From early in my childhood I have loved to tell stories. The more drama the better. I learned to read when I was four, and have loved reading dramatic, even tragic stories all my life. The Adventures of Robin Hood was one of the very first, and I would always come back to the tragedy of Lady Marian’s demise. The most memorable scene of The Three Musketeers was the death of Constance, D’Artagnan’s significant other.
Fast forward a few decades, I found lesfic. Or sapphfic, as the PC term appears to be. All my life, I have known that I like girls, hence finding lesfic brought fiction back into my life. Only now, I much prefer an HEA to a tragic ending.
Ebooks have been a lifesaver for me, as here in the backwoods there are no other options for finding lesfic, and I feel blessed to be bilingual. I read and write in English, and I also now have a degree in editing and proofreading in English.
This means that I cannot only read books that I love but also sometimes get paid to do it. Writing stories is an added bonus. One of my favorite authors said, if you can’t find the book you want to read, create it yourself.
When I saw the email about the next Sapphfic Eclectic, I got interested. I wanted to finish the story I was writing. I love age gap romance, and here the younger character is rich so there’s social discrepancy. The happy coincidence of love at first sight inspired this.
The young manager of her own company stops at a grocery store she’s never visited before and sees the cashier lady she is immediately attracted to. Now she has to figure out how to get the lady to notice her. A bit of a klutz, she makes a go of trying to steal her groceries. She already knows it is a bad idea, but so starstruck by the beautiful check-out lady she just works on instinct. The police called to the scene recognize her as her company has invented their new communication system.
The officers are shocked to see the young woman CEO held down by the security guards. She gets her chance, asks the lady out and to her surprise the check-out lady agrees. Hesitantly, as she is not in the habit of dating thieves, or even dating.
Suzi Vilkman’s story, Check Her Out, is in SapphFic Eclectic, volume 5.
Butterworth Books 