Teaser - 100TC #10 : Silence - Paradise Lust -

Hello readers,

I know it has been ages since I have posted anything new for my 100 Themes Writing Challenge. I can assure you though, I have not been lazy and number 10 is coming soon! And since it's the 10th post for this challenge, I decided to do something extra special with it. So this short story will be a lot longer than my previous ones. I shall post it online soon, but for those of you who cannot wait, I decided to do this post to offer some insight about it and hopefully, get you excited to read it (and my upcoming posts as well). 

The short story I am about to share with all of you soon is titled Paradise Lust, and is the tenth entry of the writing challenge, which is based around the theme "Silence". When I got to number 10, I'd say I got a writer's block. The word "silence" wasn't giving me any kind of inspiration. Until I had a looked into one of my many notebooks to stumble onto an old short story I had started writing ages ago but that I had never finished (to be honest I had barely started it). I thought it did suit the theme silence, and I felt really inspired to finish that story at last. I think the reason why I had shelved it back in the days was because it was a rather ambitious and experimental idea. Something like I had never really done before. But to me, that is exactly what the 100 Themes Challenge is about, with it I try to explore new horizons and experiment with new techniques and topics among other things. So I'd say this challenge is to me kind of a writing laboratory, and that is why your comments are always welcome and appreciated. I like seeing what you like and dislike about what I write and use that to perfect my art ;)

Paradise Lust is a very special text. As most of my writing, it all started with a dream I had about a year ago, back when I was in England (good old days). The dream was only a starting point though and the story isn't what I dreamt at all, it evolved a lot from that. Anyway, I say it is a special text because it is a short story, without being one. I see it more as a painting, a landscape painted with words; to be more precise, it's not a landscape, but a nightmarescape. That is the best I could use to describe it. Making the landscape the central character of the story was something new for me and something I think might be enjoyable to read.

Another thing I have never published before that is present in this story is... I want to tell you all, but I don't want to spoil too much about my story. If you want to know keep reading, but if you don't well you can always come read this after you've read the text for yourself. Let's get to the point, there might be (and by might be I mean will be xD) a very graphic sex scene in this text. Everyone who reads me knows sex is always an important part of what I write, but it is never clearly present. Yet in this story I decided to go with something very graphic, and that is new for me (I hope I haven't been too clumsy with that; fanfiction writers /readers please don't be too hard on me XD). I must say though, it was very enjoyable to do, and I am satisfied with what it brings to the overall story. If that kind of things offend you, I would advise you not to read this story. You are warned! 

Well I think I have said enough. Maybe even too much XD. I will do all I can to post it in the coming days. I have finished writing it, but there is still a lot of polishing to do. I do hope you will appreciate reading it!

See you all soon,

H.A. 

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Art : Eerie light-forest by Zlain81 on DeviantArt, all rights to the artist

(C) Hope Alexander aka David Giroux for the text