pulse thumping
in her veins. “Really fucking professional, Lee.”
She got to her feet and stalked over to where he was sitting.
“We’ve got twenty-three days in quarantine and we
might just have been exposed to Ebola because you keep your brains
between your legs and couldn’t keep your eyes off my
ass?” Furious, she turned her back on him, thrust out the
bottom in question and wiggled it in his face. “Seeing enough
of it now? Twenty-three days, Lee, twenty-three days of my big butt,
and –”He grabbed her coveralls in both hands and ripped with all his strength; the woven paper tore right open to bare her panties and jiggling, curvaceous flesh. She shrieked with shock as he pulled her down into his lap.
“Bastard!”
Plot:
Non-supernatural. Tess and Lee work together in a
Level 4 Bio-security lab, preparing samples of infected tissue. When
Lee accidentally drops a bottle of solvent and they are potentially
exposed to a deadly virus, they both have to spend 23 days in a
quarantine chamber. The trouble is they can't stand each
other and the tension between them builds - until something has to
give...Sexual Themes: Straight
Notes: This
is an erotic story themed around the Ebola filovirus. Hey, I like a
challenge! It's actually a quite lighthearted romp; the
closest I get to
being daft and fluffy.The source for this setting was a non-fiction book I read a long time back, called The Hot Zone, which is all about the outbeak of Ebola that took place in a medical lab in Reston, Virginia in 1989. Actually it's mostly about the mind-boggling lack of any enforcable security measures, and how close the US came to a epidemic of one of the goriest and most lethal diseases on the planet. I was entranced. Ooh, how I loved that book. (Hey ... two of the things I'm hooked on reading about despite not having any personal connection to the subject matter are Plagues, and Wilderness Disaster accounts - Into Thin Air et al. Go figure.)
Personally, I'm delighted by woven paper clothing. Especially when it gets wet.
This was my first
story for Ravenous
Romance, a new imprint at the time
of subbing to them, and my first totally electronic publication. It was
a strange experience being published but having no physical object to
show for it, but I can't knock the advantages: it's much cheaper for
the reader to buy an anthology, and its really really fast - I subbed the
story in December and it was e-published in February.I was delighted that Ravenous Romance decided not only to publish Quarantine in the anthology Experimental: an anthology on sex and science, but also as a stand-alone short story.
I was warned that my text would have to be "Americanized" but actually all that involved was changing "arse" to "ass" (which I'm very happy with. The only reason I use "arse" is that it seems to be the Black Lace standard. Ass is good ... As the actress said to the bishop.). Even "wankers" escaped the language filter!
My Ravenous Romance page (for downloading).
