Loving Artemis revisited and Pride -- #Prideiseveryday #LGBTQ #amreading
- Janet Mason
- 20 hours ago
- 2 min read
I decided to post this brief excerpt from my novel Loving Artemis, an endearing tale of revolution, love, and marriage (from Thorned Heart Press) in honor of Pride Month. But I go to thinking that in my book (or books), Pride is every month. In this excerpt, my character Grace is taking the bus to the shopping mall in the 1970s when she is an adolescent and falls asleep dreaming about Art, a girl she knows from high school.
The bus vibrated under her. She could feel the wheels turning.
Warmth spread from her abdomen to her groin. She wondered how
dating a girl would be. It had to be different from dating a boy. There
wouldn't be any games to play for one thing. She wouldn't have to
worry about someone bragging about "scoring” with her. She had
never had sex with a boy. If she had sex with Art, she wouldn't have
to worry about getting pregnant.
Grace drifted off. In her dream, she was standing on a cliff. There
was someone in front of her, standing next to the ledge, with her
back to her. She was dressed in a leather jacket and straight-legged
jeans. From the back, the person looked like a boy. But then a girl
turned around and smiled at Grace.
It was Art.
"I knew you'd come," Art said.
Grace held out her hand.
"It's time," said Art, taking her hand.
They flew off the cliff together. Grace soared up into the air like
Wonder Woman. They orbited a cloud. A ribbon of purple smoke
wrapped around them. She could see the blue sky through the transparent
smoke. She could feel the ribbon of smoke holding them together.
To order my novel Loving Artemis, an endearing tale of revolution, love, and marriage, click here.
Loving Artemis is featured on Jae's Sapphic Book Bingo -- under the category of a main character who rides a motorcycle. For the complete listing, click here:
CINNAMON, my most recent novel, is available on amazon.com: Cinnamon: A dairy cow’s (and her farmer’s) path to freedom: Mason, Janet: 9781958419786: Amazon.com: Books
CINNAMON is also available through your local bookstore and library
(just ask them to order it if they don’t have it).
My novel THEY, a biblical tale of secret genders (Adelaide Books; 2018) is available through bookstores and online where books are sold. It’s also available through your local library. If the library doesn’t already have it, just ask your librarian to order it.
For more information on THEY, click here.
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