J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:<p>I may have read it once before when I was way younger but that was 30 years ago.</p><p>Anyway, I do really love the movie "Nightbreed".</p><p>You could tell Clive Barker made the movie because so much of the book was carried directly over to the screen, the kind of things a director not intimately entwined with the source material would have cut or changed.<br>I was astonished at how much of the book I knew just because of the movie.</p><p>Anyway, it's a tragic tale about "monsters" just trying to live their lives (unlive their unlives? die their deaths?) and humans fucking it all up (like we do).</p><p>If you know Clive Barker, you know he's a gay man who is always combining the erotic with gore and horror. Just look at the Cenobites.</p><p>This novella had two ridiculous sex scenes that made me say something like "Oh come on!" -- I can't remember what. But both times, my wife looked over at me from her recliner to mine and I just shook my head and said "Clive Barker".</p><p>It's not quite "bounced boobily" but it made me think of that.</p><p>Picture the scene.<br>Your name is Lori.<br>You love a man named Boone. He's mentally ill and you are the only one who has stuck with him while he tries to get help.<br>He disappears.<br>His therapist calls you and tells you that "sorry, Boone is actually a serial killer who has killed at least 11 people".<br>Then you find out Boone was spotted and murdered by police in a forgotten town in the middle of nowhere.</p><p>What's your first reaction?<br>Is it, "I have to see where they gunned down the man I love?"<br>Well, that's what she does.</p><p>You also picks up a new friend on the way, Sheryl.<br>Y'all find the forgotten town.<br>Y'all find the abandoned house in which he was killed.<br>She sees the blood, Boone's blood. She sees the wood splintered by bullets, the police tape.<br>He died here.<br>Also, there's a gothic cemetery on the edge of town which you immediately want to explore until Sheryl convinces you it's getting late and you need to find a place for the night.<br>Y'all drive back to a nearby dying, but not yet dead, town and stay at a single room hotel (two twin beds).<br>Sheryl goes out on the town for some reason even though this place is certainly not bustling.<br>You stay behind, exhausted.<br>The room next door is having a loud party with raucous music.<br>You take a long, luxurious bath.<br>You sit naked on the edge of your bed and...</p><blockquote><p>She sat on the edge of the bed and ran her palms back and forth over her breasts, enjoying their smoothness.</p></blockquote><p>Then you lie down on the top of your bed, not even pulling back the blanket. You can smell stale cigarette smoke baked into the fabric.<br>The music next door has calmed down into "couples only" type music.<br>Obviously your first thought is to furiously masturbate.<br>Sheryl could come back at any moment.<br>Keep masturbating.<br>After "rising and falling, rising and falling" with "no peak" until you are "running with sweat and gorged on sensation."<br>Then you throw off the covers and crawl under the sheet, still naked and sweaty, falling quickly asleep.</p><p>Her reaction was: "I was just at the remote murder scene of the serial killer I loved and all I got was seriously horny."</p><p>I mean, maybe they are made for each other? I don't know.</p><p>The other scene is far more graphic and makes even less sense, but this is enough for a Monday morning.<br>I mean, who <em>hasn't</em> fantasized about being boned by a shadow tentacle monster.</p><p>Alternatively, I could just be sexually frustrated (I am) and jealous of anyone having a good time like that.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CliveBarker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CliveBarker</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Cabal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cabal</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Nightbreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nightbreed</span></a></p>