What I Wrote and Read in April (2026)

 

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I’m happy to say that I started off the month with a flurry of both reading and writing to share with you! Then things went off the rails after the first couple of weeks. A drive up to Richmond for work (which enabled me to have dinner with two of our best friends!), a weekend in Greensboro for the NC Writer’s Network Spring Conference (and brunch with my best bud), and then a few days later we were off to the NC mountains for a long weekend at Biltmore Estate to celebrate Ms. Pierce’s birthday. It was a whirlwind but it was all great fun (and no travel issues) but it didn’t leave much time for writing. But that’s ok, as you’ll see – read on, MacDuff!

What I Wrote In April

I spent a couple of years living in a trailer park after college – it had low rent that I could afford without a roommate, and it wasn’t too far from work. Trailer parks get a bad rap, much of it deserved. But the place I lived was really just a nice little neighborhood, with foundation plantings, nicely mown lawns and kids playing on the playground.

I’ve had an idea for a story going through my head for the past couple of years that throws out the typical “trailer trash” trope, except for one – horny women with short shorts and over-sized chests. There is a reason for that, and it’s a bit supernatural. I’ve got eight chapters (20K words) of “Welcome to Hidden Hills” queued up on Medium – the first one dropped on April 29^th. That’s just the first arc – I think I’ve got at least 50K words before I’m done with it. I’ll likely recombine the 8 chapters into 2 to publish on Literotica as well. And then write the rest.

Coming soon - I’ve written a lot of age gap, group sex, couple sex and even a couple of tentacle stories, but I’ve written very few hot wife stories. When I have, they’ve generally been from the viewpoint of the “bull”, whereas most everyone else writes from the vantage of the cuck/stag or the hot wife herself.

I’ve got one (mostly in my head so far) that I hope to get out in late May. It will be a much more emotionally wrenching story than I’m used to writing – you can thank Vivian White and Lizzette Monroe for inspiring me to write a little more heartache and trauma. I try to learn from the best.

What I Read in April

Last month I talked about the first few stories in Best Hotwife Erotica III: Empty Nesters that I read in March (available on Amazon). I read the rest of them the first week of April and then had to take a break to cool off. Phew!! They brought the heat! But more than that, the thing I love about the whole volume is the love within each couple. These are mature people, with years together, and while emotions run hot, and guys get appropriately torn between jealousy and desire to see their ladies enjoy themselves, these folks are together. They’re not going to be torn apart by this. They’ve weathered the storms of married life and come out strong – strong enough to take a risk on cutting loose. Max Sebastian, Dolores Swallows, Kenny Wright and Kirsten McCurran, along with their collaborators in this volume that I mentioned last month, are simply the best around at writing in this subgenre. I highly recommend it!

Fitting very much into the same vein is P. T. Brown’s 4-part “Freeing My Inner Hotwife” on Medium. A hot 50 year old’s husband comes home early and discovers his wife’s hotwife porn and masturbation habit and makes it clear he’s okay if she wants to make it a reality. He gets nicely rewarded by the end – it’s a terrific story by another great author.

My surprise for the month was a story in Literotica titled “Justine” from the author Hot_Sister. Most of her other stuff is in the Taboo/Incest category but this one isn’t. It’s got age gap elements, cheating, babysitter tropes – and I won’t say any more because there are surprises along the way that I don’t want to give away. As I commented on Lit, “We're not all angels nor are we devils - we're human beings with love and lust and flaws.” She captures that very well – go check it out! I loved it!

I have no trouble recommending any of the stories above. But from time to time I’ll admit that I read things that are a little more… over the top. I’m not apologizing for that and I’ll mention them here if I really liked them, but I won’t necessarily recommend them because taste might be subjective but a lot of these are objectively tasteless. And nuts.

Case in point – some years ago I ran across a story on Literotica by an author called “nicequip” titled “Cooper Family Pride”. It was a “high school nerd gains powers of some kind and takes revenge on his tormentors” story – you might be surprised at how many of them are out there. I didn’t finish it then but I ran across it again a few weeks ago and read it through – it’s two looong parts on Lit.

Writing humor and smut is hard – I know as I’ve tried. This one is crazy, sophomoric, silly – think Mike Judge writing this while working on Beavis and Butthead. Ridiculous scenarios, crazy sex, humiliation – ya really have to be in the mood for it for it to work. I was and it did.

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That’s it for this month! A little more news – I’m a volunteer judge for a writing contest so I’ll be focused on reading (and critiquing) the entries for that contest (which clearly I won’t be able to discuss with you guys). So I may not have a ton to report for May. But what a fun thing to do!

Y’all stay safe and play nice and overthrow the patriarchy, y’hear?

 

AJP's Guide For Young Men

 

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There have been billions of bits used recently to write about the plight of the young male. And I get it. It has always been tough to be a teenage or young adult human male. The expectations of family and friends and society are daunting. Yet somehow, we have survived as a species, partly by learning from our elders (that would be me). 

So here’s a little advice for all the young dudes... 

• You are deserving of love. But you are not necessarily deserving of the love of any one particular woman. If you’re not the one for her, that doesn’t mean she’s knocking you down – it means you need to seek elsewhere. There is no shame in that. 

 

• If you are NOT the one for her, do not shun her attempt to ‘friend zone’ you. She undoubtedly has female friends. If your attempts at courtship were rejected and you took it well, she is likely to set you up with one of them. If you were a jerk or got stalker-y, she will warn them away. The choice is yours, young padawan (choose wisely). 

 

• Beyond just opportunities for dating their friends, being “just friends” with women is a wonderful thing. It gives you perspective. It gives you insight. And women are fun as hell, even if you’re not fucking them. 

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• Lots of young men are socialized to NOT be empathic. That is a road to loneliness. Don’t just get in touch with your feelings – get in touch with other peoples’ feelings. Those people that tell you that feelings are for chicks do not have your best interest in mind. 

 

• The idea that all women are only interested in the three sixes (six figure income, six-pack abs, six feet tall) is demonstrably silly. Sure, there are a few women that are looking for that. But most want: 

• Someone to ask how their day was after work and actually listen to their answer 
• Someone to rub their feet when they’ve been wearing heels all day 
• Someone that understands that the backs of their knees are erogenous zones 
• Someone that makes them laugh 
• Someone that will fuck them so hard they forget their name - when that’s what they want or need

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  If you are worried about her “body count”, then I take back what I said about you deserving love, ‘cause you’re clearly an insecure asshole. If she’s had other lovers and she chose you? That’s a plus, my friend. The fact that she’s had others means she probably knows how to please you and what pleases her. You’re a lucky man. 

 

• Women are not video games. There is no cheat code. Anyone that tells you that if you do a left-up-circle-triangle-X combo, she’ll have an orgasm has never actually met a woman, much less pleasured one.  

 

• On the other hand, women are equipped with haptic feedback. If you’re making out and what you’re doing feels good to her, her body will let you know. Just listen – with your fingers, with your mouth, with whatever is touching her. 

 

• Women are not all the same and they don’t all like the same things. Ask. Don’t expect detailed instructions – that gets tedious. But “does this feel good?” and “do you like this?” - as long as it isn’t every five seconds – are good questions to ask. But if you’re paying attention, you shouldn’t have to ask all that frequently. 

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• Women are more than a vagina and the apparently mysterious clitoris. I would suggest that time spent nuzzling their neck, kissing their ears, stroking the small of their back and caressing the backs of their knees will not be wasted. 

 

• If you think it's somehow gross to go down on her, you’d better not expect a blowjob. Them’s the rules – nothing I can do about it.  

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• To expand on that, “foreplay” is sex, not just a means to GET to sex. Intercourse is not the be-all and end-all. Being goal-oriented (with orgasm as the goal) is kind of boring. 

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• It’s okay to offer to pay for dinner, etc. You might have been told that women will be offended, but most will either accept or say “no, we can split it” and then you just do that. No harm, no foul. 

 

• Sad to say, I think a few grooming tips are in order. 

• Wash your ass. Please. Touching your butthole in the shower will not turn you gay - I promise. Unless you already are, in which case – more power to you, may as well admit it and stop reading this. 
• Stop dousing yourself in sweet-smelling body spray and get some grown-ass man cologne. Something with some musk, maybe. 
• Buy a good sport coat and make sure you have a good-fitting pair of jeans. Your date just spent two hours putting on makeup and selecting that hot lemon-yellow sundress and those heels – if you show up in cargo shorts, a Luke Combs t-shirt and a ballcap worn backwards, you do not deserve that fine woman. 
• Invest in some footwear other than Adidas slides and Air Force 1s. Flat-soled dress sneakers are fine (black with white trim work best). And yeah, a pair of Chucks are okay if you’re going to an underground club.  

 

Look, this is all hard. Asking someone out is hard. Meeting someone for the first time is hard. Having sex with someone for the first time is hard. But my dude, it is SO much harder for women. Yeah, you can think that they can just sit back and field offers and that’s easy. 

But trying to figure out whether a potential date is going to drug and rape them, or turn into a stalker if things don’t go well, or do their best to ruin their lives if things don’t work out – those issues are not exclusively problems for women but oh my god they mostly are. You really need to understand that. In your heart and in your gut. 

Feel free to add your own advice in the comments!