#in this case only Tilly and Gerry are the lesbians

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NaNoWriMo 2022: Day 13

I did my writing when I first got up this morning. I have an idea for tomorrow’s session already which I’m glad about. This was a chores/rest day mostly because I’ve been working on both school and on sales this week. 

Day 13 Word Count:1,703 words

November Total so far: 43,213 words

Excerpt:

"Tilly! Tilly!" Mama shrieked when she saw Papa hugging me. 

She barreled over to us and threw herself into my arms. She kissed me several times all over my face in a frantic sort of way. I was slapped in the face with her high strung energy. 

I cried too, overwhelmed that they were happy to see me again. I thought they wouldn't want to see me. 

Clara came up to me, clutching two dolls to her closely. One was Annabelle, one of Rosie's fine dolls from childhood and the other was my Miss Sampson, still in her uniform- her confident smirk still visible on her face. 

"It's okay, Auntie Matilda, don't cry." She said with such concern. 

The little girl was now nearing thirteen, but Rosie did not rush her into adulthood. She was very much still a little girl and I agreed with Rosie- that might protect her from the world. She was always with Rosie or our parents. Ashby did dote on his only living child. He never pushed Rosie to have another baby again though she admitted to me that she wouldn't have minded maybe another one or two more. She had wanted a son, but Clara was all she would ever have.  

Clara sat between Rosie and me on one couch while our parents sat across from us on another. Tea and snacks were carried in. 

Gerry let me borrow one of her suits: we were close to the same size. I was a bit wider where she was about two inches taller but the tailoring had been loose so I could wear her clothes and she could wear mine. Gerry had great taste in clothes too; I was used to farmer and work man's clothes because they were functional. It had been ages since I wore a suit.

[lesbian-books]

Hello! 💕 Could you recommend any lesbian books that have no heterosexual content at all? I know this might be almost impossible I’m just so jaded and would love to be able to go into a book assured there won’t be any hetero sex.

I feel you, it’s very frustrating to read a book that’s marketed as a lesbian romance or praised as having “good sapphic representation” only to find out that one or both main characters has a boyfriend/husband or fucks a man. We really need more books that are actually about lesbians.

Here are some books in which the main characters don’t have hetero relationships or hetero sex:

The Abyss Surrounds Us duology by Emily Skrutskie Affinity by Sarah Waters All Good Children by Dayna Ingram Ammonite by Nicola Griffith Beyond the Screen Door by Julia Diana Robertson Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward The City of Woven Streets by Emmi Itäranta Compass Rose by Anna Burke + Departure from the Script by Jae Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks + Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett + Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir + Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri + Just Physical by Jae Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo The Last to Let Go by Amber Smith A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo Love by the Numbers by Karin Kallmaker The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling Matrix by Lauren Groff Monstress: Awakening by Marjorie Liu * + On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden One Summer Night by Gerri Hill ** Requiem for Immortals by Lee Winter * Shaken to the Core by Jae The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley * Teixcalaan duology by Arkady Martine Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi The Temple at Landfall by Jane Fletcher + The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson ** + The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood The Warrior’s Path by Catherine M. Wilson + Wildthorn by Jane Eagland

* I enjoyed these books but they contain scenes of female characters engaging in violent, abusive behaviour that dampened the reading experience for me. They’re still good overall, I just think it’s fair to warn you in case that turns you off reading them.

** I disliked these books but they fit the criteria so...yeah, slim pickings. But taste is subjective so just because I don’t like them doesn’t mean you can’t.

+ First in a series

One additional note: Most authors don’t label their characters as lesbians so I can’t be sure that all the main characters in these books are lesbians. And since some of these books are in a series that I haven’t finished and/or that the author hasn’t yet completed (marked with +), I can’t be sure that future books in a particular series will not contain hetero content. So just be aware of that possibility!

I had actually been planning to make a list of book recs like this so I’m glad someone asked. I intend to update this list as regularly as I can. Let me know if you want any more information about any of the books already on the list.