She's remained faithful while her husband's off fighting in Iraq, but sometimes even good girls need a spanking. She's followed her lover from sunny California to medical school in Indiana-
The wife of a famous politician, she's sitting at the end of the bar, trolling for her next bad boy. A law student far from home, she's having an affair with her favorite professor. The girl next door, she eats too many sweets, struggles with a novel, and watches her neighbors through binoculars. Her mother might have been a cold war spy whose lovers whispered state secrets between the sheets, but Kate secretly yearns to be told how and when to do the nasty. She's the well-
Although told from a woman's point of view, don't expect mushy, romantic, happy-
These are tight women in hard places.
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Alicia Night Orchid’s TIGHT WOMEN IN HARD PLACES: An Appreciation Preface by Cole Riley
“Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.”
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Yes, there is so much to say about this book. Alicia Night Orchid’s stunning collection of thirteen stories contains the spark of life, and it will speak for itself with each new reader, with each new mind open to its many secrets. Like any work of art worth its salt, its fictional alchemy restores sensual sanity in this modern plasticized world, bringing a heightened sense of love and lust from a feminine consciousness that can only enrich our jaded selves with its eroticized tales of resilience, empowerment, and fulfillment.
So Alicia Night Orchid’s fictional world is fresh and new. It’s new because its men and women talk and behave like real human beings do. They are not afraid to live or to love. They act in ways like real people do when they are blindsided by the heated chemistry of sexuality and sensuality. She writes simply and boldly of women feeling unsure about themselves, feeling nervy about men, feeling uneasy about the soft flesh they inhabit, feeling frantic about the urges and desires which make pleasure a priority.
This is not smut. This is not porn. This is about revelations and discoveries of
the human kind. This is about real people in real situations that involve the often
confusing, turbulent themes of love and lust. Alicia Night Orchid gets inside the
heads and bodies of her people. She paints lines of economic beauty and sizzle when
she talks of bodies seeking comfort and bliss. Not one of her stories contain a boring
series of cookie-
Take her first story, “The Anatomy of Wet,” where she depicts two college kids entranced
with the miracle of young love, which is fleeting as a fickle downpour. In her tale,
“Smoke,” she chronicles the parade of bad boys and one-
“And yes...yes, you’re sure you made the right decision, because his kiss is like falling into a well that you never wish to leave. You kiss him back—tongues swirl, nipples harden, and suddenly you’re floating, floating, and you’ve said yes, you want to see him again.”
In two other Alicia Night Orchid stories, “I Saw the Light” and “Fridays Without,” it is the small details that form their narrative glue; all strung together like the bittersweet lyrics of a Cajun blues. The former yarn features a honky tonk gal who loves a good time but somehow has lost her bearings in this mix of the spiritual, the secular and the sensual. The latter story has a special place for technology running amok, taking Kate the bespeckled librarian into some forbidden realms of desire.
Conflict, crisis, resolution. This is life itself. Toss all labels, classifications, and categories out when you read her stories. The characters of Tammy the hustle gal, Ray the aeronautic engineer and his “shyster bitch” are as real as can be in the next couple of stories, “Third Shift” and “Ray’s Opening.” The fate of the hapless Ray in the last tale is a somber life lesson with his girlfriend making him her bitch and he loves it. Outlaw Amour 101.
The stories, “Savage Nights,” “Snowbound,” and “Voyeur Nation” all engage the mind, jolt the soul and fire up the libido. Somehow the woman reminds one of the Jimmy Stewart role in Hitchcock’s Rear Window as “peeping Pauline” in “Voyeur Nation,” watching a couple perform while knowing they’re on display. But the other tales, “A Lover in the House of Spies,” “Torn In Two,” and “The Western Front” display a versatility and high craftsmanship rarely found in this genre.
There will always be a public debate about the merits of erotica versus porn. This
is high-
