I wrote this story for an RWA critique session.  My chapter does “hot nights” when the authors bring their sex scenes.  I was feeling pretty cocky, because whatever I decided to bring, people always loved my sex scenes, right?  Then I noticed that the fine print said, “BRING TEN PAGES.”  Turned out that all my sex scenes ran twenty to forty pages. Oops.

So I wrote Dezyrah’s Talk Dirty To Me.

I did it in all-dialogue for two reasons: one, I’d read some Terry Bisson short stories in all-dialogue which blew my mind, and I wanted to try that.

 And two, it was the only way I could think of to get all the sex in in ten pages.  I just didn’t have room for all the other stuff you have to have in a good romance sex scene:  setting, emotional context (did they just have a fight? is this their wedding night?), what they’re both wearing and doing and feeling and thinking, plot movement, character growth, oh lordy you need all that and more.  Plus good sex.

So I thought, I can imply 90% of all that if I just do the dialogue, right?  If I’m good.

Read it, please, and let me know if I’m that good.