Lucienne Grey
What Was Planted
Five stories about women who are found.
Some things are planted without permission. A paranormal investigator who walks into a medieval manor without defences. A woman declared barren who is chosen for her goodness. A painter's impossible posthumous gift. A marine biologist in the Pacific who has been studying the wrong thing. A keeper of sacred fire who receives, too late and exactly on time, what she always needed.Each of them carries a wound. Each of them is found.
About the Book
What Was Planted is a collection of five literary erotic stories about women who are known — fully, precisely, without asking — by something ancient that has been waiting for them since before they were born. The encounters are explicit. The healing is real. The two things are not separate.For readers of literary fiction who want the door left open.
Contains explicit sexual content. Intended for adult readers 18+.
About the author
I write about women and the things that find them.I have always been more interested in the stories underneath the stories — the ones that were there before someone decided to make them safe, before the edges were filed down and the doors were closed. What Was Planted is my attempt to open some of those doors and leave them open.I am interested in myth and in the body, in the places where old stories live inside contemporary women without their knowledge or consent. I am interested in healing that does not erase. I am interested in the specific loneliness of women who have built very good walls and the specific quality of what gets through anyway.A second collection is underway. It begins, as this one did, with a question I could not stop asking.
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