I just read a delightful story in which a man offers his two virgin daughters to a group of men who wish to do things you would describe as 'best left unsaid'. The same man then drunkenly impregnates both daughters days later.
Would you describe this as 'sex for it's own sake'? 'Edgy' perhaps?
This is to be found in Genesis Ch 19 in my King James Bible - as a firm Catholic I'm sure you have your own copy.
At least my piece emphasizes the capricious and vile nature of the characters - the narrator himself has an insight in the final lines which I would rate as slightly more numinous than anything Lot seems to have realized in his own stead...
I hope that when I'm your age I have half as much vim and vinegar. If you re-read the piece you may find more than a hint of despair... these are young men stumbling toward an uncomfortable awareness of their own lack of all that makes the morning glimmer.
Either way I appreciate the 'fire in the belly' tone of your critique.
There are some things while true to life are better left unsaid. My memoir pieces aren't squeaky clean either. I'm no prude. But at least in my "edgy" writings, you don't have to wallow through dialogue between lewd coarse men commenting on their relationships with women who are unbelievably compliant with their sex for its own sake mentality.
I just read a delightful story in which a man offers his two virgin daughters to a group of men who wish to do things you would describe as 'best left unsaid'. The same man then drunkenly impregnates both daughters days later.
Would you describe this as 'sex for it's own sake'? 'Edgy' perhaps?
This is to be found in Genesis Ch 19 in my King James Bible - as a firm Catholic I'm sure you have your own copy.
At least my piece emphasizes the capricious and vile nature of the characters - the narrator himself has an insight in the final lines which I would rate as slightly more numinous than anything Lot seems to have realized in his own stead...
Well, this is the last time I ever read this Substack. I can’t see any redeeming social value in this piece of filth.
Are you sure you read until the end?
why would I read such a dirty story to the end?
Roseanne,
I hope that when I'm your age I have half as much vim and vinegar. If you re-read the piece you may find more than a hint of despair... these are young men stumbling toward an uncomfortable awareness of their own lack of all that makes the morning glimmer.
Either way I appreciate the 'fire in the belly' tone of your critique.
Michael Tyler
There are some things while true to life are better left unsaid. My memoir pieces aren't squeaky clean either. I'm no prude. But at least in my "edgy" writings, you don't have to wallow through dialogue between lewd coarse men commenting on their relationships with women who are unbelievably compliant with their sex for its own sake mentality.