Flash Fiction Friday 8-26-11: "It's All About Me"

(Photo this week provided by Red; originally from http://carmenicadiaz.net)

“Oh god. Nearly there,” she moaned.

“That's what you said half an hour ago,” he muttered, voice muffled by her muff.

“No, really, I mean it this time, I.... I...... IIIIiiiieeeeee!!!”  her voice rose to a shriek.

Suddenly she sat up and pushed him away. “Wait, stop, stop!”

“What now?” he groaned.

“I need a picture for my blog. Just let me grab the camera, it won't take long.”

“Yeah. Right.”

“Lens......focal length......exposure time......okay, good. Now I just need to find the perfect angle.”

She looked down at his aggrieved expression. “Well? What're you waiting for? Get back to work.”

(Click for details on FFF!)

Your challenge for today was to use the picture above and write a flash fiction of 80-110 words. Additionally, I provided a key phrase I wanted to see used somewhere in the submission:

"...the perfect angle..."

Nobody's checking word counts, or for the key phrase, but you're only cheating yourself if you break the rules. Unless you're doing it to earn a spanking (in which case, see me after class).

Special Bonus Director's Commentary Track:


When I first saw this pic, it had a mischievous, silly feel to it, as if she'd grabbed a camera while he was doing her in the bathroom and snapped a quick, blurry pic to titillate herself with when she was alone, bored, or what have you. I even tossed around a few phrasings in my head for when I got ready to write it.

Then, when I looked at the pic again, ready to start writing, it wasn't that way at all. Instead, it was a prima donna "blogger girl" who had an overinflated opinion of herself and thought she was the center of the world. Everything had to be about her "blog" and not even an impromptu bit of sex in the bathroom was exempt. The look on her face, I realized, wasn't a look of ecstasy, it was a look of preoccupation and mild annoyance that he kept jostling her just when she was about to snap the shot. I even got a bit angry at her for being such a bitch and obsessing over her stupid camera.

Don't ask me why it struck me this way and why I had such a visceral response. I swear I didn't see it that way the first time.

Disclaimer: I am, of course, not referring to any of you. None of you folks is that prima donna-ish. 

If you are playing along this week, please leave your link below using the widget. It will appear in the text of the post itself, not in the comments, so everyone that's playing will be listed here. This frees me from having to chase people down to find out if they're playing or update the Friday post several times for late entries. Your cooperation is appreciated.

In any case, the participants list is below. Go check them out, and thanks to all who played along.



Check back here on Monday for the next challenge! And if you have any photos or artwork you'd like to see in a future challenge, please send them my way. Thanks to Red for providing this week's photo.

-- PB

Flash Fiction Friday Challenge for 8-26-11

(Photo this week provided by Red; originally from http://carmenicadiaz.net)

Your challenge for this Friday, 8-26-11, is to use the picture above to write a flash fiction of 80-110 words. I would also like you to please use this phrase in your submission:

"...the perfect angle..."

As usual, nobody's checking word counts, or the key phrase, but you only cheat yourself if you break the rules. Unless you're breaking them to earn a spanking....in which case, see me after class.

My take on this pic will go up by 12:01 AM on Friday morning. If you are participating this week (and the more the merrier -- tell all your friends. Enemies, too, if you like), simply stop by any time after that and leave your link using the widget in the body of the post. Then everybody will know you're playing along and they'll come leave nice comments on your entry. Everyone wins!

Here's a button for you if you want to include that in your post. Use it to link back to the challenge post, if you like, or link to the Flash Fiction Friday FAQ if you'd rather do that. Please do provide a link back to either the challenge post, to my main page at http://insatiabear.blogspot.com/, or to the FAQ. The Flash Fiction Friday FAQ is also the link you should visit if you're new to the whole FFF thing and have questions. I want everybody to enjoy this, after all.

(Click for details on FFF!)

Check back here on Friday for the list of participants as well as my own take, and then again on Monday for the next FFF challenge! And as always, if you have any photos or artwork you'd like to see used in an upcoming week, send them my way. Thanks to Red for providing this week's photo!

 -- PB

Flash Fiction Friday 8-19-11: "Delicious"

(Image this week provided by Advizor; original source and title unknown)

"Sorry about the eggs. I'm really a bit rubbish at cooking."

"Mm. I have had more palatable breakfasts."

Curls of smoke drifted up from her cigarette as she gestured, lazily. "Mind you, that could be because this isn't what I wanted for breakfast."

I raised an eyebrow. "And you did want....?"

She rolled her eyes so hard they spun round in the sockets. "You, you idiot."

I blushed like a schoolgirl, but managed to squeak out, "So, um, why don't we get you what you really wanted?"

"Why indeed?" she purred.

(Click for details on FFF!)

Your challenge for today was to use the picture above and write a flash fiction of 69-99 words. Additionally, I provided a key phrase I wanted to see used somewhere in the submission:

"...curls of [noun]..."

Nobody's checking word counts, or for the key phrase, but you're only cheating yourself if you break the rules. Unless you're doing it to earn a spanking (in which case, see me after class).

Special Bonus Director's Commentary Track:


Try as I might, I couldn't think of any other reason these two might be still nude or half-nude at the table unless they were so keen to get back to the bedroom that they hadn't bothered to dress. There is a rather pensive look on the face of the one on the right, but I consciously chose to ignore that, preferring to go with the "barely contained lust" approach. Besides, I've written too much lately that's been dark and/or turbulent and/or depressing and/or pensive. Rather have something cheerful.

This is, I think, the first thing I've posted here where I'm actually writing from the female perspective. I just can't think of the "I" in a story and have it be a female and make it seem right. Hopefully I did all right with this one. 

If you are playing along this week, please leave your link below using the widget. It will appear in the text of the post itself, not in the comments, so everyone that's playing will be listed here. This frees me from having to chase people down to find out if they're playing or update the Friday post several times for late entries. Your cooperation is appreciated.

In any case, the participants list is below. Go check them out, and thanks to all who played along.



Check back here on Monday for the next challenge! And if you have any photos or artwork you'd like to see in a future challenge, please send them my way. Thanks to Advizor for this week's photo!

-- PB

Flash Fiction Friday Challenge for 8-19-11

(Image this week provided by Advizor; original source and title unknown)

I'm back from my biz trip and rarin' to go. Many thanks to those of you who played along over the past couple of weeks even without my mostly-benevolent eye watching over you!

Your challenge for this Friday, 8-19-11, is to use the picture above to rite a flash fiction of 69-99 words. I would also like you to please use this phrase in your submission:

"...curl of [noun]..."

As usual, nobody's checking word counts, or the key phrase, but you only cheat yourself if you break the rules. Unless you're breaking them to earn a spanking....in which case, see me after class.

My take on this pic will go up by 12:01 AM on Friday morning. If you are participating this week (and the more the merrier -- tell all your friends. Enemies, too, if you like), simply stop by any time after that and leave your link using the widget in the body of the post. Then everybody will know you're playing along and they'll come leave nice comments on your entry. Everyone wins!

Here's a button for you if you want to include that in your post. Use it to link back to the challenge post, if you like, or link to the Flash Fiction Friday FAQ if you'd rather do that. Please do provide a link back to either the challenge post, to my main page at http://insatiabear.blogspot.com/, or to the FAQ. That Flash Fiction Friday FAQ is also the link you should visit if you're new to the whole FFF thing and have questions. I want everybody to enjoy this, after all.

(Click for details on FFF!)

Check back here on Friday for the list of participants as well as my own take, and then again on Monday for the next FFF challenge! And as always, if you have any photos or artwork you'd like to see used in an upcoming week, send them my way. Thanks to Advizor for providing this week's photo!

 -- PB

Flash Fiction Friday 8-12-11

(Source image: "Thrust" by Seth Aronson)

 [[Note: No story from me this week as I'm travelling; however, other participants, please leave a link to your own story! Please see below.]]

(Click for details on FFF!)

Your challenge for today was to use the picture above and write a flash fiction of 50-90 words. Additionally, I provided a key phrase I wanted to see used somewhere in the submission:

"...driving deep..."

Nobody's checking word counts, or for the key phrase, but you're only cheating yourself if you break the rules. Unless you're doing it to earn a spanking (in which case, see me after class).

Special Bonus Director's Commentary Track:

A note to all: I am travelling for business from July 16th till mid-August. Didn't have time to create my own take before leaving, but see below for the other participants who did play!

If you are playing along this week, please leave your link below using the widget. It will appear in the text of the post itself, not in the comments, so everyone that's playing will be listed here. This frees me from having to chase people down to find out if they're playing or update the Friday post several times for late entries. Your cooperation is appreciated.

In any case, the participants list is below. Go check them out, and thanks to all who played along.



Check back here on Monday for the next challenge! And if you have any photos or artwork you'd like to see in a future challenge, please send them my way. 

-- PB

TMI Tuesday: Cheating, Infidelity, Wandering Eyes, Et Cetera

 

Her: I saw you flirting with her. Cheater!
Him: It’s not cheating if we don’t have intercourse.

1. You have been separated from your significant other for six months. An attractive, attentive neighbor has paid you flattering attention. It is obvious he/she wishes to take the relationship further. Do you:
a. Dismiss him/her, you’re in a committed relationship.
b. Continue to flirt, but go no further.
c. Fantasize about him/her, but take care of your sexual needs solo.
d. Let the affair become physical.

Most likely a combination of A and C if I find them that attractive, but unless I had discussed it with my significant other ahead of time, I'd make no overt moves to let it become physical. Simply being separated from your partner for a time, unless you have an open relationship, isn't sufficient reason to sleep with someone else. More on this in a bit.

2. A male co-worker whom you have heard is great in bed and very well endowed has been flirting with you a lot. He obviously wishes to start a relationship. Do you:
(This question is for women AND men).
a. Make it clear to him you’re not interested.
b. Flirt with him but go no further
c. Mentally undress him and wonder what he’d be like in bed.
d. Let the relationship become sexual.

This one's easier. A, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I don't date (or sleep with) coworkers, ever. There are just too many opportunities for things to go horribly wrong if the relationship disintegrates. Secondly, although I'm plenty bicurious nowadays, I'm still a virgin as far as guys are concerned, and I think I'd rather have my first experience with a guy be as part of a threesome with a girl. Thirdly, see above re: committed relationship with my significant other (again, more on this in a bit).

3. Your significant other is impotent most of the time, showing little interest in you and little interest in being sexual. Do you:
a. Resign yourself to no sex.
b. Satisfy your needs with masturbation
c. Find someone who can satisfy you sexually but remain with your significant other
d. Leave him or her

Okay, now we're starting to hit close to home, because this has more or less been my own situation for the past year and a half. I started this journal in 2009 because I was upset with our lack of a sex life and her apparent disinterest in doing anything about it. Our sex life has dwindled to practically nothing, I'm always the initiator when we DO have sex, there's absolutely no variety, and in general I'm feeling unwanted and undesirable. I've talked to her but the discussions have always been unsatisfying and one-sided. I would have cut loose long ago if it weren't for the fact that many other things in the relationship weren't

So, basically, I HAVE had to resign myself to no sex, or to satisfying myself with masturbation and/or erotic stories and/or porn. Also, as open as I might be to the idea of an open relationship where both of us are free to sleep with whomever we choose, I know for a fact that SHE is not and would never be open to such an idea, so option C is out. The only remaining option is D, and it's looking more and more these days as if that will be the final choice if she continues to refuse to work on the problem.

4. The last time you and your mate had sex, were you:
a. Concentrating mostly on him/her, and you didn’t even orgasm
b. Thinking about your pleasure and theirs.
c. Concentrating mainly on your own pleasure.
d. Used his/her body as a tool to reach your own orgasm.

Concentrating on her. I was giving her oral (three orgasms' worth, in fact). When I finished, she didn't offer to reciprocate, so I didn't get any of my own pleasure (except the pleasure I always get from pleasing her). Unfortunately this has become an all too common scenario lately.

5. What kind of partner do you prefer while making love or having sex?
a. Tender, loving, slow and sweeet
b. I don’t care, just do me; it’s been a while
c. Tough, take-charge, I like it a little rough
d. Any lovin’ is good lovin’

D is definitely the answer here. I like all kinds of variety in sex. Slow and steady and sweet. Hard and rough. Animalistic and ripping clothes. Quickies sandwiched in between other things. Morning sex. Shower sex. Marathon sex. Role playing. Anything and everything goes, as far as I'm concerned. As long as both partners are enthusiastic, it doesn't matter what kind of sex it is; it's going to be fun.

Bonus: Do you mind if your significant other ogles/checks out another sexy person? What if they comment on that person, do you mind that?

Not in the least. This used to upset me, but over the years I've grown more secure with myself. I know there are plenty of other attractive guys out there besides me, but I'm the one she's going home with at the end of the day. Why should I be upset?

Besides, as I mentioned, I really wouldn't mind if she went so far as to actually sleep with the guy. As long as she talked about it with me in advance, and played safely and responsibly, as far as I'm concerned, she's welcome to do as she pleases.  I don't own her. 

Bonus, Bonus: What are your thoughts on the TMI Tuesday image above and the caption beneath it?

I'm in full agreement with the guy. It isn't cheating if there's no sex involved. Flirting is harmless. Looking is harmless. Besides, if I don't care if you look, why should you care if I look? As the great troubadour Jimmy Buffett notes in his song "Bank of Bad Habits":

A picture's worth a thousand words, just ask a cameraman
And it's no sin to stop and look, I do it when I can
But you have to purge that urge to merge, you have to keep your head
Or trouble is what you will find inside some stranger's bed


The bottom line is: whether I'm up for an "open" relationship or not, my partner isn't. So I can look, and I can flirt, and I can write sexy fantasies or stories, but when all's said and done, I'm still loyal to her, even if we are having problems.

—————————
How to play TMI Tuesday: Copy the above TMI Tuesday questions to your webspace (i.e., a blog). Answer the questions there, then leave a comment below, on this blog post, so we’ll all know where to read your responses. Please don’t forget to link to tmituesdayblog from your website!

On stalkers and being signed up for Twitter accounts

I got two weird pieces of email yesterday. The first one: an auto-notification from Twitter asking me to confirm my newly created Twitter account.

That's a good one. I have less than no interest in Twitter. I don't need to let people know about the sandwich I'm eating, or my latest bathroom visit, as Penny Arcade ably lampooned. I figured some idiot had mistakenly entered my email address when creating their own Twitter account (although, really, how the hell do you think your own email address is "insatiabear" at gmail? That's pretty damned distinctive and you'd figure it would prevent people from getting it confused with their actual email address).

So I clicked the "not my account" link and Twitter helpfully removed me from any notifications about that account. I figured that was the end of it.

Until I got another notification a few hours later, this one being one of the "Join me on Twitter!" exhortations that get sent to somebody when an actual  Twitter user "invites" another person to join them. I got ready to throw that one in the trash as well......

.....and paused. Because the name of the user who'd sent the invite to me was "Mrs. Insatia Bear".

No, seriously. Here's a link to their profile.

Oooooooooookay. I am PRETTY sure I'd remember if I were married. I don't know whether to call this a case of creepy stalkerism or just chalk it up to a case of mistaken identity or confusion over a "common" username (although I had never figured "Insatiabear" would be all that common when I created the Blogger identity and Gmail account some two years ago).

Weird. For now, I guess I'll just ignore the invite, and hope no one shows up on my doorstep wanting to meet me.

So. What's the weirdest thing that's happened to YOU as a result of your sex writings?

-- PB

Flash Fiction Friday Challenge for 8-12-11

(Source image: "Thrust" by Seth Aronson)

Your challenge for this Friday, 8-12-11, is to use the artwork above to write a flash fiction of 50-90 words. Since everyone seems to be enjoying the required phrases, please use this phrase in your submission:

"...driving deep..."

As usual, nobody's checking word counts, or the key phrase, but you only cheat yourself if you break the rules. Unless you're breaking them to earn a spanking....in which case, see me after class.

My take on this pic will go up by 12:01 AM on Friday morning. If you are participating this week (and the more the merrier), simply stop by any time after that and leave your link using the widget in the body of the post. Then everybody will know you're playing along and they'll come leave nice comments on your entry. Everyone wins!

**PLEASE READ: Note that I will be travelling for business reasons starting July 16th until mid-August. There will be a scheduled FFF Challenge each Monday while I'm gone, and a Friday "link collector" post, but I may or may not have the time to create my own story for the challenge each week. Because I don't do any NSFW stuff on my laptop, I also probably won't have email access during that time and also may not be able to leave comments on the other entries. 


That said, please don't let these differences keep you from playing anyway! The challenge entry will still go up each Monday and the link collector post will still appear each Friday. If you email me or leave comments, but I don't answer, it's not because I'm ignoring you -- I'm just off the grid for a time.

Here's a button for you if you want to include that in your post. Use it to link back to the challenge post, if you like, or link to the Flash Fiction Friday FAQ if you'd rather do that. That Flash Fiction Friday FAQ is also the link you should visit if you're new to the whole FFF thing and have questions. I want everybody to enjoy this, after all.

(Click for details on FFF!)

Check back here on Friday for the list of participants and possibly my own take if I've been able to create one, and then again on Monday for the next FFF challenge! And as always, if you have any photos or artwork you'd like to see used in an upcoming week, send them my way.

 -- PB

Flash Fiction Friday 8-5-11

(Photo provided by Lexi; original source unknown)

 [[Note: No story from me this week as I'm travelling; however, other participants, please leave a link to your own story! Please see below.]]

(Click for details on FFF!)

Your challenge for today was to use the picture above and write a flash fiction of 80-160 words. Additionally, I provided a key phrase I wanted to see used somewhere in the submission:

"...strangled cry..."

Nobody's checking word counts, or for the key phrase, but you're only cheating yourself if you break the rules. Unless you're doing it to earn a spanking (in which case, see me after class).

Special Bonus Director's Commentary Track:

A note to all: I am travelling for business from July 16th till mid-August. Didn't have time to create my own take before leaving, but see below for the other participants who did play!

If you are playing along this week, please leave your link below using the widget. It will appear in the text of the post itself, not in the comments, so everyone that's playing will be listed here. This frees me from having to chase people down to find out if they're playing or update the Friday post several times for late entries. Your cooperation is appreciated.

In any case, the participants list is below. Go check them out, and thanks to all who played along.



Check back here on Monday for the next challenge! And if you have any photos or artwork you'd like to see in a future challenge, please send them my way. Thanks to Lexi for providing this week's photo!

-- PB

New story up: "First Class Train Travel"

The relative newcomers here may be surprised to learn that I don't just post Flash Fiction Friday stuff, but do also write other stories, fantasies, and whatnot. I just haven't had the spare time in the past couple months. However, I'm trying to get back in the habit. In fact I posted a new tale on Saturday night, called "First Class Train Travel". And then forgot that my automated FFF challenge for this week would post twenty minutes later, effectively wiping out the story in most folks' feeds.

So, if you'd like to read something new from me, please, by all means, check out First Class Train Travel. I hope you enjoy. 

-- PB