David’s a graduate student about to finish his thesis. Michael’s his advisor and former instructor. The two shouldn’t have feelings for each other, but after two years of friendship and longing, David can no longer deny what he’s feeling. Is Michael ready to accept being more than a teacher to a man fifteen years younger? And if they give into their desires, is it only a way for them to say goodbye?

A Lesson in Truth
Contemporary Erotic Short Story
10 pages, Word Count: 3,900

I hope you enjoy it.
Sloan

Today I’m loving this story:
Long Island lovebirds celebrate 60-year anniversary at Waldorf Astoria – and at 1950′s prices!

“These 60 years were the happiest years of my life,” Robert said to his wife at the altar of the Lady Chapel in the rear of the majestic Fifth Ave. cathedral.

“I love you and will marry you again if you want, for another 60 years.”

It’s nice to hear about love still going strong after 60 years. Cheers to Robert and Edith!!
Sloan Parker

“Love is always bestowed as a gift — freely, willingly, and without expectation… We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.”

-Leo Buscaglia

Isn’t it lovely?
Sloan

Yes, I’m posting another quote about love this week. I’m a hopeless romantic. I freely admit it.

“The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvellous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.”

-Sir Hugh Walpole

Hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week and that love accidentally finds you if it hasn’t already.

Sloan

I’d love for you to stop by and share your reasons for reading romance and/or erotic romance.

Why erotic romances? Is it more than sex & lust?

Many thanks,
Sloan

After a short break I’m back to editing my next book Breathe, and so I thought I’d use a quote today that says something to me about the story, the characters, and their relationship.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same.

- Flavia Weedn

This isn’t an exact fit, but it does capture a lot of what the story means to me.

Hope you all meet someone today who will leave a footprint on your heart.
Sloan Parker

I’ve been working on revisions for my current work-in-progress, Breathe. Part of the goal of this last round of edits was to increase the romantic tension and build up the emotion in every scene.

Focusing on the love and desire in my work puts me in a romantic mood, so today I’m sharing some of my favorite quotes about love and passion.

Hope you enjoy these.

“And sometimes when we touch
The honesty’s too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides”
– Dan Hill

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“You’re nothing short of my everything.”
– Ralph Block

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“We are each of us angels with only one wing.
And we can only fly while embracing each other.”
– Lucian de Croszonza

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“We lie in each other’s arms
eyes shut and fingers open and
all the colors of the world
pass through our bodies like strings of fire.”
– Marge Piercy

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“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
– Aristotle

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“You were made perfectly to be loved – and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“I love you not only for what you are,
But for what I am when I’m with you.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

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“Where there is smoke, there’s fire. Where there’s you, there’s desire.”
– Unknown

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“Passion… it can hurt so much sometimes, we can hardly stand it. Without passion, maybe we could all have some sort of peace in this life… but then, we’d be hollow. Without passion, we would be dead.”
– Unknown

Aren’t they lovely? Hope you enjoyed them.

Sloan Parker

This video is a teaser for an online soap opera-style series called Venice. Venice follows the life of a gay female interior designer. I just started watching the show this weekend.

I love this song. Not sure why, but it puts me in a gushy, romantic mood every time I hear it.

(video embedded below)

You can read more about Venice here: www.venicetheseries.com. Has anyone watched it yet? What did you think?

Thanks for stopping by,
Sloan Parker

I love intense drama in the fiction I read and write. I love emotional and physical conflict. I love when characters suffer. I like to “watch” them squirm (both in and out of the bedroom). Yeah, I’m evil like that. ;-)

I want to experience their journey as they build themselves back up, stronger than ever. I like a love story where the characters help each other find peace and happiness–help each other become who each is meant to be.

And in the end? I want the happy ending. I want to go along for the ride on their emotional journey and feel that peace myself. To be reminded that even when the world around us can really suck, those moments of love and happiness make the journey worth living.

Yep, I’m a sap. How about you? Do you only read love stories with happy endings?

Sloan Parker

I’m in a romantic mood this week, so here’s one of my favorite quotes about love.

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle

I hope you all have or find the other half of your soul.
Sloan Parker