#dead cherry

Omg yes thank you for asking!

Just for some background, Dead Cherry is an erotic-ish novel about Ashlynn Cooper, an accomplished mob arsonist and Pretty Nice Guy who starts a relationship with mysterious femme/Georgia peach/certified redhead Cherry Colder, who's recently moved into Coop's building because her father is being tried for the elaborately staged strangulations of like a lot of blonde teenagers. If this sounds ridiculous it's because it is; this project is a repository for all the things I like to write about and is about 40% senseless Hannibal-type violence and 60% bits. Here's a paragraph:

Contrary to popular belief, pyromaniacs made for awful serial arsonists. By definition, pyros were impulsive and internally motivated, the last thing a discerning employer would look for in a professional, and nobody wants to risk being made because the guy they hired stuck around to watch. What made a career arsonist, Leo told her on their first drive, was discipline. Anyone could splash gasoline on carpet or chuck a molotov through an open window, but these were sloppy tactics, and Don Marino had no patience for sloppiness. He wanted competence: someone who could read the character of a vehicle or building and create a tidy narrative upon which no trace of external involvement remained. A clean burn with an innocent ignition: a malfunctioning pilot light, a bad compressor, a forgotten cigarette butt. A career arsonist didn’t concern herself with the whos and whys of the place she was sent to destroy. All she needed was a mark and a match.

Oh no it isn't you, it's absolutely me lol. And I'm so so sorry, but there's no ooze. There is snoozed, in a line I wrote today in fact!

From Dead Cherry:

Eventually, the feeling of Murphy snuggled against her legs put her out. A few hours later, when her alarm went off, she snoozed it until the coffee began to percolate, then untangled herself from the covers.

Either doc is good with mee

Lmao Audrey hilariously, pussy does not appear in either of these, but cunt does! Different meanings, same anatomy.

Space Trash:

Kaliphagon’s livid mouth puckered. Thin-skinned, just like all the spoiled rich girls in her platoon. Easy to provoke. “I’m not a princess,” she said.

“Oh, my mistake. Your language just has so many words for rotten little cunt, my backwards alien brain can’t keep up.” She stepped forward, staring down the plastic membrane and the blanching face within. “Hey, there’s some Standard for you. The cudgel half your population uses to beat the other half. How cosmopolitan.”

Dead Cherry:

Bex didn’t unfold her manicured hands from atop the desk. Between the long black nails, the glasses and the blunt bob, she looked like a techno vampire or perhaps a licorice stick who wished on a star to wake up the next morning as a beautiful cunt. “How did it go?”

Ooh this is a really good one

From Space Trash (the introduction of beloved Rrl, who isn't named until the third book):

“🙱⑥❶ ⑩⑦②🗈 ②⓪🙧🙧⑥🖙?”

One spot over, a human man was waving at her. He sat parked in a striped lawn chair, shaded by a shipping vessel easily twice Virdi’s size, his polo shirt stamped with an orange logo. Massive circular sunglasses and a mesh cap hid most of his face.

From Dead Cherry (a line from Leo, Coop's predecessor):

“I was a made man by then,” he said, “but that didn’t matter much when it came time to clean house. You can always make new thugs, put fresh boots on the ground, but making a good arsonist takes time.”

Thank you for asking!

Rules: In a new post, list the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I don't have a ton of active WIPs because I'm addicted to finishing things but here's what I have:

Editorial Pass_Space Trash: The First One

Space 3: Tokyo Drift (take 2)

Dead Wife: Draft 2

Dead Cherry

2 Space 2 Opera does not appear on this list because it is a complete draft, but that's also a work in progress kind of (in that I'll be writing it again at some point). You can really tell when I'm in the weeds on something because the title gets really specific and/or really silly.