The Fainting Couch

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Random notes from April

Part of my ongoing efforts to distract from, you know, the horrors

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Apr 28, 2025
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Yesterday I woke up and saw that I had texted the following note to myself: “A fond response.” I was flummoxed. Fond response to what?!

And then I remembered. But first, some backstory. I just finished

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’s Animal Instinct, which was terrific—funny and engaging and steamy. While reading I kept thinking, not in a million years could I write sex scenes like …

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