Rome wasn't built in a day but Faustina Maxima, antithesis
of the passive Roman matron, can screw herself out of a threatening situation
quicker than you can say, “Veni, vidi, vici!” This statuesque beauty,
descendant of a famous emperor is a one-woman sexual killing machine that eats
savage Goths and Saxons for breakfast—and is also partial to a Pict or
two—while lunch, dinner and supper is any Roman who takes her fancy. Like any
great general she's blessed with imagination, and open to every possibility for
maximising pleasure. For, as she writes to her daughter-in-law Flavia, the
lucky recipient of her mother-in-law's unblushing exploits among the
barbarians, “what is life without ever fresh adventures?”
Warning: This title contains graphic language and is
suitable for adults only.
'Faustina and the Barbarians' is a 21.000 words historical
erotica novella
Published by ahotterstate.com
Excerpt
To: Flavia Maxima, Rome
From: Faustina Maxima, Amorgos, August 410
My darling daughter-in-law, what thrilling news! The
Barbarians at the gates of Rome, at last. You and your friends are in for the
time of your lives. I’m green with envy, exiled as ever on this barren Grecian
rock with nothing but goats and wizened goat herders for company; not to
mention that boring, obnoxious bag-of-bones, your father-in-law Flaccus. As
soon as you hear Alaric’s Gothic cavalry pounding down the street, get outside
and scream for attention.
I know you won’t do that, of course, but I hope this letter
of mine will persuade you to stop being such a shrinking violet and have some
fun with the gorgeous Goths before they’re completely Romanised. You really
must make the most of them, my dear. All disrespect to my darling son, but you
must be bored stiff in the bedroom. He’s just like his wimpish father; prefers
a blowjob from a eunuch to fulfilling his conjugal duties.
Darling, in all earnestness, the Goths are just the influx
of virility the women of Rome are crying out for. I speak, as always, from
experience.
Twenty years ago, when the Goths first began seriously
troubling our northern borders, Flaccus, appointed Legate by the Emperor
Valentinian, was sent to keep an eye on them. I, of course, having the ear—and
more vital organs—of His Imperial Majesty, was allowed to accompany him. I was
a very excited twenty-year-old, who couldn’t wait to feast her eyes upon those
blond giants from the far north.
When we arrived it was high summer, and the forests of
Germania were steaming, and not just with fires from Barbarian encampments.
Disguised as an officer, I rode with my valiant husband into the centre of the
Chief’s camp to parlay. Darling, I simply couldn’t see what threat the Goths
posed, for all their energy seemed to be spent in fucking their buxom-arsed
women, and often each other, senseless. As we rode in, my saddle was damp with
the sights we saw. They were fucking against trees, on the ground, and, one
couple I remember, were shafting each other precariously balanced in the boughs
of an oak. And what beauties they were! As Flaccus did his ‘fearsome Roman’ bit
with Chief Athalaric, I let my eyes take in the tall blonds who surrounded our
mounted embassy. Long blond hair turned to gold in the slanting rays of the
sun, gemstone eyes set above rich, red mouths sculpted for kissing. And do you
know, as I sat, looking as martial as I could, one of them met my eye and made
a very provocative gesture with his closed fist. That night I lay in our tent
stroking myself and feeling those strong fingers probing inside me.
I was well on the way to coming when I heard Delicia, my
hand-maiden, scream. The curtains around my bed were torn back and there stood
a gang of young Goths laughing, swords unsheathed.
“Oh Aphrodite, don’t let me wake up now,” I prayed as they
gathered close, their eyes bulging with lust in the lamplight.
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About the Author
John McKeown is a British writer based in Dublin. He lived
in Prague where he was a teacher and freelance journalist and part of the
ex-pat literary scene in the 1990s, then moved to Ireland in 2000 becoming a columnist
for the Irish Examiner, and arts feature writer for the Irish Times. He was
theatre critic for the Irish Daily Mail from 2006 to 2008 and is currently
reviewing theatre for the Irish Independent and UK online theatre magazine
Exeunt while raising his daughter Julia. His erotic short stories have been
published by Xcite Books in the UK, who have also recently published his first
novella Gooseflesh Abbey. JMS Books in the US is publishing two other erotic
novellas, also in 2013, Prague Memoir and The Time Sex Machine. In addition to
erotica John has four collections of poetry in print, the last, Night Walk
published by Salmon Press in Ireland (available from Dufour Editions in the
US). He has also collaborated with Leo O’Kelly of Irish folk-rock duo Tir Na
nOg, on an album of songs entitled Will released in 2011 on Life and Living
Records in the UK.
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