Brown Sugar 2
Great One Night Stands - A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction
From Brown Sugar 2
LEONE ROSS
Art, for Fuck's Sake
I had been celibate for a year before a pair of lions happened along. Well, they weren't lions, but the kind of men who make you think of lions, with their tumbling shades of brown and their big soft paws.
I thought men were dogs. Panting, impatient things that looked at you with irresistible eyes, then wagged their tails at the very next bitch. When I was fifteen, I met a young man with a mantra. His mother taught it to him: "There is only one way to handle women. Fool them, fuck them and forget them." Two can play that game. I'd chosen to forget. My best friend, Amba, fucked them. She specialized in one-night stands where the talking went wrong the sex went right. But I couldn't imagine a careless grind and a stranger in my bed the next morning. I'd never done anything like that, and I never intended to.
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I sit on Amba's sofa two hours after I finish my third novel. I haven't seen her for months, but she is used to me coming out of post-novel hibernation. That kind of work does things to you, loses you in a world of one. My eyes are bloodshot and my weave needs emergency treatment; I feel ugly. ... read full excerpt from Brown Sugar 2: Great One Night Stands - A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction ebook
