Title: Queer and Sexy Collection Vol. 1
Stories: Last Weekend, The Song, The Handmaiden
Author: Eniitan
Publisher: Love Africa Press
Genre: Women's Fiction, Fantasy, LGBTQ
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Love Africa Press presents Volume One of its Queer
and Sexy Collections exploring queer sensuality.
In this debut edition of three Queer and Sexy
interwoven stories written by Eniitan, we explore pleasure, desire, love, human
nature and godhood. Follow the lives of Ufuoma, Larrie, Ariyike, Fausiat,
Halimat and Uduak as they experience the magic that is the otherworldly Tara.
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EXCERPT from
Last Weekend
Ufuoma
was the last off the plane. She had shunned her usual garb of comfortable jeans
and tees and worn a cream skirt-suit that clung to her voluptuous figure like
wet on water.
The
cream showed off her dark skin, and to drive the point of her femininity home,
she had the first three buttons of the white shirt open. Her bra pushed up the
mounds of her breasts, leaving onlookers in no doubt of the gifts hidden
underneath her clothes.
On
her feet was a pair of heels, making her appear even taller.
She
was determined to make the best of this long weekend away from her regular
life.
This
would be her first time at an all-female party, and although Loretta had
assured her that it would be fun, she was still a little anxious, so she fell
into the default of looking extraordinarily good to boost her spirits.
One
of the best things, and the worst, was her ability to ‘pass’ and be taken for a
heterosexual, cis-gendered woman, but it also made her invisible to other queer
women. A blessing and a curse in a country like Nigeria. She remembered her
university days with a shudder. Those years she’d spent listening to ‘godly
advice’ from classmates and lecturers about how she should stop hanging out
with her more masculine-presenting friends, the rumours they felt comfortable
sharing with her about how these women were all a bunch of lesbians and that
she should avoid being inducted into the ‘cult of lesbianism.’
To worsen her situation, bonding with women
was not her strong suit, maybe because she was not primarily attracted to men,
not sexually or emotionally. She’d never felt invested in them enough to mind
their vagaries; she could take them or leave them, without a backward glance.
But with women—she was always so scared, had always been, of the different ways
loving women could drive you to a point of madness, of how invested she became
in their lives, their well-being. But most importantly of the powerful way a
woman could break you … but that hadn’t stopped her from wanting them, loving
them.
ABOUT
ENIITAN
Eniitan lives in a world populated by Yoruba gods
and non-binary human beings who take their pleasure as seriously as they take
mischief making.
CONNECT WITH
ENIITAN
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