Twelve
years after Ivory first visited the Black Carnival, Neu Venedig has changed:
wilder, crazier, and even more surprising, this new Carnival has even old hands
like Lukan staring wide-eyed.
I have bittersweet feelings about this
story, which first appeared in an anthology put together for the benefit of
Doris O’Connor and her family in the final days of her struggle with cancer.
There will always be this great sadness connected to it.
On the other hand, it was great fun to dive
back into the world of Cydonia, the Sci/fi series that started my published
author career in 2011 (2011? Eight years ago? How did that happen?) with the
release of Black Carnival.
It’s a great pleasure to re-release the
story, with a new edit and this fabulous cover by Jay Aheer.
I am terrible at short stories, because my
world building addiction always brings me to write a bit more, and a bit more,
and then the short story becomes a full length novel. I thought it might be
easier to write a short story in a pre-existing universe, but, no even so, the
world and the characters still managed to do their own thing. Everything
changed in the telling. Neu Venedig is a wholly more interesting place now, and
I am wondering if it is not time to write a new full length instalment in this
series… all this just to say, that this story was a tremendous fun ride for me,
quite the surprise, and brings me full circle, in a certain sense, connecting
my current Transgender Romance theme, to my debut novel. I hope you enjoy
reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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Blurb:
Wealthy, charismatic, influential and damn
near immortal, Lukan Løvensgård looks like natural Dom material, and in fact he
has never, but never submitted to anyone in his long life. But among all the
bizarre and fantastic people roaming the far planet of Cydonia, there is one
who stole his old, cold heart.
And her love comes at a price. Complete
surrender.
With her impressive presence and unusual
equipment, Helenay is the hottest and trendiest professional Domme in Neu
Venedig and she hardly has the time to top for pleasure these days. But she knows what her old friend Lukan
needs, something he never suspected. Release from power.
#transgendererotica #futanari
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Excerpt:
He knew all her favorite toys by their sting,
and the sound they made when they met his flesh.
Helenay slapped the split strap of thick
leather hard on his buttocks and then down his thighs, in a neat crisscrossing
pattern. She could leave crisscross switch welts as neat as a corset’s lacing
if she wanted. At his knees, she stopped, and Lukan breathed deep. The sharp
sting of the tawse was pure fire, but it faded quickly enough. Still, his skin
was now definitely well primed for the real pain.
He breathed hard.
Hell placed a hand between his buttocks and
stroked the edge of his butt plug again and again, sending it to stroke his
prostate, over and over, while at the same time, gently pulling on the cord
that tied his cock and balls. He groaned, feeling waves of pleasure and the
afterglow of pain mingling in his flesh and in his brain, addling him. Soon he
would hardly know the difference between the two. He groaned again, not knowing
anymore if he had come for the pain she could give, or the pleasure she so
often withheld. Sometimes she would give both. Perhaps he would beg for it
today.
Yes, he would certainly beg if he had to.
“Turn,” she said, and he let go of the
wall, gingerly, because his knees were soft. Her tawse was still in her hand,
and from one end of it, on a thin silk cord, hung a long suede tassel. Not
quite a flogger, but a vicious enough little thing, when one was standing naked
with a swollen glans reaching out, begging to meet that deceptive velvet kiss.
He took a deep breath and then gave a sharp gasp when the first soft swish of
the tassel hit his engorged cock. The suede was neither rough nor stiff, but
his stretched, blood-filled skin exploded in pain at its kiss. The pain was so
close on top of the pleasure he had been savoring a moment earlier that he
could not quite tell them apart. The almost-gentle, almost-intolerable flogging
went on and on, perhaps for only a few seconds, but he was jolting back at each
blow, crying out, whimpering. When she stopped and palmed his balls again, he
actually screamed, although she did nothing, just held them.
“You are so full of it today,” whispered
Hell, seriously.
“It”
was the unbearable tension that mounted inside him between their
encounters, as he knew well.
“Why?” she asked.
He shook his head wretchedly. “I don’t
know. Help me. Help me, please.”
She sighed, and kissed his forehead for a
long moment.
Moments like this, long or short, made his
heart stop. Neither he nor she were made for tenderness, really. And yet it
materialized, from time to time, out of the blue, unexpected, unexplained,
often unacknowledged. Half the time, they almost pretended that it hadn’t
happened. A secret they kept, even from themselves.
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Less explicit excerpt if preferred :
Three-hundred years after the demise of
Earth-that-Was, the Galaxy’s central government
has banned all artificially modified and enhanced humans. Only the remote
planet of Cydonia has finally dissociated itself from the ban. The wild
revelries of the Black Carnival in the Cydonian capital, Neu Venedig, have now
taken an even wilder turn…
On the fifth night of the Carnival, Lukan
strolled out of his high walled courtyard, twirling his walking cane in the air
and humming Johan Caspar Ferdinand Fischer’s “Praeludium VIII” to himself. He
had been playing it on the harpsichord again and again that afternoon, and its
slippery, silvery perfection still clung to his inner ear like a haunting
voice.
He crossed a little bridge into a narrow
calle, then turned right into a slightly wider canal-side, lit by glowing
fire-bulbs and the shimmering reflections from the dark water. The place was
quiet, and the music hummed on in his head, undisturbed. Even at the height of
the festivities, it was almost deserted in this part of Neu Venedig. He had
carefully chosen his 16th century palazzo to be well out of the raving crowds.
He skipped from flagstone to flagstone
along the edge of the canal, almost like a child, almost like a dancer,
following the music that he alone could hear. The long tails of his embroidered
coat flapped behind him as if charmed by the inaudible melody. His ghostly
shadow flickered in and out of existence as he passed streetlight after
streetlight.
It was Carnival, and he was going to Hell.
The Praeludium in his head gave way to an
altogether more spirited Rigaudon, and he skipped faster, actually counting,
two, three, four—he skipped a larger flagstone—five, six seven. Eight, nine,
heaven.
Hopscotch. A forgotten game, like the music
was forgotten, like the harpsichord was forgotten, ghosts of a dead world,
long, long ago. But he was alive, and he remembered. He had been alive a long
time, far longer than his looks suggested.
The night was cold, and he was as taut as a
violin string, ready to snap with ache and longing, and something else, too, a
sort of mute grief he didn’t want to acknowledge but that haunted him all the
time, subtly gnawing at him.
But he was going to Hell, so all would be
fine tonight. Soon, he would be all right, freed from that silent sorrow, and
released into flaming brilliance.
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Buy link:
https://www.evernightpublishing.com/hells-mercy-by-katherine-wyvern/
