Secrets of the Velvet Trap
Secrets of the Velvet Trap is a Depression-era, slow-burn psychological drama about the turbulent relationship between Dr. Eleanor Wentworth, a radical psychoanalyst, and her patient, Edith “Eddie” Langley, a young reporter. With her compulsion for broken women, Eleanor finds herself inexorably drawn in by Eddie’s wounded sexuality, and their professional relationship evolves into a passionate affair.
The images above are covers painted for the first 24 chapters of the serial novel. The story publishes weekly through Tantalizing Tales and the list of currently available chapters is Here.
Writing
From historical to epic fantasy to contemporary kink, my fiction immerses readers in themes of power, desire, transgression, and moral ambiguity experienced through (mostly) lesbian relationships. Here on Medium, you'll find my writing since 2022. Before that, I was published on Amazon.
Members of an underground fetish club challenge the era's boundaries in the Velvet Trap novel and stories. Troubled relationships evolve through transgressive desires, and the historical setting amplifies the forbidden with women who claim the male privileges of work and pleasure.
Ambition and love intersect in graphic violence in the Darklaw novel and stories, driving larger-than-life power struggles. True omnipotence doesn't ease the challenges for those destined to rule the world because duality defines the gods: chaos-control, duty-desire, life-death.
In my Good Omens fanfiction (at AO3), societal shifts and lost ideals frame power dynamics. The explicit master-slave dynamic is fraught with ambivalence and never fully articulated as the two angels struggle with love's tenderness and passion's greed.
My constant exploration of erotic power dynamics, coupled with transgression and challenges to convention, might describe a sinthome. The themes I keep returning to in my stories reflect something essential about how I experience the world and where I sometimes stumble into jouissance. Both concepts arise from the work of psychoanalyst and philosopher Jacques Lacan.
I'm a voracious consumer of 20th-century philosophy, history, and psychoanalysis focused on language, power, and subjectivity. My favorite thinkers are Freud, Bataille, Lacan, Foucault, Kristeva.
SHORTS (from flash fiction to long stories and nonfiction)
SERIALS (long-form parsed out in stories or chapters)
SERIES (shorts that follow the same characters)
ANTHOLOGIES (same universe stories)
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Illustration
I paint most of the covers for my stories. I'm a digital painter using Procreate, Clip Studio Paint, and Adobe Photoshop. I use an iPad Pro for creating and a desktop computer for edits. I often write about my process on art posts.
Links & Social
A short biography: ABOUT ME
ALL MY LISTS | Content warnings listed by story
VELVETTRAP.COM | Link to the List here on Medium
VELVET TRAP FACEBOOK PAGE | Links, excerpts, illustrations for the serial novel
DARKLAW COMPENDIUM | Continuing series, trilogy with stories and art. Grimdark Epic fantasy. Contains violence, sex. (Publication)
TWITTER X: https://twitter.com/teresawymore
GOOD OMENS (GAY M/M) FAN FICTION: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Winkibot
What My Bio Means
Lacan speaks to my experience.
