Continuing my blog series of Excerpts, for which reasoning and explanation see the first post, with an excerpt from my queer, polyamorous, Steampunk erotic romance short story One Cheek Or Two? Our hero, Professor Edward Ockham, who had assumed he was only attracted to men, discovers he is attracted to his luscious female assistant.
Today is release day for One Cheek Or Two? as a e-single short. The story was originally published in a Steampunk anthology in 2014, but I’ve never posted an excerpt before. I’m happy to now provide this glimpse into the world of the Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory Chronicles!
Excerpt from One Cheek Or Two?: Edward is attracted to Delia
Edward stared at Miss Bennett’s bent form, trying to steady his quickening breath. She really shouldn’t allow him to do such things to her. She really shouldn’t. Perhaps he should have hired an assistant who would have protested in a lady-like manner and made Sebastian handle the more physical experiments.
He shook sense into his head. Why the devil would he have done such a thing as that? Miss Bennett was a terrifically perfect addition to the Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory.
She’d been with him and Sebastian for just over a year and he’d kept his notice of her charms under wraps pretty well. On the first day she had walked into his laboratory, her perfume had tantalized his olfactory senses, her smile had seduced his gaze to sweep across her curvaceous body, from the raven curls bouncing against her rosy cheeks to her trim ankles in thigh-high boots. That Miss Bennett was quite the stunner had surprised him awfully. Her letters of recommendation had only praised her intellect, curiosity, and geniality.
As the strange stirrings had continued to spark his loins, Edward had dismissed the nagging erotic thoughts, believing he just needed more frequent tumbles with Sebastian. But the buildup of repressed desires eventually broke through the dam of continence, and Miss Bennett’s lusciousness began to inhabit his nightly masturbatory fantasies.
Now before him was a most glorious arse, pillowy and pale, and exquisitely feminine. His mouth watered. He wanted so much to lick the ivory flesh and trail his tongue through the hirsute cleft from the shadowed depths to her coccyx. The fine hair at the vee of her crotch was damp—just as her knickers had been—and a whiff of her arousal shocked his prick to tempered iron inside his drawers.
Miss Bennett’s enchantments were everything he’d imagined a perfect female buttocks to be. Which was peculiar, as hers was the only female buttocks he had ever seen.
One Cheek Or Two? (Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory Chronicles 1)
In an imagined Newcastle, an inventor and his new assistant discover mutual desire while testing a spanking machine.
One Cheek or Two? is a workplace romance with a rom-com vibe involving a vivacious assistant in a leather corset and a nerdy engineer who might just be having a bisexual awakening. The 8,400-word short is the first story in The Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory Chronicles, a queer, polyamorous, Steampunk romance series of nine short stories set in an alternate Victorian world and meant to be read in order.
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