Daily Treat: December 18

[rsadelle]

Today's treat is a rec: cupiscent's Mike Carden/Michael Guy Chislett story The Feng Shui of Electric Guitar. This is the kind of story I always want to write but don't think I can because I don't know that much about music.

After the first time Mike met Chiz, he had this dream where they were back on the couch - the couch where they'd talked for a couple of hours that had felt like fifteen minutes. Except this time, they were making out, Chiz pressing down against Mike pressing up, his shirt open and it and his skin and his hair stretched above like he was the curve of the sky and Mike was the earth.

Pouring coffee in the morning, Mike congratulated his subconscious on that one. It had been a serious first meeting, an intense one, pivotal. Mike couldn't fault his brain for translating the processing of it into the most visceral physical language it could find.

There are two other things I find worth noting about this story: First, she has this amazing drop in tone from the sex scene to the next section. It's beautifully done. Secondly, I'm fascinated that both the author and the person she was writing for are Australian, and she chose to write the story from the American character's perspective. (And does it well! I think there was only one Australianism that popped out at me as I was reading it, and it wasn't egregious enough for me to remember it now.)