What happens when a mother tries to kill her baby girl?

Cassandra, or rather Cassie, knows the answer to this question all too well.

She's faced more heartache in the first twelve years of her life than most of us ever face, certainly in one lifetime. Her life starts out simple enough; that is for a baby in foster care. But when her struggles and violent outbursts are given a name—Asperger Syndrome—any shred of hope for a bright future is lost forever.

Or is it?

The Slug Bug Chronicles is Cassie's story, told through the lens of Asperger Syndrome. She takes us along for the ride on her journey filled with fear and self-loathing where she contends with her sexual identity, self-harm, and a broken mental health system.

What does Cassie need to alter the course of her life?

She forms a reluctant bond with her therapist who helps transform her love of the iconic Volkswagen® Bug into a meditative happy place she can visit whenever she becomes overwhelmed by a life filled with pain no child should have to endure. And then it happens. It's the moment Cassie has been waiting for her whole life. She finds love in the strangest of places.

And on this road, The Slug Bug Chronicles becomes the best possible love story—a self love story.

IF THE L WORD (hot fantasy lesbians), Sex and the City (engaging in girl talk), and Seinfeld (about nothing) were dumped into a martini shaker, what would emerge is the Thalia Chase: Sex Therapist series. The series both informs and entertains the reader as the heroine becomes your own personal virtual sex therapist.

I belong to an amazing group on Facebook, a gathering of my people, lesbians who love to read and write lesbian fiction. We get into some pretty crazy discussions from time to time. Most recently, we had a discussion over words we'd rather not see in our beloved lesfic stories. My personal favorite is panties. If I never hear nor read that word again, I would be eternally grateful to the lesfic community.

From that discussion, another branched off where we discussed various names for women's anatomy, those we preferred, and those we'd rather not read or hear. One of the members wrote a blog post where she wrote a short paragraph using the icky words from a list she compiled with our enthusiastic assistance. From that blog post, a challenge emerged for those of us so inclined, to write a flash fiction story which incorporates all of the proper clinical names for the various parts of the female genitalia. I accepted the challenge. And here is my contribution to the fine literature unleashed on the unsuspecting members of this innocent lot.

This story takes us back into Thalia’s college undergraduate days where’s she’s feeling the stress of her impending orals, the last hurdle to clear before she begins work on her MDiv in Pastoral Counseling.
Will she pass her orals or will her crush on Ms. Hanson destroy her dreams?

If the L WORD (hot fantasy lesbians), Sex and the City (engaging in girl talk), and Seinfeld (about nothing) were dumped into a martini shaker, what would emerge is the Thalia Chase: Sex Therapist series. The series both informs and entertains the reader as the heroine becomes your own personal virtual sex therapist.

As we peer into Thalia's life in this first book of the series, we are introduced to her chosen family and the community in which both her practice and her life thrives.

Thalia's life is perfect. She has her dream house on the edge of Lake Cumberland in Nancy, Kentucky. She has a thriving sex therapy practice. Her sister has just moved nearby and is running the daily business of her practice.

She has a tight group of friends who keep her entertained and honest and a seemingly endless supply of ladies to meet her more basic human needs. Thalia has no regrets she's without a life partner.

Or does she?

A rough break-up five years ago left Thalia's heart in pieces. Thanks to friends and family her heart healed and she was able to find peace and happiness again. But not without scars that have left her unwilling to be vulnerable and exposed again.

When Amara walks into Thalia's practice seeking help for her friend, something ancient and terrifying stirs inside her.

Will Thalia be able to keep their interaction professional or will the allure of "one who will be forever beautiful," as her name suggests, be too much for Thalia and her fragile heart to resist?