Chapter Ten Mercedes de Acosta—a very out and about lesbian writer born at the turn of the 20th century, noted for many of her relationships, all adventurous, glamorous and passionate—died in poverty asking for her love Greta Garbo who, rumor has it, denied de Acosta even that. Garbo—the introverted movie star described in such belittling terms as recluse—brainwashed into believing her relationships with de Acosta bad luck, erased all references to the romance from her history, leaving the public to […]

Categories: The Female of the Species • Tags: Romance, Serial Fiction, Serial Novella, She-Bear Thus Accosted, The Female of the Species

Chapter Nine Prior to this weekend, neither Lucretia nor Layne rarely engaged in any type of similar melodrama. Both led somewhat mundane lives for the past decade in regards to adventures romantic or otherwise. They purposely avoided any type of sentimental incidents with anyone other than each other; Lucretia for practical reasons of being too busy and Layne for what she described as self-preservation. The fact that both, this very evening, found themselves entangled in such was most unusual. “I […]

Categories: The Female of the Species • Tags: Romance, Serial Fiction, Serial Novella, She-Bear Thus Accosted, The Female of the Species