Kassidy and her Lover — A Story
A Simple Bit of Romance from my writing past
Years ago, perhaps 25 or 30, I recall seeing a TV news report about a man who made a living posing for covers of romance novels, who decided he could write them himself, and was apparently quite successful at it. The obvious ‘news’ appeal here is that most romance novelists were (and are) women. These days there are different genres of romance for different lifestyles written by anyone with even a mildly vivid imagination, but back then it was almost exclusively a hetero-themed, female driven industry. So it was quite a thing ‘back in the day’ to hear about a successful male erotica author.
So it stayed in the back of my mind for years that it was possible for a man to write romance fiction. I’m not really sure why but people have said for years that I was a decent writer and that I should do more with it. I mean, I look back at some of the things I used to write and I can’t help but cringe. That said, at some point in the last fifteen years or so (I can’t really recall) I decided to try my hand at writing a romance short story. I got a few mildly positive responses when I posted it on FB, when I was still under the delusion that FB was worth my time, but I never really did anything with it beyond that. Well, now that I’m on Medium, I might as well post what I wrote and see what serious…
