It Started with a Moment

We lay on the bed, both naked. The weak afternoon sun dimly lights the room. He is the most perfect man I have ever seen. Everything about him is divine. I gaze at him with lust and desire. He says, “Close your eyes.” I close them tightly. I know he is smiling, I can hear it in his voice. I feel a touch as soft and light as a feather on my lips, slowly moving down my neck, then on my breasts, gently caressing my nipples. I feel like I’m going to explode. I try to open my eyes, but he is watching me and whispers softly, “No peeking.” I close my eyes again and try to relax. I enjoy the tickling sensations that are awakening every nerve ending in my body. I start trembling like I am cold, but it is just my excitement building. I feel his feather-light touch begin a southward journey towards my belly button. I gasp. He moves lower again…

Kate Wells is a modern day working mother, she loves her husband, Nigel and her cheeky twin boys, and most of the time loves her chaotic and crazy life. Kate definitely knows that life isn’t a ‘once upon a time story’, life is real and she navigates it as best she can with honesty, humour and finesse. Nigel’s best mate, Lochie Spears, begins to infiltrate Kate’s subconscious. Her senses tell her to ignore it, but when they are forced together for work, things begin unravelling between them and their lust overwhelms them. By giving in to her longing, Kate now has the threat of her secret relationship with her husband’s best mate being discovered and destroying her life, yet despite her misgivings she continues down this traitorous path. Nigel’s sudden death changes everything. Kate; overcome with grief, laden with guilt, and feelings of traitorous remorse, turns to alcohol to numb the pain. Things start slipping, little things at first, but little things always turn into big things. She gets some unwelcome but well intended intervention from Lochie to help her get back on track and move forward with her life. But she won’t allow her feelings for Lochie to resurface, her guilt is just far too great. His constant presence, and a series of nightmares, begins to melt her steely resolve and she lets Lochie back into her heart. His ongoing support gives her the strength to keep moving forward, and her first step is to sell her house. It’s just too steeped with Nigel’s memory. Kate enters into a temporary arrangement with Lochie, moving in to his house with him while she looks for a new home for her and the boys. But it turns into a long term deal when an unexpected pregnancy turns things on their heads. Chaos rules Kate’s life, there’s no escaping it. And none more so when Lochie’s ex-wife turns up on thier doorstop with a surprise package. It seems that a one night stand some months previous, ended in an unpredicted addition to Lochie’s family. Lochie isn’t distracted by the chaos that constantly surrounds Kate and wants more than anything for her to marry him, but his attempts at proposing to Kate have, thus far, been unsuccessful, she doesn’t share his enthusiasm for the ceremonial pact of marriage. She is perfectly happy with their unorthodox and chaotic life the way it is. But the arrival of little Zoe Spears, softens Kate’s doggedness and she finally agrees to marry him. Neither could be happier, with their world full of chaos an delight and their future looking very optimistic, life is finally dealing aces…. until Kate’s house of cards comes crumbling down around her all over again.

My ultimate indulgence in this crazy hectic life of wife, mother, career woman, community volunteer, sports mum, farmer’s wife, chef extraordinaire, cleaner, book-keeper, family CEO, and general home handy man, is reading; escaping into the world of fiction and fancy. Writing fiction isn’t easy, I have had several failed attempts over the past decade, but this story, ‘It started with a moment’, kept evolving and changing and developing, and growing into an amazing ‘chick literature’ creative fiction, and now, I proudly possess a finished manuscript. I wanted to write something entertaining but not like the same thing everyone else is writing about. I wanted to write something that entailed drama, humour, lust, tragedy and love, but unique and witty. I didn’t it want it to be long, women don’t have a lot of time to indulge in reading, if they can finish it in a sitting or two they are more inclined to look at it. I didn’t want it to be more of the same Aussie drama, it needed to be different, yet still uniquely Australian. Someone recently asked who I would liken my style to, I am loathe to compare myself to anyone else. Like so many others, there are a hell of a lot of layers to my personality, and how I write will be dictated by these personalities and moods; not because I want to mimic another author’s style. I’m raw and honest and my manuscript is proof of this, with my personality interjected into the story line throughout. I don’t need to tell you how complex and busy life is, especially for many women who are trying to be everything to everyone. Most of us need an occasional and brief escape to indulge in, and what better escape than a great story; something that mimics life but not too ‘life-like’, something that is long enough to take a journey with, but not too long that it becomes burdensome, and something that injects some passion and lust into our often routine and repetitive lives. ‘It started with a moment’ does all of this and so much more.