Saving ourselves with history--#lgbthistorymonth every month #amreading #lgbtq

In honor of October being LGBT history month, I decided to post an excerpt from my novel Loving Artemis, an endearing tale of revolution, love, and marriage (published by Thorned Heart Press in 2022). History, whether it's recorded in this novel or in the lesbian poems of Sappho, in ancient Greece, is something that we're living through, and it's good (no essential) to know what went before. This is my contribution to history.

This section that I've recorded on YouTube (with the text pasted below) is from the end of Loving Artemis.

In the end, it was Linda who saved her. She started coming to visit

when Art was in the County Jail. Art still remembered their first

visit with the glass window between them when Linda was fighting

back tears. Linda said that she left Tommy after he told her he and

Cal set Art up the first time she had been busted.

"They had the whole thing planned," Linda had said. "Tommy

polished off two six packs the night that he told me this, and he acted

like he thought it was funny. Then he demanded to know if you and

I were ever lovers. I told him we were, and that I was still in love with

you. He said he suspected as much because things were never right

between us. I packed up our things and took Clio with me back to

my mother's house that night.” Then Linda held her hand up against

the dirty glass window between them and said she was sorry for leaving

her, that she had been young and stupid and just doing what she

thought she should be doing.

Linda named her daughter Clio after one of the Muses. She told

Art, she chose the name from Greek mythology so that she would

think of Art whenever she said her daughter's name. After Linda

came to visit, Art signed up for auto mechanic classes in the prison.

Linda came every week, and when Art pressed her hand against the

glass opposite Linda's, she remembered being a teenager and wishing

on the evening star to marry Linda and spend her life with her.

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).

For more information on my novel THEY, a biblical tale of secret genders published by Adelaide Books click here.

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For more information on my novel Loving Artemis, an endearing tale of revolution, love, and marriage, click here