Hypnotryst
Susan's forgotten first time
Book 2 of Sapphic Letters
12,000 words; Published: December 25, 2014
FFM / Cons / Bisexual / First
Susan’s new regression therapist takes her all the way (back to the beginning)
Prim and pretty Susan needs help to deal with anxiety. The episodes seem to happen after going out with the girls — beautiful women, dressed for fun with their short skirts and spike heels, their lips and nails painted in stunningly exotic shades of red. Susan is straight and sensible though, and she has no idea what triggers the anxiety … but psychiatrist Dr Tamara Watkins does. Tamara thinks hypnosis might help in the search for Susan’s repressed sexuality, but nothing could have prepared her for what she would find when Susan went under.
It was the forgotten memory of Susan’s first time. Laying back with her eyes closed and waiting for her boyfriend to finish, she feels a new presence, another woman in the bed, soft lips and caressing fingers that know exactly where to touch, driving her to insane heights far beyond anything she could imagine with a man.
Retelling (no, reliving!) the story is a powerful aphrodisiac, and while Susan of yesteryear melts beneath the tender lips of the stranger, hypnotized Susan reenacts every electric touch beneath her sensible skirt, teasing and delving, driving her poor therapist into a volcanic lather, desperate for her own release.
She’s asleep — would she even notice if I …? Probably not. Just a little touch, then.
To say that you are creative in your storytelling is a huge understatement. What an incredible web you are weaving! (I encourage anyone reading "Hypnotrist" to go back and read "Note to Self" as it puts the subsequent story in its proper perspective). I am anxiously awaiting the next segment, to find out more about what happened on Friday night. And, I really look forward to reading more of your fascinating tale!
hpldwg -- Lush Stories
The Author's Story
This is the story that almost never was. I wrote Note To Self without any real intention of continuing it, as I had fallen out of touch with the woman who inspired the tale. But then she read Note To Self and contacted me; she said she enjoyed the story and asked me to continue, providing some further inspiration for where she wanted to take the characters that she created.
I initially tried to write this as a medical case-study, but it was just too dry and long-winded with Abstracts and Introductions and Presentations. It wasn't working. I pared back all of the structure and made it simply a transcription of Susan's meetings with a psychiatrist (Tamara), augmented with case notes from Tamara to provide a different perspective.
This was a huge challenge to write because of the amount of dialogue, which - being a transcription of their consultations - is written like a play with just the speaker's name and what they say. There is no opportunity to add 'she laughed' or 'she whispered', or to add texture with feelings, sights and atmosphere. I tried to make the dialogue blocks bite-sized and to separate them with blocks of descriptive case-notes from Tamara.
The biggest surprise was the welcome from readers; they enjoyed the unusual format. And here was I worrying it would be a turkey.