Carol Rosenfeld is a New York City-based writer and poet. Her work can be found in four anthologies, including Best Lesbian Erotica 1999 and the Lambda-award winning Best Lesbian Erotica 2003, and Back to Basics: AButch/Femme Anthology.
Last Friday night I found myself in a familiar situation. I was almost finished a book I'd been reading, and I happened to glance at the clock. It was 12:30 a.m. Well, it was the end of the week, I didn't have to wake up early the next morning, and I just had to see how it all turned out. At a certain point, I thought I must not have read the sentence correctly. So I read it again--and ...
The InspirationI was having dinner with two friends, one of whom I was madly in love with. I'll call her X. Sadly (for me, at least), X already had a partner, Y. But Y was not dining with us that evening; she was with her very close friend, Z. There was much gossip and debate over the precise nature of Y and Z's closeness.To complicate matters, while I was in love with X, I was in lust with Z. Y ...
