they had been long ago, as children in Antti's house. Finding time to be together was not a difficult task, given the circumstances of their lives. Every class was shared, every chore, every meal. Their rooms shared a wall, and on many nights the girls shared a bed. They p...

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