This chapter (and the next, when it is written) are sexually explicit, but trust me when I say it is necessary to be explicit to get to the bottom of Bruno’s psyche and his story. I wouldn’t include it if it wasn’t important!

Did you mark it ‘mature’? I didn’t notice if you did or not.

Gritty story telling here, but it feels very real and not overly done for the sake of being racy.

I did mark it “mature,” thank you for checking though! And thank you for the feedback.

I’m very glad to hear you don’t think it’s trying to be racy. I was hesitant to even take the story this far, but it’s so necessary for how the story will end up playing out. I’m not trying to write erotica here (not that there’s anything wrong with that). I’m just trying to shed some light on this person’s very human experience.

Dehydrated figs and mouldy pumpkins – glad to see that the food metaphors are still running through this.

This is intense, and well written, and altogether too stark and real to be racy. Great stuff.