Making Up

by Tess Mackenzie

Erica has two threesomes, one with a man and one with a woman. Her relationship gets complicated as a result.

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First published February 23, 2013

About the author

Hey goodreads! Um, hi. Wave.

So first, thank you to everyone for being interested enough to read this. And the stories. Really, just thank you all heaps for reading what I've written until now, and wanting to read other things, and just for everything, really. I'm really, really grateful to everyone who's interested.

And thank you also to whoever is putting books up here. That's cool, and I really appreciate it!

So what’s going on with my books is a bit weird and kind of confusing, and I just wanted to explain properly so it’s clear.

Basically, everything I write is free to read on my website, or on Wattpad, and usually on Smashwords too, including all the stories in the anthology collection books that are for sale some places.

What happens is I mostly write short stories, and as I write them I put them up those places. Then, after a while, the anthologies collect the existing stories, and bundle them into tidier ebooks and print books.

So the stories in the anthologies are the same ones as are in the individual, single ebooks, and the ebooks can be read free, all over the place, if you’d rather to that.

So this is just to say all that, so no-one doesn’t realize and feels cheated or something. And also, I hope I used enough bold!

The anthologies at the moment are...

Getting Into a Girl's Shorts: Short Sometimes-Erotic Fiction about Women With Women

It Doesn't Always Rain: A Collection of Literary Erotica

Squishy Group Hugs: Collected Smut

...and the book pages at Amazon or wherever say which stories are in where.

So basically, there's no need to pay for anything unless you want to, and there’s nothing unique in the paid books, so don’t go thinking otherwise.

Which all sounds a bit weird right? Everything's free except it isn't?

Basically, while it would be nice to sell billions of books one day, I really also just want people to read what I write, and I also don't want anyone to feel pressured to hand over money, and this is how it ended up. So all a bit Wattpad, and that way of doing things, rather than the more normal print-book kind of model. And also yes, it is basically a devious plan to, um, I don't know, win you over, I guess, and guilt you into one day eventually buying things. But really, really mild guilt, I completely promise. So don't worry if you never end up buying anything. Read all the same!

So anyway. We're all clear on how this works now? Yay!

Um, what else. So just to say this too, really clearly, so I don't accidentally offend someone or something, I WRITE EROTICA so anything near me is potentially rude. Please don't get offended and then upset and then angry. Anger is bad for you and whatnot.

Um, yeah. Sorry to shout.

And I'm not here especially often either, so just to say that in case I haven't found the inbox or something! I'll work it out.

So that's all.

Except, just, thank you for reading what I’ve written until now. It makes a big difference that people are, and I’m starting to get the hang of all this, I think! So thank you.

Reviews

[Thom Swennes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Someone once said, “be careful for what you wish, it may come true.” This is meant as a negative statement and to discourage wishful thinking. Wishes are great and are bound like siblings to dreams but some dreams can turn to nightmares. In this story Erica is in a good relationship with her boyfriend. Life is good but the thought that it might even be better subconsciously nags at Erica. She suggests the possibility of a threesome, just for a change of pace; something new. Little emphasis is placed on possible consequences and eventually it happens. Garth, a colleague of Erica is their first and, although it wasn’t a complete bust, wasn’t really what they were looking for. Another colleague, Holly was next and the consequences are dramatically far reaching. All actions have consequences and these costs are hard to estimate and are sometimes even harder to bear.

Stories of relationships, especially multiple relationships, are like watching tropical fish in an aquarium or a snake or lizard in a terrarium at a local pet store. The reader observes the actions with a detachment unable to be achieved in real life. The authors keep personal knowledge and color at a minimum and let their actions speak for themselves. I am a romantic at heart and old-fashionly couple love with sex. The feelings and bonding of two individual souls (and not the sweating act of coitus) that attracts and inspires me; this falls squarely in the second category. The effort is there but doesn’t hit me on a one to one personal level……I’m sure some will disagree.

[Robert Cohen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't get enough of Tess Mackenzie. Her stories are generally short enough to read in one sitting, but they pack a lot of wallop in a few thousand words.

I'm in the middle of White Noise, by Don Delillo. I wake up each morning to pick up where I left off, and I think "I just need a Tess Mackenzie fix before I start on the really serious stuff". So I turn on my kindle and go to the next Tess story in the queue. And I am NEVER disappointed.

Making Up is a story about a threesome (actually 2 different threesomes. Would that be a sixsome?). But it's really a story about how people get from thinking about a threesome to actually doing it. That is a quite different kettle of fish. I never imagined the negotiation, the jealousy, the insecurity, the anger, the need that goes along with contemplating and then engaging in this practice. If Tess is accurate in her story, this is not an easy process. And the discussions that the parties have are simply stunning. Tess can cram a hundred emotions into a paragraph. Don't tell anyone, but her stories make me want to cry with joy and sadness. Her characters are real and deep. I fall in love with them every single time.

This is not your mother's erotica. This is something different and special. Read it and be dazzled. I promise.