Escape to Pleasure: Lesbian Travel Erotica by Sandy Lowe & Victoria Villasenor

Author:Sandy Lowe & Victoria Villasenor [Lowe, Sandy & Villasenor, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635553406
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2018-12-22T23:00:00+00:00

Battle of the Bands Over Desperation Pie

Ina Brix

Ina Brix has work published and forthcoming in various literary journals in the United States. She has recently written her first novel. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and highly recommends Hot Cookie in the Castro.

Cora wasn’t coming back to me and I had to move on, starting with this trip.

Me on the rebound, a human slice of the local specialty dessert, Desperation Pie, in the tiny town of Betsey, Indiana, just a lick south of Franklin.

Two days before our trip, the one we’d planned for months, and she dumped me—while I was still naked in bed, I might add.

“You have to admit, Sands, we’re not compatible. It’s just not working out.”

“It’s Lita, isn’t it? You’re moving back to California to be with her, aren’t you?”

Cora just stood there for a while and said nothing. I pulled the blankets higher over my chest. Even with the blankets, I felt horribly naked, and crushed by the heaviness of the room and by what Cora had said and wouldn’t say.

Then Cora muttered, “I’m sorry, Sands,” and walked out of the room. I heard her grab her keys and open the front door. Then I heard the front door slam shut.

I’ll admit it, I cried. I thought, Fine. Her loss. All those clichés you think when someone’s dumped your ass cold.

We’d been together for nine months. She had moved in by the end of the second month. I had thought that with this trip, we would solidify our relationship even more—but, yeah, we’d been fighting lately. More precise to say, she’d been picking the fights. Probably to justify talking to Lita again.

After a few more minutes of clichéd pep talk thoughts to myself, I realized that I had to do something solid. I had bought the event tickets, so I would go on this trip anyway. Without her. A solo road trip from Chicago to small-town Indiana.

We had timed the trip for when the second annual Battle of the Bands played out in full swing, and now I’d be going it alone. A week-long extravaganza in October, the Battle of the Bands took place in the town’s theater dive bar, a converted opera house named Fuzzy Muffdivier in tribute to Fuzzy Vandivier, a famed Franklin basketball player of the 1920s and also in tribute to the town’s own fame as an epicenter of lesbian culture in Indiana.

Just over ten thousand lesbians had moved to Betsey about seven years before, renovating its classic Main Street and forming a tight-knit community of neighbors with charming homes on tree-lined streets.

The Main Street boasted two coffeehouses, one more down-to-earth and the other one decidedly hipster. A couple had turned Betsey’s Main Street bank into a brewery, complete with a feminist bookstore in the vault downstairs, with books lining shelves on walls that once held safe deposit boxes. On a side street, a lace-curtained tea shop, called Desperation Pie, served that famed dessert by the same name. Sugar cream

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