My first Book
My name is pt borden or Petra. I have just written and published a book.on amazon.com It is called “Southern Medley and a Sordid Affair” and it is a tale of an accidental affair that almost cost the main characters sanity and could have ultimately cost her life. She did not even realize how close she came. Almost, I must say, because at the right moment, someone intervened and stopped the whole thing. It reads partially like an erotic thriller. My main character is called Petra, like me. I found it easier to write that way than in the third person. Though the story is fictional, the characters in the story are not. I have come across them and they actually exist. I was told parts of the story by someone close to me. She said she could not write it, because it was to close to her.
So who would be interested in the story? Well, I asked myself long and hard about it. And then I looked around and noticed that among the people I meet on a regular basis, there were many unhappy marriages. I started to ask around. Always very carefully, because I did not want to appear like a “nosy parker” or a “chatterbox”. I am just someone who wanted to know. Because I have grown up and lived in a rather protected cocoon. Social issues were not high on the priority list of events and social problems were certainly not high as an issue either. Yes, people around me divorced and some marriages fell apart. But one did not talk about those or, “it was definitely the fault of whoever the other person was” without knowing anything about how it happened.
That things could just happen, one did not accept or even know about. But that is what happened to Petra my character. Maybe it was her mental sluggishness or maybe it was boredom that made her an easy victim and even an active participant. Though, I learned that with enough nasty manipulation and pressure, it can happen to anyone. Because Petra was neither weak nor uneducated. She had a habit to procrastinate and wait until things happen to her, rather than take the bull by the horns!
One of the things I learned is how people in different countries deal with these problems. I spend a lot of time in Europe and the Caribbean with people in their 40’s and 50’s. I come from the Southern USA and I had to learn a lot about the world. I am not someone who visits nightclubs often and neither is my husband. I go to theaters and I like the Opera and good concerts, of almost any kind. Must of our entertainment is done in our homes. Strangely enough, that is where I learned the most about other peoples relationships and their problems. In my family back home in the South, one never talked about these, even though my mother was divorced and my father married multiple times. But here in our own home with my husband, the people talked about it. Maybe it is their age. Often the children are grown and their is a feeling of an “empty nest”. And that loosens tongues and changes relationships.
The people who might learn most from the story could be those who slither into similar relationships and are not aware how their partners manipulate them. There is a lot of very explicit sex in this story. But it was not written for gratification. It is not a pornographic story. But sex was a means of repression and subduing Petra.
Read the story and tell me what you think about it. I think the Kindle edition should shortly be up as well.
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