Hi, trans enbygirl here, named Mary Jane. I'd bought and read Serious Weakness a couple weeks ago, and subsequently bought and read 18 Foot Leash (will try to read the rest of the stories from that collection soon.) I enjoyed Serious Weakness immensely, it's one of my favourite books now, and my favourite (erotica? psychological horror? both? neither? transcends both.) story. It left me wanting more of both characters, and got me inspired to start on writing my own gay-twink-torment-destruction-captivity story in the same sorta vein of psychological themes in erotica. The use of autism and physical disability is something that stuck pretty heavily with me, not to mention pretty much everything going on with Insul. Reminded me a lot of Killing Stalking - which I remember seeing you mention when I looked over the retrospective. I think Serious Weakness is really something special, and I'll be hard-pressed to find something as deeply engrossing and disturbing anytime soon. I'll see about picking up a physical copy, too; I'd love being able to read it in person.
I don't have a ton to say about 18 Foot Leash. It wasn't to my personal taste, but I still admired the writing and imagery and thought you did fantastic with it. I look forward to reading the other stories from Torture Works.
In any case, I love the writing of yours I have read so far. It's inspiring me to write again - the story I mentioned working on before is probably the further I have got into writing a single work in months, maybe years, or maybe ever. I think I have you to thank for that, giving me inspiration and motivation to create a work that's in line with the sort of things I want to read.
Apologies for the overly lengthy message, I had a lot to say about Serious Weakness. I really loved it and thought it was a fantastic work of horror and drama and erotica. Please keep making such creative works, all I've seen so far is great.
Thanks,
Mary Jane