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A little bit of excess with new short story Checkout by Elise Hepner

• March 10, 2010 at 8:52 pm in
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The great thing about people, in general, is that we are all multi-faceted.  That’s what I love about social media.  Especially with celebrities and public figures; you get to see what lies beneath the persona.   It’s like getting a little glimpse into the mechanism of their personalities.

With that in mind I wanted to share a little about myself that most people don’t really know about. Not because I try to hide these aspects but more because it doesn’t fit in the realm of my titles “psychic”, “author”,  or “paranormal investigator.”   For instance, my favorite show for a lot of years was Queer as Folk and in my late 20s I wrote a lot of fan fiction.  If you google me, I am sure some of it will come up and you can laugh at the remnants of my past.  

So, with that in mind, I don’t follow fandoms anymore.  However, I do find myself indulging in a bit of erotica every now and again.  On Valentine’s Day, the day of dead flowers and forced affection, I was on my Twitter account lurking about when I saw a tweet from Elise Hepner about a poem contest she was hosting on her blog. 

Whomever wrote the best love poem got a copy of her new short story, Check Out.  Intrigued by the idea of free erotica, I wrote my five minute poem and later was informed that I was picked to receive the prize.  Go me!

Well, as luck would have it, that was the week my computer crashed and my wee little world went off of its axis. I scrambled to get my laptop back up and running and ending up being way behind on life.  Losing word count on my manuscript really pissed me off the most, but luckily I emailed myself a backup sans 3,000 words.  Losing 3k is better than losing a year’s worth of work on a book.  Crisis was resolved and life went back to its usual rhythm.

So, with all the drama, I didn’t even get to read the short story until last week.  But I can tell you the wait was worth it because Check Out is very well written. 

Elise Hapner is the kind of writer that I prefer.  She gives just enough description to get you involved but she doesn’t meander with unnecessary details.   There is thought in her word choice.  It flows but it’s also precise.  It’s witty and cheeky and yeah…it’s steamy.

Check Out is about a twenty-something punk rock girl who works at the local drug store.  She runs into her old professor who got her kicked out of school because of their illicit affair.  Only the fire hasn’t gone out for the either one of them and things get hot and heavy…

You can download the ebook at www.excessica.com for $1.99.   It’s totall worth the price.  The whole story is under 5k.  It’s short enough that you can read it all in one sitting but long enough to give you a little respite in a hot, steamy world of good fun.

You can find out what Elise Hepner is up to by following her on Twitter.

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