Ether Books describe themselves as ‘a new mobile social reading platform, connecting Writers and Readers around the world. Ether publishes “made for mobile” Quick Reads straight to Smart Phones, the fastest growing digital reading device on the planet. Discover talented new and bestselling writers right from your pocket.’

I found the Ether Books team friendly, professional, and extremely helpful, and would definitely recommend that you all start using their app and – if you’re a writer – submitting your work to them.

Long time readers may remember the first part of this story which was once published here on (It Girl. Rag Doll), but this is the first time the full version has been available anywhere. For a Few Dollars More tells the story of Sally, “sixth form whore” whose customers range from her curious classmates to older, more experienced men.

Sally doesn’t meet strangers in the middle of the night, but she has met this man once before. Eric is balding and a little tired looking, tall and thin as though he has been wrung out by too much experience. But Sally doesn’t mind; he offered good money and kisses her cheek as she slides into the passenger seat of his car.

“Are you okay?” He asks, a look of slight concern on his face.

Sally flashes him a smile, straightening her grey skirt. “Peachy. And you?”

It’s not unusual for the older men to be worried about her. Sally finds it amusing that each client feels protective, as if he is any less perverse when he requests her school uniform and shyly asks that she wear her hair in bunches. She feels lucky to never have encountered much nastiness; most perverts are just bored.

Compared with my other published stories, this is much darker, and contains explicit depictions of non-consensual sex. Long time readers will be familiar with the kinds of transgression which my fiction engages, but new readers should know that this story is not for the faint of heart.

I would love to receive feedback and comments on this story, so if you read it and have something to share, please do come back and leave me a comment here. Or you can email me on harper (at) itgirlragdoll dot com.

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I don’t remember much of what I did during the Summer of 2012, but it would seem that I spent quite some time writing ten thousands words of a rather salacious story about sex and jazz in midnight London.

Strummed, the new collection from Sweetmeats Press, contains five stories written by five different authors – Amélie Hope, B.Z.R Vukovina, Percy Quirk, Stella Harris, and Harper Eliot – which all contain, in some way or another, a musical theme.

Despite being a prolific reader, I am currently knee deep in my degree, so I haven’t had a chance to read through Strummed in its entirety yet; but I hope to do so, and to provide you with a little write up, as soon as possible.

For the time being, I can tell you about my story:

Set in a somewhat rundown jazz club in the heart of London, And the Midnight Trio tells the story of Violet, a young singer who is already worrying about the passing of time. As she sings she ponders what she will do when the shine of being the new girl wears off, and the suits no longer rush to watch her perform every evening. Her deliciously demanding lover sits at the piano behind her as she sings, but when their set is over, he is quickly forgotten, disappearing between the velvet curtains, and she finds herself in the midst of an elegant seduction with two polished businessmen…

And the Midnight Trio is teasing, and a little gritty, but also far more palatable than my usual stories; hopefully it touches on both the darkness I usually write and the simplicity of a more ordinary life, whilst not being too complex or unsettling for the collection. But you’ll have to be the judge of that.

As an eBook it is available from
Smashwords
Amazon UK
Amazon US

It is set to be published as a paperback on March 15th, and you can pre-order it from
Amazon UK

You can also buy my story, And the Midnight Trio, on its own from
Smashwords

All feedback, reviews, and/or questions about And the Midnight Trio are welcome; you can contact me by email on harper (at) itgirlragdoll dot com.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the collection…

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