Secrets of the Velvet Trap
Throughout 2024-2025, I'm publishing the serial novel Secrets of the Velvet Trap, a psychological drama set in 1935, within the milieu of an underground fetish club and psychoanalysis. The story publishes weekly through Tantalizing Tales and the list of currently available chapters is Here.
Secrets of the Velvet Trap is a Depression-era, slow-burn psychological drama about the turbulent relationship between Dr. Eleanor Wentworth, a radical psychoanalyst, and her patient, Edith “Eddie” Langley, a young reporter. With her compulsion for broken women, Eleanor finds herself inexorably drawn in by Eddie’s wounded sexuality, and their professional relationship evolves into a passionate affair.
(The images above are covers painted for the first 24 chapters of the serial novel. I paint in Procreate on an iPad. I share some of my technique in my art posts.)
Writing
You can find everything in my LISTS Most of my writing is lesbian fiction immersed in moral ambiguity, dark eroticism, transgression, and power dynamics within the genres of fantasy, historical, sci-fi/horror, erotica, romance.
SHORTS (from flash fiction to long stories and nonfiction)
SERIALS (long-form parsed out in stories or chapters)
SERIES (shorts that follow the same characters)
ANTHOLOGIES (same universe stories)
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Illustration
I paint most of the covers for my stories. I'm a digital painter using Procreate, Clip Studio Paint, and Adobe Photoshop. I use an iPad Pro for creating and a desktop computer for edits. I often write about my process on my art posts.
Links & Social
My first story on Medium, like many newbies: ABOUT ME
ALL MY LISTS | Content warnings listed by story
VELVETTRAP.COM | Link to the List here on Medium
VELVET TRAP FACEBOOK PAGE | Links, excerpts, illustrations for the serial novel
DARKLAW COMPENDIUM | Continuing series, trilogy with stories and art. Grimdark Epic fantasy. Contains violence, sex. (Publication)
TWITTER X: https://twitter.com/teresawymore
GOOD OMENS (GAY M/M) FAN FICTION: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Winkibot