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 troubled 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 story publishes weekly through Tantalizing Tales and the list of currently available chapters is Here.
Writing
I write about women who desire and how they experience pleasure. I don't write about women who want to be desired and how they provide pleasure.
Desire is power. It establishes subjectivity. It creates sovereignty.
Velvet Trap (Historical, Psychoanalytic): Members of an underground fetish club challenge the era's boundaries (1935). Troubled relationships evolve through transgressions, and the historical setting amplifies the forbidden with women who claim the male privileges of work and pleasure. TALES FROM THE VELVET TRAP | SECRETS OF THE VELVET TRAP
Darklaw (Epic Fantasy): Ambition and love intersect in graphic violence 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-order, duty-pleasure, life-death. DARKLAW COMPENDIUM(publication) | BLOOD DRIES | DARKLAW SAGA | SAVAGE SINRU
BDSM & Kink (shorts and essays): Pleasure challenges mainstream sexuality, gender, and power with alternative sexual dynamics derived from my own life and experiences in a fetish community. LIST
In my Good Omens fanfiction (at AO3 and my only M/M writing), 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. You can find over 100 of my stories in my LISTS
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.
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A short biography: ABOUT ME
VELVET TRAP FACEBOOK PAGE | Links, excerpts, and illustrations for the serial novel
DARKLAW COMPENDIUM | All the continuing series with stories and art. Grimdark Epic fantasy. Contains violence, sex.
GOOD OMENS (GAY M/M) FAN FICTION at Archive of Our Own (AO3):
What My Bio Means
My exploration of erotic power dynamics, coupled with transgression, 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. My favorite fiction comes from Dostoevsky, Ursula Le Guin, Marge Piercy, Graham Greene, Fitzgerald, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, as well as lesbian pulp fiction and comic books.
----- The images above are portraits I painted in Procreate of the three main characters from the serial novel Secrets of the Velvet Trap: Eleanor, Vivian, and Eddie.
The profile avatar is me with a Gin Rickey in 2024.