The following is a special presentation of the Not Quite Right Podcast,
in which we discuss in detail entries to our ****** flash fiction competition,
the Not Quite Right Prize for Flesh Fiction.
This episode contains adult themes and is not appropriate for listeners under the
age of 18.
And mum, if you're still listening, that's on you.
Something doesn't seem quite right.
Welcome's not quite right.
My name's Ed and I'm Amanda, and welcome to the 6th and final category
episode for the Not Quite Right Prize for Flesh Fiction.
And these category episodes are where we talk about the podium.
Who came third?
Who came second but not who came first because we're saving that one up for the
final episode in which we would reveal the winner.
And is a privileged position coming first?
It is, although I don't mind if I come second.
What about third?
In the right situation, I might be up for that.
All right, OK.
And we'll also be reading out the second place story, which is, like,
what you're here for is to hear one of us embarrass themselves deeply reading a
****** story.
I'm so flushed.
I'm very pink in the face.
You know, the blood's gone to your face.
It has.
I'm struggling.
I'm finding it difficult.
But it's fun.
It's good fun.
And we'll also be sharing our thoughts about this category.
Yeah.
What worked, what didn't.
Yeah.
And we will also be speaking once again with Elise Scott,
who was so generous with her time both during the judging and during our
conversations.
And I think we're on the phone with Elise for, like, 4 hours.
Oh, my God.
I'm not exaggerating.
We phoned Elise several times, but it was just such a good chat,
you know, we needed to hang out.
Yeah, it was a fun.
It was so fun.
We were talking about all sorts of stuff.
So there was never a dull moment.
But Elise did, of course, generously donate all of that time,
including countless, countless hours of reading time,
which I understand were mostly done between the hours of, say,
2:00 and 5:00 AM.
And providing very generous, thoughtful, and well considered comments on all of
these stories and really enlightening me to some of the nuances of various things
that maybe I had been a little bit sheltered to up until now.
And I really, really appreciate Elise's efforts.
And we invited Elise to choose a top pick for each category and the top pick for
each of those categories.
We'll be taking home a copy of Elise's upcoming debut novel,
The Black Cat Detectives.
Now it is a little bit of a change of pace.
So it's a cosy mystery, No spice.
There's no *******.
There isn't.
There's lots of cats.
There's lots of cats, lots of *******.
So yeah, good fun.
And we will be contacting Elise's top pick author to get them a copy of that
book when it's released later this year.
So I have an idea.
Amanda, why don't we listen to our discussion
with Elise now and find out who won?
Sounds good.
So welcome back, Elise.
And you're back again to discuss the other category,
which is a bit of a wild card category.
So this category was quite a bit smaller, I think than the other categories.
And there are definitely certain cases where I would be fascinated to know why
the author categorised their story as other rather than, for instance,
the cake and taboo category or the literary erotica category.
Because it felt like very crossovery.
And I was wondering what what they're trying to draw our attention to by
choosing other instead.
Do you feel like maybe it was a bit of a strategy,
knowing that there would be fewer entries to this particular category,
that they were hoping to increase their chances of a long listing?
What do you think?
That is quite possible in some cases.
I wondered about that myself.
Yeah.
So tell us, Elise, about some of your standout stories in
this genre.
Do you have any call outs?
There was one that I I would love the book of it.
And there were things about it that I think didn't quite fit into the the 1500
word format, but it was called Forever My Given and it
was sci fi.
Yes, it was.
It was a story about a a person who was at a sci fi con and felt like they didn't
fit in.
And they were wearing this costume because they wanted to feel a certain way,
but they didn't feel authentic in their costume.
And then they met this sort of outcast character or this unappreciated character
from the story that was also in costume.
And then they had like, this little role play and their costumes
got ripped off, but they continued along with the role
play.
And I was just absolutely charmed with that story.
It was so sweet.
I just, I loved it.
And I, I feel like that would be such a great
book.
I would really love to read a a whole book about that character and their
journey and what brought them to the con and like,
maybe how the relationship unfolds.
I feel like there's a lot there.
Yeah.
It's hard in 1500 words to convey all of this back story,
but I think that was one that Ed called out for some of the interesting anatomy
that came along with that and those alien life forms.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Interesting.
Oh, I think that's a different one.
You're talking about the one where the person goes to like an alien realm.
No, no, no, I'm talking I'm definitely talking about
the the sci fi con, the four breasted female character.
Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.
You talked about different anatomy and I thought the one where like the human is
having sex with the shapeshifter that keeps trying to figure out what shape to
shift into.
Also fascinating.
I mean, yes, I love that people got super creative and
we, you know, we're talking about would we have another
category again?
Like do you do that?
And and I guess it allows space to just do whatever the hell you want without
feeling like you need to fit into what's come before.
And sometimes that can allow for something new to evolve.
I mean, how did monster **** come about?
Like this seems to have been something that probably goes back a long time,
but which seems to have gained popularity recently.
You know, who is it that sort of starts that trend
and then kicks it off?
And I think this category also had that story that was like the Poe,
a Telltale Cox, Yeah, which was so fun.
But I wouldn't like, I don't think you would put it in the
title would make it seem like it goes in comedy, but it really wouldn't.
The story wouldn't really was more of a horror really, wasn't it?
Yeah, yes, it was.
Yes.
That was definitely a memorable story.
And, you know, I appreciate the Poe reference, Obviously.
I do feel like that was very niche, very targeted to our taste.
And I want to call out the author of that story and their pen name.
I won't reveal the true identity of the author,
but the pen name is Edna Ellen Crowe.
That's amazing.
So at least you're about to reveal to us your top pick for this category.
And the winner of your top pick gets a copy of your latest novel.
So tell us a little bit about that.
Yeah.
So it's actually my debut novel.
I've never published a full length novel before, so I'm super excited about it.
It's called The Black Cat Detectives, and it stars 3 little kittens who are
rescued by a stage magician.
And it must be said that they can control the laws of physics, right?
Yes.
I always forget to say that they can.
They can bend the laws of physics.
One can change the travel paths of light so create shadows they shouldn't be there,
or make it so something is invisible and then one of them can entangle the qubits
of two different objects.
So it amounts to something like telekinesis with a remote to them.
He like entangles his toy mouse with a shoe at one point and then throws it over
the human he's angry at and the shoe like hits the person.
And the third one, I'm not gonna say what that one's ability
is because for most of the book it seems like we do not have one.
Well, I mean, this sounds like just classic cat
behaviour, to be honest.
So.
So anyway, they are rescued by a stage magician and
then she is accused of murdering her boyfriend and they have to solve the
murder to save her from the human pound.
Well, we're not going to ask who the murderer
really is because of course that would be a massive spoiler,
but it sounds very cute and very fun.
So what inspired you to write this book in particular?
So I, I typically write really dark speculative
fiction and I had a really bad year where I had five elder cats and they all died
of different things one after another.
And it was, it was bad.
I, I kind of lost my ability to feel joy
there for a while and I needed to reclaim it.
So I decided to write something joyful and I got the idea of bringing their
quirks and strangenesses and little anecdotes from their life onto the page
and writing these point of view chapters from the most of the story is told from
the perspectives of the kittens.
I love the idea of taking something very upsetting and sad and being able to
express that in a positive way, a way that uplifts you.
I mean, I think that's something special about
art in general, but also, you know, we come at this from a flash fiction
space.
It's nice to be able to process your emotions through storytelling as well,
whether that's an emotion you're feeling just that day or that weekend or whether
that's something bigger for you and working through it in an art form.
So I imagine you would encourage other people to express themselves in that way.
Absolutely.
And I mean, I don't know that murder as a vehicle for
explaining joy is necessarily a natural.
Probably better on the page than in real life, though, right?
Like, if you're going to do it.
But that's the thing that I like so much about the cosy genre.
But yeah, I think in general, I mean, I even the darker things that I've
written, I've always experienced a lot of
catharsis by looking at things through different lens.
Or have a novel that's on submission to publishers.
So maybe someday it'll be a book, but who knows?
But I had been kind of grappling with a lot of anxiety around what if something
happened to my daughter.
So I wrote a book where the main character of the book is me 40 years from
now, if I had gotten the disability that I got
during childbirth, but then my daughter hadn't survived and
I had become bitter and lost my faith in humanity.
And then that's where the story starts.
And my job during the book is to give her back her faith in humanity through this
plant nanobot AI apocalypse.
So.
So anyway, yeah, as you do.
So I think for me at least, I think if you start with some kind of
emotion that you want to explore a process,
it's personal to you and then that feeds the story that you're writing or the
character that you're writing, that can often lead to like a really
vibrant or really authentic emotional arc in the story.
And I think that can be really powerful.
Absolutely.
We see that all the time, stories which resonate quite deeply and
you can tell that the author is just really putting themselves on the page.
Even without knowing who the author is or or what their back story is,
you can often pick up on stories that feel very real and and grounded in
personal experience.
Well, excellent.
We're looking forward to giving away a copy of your book to one writer.
Would say lucky, but no a talented writer.
So who's your top pick or the other category?
So my top pick for the other category is Daughter from California,
which I really want a TV series of.
So this was a story where as you read, it becomes clear that the narrator is
dictating medical notes about an interesting medical case.
And then there is a sexual encounter that begins to happen during the dictation.
But the like the dictation software is just inscribing all of the OS and O gods
and ***** and stuff right into the notes.
And I was just utterly delighted.
I thought it was a really fun approach to the prompt.
Crucially, they don't stop.
They don't stop their note taking.
No, they don't.
Very committed, very, very committed to their job.
And fun for me was that the actual medical case?
It is a bit of a medical mystery, like in a medical TV show, like, you know,
like how Sir Grey's Anatomy would have where at first it seems like one thing is
happening.
And then so there's like, this layer of suspense,
at least for people who like medical drama,
there's this layer of suspense around, like,
what is actually going on with the medical case that's separate from the sex
scene that's going on.
I was absorbed.
I liked that one a lot.
And congratulations, Wellesley Dylan, on your story.
And you'll be receiving a copy of Elise's book.
All right.
Well, thank you so much, Elise.
We really appreciate it.
We've taken up a lot of your time and I know you never sleep, but nevertheless,
I'm sure you've got another book to write.
But thank you so much for your generous, generous dedication of time to this
little passion project of ours.
And we wish you all the best with the launch of your cosy mystery,
The Black Cat Detectives.
Thank you.
It's been, it's honestly been such an honour to read
all these stories and have these conversations.
It's been phenomenal.
I really appreciate the opportunity.
Honestly, we couldn't have done it without you.
Absolutely with some, especially with the kink category.
And look, all the work that you did, your comments were always detailed and
illuminating.
So we thank you so much for your help.
My pleasure.
Thank you.
So thank you so much Elise for your help.
And I'm sure we'll be speaking to you again in the future.
I'm sure this is not the last time we'll be working together, so thank you.
But let's talk about other.
And I guess the reason why we we had another category to begin with was maybe
our lack of experience with ****** fiction in its totality.
Like we did our research, we scoured the Internet for what we could
find.
And obviously there's a lot of **** out there and a lot of ****** fiction.
I'm not sure to what extent I scaled the Internet.
I have to say that might have just been you.
I may have had a head start.
OK.
But we came up with five categories and then we just thought there's it's
probably **** that we haven't thought about.
And look, there is definitely.
And so we created the other category for people who felt as though what they wrote
really didn't fit into one of the five categories that we had.
So do you want to read that description?
Yes.
That we provided our category criteria was ****** stories that don't fit neatly
into the categories above, but still place sexual activity at the
core of the narrative.
This includes ****** horror, historical erotica,
science fiction erotica, and other niche subgenres that explore
sexuality through distinct stylistic or thematic lenses.
And we got 53 entries into this category, which is the fewest.
And I guess that's to be expected because most stories fit elsewhere.
And look, a lot of stories that were submitted into
other did also fit elsewhere.
Because one thing that we've learned is that there is a lot of overlap between
these categories and depending on the lens or the the area of the story that
you want to focus on, you could put it in a bunch of categories.
So I think the only stories that really stood out as being different here were
the ones that were more horror focused, the more sci fi focused.
And in many cases, like maybe they could have been
shoehorned elsewhere, but they did have a clear home here.
So there were a few sci fi ones, which was of course included in our
definition.
So absolutely fit in this category.
But to me the sci fi didn't differ that much in its style to fantasy and
supernatural, and I think they probably could have fit
together pretty easily.
Like the vibe of those was quite similar.
Another interesting thing that emerged for me, what I expect, I guess,
and I don't know, I can't read the minds of our entrance,
but a lot of people sort of putting their storing the other category because it
just didn't bit anywhere else, which is, of course, why that category existed.
But one of the reasons, I think was stories that were what I
would call dark romance.
Yeah.
So stories that dealt with couples often, but where the outcome was not romantic,
you know, this is a problematic relationship.
It's maybe going to a dark place.
And so people didn't feel comfortable saying that's romance.
But to me, it is.
To me, that is still romance.
It's just what, Yeah, what we call maybe dark romance,
a problematic relationship.
And so I think those stories would have fairly fit in the romance category if
perhaps we'd been a little bit more clear that those stories were welcome there too.
And just because it wasn't romantic, yeah, didn't mean it didn't fit there.
I think we also saw some unusual stylistic stories in this category that
would have fit perfectly in the literary category.
That's true.
So I think in future, I mean, we might look at,
if we were to do this again, we might look at having no categories at
all, I suppose.
But if we did, I suspect we would probably farm those
stories out to other places and then maybe merge literary and other together
just as a still to have a catch all.
Yeah.
And I think this is only relevant really from a judging perspective and how we
pick the top stories because we want the stories that reach the top to be
representative of that category.
And I think the challenge was especially true in the other category because what
does it mean to like win or podium in the other category?
Like how other do you have to be like if you write a good story that could
arguably fit into one of these other categories, do we give it that high spot?
And I think part of that problem is that it felt maybe a little bit unfair because
the other category had fewer entrants.
And although for the long list, you still have to make the top 10% no
matter which category you submit it under, once it gets to this podium level,
we're doing top three spots in in each category.
And of course, therefore, it becomes easier to win or place in a
category where there are fewer entries.
And so that was on my mind, too, of is it fair that this story is being
judged outside of the category that maybe had more entrance?
Yeah, but is where this story belongs.
So that was sort of on my mind as well, trying to, I guess, make it fair.
And in that case, think to myself, would this story also have placed in,
for example, the ****** romance category?
Yeah.
Was this story good enough to write to the top there too?
And if not, and if it is very clearly a romance,
then it becomes difficult to kind of reward it for going into less popular
category.
But you know, I suppose that wouldn't have necessarily
been a deal breaker.
It's just something that played on my mind as we were judging the top stories.
But I guess what I learned is that like, there isn't that much other really in the
five categories that we have.
We could you could cleanly fit most ****** stories into one or the other.
And I think really the literary category captures most of other.
Yeah, because it does capture things that are
different stylistically.
So I think you and I agree that the only other that really felt other was horror.
And we did receive some horror, which I appreciated.
And then it comes down to, again, the whole is it sexy thing or is it just
really ******* scary?
And there were some that were just really scary and some that were decidedly unsexy.
And that was a challenge too, because when we look at the theme again,
the theme is making the unsexy irresistible.
Now, irresistible does not necessarily mean
sexy.
It can mean I literally cannot resist this.
I am cursed maybe, and that was a theme that sort of came up
in these horrors that it's an inability to resist as opposed to this kind of like
appealing side of things.
And and I thought that was interesting as well.
We did actually have one story, probably 1 of,
if not the most shocking to me story that we received in this competition,
which the author actually withdrew before judging was complete.
They found a forever home for that story in Litmag.
I believe it was some sort of.
Of Monster **** Anthology, so congratulations to that author.
Unfortunately, they therefore were not eligible for any
prizes in this competition, which is a shame because it was quite a
compelling story.
Certainly not something that appealed to me.
Certainly didn't feel sexy, but absolutely shocking sensory.
Amazing and great story, so I'm not surprised it found a home
elsewhere.
All right, so let's get into it.
Let's get into the podium and starting with third place now our third place
winners for the other category and all the other categories.
We'll take home a copy of a book by Nikki Sex and our seven books that we'll be
giving away are titled Accuse Abuse, What Wendy wants, Kink, Karma,
Fate and avenge.
So hopefully those titles kind of give you a little insight into what those
stories may be about.
Very ***** few dark themes coming through there and very sexual stories.
They don't hold back on the explicit detail.
All right, if you want to check out Nikki sex,
click the link in the description for this episode and just go on to Amazon and
search Nikki sex and she's written tonnes of books, so you'll find them all there.
So the very talented writer who has finished in third place in the other
category for the Not Quite Right Prize for Flesh Fiction is none other than,
Can you believe it, Linda Atkins.
Wow.
With her story, The Love Song of John Andrew Perflock,
Out Magazine, March 20, which is a very Linda Atkins title.
Mm Hmm.
And we should have picked it.
We should have picked it.
Linda joined us, of course, on our longest episode and explained to
us the wonders, the wonders, the mysteries, squirting, MMM.
And so forth.
So go back and listen to that if you're interested.
Yeah, but congratulations.
Who would not be after that glowing intro there?
But congratulations, Linda.
Great story.
And you came third, so well done.
So hope you hope you're cool with that.
Yeah.
And Linda actually, we've just discovered is getting some
pretty strong praise for the literary community.
Linda is publishing a book this year, a debut crime novel.
And yeah, and some getting some write up in the
Australian newspaper.
And so about.
I'll be really excited to see where Linda goes this year.
I'm.
I'm really, really happy for her.
So congratulations, Linda, and I hope everybody follows along with
that.
We will of course, be daring that that journey as Linda goes
along.
But yeah, huge congratulations and no surprise
because of course, you are a very talented author.
Yeah.
And it's been great to have you be part of not quite right in so many different
ways, not only the interview, but obviously you've long listed many
times you've been a daredevil, all that kind of thing.
So, and it's great to see you now on the
podium for this category.
Now let's get to the story, which is what I think a lot of our
listeners have been waiting for is to hear you awkwardly.
Yeah, Bumble my way through and the second
place story will receive, as all of our second place stories do,
a bottle of wine.
And that is courtesy of our friends at Naked Wine.
And thank you so much for your for your wine and keep it coming, please.
We go through it and we do enjoy it.
We're a few in.
We're going through it right now in more ways than one.
And the other prize comes from Odyssey Toys,
who are makers and sellers of very niche fantasy sex toys.
You say niche, but I'm just not sure after this company.
Well, the niche is quite wide.
You're not going to find this stuff your regular.
Yeah, sex toy company that just sells like,
boring old ****** that look like penises and vibrators that look like bullets and
such.
Yeah, right.
And so forth.
These guys, they take it to a whole other level.
And so the recipient of this prize will win A10 ox tentacle *****.
So not just a *****.
Oh yeah, a tentacle *****.
Use your imagination on that one.
Or if you don't want to use your imagination,
head over to the not quite right website, click on Flesh Fiction,
Scroll down and you'll see all of these prizes.
And you can feast your eyes on that tentacle *****.
And you can find links to both Naked Wines and Odyssey toys in the show notes
for this episode, so check them out.
But Amanda, tell us who has won those lovely prizes?
And 2nd place in the other category for the not quite right prize for Flesh
Fiction goes to Carapace by JJ Robinson.
OK, yes, technically I volunteered to marry an
alien, but in my defence I thought he'd be one
of the hot ones.
Alas, politics doesn't always work that way and
someone had to volunteer to cement this alliance for the sake of protecting,
you know, the entire earth and its population.
My new husband was taller than a human and wore only his glossy red black
carapace to our rushed human ceremony because of course I got landed with an
Insecti sectral warrior and of course my husband didn't wish to stay on Earth for
longer than necessary.
After signing our names in the register, as though Grayson Thean were any other
married couple, we made our way towards the waiting
spaceship.
I bravely slid my hand into the solid hard shelled crook of Thean's offered arm
and wondered how on earth was I going to sleep with him.
No matter what position I imagined, I couldn't see an option that didn't
leave me a mess of bruises from being bashed by his armoured carapace.
Let's be real, is there a less sexy word in the English
language than carapace?
And I mean, would our parts even allow us to
consummate this marriage?
But we had to.
It was part of the treaty.
At one point we passed more sexual soldiers,
all just as shiny and terrifying as my husband.
They bowed respectfully, even as Thean's arm slipped around my
waist to pull me tightly against him.
When we made it to his room, our room now, a touch on the small of my back propelled
me inside.
It wasn't a huge space, the spaceship, but the walls were covered in cheerful
hangings of woven grass, studded at intervals with tiny lights
that cast out a warm haze.
The bed was a mounded affair, built up with blankets and pillows.
My people usually sleep on loan pads, Ian told me.
But I understand humans prefer this, and that was thoughtful.
Here, I'd assumed my preferences would be
ignored and I'd be expected to assimilate to sexual culture in all things.
Will that be all right for you?
I asked, a hint of concern leaking out.
The frustrating thing about a sexual husband was the lack of facial
expressions to gauge his reactions when he tilted his head,
regarding me through large, glassy eyes.
I had no idea what that meant.
Until I suspect I will cope so long as I have my soft wife in bed with me.
Before I could respond, Thean reached up and tugged sharply on
his head, as though to remove it from his shoulders.
What are you doing?
I squeaked, alarmed.
He paused, his neck elongated by his actions,
and when he spoke, his voice came out muttled.
Removing my helmet.
Obviously his helmet.
Unless you'd rather I kept my armour on, even in the comfort of my own rooms.
I shook my head quickly.
His head no.
His helmet loosened and came away with a faint pop, and I gasped underneath.
He was not shiny.
He continued removing his armour as though I wasn't staring with eyes like
saucers.
OK, so he was still an alien.
His armour seemed designed to match his skin tone, bar the glossiness.
His face was ridged with sharp, unfamiliar cheekbones and a nose that
barely protruded.
But at least he had a nose +2, dark eyes and a mouth that quirked up
when he caught me watching.
A mop of black hair covered the sides of his face so I couldn't check the ear
situation, but what did that matter when he peeled
off his body armour?
And holy **** my husband was gorgeous.
How did we not know the hard shelled sexuals look like this?
I would not have been the only bridal volunteer if we did.
His arms flexed as he removed his boots and my stomach flipped.
I'm going to seduce my husband, I decided.
Perhaps you'd like to Shuck your armour too?
Ian suggested.
Right.
I said faintly, my arm scrabbling uselessly at the back
of my dress.
Actually, could you?
I turned and a pair of warm hands brushed across my bare shoulders,
tugging the laces of my dress.
Is it human tradition to be inaccessible tonight?
He asked, frustrated amusement in his tone as he
unlaced me, but I was barely listening because his
fingers dancing across my skin felt like the smoothest, butteriest leather.
He smelled good too, earthy and warm, and my throat went dry as the bodice of
my dress fell away, leaving me in the wedding lingerie my
stepmother insisted I wear, and now I was glad of her meddling.
I stepped out of the cloud of skirts at my feet,
moving slower than I really needed to.
I perched on the bed, and when I glanced up through my lashes,
Thean's eyes flashed hungrily, which was gratifying.
I padded the bed next to me in invitation, because I needed him to know his wife
wasn't meek and timid.
I scooted up as thee and joined me and propped myself up on one elbow.
He made no move to touch me, just tracked his gaze over me.
Are you worried you'll hurt me?
I asked, surprised by his reticence.
I watched his throat move.
Humans are different, yes.
I agreed.
You're my first sectoral too, And last.
He said, a possessive edge in his voice that
thrilled me.
You're mine, Grace.
I am, aren't I?
And you're mine.
I like that.
I reached out to push a lock of hair back from his forehead.
Do sectoral people kiss?
Then his eyes zeroed in on my mouth, which suggested some familiarity with the
concept.
My eyes fluttered closed as Thean's mouth moved against mine, tentative.
I pressed closer, nipping and kissing tiny sucking bites
across his mouth until he groaned, licking into my mouth.
My ******* tightened against the lace of my bridal lingerie,
and when he drew back to watch me, I heard myself a whimper from the loss of
him.
May I touch you?
He asked, eyes wild, hair tousled.
If you don't, I'll demand a divorce.
I panted, and thean smile felt like the sun.
I skimmed my hands over him, gripping his wide back when he nipped at
my throat with sharp teeth.
He felt good under my hands, like someone had set me loose on the
luxurious interior of some high end car.
And then when his fingers brushed across the tip of 1 aching ****** I moaned,
all rational thought flying out of my head.
That was good.
He murmured.
Yes.
I huffed, snatching at his hand and pulling it back
where I wanted it.
More please.
The lust flared in his gaze and he repeated the motion,
rolling his thumb over the sensitive tip.
These are fun.
The amused as I panted my approval, his other hand coming up to trace the
edges of the lingerie.
They're pretty too wrapped up for me.
Like a gift, he gripped the lace firmly.
Something tore, and then his mouth was on my bed skin,
pressing quick, hot kisses down my collarbone as a dizzy
flush of arousal sparked through my system.
The second he sucked one ****** into his mouth, I whimpered, a desperate,
needy sound that I couldn't even be embarrassed about.
I needed him, needed something, and then he shifted his weight,
pressing something hot and hard against the lace of my underwear.
Yum.
It certainly felt like our bodies would work together.
I moaned, rolling my hips and chasing that
delicious sensation between my thighs.
Grace.
Ian groaned, his voice hitching when I rolled my hips
again.
What are you doing?
I'm dropping a hint.
I suggested, but I can beg if this is too subtle.
You want this?
The consummation, Can't you tell?
I leaned up to press a quick kiss to his very delightful mouth and flopped back
onto the mattress.
Yes, Thean, I want you.
I also really want to come, and I'd like it most of all if I could do
that while you're inside me.
Please make me yours.
Mine.
He growled softly.
In seconds he shredded the rest of my underwear and pushed his down his thighs.
As soon as he returned above me, I wrapped my legs around his waist,
and now there was nothing between us, nothing but Thean's hard length gliding
against my body.
You are so soft.
Thean murmured, fervent.
He shifted, positioning himself, and I couldn't help the desperate sounds
that escaped me.
My hot alien husband pushed forward, filling me with his hot alien **** and as
the stars aligned and I moaned his name, there was not a bride in the universe
happier than me.
Thank you so much, JJ Robinson.
Thanks a lot.
Yeah.
And well done, Amanda.
I know that was very, very hard to get through, like a carapace.
Yeah, very hard.
And listen, it doesn't help that it is extremely hot
in here.
It is very, very hot in here.
I don't know if it's just me.
It's pushing 10:30, but it's hot.
This is.
This is Australia in summer.
It's like this.
It's so hot.
It's just like hot alien deck.
You know what I'm saying in here?
Exactly what you're saying, yes.
Ohh.
So what a great story and I really loved the sensory detail.
I guess in this story, that was one thing that stood out to me,
just all of the the hardness and the softness and and also the surprising
factor of like, OK, so the premise here is a very human one,
even if it's depicting aliens and it's like the wedding night and echoing
thoughts that brides may have had over the years about what was taking place on
the wedding night.
And for many people, this is pre Internet and pre books even
may have been very alien to them and and they wouldn't know what to expect.
So I think this is a really good reframing of that in the context of like
aliens and the fact that she didn't know that like the helmet could be removed and
she thought that all of that was part of his body.
I thought that worked really well and some really great world building done
with, I guess not that much like exposition as
well.
It was all done within the context of the scene and a very evocative scene,
you know, and they ******.
It was great.
Super fun character voice, I think in this one,
as well as a big part of it.
Very sassy, very obviously hot alien.
I mean, I didn't do him justice.
We need Vekner to get in here with his sexy voice.
But you could really feel that whole thing that is very much of this genre
where it's like you're mine, I own you.
But she wants to be owned and quite cute.
So sci fi fitting very much into the sci fi category there.
So one of the things that we considered, again in this category is like it did
have to have a little bit of an other element to it.
And this one definitely did like it.
You know, you could have made a case for this in
several other categories, like it was romantic as well.
It would have been right in there.
I just wanna call out right now how foggy your glasses are.
You are steamed up there.
Are you alright?
It does it for you.
Insect sort of alien warlords.
Yeah, it was.
There was a couple of lines in there that really did do it for me.
Oh, OK.
I just like to say well done to this author on bringing the spice.
Surprisingly to me, many stories didn't.
Many stories sort of pulled their punches a little bit.
And we talked about that in the longest episode,
but this one absolutely went there.
And I think that was a big part of its appeal.
So congratulations JJ Thank you so much for sharing your story with us.
I hope you enjoyed writing it and I hope you're proud you're now officially a
prize winning smart author.
Well done.
And look, we won't reveal the identity or the title
of the winner for this category.
As with all the categories, we will be saving all that up for the
final episode.
But you won't need to wait that long because that will be the next episode in
this flesh fiction series.
It's exciting.
So we're really looking forward to that.
There'll be 6 stories.
We'll be reading the winners from all six degrees,
as well as announcing the overall winner, The overall winner of the Not Quite Right
prize for Flesh Fiction.
So it's gonna be an amazing episode.
Amanda's already like, cringing and advancing to read.
I'm really bad at it.
I just, I, I just you, you hear me?
I'm like bursting into laughter every 5 seconds.
I'm so awkward that out.
I know no one will be any the wiser, but I do find it very difficult.
You are struggling, but you're doing a great job.
Thank you.
You keep up so a huge amount of variety in the stories as well.
So something for everyone, something for your mum,
something for your nan and something for you.
So I hope everybody listens in except for my mum and my nan.
I fear my mum will be listening.
Hi Mum, hope you enjoyed it.
It's Mum.
Bye to all of my relatives and friends who are listening to this episode,
and bye to all the people from our past who are, like,
stalking us by coming to listen to the podcast.
Hi.
Hope you enjoyed.
Send us a message.
Reach out.
Yeah.
Be nice about it.
But yeah, I'd love to hear from you, whoever you are.
Yeah.
So we've got that to look forward to in our final episode, which is coming up.
And we'll say we'll be saying goodbye to the not quite right price for flesh
fiction for now, at least for the immediate future for
this round, which is sad, but also like, bring it on because it's been a *******
long time.
And we all want to just finish.
We all just want to finish.
We want to finish, but we want to go out with a bang.
And I think 6 stories, it's going to be a Big Bang,
going to be a **** ****.
Oh, hello.
All right, well, take it up a notch.
Sure, why not?
It is the podium.
Tis the season.
We're losing the plot.
So on that good note, we will see you shortly for the final
episode.
And until then, right on, right on.
Thank you for listening to Not Quite Right.
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In that something doesn't seem quite right, as though Grace and Thian or Ian.
I would say Thian.
Yeah, Ian, but yeah, Thian, like thigh.
I don't know.
That's just how it came out.
I know, I know, I know.
And I corrected it.
Please don't do the defensive.
I was just like thigh.
Like a thigh.
You're like, I know.
I'm sorry.
I'll just go ******* commit Sapoka or whatever.
It's a poku.
What is it?
It's a poku Leviosa.
All right.
Hey, sexy Mama.
Have you ever called anyone daddy apart from me?
Actually, I literally call Andy daddy all the time.
But that's because the kids are there and you're, like, referring to him.
Yeah, I talk about zaddies all the time.
But not you've never said to some in the heat of the moment.
Never to some person said daddy.
Not like that.
OK.
Not unless I was joking.
I do the zaddy thing into it.
Jeff Goldblum into the beekeeping age.
Keeping some bees.
Keeping some bees nuts.
Yeah, like, I love a bit of Bon Jovi.
I can't decide which Bon Jovi I like better.
And they're both equally age inappropriate.
How many Bon Jovis are there?
Hello.
Jon Bon Jovi.
Hello.
Yes.
And Jake Bon Jovi.
Are you kidding me about Jake Bon Jovi?
Oh, he married Millie Bobby Brown from
Stranger Things Serious.
Yeah.
Like, what's the age difference?
Too much.
OK, They are equally age inappropriate.
I'm right in the middle, right in the middle of the Bon Jovi
sandwich.
And I can not decide which way to go.
I'm gonna say that was a mistake for Millie Bobby Brown.
Or maybe not.
Are you kidding me?
Have you seen him?
I don't know.
That was not a mistake.
Who is he?
Like, is he?
He's ******* rich, for a start.
He's hot as ****.
Is he in Bon Jovi?
Excuse me?
He's the son of Jon Bon Jovi.
What do you mean?
What has he done?
He's done.
He was born.
That's what he's done.
OK.
Can I say I thought it was his brother or something like that?
And I was just like, he's like, confused.
No.
OK, So Jon Bon Jovi is like pushing seven.
I'm on.
I'm on board now.
OK, Bored.
And Jake Bon Jovi is pushing like 25 or something.
Yeah, that's better.
You know what I'm saying?
He's like younger brother or something.
He's like 50-60.
He's he's a baby.
He's a baby, which makes it a bit weird.
But he's really ******* hot, so I don't care.
And he's a celebrity, so it's fun.
It's so weird that you're acknowledging that someone is hot and they're not even
gay.
I know.
I mean, I don't.
He could be.
He's well dressed.
There's heaps of people I think are hot.
There's heaps of people I think are hot that aren't gay.
OK, Name 1 Jonathan Bailey.
Jason Bateman, Right?
He's probably been there.
Unless he's lived in Hollywood a long time.
He's probably barked up a few trees or what have you.
I don't know.
I don't want to cast aspersions.
I don't wanna cast aspersions or what have you.
But yeah, anyway, super hot.
OK, let's get back into the episode.
No, I'm happy in my in here.
I'm I'm good now let's just stay in this space.