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beljar · 2 years
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People passed by me on all sides, but there was no question of speaking to any of them, nor did they speak to me. I was among them, but far from them.
Mohamed Choukri, from For Bread Alone, 1972
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feral-ballad · 2 years
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Wafaa Lamrani, tr. by Tahia Abdel Nasser & Richard Mckane, from The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology; “The wail of heights"
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alienejj · 3 months
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I took these pictures myself. Some of these books are old, some were just poorly handled over the years, and all were thrifted across the second-hand stores of Dublin.
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escapismsworld · 1 year
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roughghosts · 2 years
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Welcome to Casablanca: Blood Feast by Malika Moustadraf
Welcome to Casablanca: Blood Feast by Malika Moustadraf @FeministPress @Read_WIT #WITMonth #ArabicLit
First, read the stories. Unsettling, allow them to assault your senses. Enter a world marred by poverty and illness, poisoned by the values of traditional patriarchal society, infused with everyday magic and superstition where women and men are trapped in roles defined by factors beyond their immediate control. This is the Casablanca of Malika Moustadraf’s fictional landscape, the space in which…
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if-you-fan-a-fire · 5 years
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Extrait du journal franco-marocain. DR. 9 avril 1939.
“Entre le mois de février et le mois d’avril 1939, les volontaires internationaux regroupés dans les camps des plages du Roussillon vont produire de nombreuses revues. Cette  presse des sables mélange le plus souvent informations générales, contenus politiques et activités culturelles. Une revue concerne les deux camps. Edité par L’AVER (Amicale des Anciens Volontaires en Espagne Républicaine), le Trait-d’Union est le bulletin intérieur des volontaires internationaux des camps d’Argéles-sur-Mer et Saint- Cyprien. Cette production éditoriale quitte ensuite le Roussillon pour le camp de Gurs avec le transfert des brigadistes au printemps. Voici quelques pages produites à Argelès-sur-Mer entre les mois de février et avril 1939 par différents groupes.” Source.
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rapha-reads · 2 years
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I put back down my copy of Mrs Dalloway in English (can't focus) and picked up a copy in French of Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan (title in French: La Fille du Diable, The Devil's Daughter), a new arrival at the library.
Immediately, two pages in, I miss Scotland, and in my mind's eye I see Edinburgh as if I was still there, wandering around Princes Street Gardens under the thin rain.
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(photo of Edinburgh Castle I took back in January '19)
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neoyorzapoteca · 16 days
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What is the role of the translator in decolonizing translation? In your regional/linguistic focus(es), are there certain stereotypes or tropes you have to avoid? As translators, we choose which books to pitch, which books to translate, which books to promote to publishers and online. We have a responsibility to diversify the books we’re pitching and reading. And it’s not just about pitching or translating books from underrepresented countries and groups, but doing what we can to understand the place, the author’s context, what the book means in its country of origin, what it means to bring that book into English, and how to do that effectively and responsibly. And if a translator doesn’t think they can grasp the context or meaning well enough to do the book justice, then it’s important to make room for a different translator who will be able to. For me, I’ve made the choice not to translate work only from France, but to read widely from authors writing in French around the world, and to pitch and accept projects by authors from other Francophone countries. I spent a year in Morocco learning about the literary landscape there and so I have a particular connection with Moroccan literature, and hope to continue translating books by Moroccan authors. I’m also half Arab and it’s important to me to work on more books from that part of the world as well. I loved translating Moroccan writer Fouad Laroui’s The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers (Deep Vellum, 2016) because the stories are hilarious, they portray a variety of kinds of people, they foreground joy, romance, and the absurd, they also span countries and cultures, they poke fun at Morocco but also lean away from tropes. Laroui’s stories don’t only depict Moroccans, and don’t only depict Moroccans living in desperate poverty, oppressed women, desert scenes with camels, or other stereotypes from that region which tend to populate the Moroccan books translated into English. One of my favorite things I’ve ever translated was a wildly experimental short story by Anis Arafai called “The Leg,” and often people are surprised to find such inventive writing from Morocco, but why? Because translators don’t typically pitch these projects and publishers don’t typically publish them, but they’re out there. And my translation of Meryem Alaoui’s Straight From the Horse’s Mouth, coming out next month from Other Press, is about a Moroccan sex worker who is cast in the lead role in a film by a foreign director and embarks on a fantastic, thrilling life. Stories that are different than what English readers typically have access to from a given country are important to translate, and I think that’s one way (among many others) that translators can attempt to decolonize the landscape of translated literature.
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Title: Star-Crossed: #HFT {1}****
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Professor Chris Evans x OFC University Student Calliope “Cali” Jamison AU
Warning: NSFW, Cursing, 18+ Content, PLENTY OF WORDS, Plot,
Word Count: 12.2k
Synopsis: Look out for it in chapters 3 or 7.
Note: Another one because I can't stop thinking about this idea. I have been sitting on this for MONTHS because I wanted to wait until I wrapped some things up BUT life is short and I wanna share this. I have been thinking about this trope a lot. I am in no way condoning teacher-student relationships especially if said student is a minor and/or not of sound mind. However, I am a lot more open to a college professor-college student relationship. I prefer this trope to any in its subgenre/sub-trope even though it may not be ethically proper, depending on the debate you listen to. That being said I’ve wanted to tackle this idea of mine for some time and dipped my toes in with “Anatomy 101” which I wanted to expand on some time in the future.  Now, I am going to remix and expand on this professor-student trope. Hope you guys enjoy it.
Note II: Included is some Moroccan Arabic/Arabic in general. The translations are provided by Google.com. If the translation is incorrect, I apologize, please don’t hold it against me. Feel free to correct me, I don’t mind. 
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****Characters in this Fiction Story are of legal age, sound mind, and are consenting through no dubious means. ****
**NOT Edited/Proofread**
***Interactive***
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Derived from but not really a continuation: Anatomy 101
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Chapter One: Desert Rose
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“Cali, try not to wander too far tonight.”
You looked in the mirror at your father who was rustling through a folder of papers on his right while an ancient-looking book rested in front of him. It was his latest acquisition on yet another one of his excursions. His face never looked up from the papers. It was classic for her father, the man who was able to do ten things at once with two eyes, and two hands. Sometimes you thought his brain was a super machine that none other could rival. He always amazed you. Not just with his intellect or aptitude in his field but with his passion for what he did and how he lived his life.
It was him who instilled in you the desire to travel and find the answers to the world and humanity through travel, languages, literature, and love. He believed we were all connected through those three things and through those things could we better understand each other. He and these trips were probably the reasons you’d decided to transfer colleges and switch majors while tacking on a few more for good measure. If any little girl ever felt like their father was their hero, you were that little girl. He was yours.
He looked to you, and you took in his appearance with his glasses lodge on his nose bridge and his forehead crinkled from deep thinking. He was no longer a young man, but the years had been kind to him—very kind.
“Understood young lady?”
You rolled your eyes at his faux authoritative tone then sighed, “Dad, I’m twenty-two. I think the days of me being a young lady are long gone.”
“Twenty-one. Your birthday hasn’t come yet. We still have three months.”
“Two months and twenty-nine days, thank you,” you corrected.
He scoffed then shook his head. “You have your whole life to get old Calliope. Don’t rush it. One day you will be my age thinking where the time went.”
“I can take that as long as I am exactly where you are in your career,” you replied.
He smiled and put the papers in his hand down. “As long as you remember career isn’t everything. Living is most important.”
You thought about his words for a moment then continued applying your lip color. A silence that stuck for a few minutes befell the room. Once you were satisfied with your bold makeup application, you stood.
“Where are you off to tonight?”
“There is this lounge I wanted to check out before we left. It’s supposed to be real chill.”
“Ah, a lounge. All right, just remember our flight is tomorrow at five, and you cannot be late,” your father drilled.
“I know dad. I won’t be late.”
You readjusted your dress, smoothing your palms over the thin creases your sitting had created, then walked to your purse. Beside it, the vase of vibrant colored hibiscus flowers caught your eye. You traced your fingers along a delicate petal and plucked a red one out of the mass to arrange in your hair just behind your ear. Pleased with how it complimented your dress and the exotic look it gave you, you nodded to your reflection. When you got to your father you kissed his cheek.
“Don’t work all night dad. It’s our last night here. Who knows when you’ll be back. Take some time to smell the desert air.”
He sighed and looked up and through the panoramic window before him. No doubt the desert was calling his name.
“Don’t wait up,” you whispered before you scurried to the door.
“Don’t drink too much,” he called out just as you closed the door behind you.
You planned on drinking too much, taking part in some of the unspoken draws of Morocco, and dancing until your feet hurt. This was your last night of fun before the next chaotic and rigorous stage of your life began. You didn’t expect to have any free time to accompany your father on his work trips for the foreseeable future. As you waited for the elevator to open into the lobby of your hotel you took a quick selfie with the gold backdrop of the elevator wall. That and the warm lighting only enhanced your look.
By the time the elevator opened, you’d posted your selfie with a simple caption of red-painted kissy lips and a hibiscus flower. Less was more after all. As you walked across the lobby, you felt eyes flit toward you. You received several head nods and pleasing smiles that said the look was much appreciated.
“Can I get you a car ma’am?”
One of the hotel valets stood outside in his red and gold uniform waiting for your reply.
“How far from here is Shaida?”
“Hm, maybe a fifteen-minute walk or a five to eight-minute car ride.”
You weighed your options while looking up and down the street. The night was beautiful, the weather divine, and part of you wanted to take it all in.
“If I may ma’am, I suggest a car. After a two-minute walk, the heat will make it impossible to not sweat.”
You smirked then shrugged. “You might be right. Thank you.”
He stretched his arm out and seconds later a black car pulled up with one of the hotel’s drivers behind the wheel. The valet opened the backdoor for you then waited as you climbed in.
“Enjoy your evening ma’am.”
You thanked him just as the car pulled off. Settling into the seat you kept your eyes glued to the views that passed the window. Morocco was a favorite destination for you. This was your eighth time coming and each time still felt new to you. The truth was, Morocco held a special place in your heart, it was the land of your maternal side. Your father had met your mother twenty-seven years ago while he was fresh out of grad school while studying for his doctorate. He’d always said she opened him up to a whole different view on life. It was a view that influenced everything he did after meeting her whether it was professional or personal.
The savory scent of street foods cooking all around you made you moan and your stomach rumble, but you ignored it not wanting to get sidetracked. Only a few minutes passed, and the driver was pulling up to the entrance of the lounge. From the looks of the street, it didn’t look like it was a well-known place because it was so nestled off of the beaten path, but you didn’t care. After thanking the driver, you stepped onto the sidewalk and walked the few remaining feet to the door. Standing outside was a man dressed in street clothes with a makeshift bandana wrapped around his head. He looked you over once then averted his eyes back to scoping out the street.
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Once you stepped inside you realized that the exterior looks were deceiving. It was a full house. The heady scent of flowers, incense, smoke, and a mixture of snacks hit you like a train and you immediately felt transported to a different time in history. The hypnotizing sounds of an Arabian Flute and the Bendir played cohesively together to make you feel like could have been transported back to the time of King Idriss of the Idrisid Dynasty.  
As you walked through, you scoped it out impressed by the sultry red décor that screamed both royalty and sin and taken aback by how smoky the place was. It didn’t take long for you to feel as if you’d made the right choice for the night. Finding a place at the bar you sat and adjusted to the vibes of the establishment getting lost in the music. You understood now who the man outside was, he was a scout. This was one of the few places one could come and enjoy Morocco with a touch of both modern and ancient. A man passed you puffing from a tube and from the scent of the smoke you knew the risk this place was taking. Hash.
“You have the distinct look of both a tourist and a local.”
You spun around to the woman behind the bar whose curly hair must have been the envy of everyone she knew. She had a mischievous smile that only highlighted her kind eyes.
“I guess I can be classified as somewhat of both,” you said.
The woman took you in a bit longer, fully assessing you.
“Ah, I see. Our blood flows through you but you are American.”
You smiled and nodded.
“In that case welcome. Blood is what matters here.”
She took a glass down and poured a clear liquid into a glass then placed it in front of you.
“What is this?”
She didn’t look as if she were going to answer so you did the only hospitable thing—knocked it back. Instantly, you knew what it was, Mahia. This was your traditional welcome.
“Mm, thank you.”
She nodded. “So, tell me, are you here for business or pleasure?”
“Me? Well, the business is done so I’m all about the pleasure.”
The bartender smiled widely and refilled your glass. “Then you have come to the right place. We have drink, music, dancing, snacks if you choose, and—substances.” She nodded to a passing woman who was also puffing from a tube.
“Let’s start with the first three and see where the night takes me.”
She smacked the bar, “I like you.”
She walked off to tend to another customer and your eyes followed and watched her pour another man a drink. Just behind her, you caught sight of a man who seemed out of place but also looked like he belonged. The glass in his hand was almost empty and the way he held it said a lot about him. Where everyone else would hold it fully, with the palms of their hands, he held it with just his fingertips. Nine out of ten people at a bar would hold the glass in the middle, he held it closer to the rim and the icing on top was him holding it with his pointer out instead of his pinky.
You’d been around a lot of men in your life -thanks to your father and his line of work- that you’d taken a large interest in your own life experiences, and you’d come across them all. Men who were meek and soft-spoken because they never fully asserted themselves and preferred for things and people to come to them. Men who were boisterous and presumptuous and assumed everything was meant for them and attempted to claim it all regardless of what anyone else said. Men who were easily overlooked because of their non-threatening disposition, and even men who were hard to miss because of their titillating mix of all of the above.
From the way he held his glass, to the way he sat on the battered wooden stool you could tell there was something different about him. You didn’t know what yet. You watched as he drained the glass, placed it on the bar then tapped the rim while making eye contact with the soulful-eyed lady bartender. She topped off his glass without a word then busied herself with the patrons around her. With the glass firmly between his fingers again he took another long sip while his eyes remained glued to his phone. Your curiosity piqued as an urge to know what he was doing overtook you and you got lost thinking of all the possibilities.
Heavy Arabic speaking drew your attention to your right. When you turned, an attractive man with deep-set brown eyes, a full goatee, and a man bun of lustrous locks. He looked like a blend of an old-fashioned but modern local. His full lips moved again.
“Aljamal almahaliyu.” {Local beauty?}
You smiled. You’d always found the Arabic language beautiful.
“American?” He lifted his brow as a look of uncertainty filled his features.
You snorted and took a sip from your glass.
“Aljamal almahaliyu wulid fi 'amrika,” you replied. {Local beauty born in America.}
The man smiled widely as surprise and satisfaction filled his eyes.
“Your Arabic is very good,” he complimented in damn near perfect English. The only thing that gave him away was his heavy accent.
“And your English is quite good.”
He held out his hand to you, “Deladim.”
You shook his hand.
“Cal.”
The softness of his hands contradicted the ruggedness of his outfit. His clothes said he could have been an explorer, but his hands said he was a masseuse. “Interesting name,” you followed up.
“Well, my full name is Abdeladim, but Deladim is what my friends call me, and Dim is what my lovers call me.”
His words were like a lite tap against your cheek out of the blue, shocking.
“Wow.”
Every time you’d come to Morrocco with your father, you’d been approached by plenty of smooth-talking locals who all thought they could snag an American for the night for their stories with their buddies. You never fell for it.
“Very bold of you.”
You turned your body back to the bar and continued nursing your drink as Deladim continued to give you his best lines. By the fourth line, your eyes slipped to your left to find the same man from before now watching you. His drink was ever present in his hand, but the screen of his phone was now dark. You had his undivided attention. There was something in the way he looked at you, something in his eyes that made you feel like he darted an electric current right through you. Your skin tingled and that slight curiosity about his reading preferences had not transitioned into full-blown wonder over who this man was.
You didn’t know how long you’d stared at each other, but he was the one to look away first and when he did his luminescent blue orbs went right back into his phone. Before he lifted it to his face you glimpsed words. Was he reading a book in a bar?
“Took care of it,” the lady bartender said before you as she nudged her head to your right.
The seat beside you that was filled a short while ago, was now empty.
“A blind man could tell you weren’t interested,” she filled in.
You smiled, raised your glass to her, and took a mouthful of the strong liquid.
A short while later and a handful of drinks, you’d drifted over to the lounging area of the business where men were smoking and chatting up a storm, mellowing out to the soft sounds of Moroccan wooden instruments.  The smoke in the air only heightened the hedonistic vibes of your surroundings and you didn’t mind one bit. Feeling like wanting to take a walk on the wild side for your last night in town, you decided to partake. After a blend recommendation from the bartender, you got comfortable in a slightly secluded corner that was draped in red silk and shadows and lit up the hookah contraption. This was by no means your first recreational excursion.
Upon your first inhale, you moaned gratefully for the choice. Its aroma was similar to flowers but there were hints of fruit and smoked nuts but those did not distract from the strength of the drug itself. You leaned back, closed your eyes, and let everything that you’d been worried about earlier drift away. Nothing mattered, not the looming start date of your third year of college, not the stress of moving from one top tier university to another top tier university in the middle of your degree program, not the double stress of changing said degree program and adding two more on for a full-on double major with double concentrations. You knew the next two years would be your most rigorous and though you’d never admitted it out loud, you were slightly worried you wouldn’t be able to pull it all together.
A few more puffs and your mind was as empty as your glass. Across from you, your eyes met the stranger from earlier, and again his eyes were on you. Under this light and in this atmosphere, you itched to touch him. Seconds away from blurting a likely thirsty comment, you bit your bottom lip hoping that would stop the words. It barely worked; the urge remained.
“You look like you have something to say,” he said.
You instinctively turned to look behind you, but only came face to face with the wall. When you looked back at him, he smirked, lifted his glass then took a puff from his own hookah-like contraption. When he blew out you watched the smoke drift up in a hypnotizing swirl-like spiral. This wasn’t his first recreational excursion either.
“Cat got your tongue?”
His eyes met yours again while you sat there dumbfounded.
“Feeling jealous about it? Would you rather have my tongue instead?”
His smile was wider and again that spiral of smoke escaped. “I don’t know how easy you think I am, but I’m not that kind of man.”
You snorted then giggled unable to keep it in. He sounded like one of those women who used that as a defense to throw the man they were interested in off the fact that they really were that kind of woman -a liberated woman who never needed to make excuses for her behavior and was damn proud of it- but they didn’t want them to know that.
“Then what kind of man are you?”
He didn’t answer right away. He sat there watching you. His eyes roamed over you in the sultriest way, in a way that no others had traveled you. A small flame lit at the nape of your spine that made you sit up even more. Your body was on full alert for something impending, something that would change your life. Was it him?
After a long pause, he spoke, “You’re welcome to find out on one condition.”
Interested, you took a long drag from the tube and slowly swallowed before making an “o” with your mouth to huff out the smoke in a series of o shapes. He softly smiled before sipping his drink.
“What condition?”
His smile stretched. “You have to throw in some Arabic here and there.”
You smiled and that small flame at your spine went up a notch in intensity and location. You patted the seat beside you and waited to see his move. It didn’t take long for him to stand and walk over with his hookah contraption and drink in his hands. The closer he got to you, the more you could make out his outfit. The black appearing jeans he wore had rips at the knees and gave the peekaboo effect showing off his flesh and outlining what looked like slim but strong thighs.
As your eyes raked up his body, the semi-tight white shirt he wore gave you an idea that he either had a six or eight pack and that was when your teeth sank into your bottom lip. He placed the hookah down beside yours then sat in the seat that you’d patted seconds ago. The rush of air gave you your first whiff of him. He smelled like the incense that was currently surrounding you but also musky scents that were so similar to cedar or hickory and a touch of sweetness. It was completely masculine, completely unique to him with something you couldn’t quite put your finger on, something different.
“How did you know I was speaking Arabic?”
He smiled, leaned forward, and took another long drag from the Hookah. As he blew the smoke out, he looked at you. “I know and can recognize tens of languages.”
“Do you speak it?”
He shuffled his head then shrugged, “Conversationally. I’m by no means a local beauty.”
You smiled hearing him tease you with what the man from before had called you.
“Cute.”
You took your own pull from your Hookah and allowed several moments to pass in silence.
“He wasn’t wrong though. You are a beauty.”
Your eyes met his but only for a moment before he looked down and into his glass. He swirled the liquid then downed the rest.
“Thank you but I’m sure you must say this to all the girls you meet in underground Moroccan clubs while smoking semi-illegal hash.”
He checked and it was deep, and it made you wonder what his actual laugh sounded like.
“I don’t meet any girls in underground clubs in Morrocco while smoking semi-illegal hash, much less talk to them. You would be my first.”
Your eyes lingered and you couldn’t ignore the thrill that raced through you.
“Oh I do so love exclusivity,” you said while batting your eyelashes.
It was an action he snorted at. A few more moments passed in comfortable silence.
“So, tell me, what is a Moroccan rose doing here? Business or pleasure?”
“Moroccan rose?”
A small shy smile spread across his lips and for a second you didn’t think he would clarify.
“It’s uh—your scent. You smell like Moroccan roses.”
You stared at him surprised he could smell you in a place so filled with so many smells.
“I didn’t know you could smell me.”
“I smelled you since the moment you sat down at the bar. Moroccan roses with a slight hint of hibiscus,” he said nodding to the bud still in my hair. “You’re quite distracting.”
He went right back to puffing from his Hookah as if he hadn’t dropped two very important facts. One, he noticed you as soon as you walked in and two, he found your scent distracting. Those were very good signs.
“Uh—pleasure, strictly pleasure,” you replied.
His head snapped to you, and you glanced at him with a coy smirk.
“I came for a bit of business, but it’s really been only for pleasure. This is my last stop and tonight was supposed to be the culmination of that fun. Sort of like my last hoorah.”
“Ah, a wanderer?”
You leaned back and sighed. “I have been known to wander a bit but not all those who wander are lost.”
The smirk on his lips disappeared and his head cocked to the side.
“Tolkien.”
You smiled and nodded, “A favorite quote.”
He didn’t speak for a few moments, instead, he just stared at you, locking your eyes. The look that flashed across his face made you curious. He looked like he’d just discovered something rare, seen something he couldn’t understand or explain. As soon as the look came, it went, replaced by one of awe.
“Gorgeous chaos, he mumbled in a hypnotized daze.
“What?”
“She’s a mess of gorgeous chaos and you can see it in her eyes.”
The way he said it made your heart race so fast you could have sworn it was audible over the instruments in the club. He looked as though he were looking through you, either right to your soul or to every little atom that made up your aura and all the stars of your being. In all your years you’d never been looked at like this. He looked at you like the reflection of the universe, and all of the galaxies could be seen through your orbs like he was so transfixed that if he dared look away the world itself would crumble around us casting us into oblivion, like dreams were made of this one moment and his dreams were all about me. Every woman wished someone would look at them like this and right now you didn’t want this moment to end.
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“Let not light see my black and deep desires,” he added.
Fuck, you thought. You felt like he’d just cast a spell on you that pinned you right where you were. You watched his hand lift and move toward your face but before he touched your cheek his hand froze. Shaking his head, he dropped his hand while clearing his throat.
“God, I’m very sorry. I don’t know what—what came over me,”
He took a deep pull from his tube and kept his eyes forward. You cleared your throat and took another pull of your hash. “It’s okay. No harm no foul. Let’s just consider the effects of Charles Bukowski and Shakespear. A two-hit quitter.”
“You know those quotes?”
Blowing out the smoke, you nodded, “Yep. Charles Bukowski and Shakespeare, Mcbeth.”
He looked impressed.
“Wow, many would get Shakespeare because he’s a classic but not Charles Bukowski.”
“You shrugged. “What am I say, I’m a total literature snob.”
“All literature or just American?”
“All. The thoughts and writing practices around the world have always fascinated me. Did you know in some parts of the world the style often reflects societal beliefs of love?”
You could feel yourself running to the edge and prepared to jump off it though you remembered the looks most of your exes and flings gave you whenever you went off on a tangent about literature and love. It didn’t stop you.
“Through research and travel I find that though every area in the world relates to love, African and Middle Eastern literature whether novels, memoirs, or even poetry showcase it in such a way that one cannot miss the sentiment of love.”
Without giving him a moment to interject, you continued pointing out things your father had shown you on this trip. Things that were from well over two hundred years ago. You’d spent hours lost in the texts just immersing yourself in what life and love were like then. By the time you stopped speaking and your eyes returned to him, you’d realized you’d done it again.
“Uh--,” you awkwardly began trying to find the words to smooth things over or show him you weren’t so bookworm. However, the words escaped you. Sighing you continued, “I’m sorry I just—do that sometimes. I’ll stop.”
“Don’t ever apologize for your intelligence and passion for learning. A well-read mind is a beautiful mind and yours I can already tell would make many drunk off its beauty.”
He had a way with words—a beautiful, sensual, and sweet way, a way that made you eager to know more about him. A slow smile spread across your lips before you dipped your head feeling the full weight of your self-consciousness.
“Um--.”
“I’m Chris.”
He held his hand out to you waiting for you to take it. After a few moments of contemplation, you took it.
“Cali.”
Shaking his hand, you allowed yours to linger for a bit longer than necessary, as did he. It was your turn to get lost in his eyes, his impossibly deep eyes that somehow in the dark shone bright blue. You both released each other at the same time but your hands rested on the seat between you, so close but so far.
“Tell me more about literature steeped in love.”
You smiled then continued not needing any more of an invite. The next several hours passed with the two of you in an enthralling conversation about literature of all sorts and the differences between cultures, beliefs, and even society. You tapped into your knowledge from your major and all that you’ve learned over the last two and a half years on top of the things you’d discovered while traveling with your father. The more you talked about the topic the more you realized you’d made the right decision in changing your major and eventual career path.
When Chris tuned in and added his own findings and experiences you couldn’t help but sit there mesmerized by his intellect. You’d always had a weakness for a smart man. This man happened to be blessed with brains and beauty—a deadly combination. All you wanted to do when he spoke was listen and pay attention. There was something commanding about him, something that demanded attention.
“Am I boring you?”
“Huh? What?”
He smirked then bit his bottom lip and your eyes dropped to them.
“You’re staring like you’re lost,” Chris explained.
“Oh, no. I’m sorry. I was listening to you just—lost in thought.”
“What were you thinking?”
You looked around the room and realized that there were plenty more people who’d wandered in and the new additions made the club louder. You knew then that you’d been sitting here much longer than you’d thought. You roamed your eyes over him resigning to your fate. It had to have been fate. A man who looked like him, who was your type in every way that mattered, who checked every intelligence criteria box you had and made you want to do such bad, dirty, nasty things too. Talking to him had only intensified your desire for him.
“Highly inappropriate things,” you said before grabbing your freshly refilled glass to take a sip.
“Care to share with the class?”
Resting your hand on the back of the seat, you nudged your jaw in your palm and gazed at him trying to decide if you were drunk enough.
“What if your highly inappropriate thoughts match mine?”
Your belly fluttered. Was he saying that he has also been having inappropriate thoughts about you this whole time? You were at a loss for words and that was rare. His amusement twinkled in his eyes but there was something else there—seduction.
“Are you trying to seduce me?”
His lips quirked before he tipped his glass to them.
“Me?”
He scoffed. “I don’t think I have one seductive bone in my body.”
He had to be kidding. You’d been trying to find one unattractive thing about him for hours, just one and every attempt was a failure.
“I’ve been sitting here with you for the last few hours, and I doubt that very much.”
Chris smiled and under the colored lights, you could have sworn you saw him bite his bottom lip. It was a quick action but done in such a sensual way that goosebumps pricked your skin.
“Have I seduced you, Cali?
“It could be that you have, or it could be these never-ending drinks, or the hash and whatever else is in the air. Who’s to say.”
“See, told you, not one seductive bone in me. You on the other hand--.”
“What about me?”
Chris looked like he was weighing the pros and cons of divulging this information.
“Foreswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night!”
A giddy giggle escaped you and you clamped your hand over your mouth a tab bit too late. Chris laughed joining in with your laughter.
“Oh my god,” you said before an abomination came out of your mouth in the sound of a snort, straight-up Steve Urkle style.
Horrified your eyes widened but Chris only laughed harder, clapping his hand over his chest. He didn’t look to mind. “Cute”.
As if the compliment was the incantation to opening King Midas’ doors, you slid closer realizing somehow your bodies had naturally drifted closer to one another already. Now he was only a few inches from you. Again, Chris’s hand rose and traveled to you, this time he didn’t stop until he was centimeters from you.
“May I?”
You nodded. The back of his hand touched your jaw softly, then he slowly trailed It up to your ear before turning it so he cupped your cheek. The heat from his palm seared your skin in the most delicious way making your teeth sink into your bottom lip.
“Are you saying my beauty has seduced you?”
Chris didn’t speak at once; he just allowed his thumb to skitter across your cheek in feather-lite touches, but they couldn’t be missed. Your skin tingled, heart raced, and stomach knotted. His effect on you was so instantaneous that you couldn’t help but be confused.
“Cali—I dare say that you have bewitched my mind--.” His thumb slid across your bottom lip.
“--My eyes--.” Now it was pulling your bottom lip down ever so slightly feeling.
“--And my curiosity with far more than your beauty.”
On instinct, you caught the tip of his thumb between your teeth and but down—not enough to hurt though. A deep groan fell from him, and holy hell did it sound sexy as fuck. Not only did your brain think so but so did your body, the evidence was the slickness between your legs. You watched his face drift closer and closer to yours but when he was a few inches from your lips he stopped and waited. You were confused for only a few seconds when it dawned on you, he wanted you to have equal say in how this moment played out. He wanted to know that you wanted to kiss him as much as he wanted to kiss you. 
Chris's eyes were on yours searching but patiently waiting. They flited between your eyes and your lips, and you wanted to know how patient of a man he was. As if he heard your thoughts, he smirked.
“I am a very patient man, Cali. I could make you break before you me.”
The cockiness coming off of him only heightened your attraction to him. Any other time when it hadn’t been over six months since you’d been with someone or with any other man that didn’t look like him or think like him you would have enjoyed making him eat those words. Tonight—you’d rather him eat something else. With a smirk of your own, you crashed your lips to his and showed him how much you wanted to kiss him.
Chris moaned on your mouth, allowing you to lead the action. His lips felt at home on yours, a perfect fit, and the electricity crackling through you said they were possibly meant for yours. That electricity is what made you pull back to look at him. Did he feel it too? The look in his eyes said he had felt it and it was having the same effect on him.
“Holy shit,” you said.
A wide smile lit his face and this time both of you took lead slamming your lips together again. His hands were on you in seconds, one pulling you flush against his upper half, the other cupping your skull, holding your head in place as he kissed you senseless and into the most frenzied state of arousal you’d ever been in. You wanted this man—this man you only knew a handful of things about—this man you’d only known for a few hours. You wanted him more than you’d ever wanted anything.
Dipping your tongue into his mouth, you wrapped it around his, but he beat you to what happened next. Chris sucked your tongue in a slow sensual rhythm. With each one, you moaned and with each moan, Chris held you closer. You didn’t know if the rapid pounding against your breasts was his heart or yours and you doubted it mattered. When Chris nibbled your bottom lip, you whimpered and gripped him at his waist, crumpling his crisp white t-shirt. You didn’t know when it happened but when you felt the hard rippled ridges on him you realized your hand had somehow made it underneath his shirt. His body quivered while a shudder slipped from his lips.
“The way I react to you and you to me,” he croaked out, his voice husky, raw, and full of desire. “It’s intoxicating.”
You smiled and tipped your tongue out to trace along his lips. He sat there still letting you explore the taste of him. The more you tasted the more you wanted and without warning, he bit your tongue and sucked it into his mouth pulling you into another soul-swapping kiss.
“Christ! Do you want to go somewhere else?”
You moved your face until there were a few inches between your lips and peered into his eyes. You were met by the same patience, the same self-control but now it was not as tightly bound. You nodded first, then spoke, “Yes.”
“Are you sure?”
You nodded again with a smile. “Let’s go.”
Both of you stood and went into motion in unison, him making a move to the bar to settle both of your tabs while you to the restrooms to touch yourself up. A few minutes later, you met him at the door then dipped into a waiting taxi. You got lost in the view once it pulled around the corner to show the darkened beach but when you felt a large hand rest just above your knee at your thigh your attention went right back to where it belonged.
Sitting beside you, he looked like a man who’d made up his mind to seduce you, his eyelashes were low, eyes a mixture of bright blue in color but heavy in headiness. If seduction was a person, he was sitting across from you. Biting your bottom lip, you sucked it into your mouth. Chris’ hand inched higher and higher until it was halfway up your thigh with his fingers kneading the fleshiest part of your inner thigh. A soft moan escaped you.
His reaction was a pleased smile that instantly made you feel shy. Pressing your fingertips to your lips, you turned your head from him to the window and giggled behind it. His fingers never stopped kneading and the more they moved the more you wanted to moan. You liked them on you. suddenly you felt his nose nuzzle your ear.
“God, you’re sexy. I can’t wait to hear that moan loud and clear,” he whispered.
If the eyes of the taxi driver weren’t steadily peeping into the rearview mirror at the two of you, you would have stuck your tongue down his throat. Keeping some equanimity about you; you put your hand on his thigh a few inches from his inseam and squeezed. His groan was guttural and filled with so much yearning your belly did backflips from anticipation.
Before you knew it, the car stopped. Chris thanked the driver, then came around to open your door. With his hand held out, he waited for you to place yours in it. Giddiness took over and you took his hand. He then pulled you out of the car flush against him. You giggled again and allowed him to wrap his arms around your waist as he dropped a teasing open-mouthed kiss to the nape of your neck. He cupped your skull and kept you right where he wanted you as he tasted your neck. You easily got lost in the sensation and the way his lips sent tingles all through you.
“Moroccan rose will be my favorite scent for the rest of my life now,” he mumbled against you.
“Such a sweet talker.”
Chris yanked the back of your neck and crashed his lips to yours, rolling his tongue with yours and nipping at your lips. Moaning you wrapped your arms around him his neck and sagged against him. He began walking backward but he held you tightly never making you feel like you would fall. You felt sand between your toes and that fact was so startling you broke the kiss. When you glanced around you saw the desert before you.
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“Oh my god, I thought we were going to your hotel.”
“I didn’t book one. That’s where I’m staying,”, he said pointing off to the right.
A large tent was pitched, and it bellowed with the gentle night breeze.
“A tent? Are you camping?”
“With a view like this, I couldn’t bear to have walls separating me from it. Trust me it’s not as rustic as you’re thinking. Come on.”
Chris took your hand and lead the way to the wood-planked walkway. As he led you, you took notice of the other pitched tents in the vicinity. They weren’t miles away, but they definitely weren’t close enough to be nosey. When you got to the entrance, he unzipped the flap and lifted it allowing you to go in first. When you stepped inside it was like stepping into a little piece of ancient Morocco. This was glamping.
The lanterns around the space were lit and decorative images danced around the roof and walls of the tent. It was beautiful.
“Wow.”
“Like it?”
You nodded. He took your hand again and led you to the back through another flap. To the back, there was a deck, and it showed the vastness of the desert. Where sand touched the sky, the indigo glow was breathtaking. Here the stars were the most visible.
“Wow—incredible.”
You got lost in the stars searching for your favorite constellations.
“Wow, I can see Hercules,” you said pointing out the constellation to the right. “And Canis Major, my god you can clearly see how it resembles a dog. Look.”
Your voice betrayed your excitement. That excitement was how you didn't realize how close he was until you felt his arms wrap around your stomach. His bearded chin nestled in the crook where your shoulder and neck met.
“There is Altair and over there is Vega. Do you know their story?”
You shook your head. Before he spoke again, he kissed a path from your neck to your ear then back down.
“Vega was a celestial princess, one of the goddesses of the sky. That meant she was immortal. Though she was immortal that didn’t stop her from worrying about what everyone else in this world desires--.”
His teeth grazed your shoulder and snapped the thin strap of your dress. With his teeth, he pulled it off your shoulder and then brought kisses back up your shoulder.
“She was worried as it seemed she would live in eternity alone without an everlasting love. Love that she’d watched plenty a mortal obtain.”
He trailed kisses along the back of your neck to your other shoulder and mirrored the same actions. With your straps off your shoulders, the material began to sag off your body. Your skin was cool thanks to the breeze but just beneath the surface you were sweltering, and it was his doing.
“One day Altair, a mere mortal, caught the eye of Vega from her celestial perch. She was so besotted with his beauty and his form that--.”
His large hands slipped a little higher to untie the strings just underneath your breasts. From there it was an easy slide for the dress to fall to your ankles.
“She descended from the heavens to greet him--.”
He turned you to face him then stepped back and slowly looked over your naked body. The heat in his eyes could have ignited sand itself.
“They fell deeply in love. It was a love poetry and plays were written about. A love so all-encompassing, so passionate, so life-altering. They lived every day of his mortal life together until they both retired to the skies to never part for all eternity.”
His voice alone could give orgasms, it was that hypnotizing, that enticing. That coupled with the way he was looking at you in this moment it was impossible to not squirm.
“You give Byron’s words new meaning. She walks in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes; thus, mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.”
Fuck, you thought as a fresh gush of moisture dampened your panties.
“You’re beautiful Cali—so beautiful.”
The wind blew but before you could shiver, he was there shielding you, holding you close, caressing your skin tracing a path of fire and desire up your stomach and between the valley of your breasts. When he cupped your jaw, you knew you couldn’t wait any longer. He kissed you softly and slowly teased you. When he broke the kiss, he tailed his lips to your neck and sucked then dipped down. When he stood again, he had you in his arms.
When you felt his lips on your nipple you exclaimed, throwing your head back. If his lips on your neck felt good, now they felt like heaven. As he licked and pleased your flesh, he sat on the reclining chair. With you straddling him, he took your other breast into his hand and kneaded it.
Instantly your back arched; “Mmmm.”
“So receptive of me.”
For emphasis, Chris pinched the nipple that was just between his lips. You sucked in a sharp breath and angled your back further. His hand at your tailbone stopped you from squirming too far. To intensify the sensation, he pinched your other nipple and latched his lips onto your throat.
“Oh god,” you whispered.
“You smell like roses, taste like spun sugar, feel like heaven, but tempt me like a seductress. You’ll drive me mad.”
He licked the swell of your breast and the valley between then shook his head in between your breasts. One second you were relishing the wanton feelings bubbling within you, and the next your fingers were laced in his hair yanking his head back so you could feast on his lips. His moans echoed into the desert behind you enhancing the sultry vibes of the moment you were sharing.
Abandoning his hair, you lifted the hem of his shirt anxious to see the rest of him. Chris sat up, lifted his arms, and allowed you to peel his shirt off. With his chest bare, your eyes dropped and took in every detail. The lite dusting of hair right below his collarbone was inviting. Normally you hated chest hair on men, you found it sloppy and cumbersome especially when it ended up in your mouth. With him, right now it was anything but. Unable to help yourself, you plastered your hands over his chiseled pecs and smoothed your fingers over them. He looked like he worked out every day.
The myriad of tattoos that were scattered across his chest and abdomen made you do a double take. You hadn’t expected it at all. Sinking your teeth into your bottom lip you resisted the urge to rake your nails down his chest.
“Your eyes are glazed over, you okay?”
Embarrassment washed over you and you blinked away from his chest to his true blues.
“Perfect,” you said before kissing him again.
Seconds later, Chris stood holding you against him carrying you inside. When you felt the mattress underneath you, you perched your legs on the bed and watched him stand before you. His eyes roamed over your body again and it was like he was looking right through you.
“Did I lose you?”
He scoffed. “Not a chance, sorry I zoned out for a second.”
“Ah, not doing it for ya’ huh.”
“What? Are you kidding me? Have you seen yourself?”
He grabbed your ankle and pulled you closer to him at the edge of the bed. Keeping his hand on you, he brought your foot to his lips and kissed the bone just there. He then led kisses a little way down your leg while his other hand swirled a path along your leg. Every few kisses, he bit your flesh making chills race through you.
“Have you heard the thoughts your brain forms? God, I don’t think I have ever been this attracted to someone in my life. I’m not just attracted to your beautiful face or your incredibly sexy body.”
His lips were now at your inner thigh, and you watched him sink to his knees before he kissed that bone right beside the most private of your body, just where your thigh and pelvis met.
“Mmm.”
Chris then draped one of your legs over his shoulder while pushing the other down flat against the bed.
“This devastatingly sexy body,” he repeated before he placed a kiss at the top of your mound. “I’m attracted to your mind. This entire night I haven’t been able to help the thoughts I’ve been having like we’ve met before--.”
He hooked his fingers in your thong.
“Spoken before--.”
He pulled the material slowly down your hips then legs, then tossed it behind him.
“Touched before, kissed before.”
With that, he dropped an open-mouthed and sloppy kiss on your clit.
“Uuugh, fuck!”
“This can’t have been the first time I’ve done that.”
He led small kisses across to your pelvis then inner thigh and back again. Every kiss made you squirm, your back arch, and your fists ball the fabric on the bed.
“Are you talking about previous lives now?”
“Maybe.”
You bit down on your bottom lip then angled onto your elbows.
“Careful sounds like you’re awfully close to saying something as cliched as destined mates,” you teased.
He smirked.
“Cliched? Would I be wrong?”
Before you could answer, he delivered a long stroke of his tongue across your sex stopping any thoughts much less words. Your gasp echoed around you as you slammed your back to the bed. With your fists balled beside you, your thighs raised trying to press together to deliver the pressure you needed. However, they didn’t meet. Chris pushed them back to the bed keeping you wide for him.
“What was that Calli? I couldn’t quite hear that.”
You opened your mouth to speak but again his lips found your folds. The slow but precise flicks he delivered make goosebumps freckle your skin as if it were cold trying to preserve its heat when in truth, your body was on fire and steadily reaching the point of combustion.
“Ah, you sighed when he sucked your clit nether lips into his mouth fluctuating the pressure he gave you. When you felt the tip of his tongue dip into your entrance your hands abandoned the sheets and grabbed hold of his hair keeping his head right there.
The feel of him dipping his tongue in and out of you felt so good. He started slow and gradually sped up before he swirled his tongue within you. He slurped and you nearly levitated off of the bed.
“Mmm, you taste incredible, Calli.”
With your nails dug into his scalp, you held tightly to his hair as you felt the beginning stirs of your orgasm. Fuck, already, you thought in pure shock. He’d barely begun. Sure enough, without warning your crescendo came and your grip tightened before your thighs trapped his face between your legs with his mouth just where you needed it.
“Oh my god! Oh god, oh god, oh god! Yesss!”
Chris moaned as he pried your thighs open. Feeling bold and strong from the orgasm you were still riding, you tugged at his hair urging him up. As soon as he was close enough you kissed him, swirling your tongue with his tasting yourself. The distraction was enough to make you roll onto him to straddle his body.
“Mmm, you’re right I do taste good.”
Chris’ grip on your hips tightened as he groaned and kissed you fiercely, stealing whatever breath you had left within you. Pulling away, you traced kisses down his jaw to his neck. His hand slinked down your back to grip your bare ass. It was such a strong grip that you gasped, then groaned when you became wet all over again. You sank lower and kissed his tattooed chest, taking care to tease his hardened nipples. Every groan, moan and fluctuation in his breathing fueled your desire for him making you want to please him even more.
When you made it to his waist you began undoing his belt, then his pants. Within seconds, you had them undone but before you could make the move, Chris flipped you onto your back and crashed his lips to yours. Not having it, you rolled right back onto him but again he flipped you onto yours. The two of you giggled together realizing that neither of you was going to have your way with this one and someone had to yield.
Chris caressed your cheek and gently kissed your lips leading a path of soft kisses down your body. You watched as he trailed the flower that had been in your hair down your flesh. Everywhere it touched goosebumps appeared and everywhere it went it left behind a trail of yearning. He rotated the bud around your nipples, then slowly brought it between the globes of your breasts. When he went down your stomach, he went around your belly button taking his sweet time knowing that every second only made your desire burn hotter and hotter. He then traced the flower to your core, making you flinch.
“Sensitive or hungry?”
You groaned and sucked your lip into your mouth. He then traced the number eight across your sex. After he finished m
“I could watch your body react to this flower all night,” he uttered eyes never leaving the flower. Once his face dipped down and he found himself right back between your legs, eye level with your sex you reached for him.
“I want you.”
“And you’ll have me but not until I have you screaming my name, writhing and dripping begging for me.”
He didn’t wait for your reply, instead, he buried his face between your legs and feasted as none had feasted before. Your moans spilled from you one after the other at varying decibels. You didn’t care how loud you were being. Normally you got a little self-conscious when you expressed your pleasure. You never felt one hundred percent comfortable with any of your exes or partners and it wasn’t due to any fault of theirs. It just was how it happened. With Chris, right now, you wanted him to know just how good he was making you feel, how much you wanted him.
The flower he held never left your body and somehow, he managed to ravage your clit and folds while circling your breasts and nipples with the flower. Just when you thought you were going to come apart and shoot into the night sky above, he bit your inner thigh while pinching one of your nipples.
“Fuuuck!”
With that, you came again, and again, he slurped every single drop like it was the most precious commodity.
Chris then rose and stood in front of you. His pants were open showing off just a smidge of the snug-fitting black boxer briefs he wore. You gave him your full attention as he removed the remainder of his clothes. As the pants dropped, you sunk your teeth into your bottom lip still picturing what he had hidden behind those things.
“The way you’re looking at me is only making this harder; harder being the operative word,” Chris said.
Your eyes dropped to the prominent bulge at the juncture of his thighs. Your tongue snaked out to slide across your lips anxious for him. Chris groaned then tore the underwear off revealing all of him to your eager eyes.
“Wow,” you marveled.
He didn’t move, he stood there allowing you time to take him in, and take him in you did. He was buff, but not in an overly done way, in an everyday guy who was active in his life way. The tattoos on his skin only added to his sex appeal.
“Like what you see?”
You smirked and dropped your thighs back to the mattress and just as expected his eyes fell to just where you wanted his full attention.
“I bet I’d like what I feel even more.”
Chris chuckled, shook his head then stalked toward you. With ease, he nestled himself between your open and welcoming legs and bit your nipple before lowering the weight of his body on you.
“I felt you liked to tease, but I see teasing is just the tip of the iceberg, huh?”
You felt the thick, heavy mass pressing against your sex and you could barely hold yourself back from bucking up against him. His groan was rich, and it sent such a thrill through you. You couldn’t believe you had this strong an impact on someone and that he was freely letting you see it. It’s like he wanted you to know that you had him wrapped around your finger.
Chris softly kissed you once, then twice. Each kiss gave you a glimpse at something deeper, something tender, and sweet. He could be a seducer but that wasn’t all that he was. You rolled onto him again and kissed a trail down his sculpted frame taking care to kiss all the parts of him that tempted you. You kissed each nipple, raking your nails through the dusting of hair on his chest, each defined ab, and his obliques where those mouthwatering indentations resided. At the touch of your lips on that part of him, you felt a heavy thwack against your chin. Glancing down, you saw the offender. Up close you took notice of the violent veins protruding along his shaft and the thick and swollen head that glistened with a long drop of his desire.
“Planning on drawing it?”
“I could if it would make you harder.”
Chris scoffed. “Honey, I don’t think I could be any harder right now.”
“Open for debate,” you replied before tipping your tongue out to lightly swirl around the bulbous head.
He groaned long and loud while arching his head back. The veins in his neck bulged showing you just how desperately he was trying to cling to control. You repeated the action a few more times before you sucked his tip into your mouth applying more than a little pressure.
“Christ!”
You moaned. He tasted like mint and something else—vanilla maybe. Whatever it was, you were sure it was a taste unique to him and a taste you found subtle enough to enjoy. Slowly, you dipped your mouth lower and lower taking half his thickness before you sucked up. His hiss and the slight miss of his hands as they aimed to the top of your head no doubt to hold you in place told you everything you needed to know. He was open. You licked from the base to his tip like he was your favorite flavor lollipop. Another groan was your reward.
“Do that again.”
You licked him again. “That?”
You knew that wasn’t what he meant. The muscles in his jaw jumped then his Adam’s apple bobbed.
“No,” he struggled out.
You smirked and dipped your mouth over him again this time taking him a little further until you felt he was close to the back of your mouth. Chris groaned and fastened his hands on your head keeping your head there trapped. You moaned on him and without warning, he brought your head lower so you took him deeper. With him nestled right where he could feel the vibrations most, you moaned again. His grip loosened as he pulled you off of him.
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“Fuckin’ ‘ell. I swear ta gawd, you’re gonna make me cum right now.”
You could pick up an accent and it was the hottest thing you’d heard. He wasn’t the only one that was close to coming.
“Your mouth feels incredible.”
Feeling bold, you took him into the mouth he liked so much and showed him incredible was the beginning. By the time you were finished with him, you’d have him listing off every synonym of the word. As you pleased his flesh, every hiss, gasp, moan and groan became more and more desperate, more and more emphasized and the more he lost control, the more powerful you felt. That didn’t mean that giving him pleasure meant you felt none. You were so turned on it took everything in you to not drop your hand between your legs to inch yourself to the release he was creeping up on.
Quicker than lightning, he’d flipped you onto your back and pressed your thighs apart making enough room for his bulky body and stealing your breath in the process. The way he looked at you as if you were his prey and he the predator only made you want him more.
“Fuck,” you whispered out.
“If you insist.”
His lips pressed to yours and his tongue swirled with yours. The man was a kissing connoisseur and magician, and this was the way he cast his spells—this was the way he bewitched. When you felt the tip of his intrusion brush against your inner thigh you shook and immediately felt embarrassed. Chris’ smile was soft.
“The feeling is mutual, believe me.”
He kissed you once, twice then a third, and on that third kiss, he joined your bodies in one slow, torturous, and impossibly delicious feeling thrust. Every inch he filled you with made your back arch and every arch pressed your breasts onto his hard chest. Chris tore his lips from yours first then buried his face into your neck and whimpered.
“Oh—you feel--.”
It was a sentence he never finished—not with words. Instead, he shuddered into your ear and let his body mirror it with a shiver. With him buried to the hilt, you felt impossibly full, but you still wanted more. Wrapping one leg behind him to rest at the crest of his ass, you lifted your hips to meet his next thrust. The movement was unexpected and his snapped to yours. With your eyes locked, you clenched around him and circled your hips.
“Fuck!”
Chris pressed one hand to the bed and brought the other to your throat, but no part of his grip hurt. It was the motivation he needed to speed his movements. With every connection, your breasts jerked, and every retreat your leg around him tightened as your muscles.
“Uuugh, you’re going to kill me gorgeous,” Chris croaked out with every thrust.
“Then return the favor. I think death by fuck would be a good way to go.”
His eyebrow crooked and you saw the moment something shifted within him. His jaw twitched and then with his next bruising thrust he clasped both your wrists in one of his hands and pressed them above your head. From then, his thrusts became rougher, harder and so damn wild. The pattern her set was one of chaos and your body responded to it. He kept you guessing, needing and whimpering until you were sure that the other tents nearby could hear just what was going on and you didn’t care. You hoped they were listening.
No matter how you tried to free your hands to touch him, it was no use. He held you right where you were taking everything he wanted while giving you just as much. Soon, the pit of your stomach tightened, and your legs trembled, you were close and the grin on his face said he knew it.
“I think death by multiple orgasms sounds like a better way to go.”
Chris thrusted forward hard then circled his hips sending you over the edge. You screeched and allowed your body to shake as it wished. You had no control over it, he did. You panted and bucked against him needing more and having too much all at once. When his thrusts continued, he’d released your hands and grabbed your thighs keeping them apart and you slightly elevated in both his strong arms. This new angle told you that you’d be crashing over the edge in seconds.
Sure enough, you came again and again with him showing no mercy nor giving you any reprieve. Instead, he changed the pattern again, slowing things down. The sudden change sent your body into hyperactivity and your hips bucked again. Chris groaned and moved his hands to your hips. He held on to you like he was riding a bucking bronco trying to control you. With a groan that sounded so close to a growl, he pulled out of you then flipped you onto your stomach and sheathed himself once again.
“Aaaah! Fuck, yes!”
The action was so quick your head spun but not for long. When you felt his hand at the back of your neck and the other coming down on your ass you lost your shit.
“Oh god—Chris.”
“Mmm. Still sound like a good way to go?”
He dropped his lips to your back and kissed a path along your spine until he reached your shoulder. Once there, he sank his teeth into your flesh. You dropped your head back and for the first time, you noticed that this particular part of the tent was see-through, and it gave you the perfect view of the stars. As another orgasm claimed you, you felt yourself transcending to touch those stars. Chris slowed his movements and brought his kisses to your jaw, then your lips. This kiss was different, it was languid, teasing, but filled with longing. It was a different longing than before; it was a longing for more time.
“You’re perfect, Cali,” Chris mumbled on your lips. “So fucking perfect.”
Your belly fluttered. Mustering all your energy, you pulled from him, then pushed him onto his back. He stretched his arms behind his head with a wide smile as if he couldn’t wait for the show. You stood on the bed giving him a full view of your body then stood over him legs wide enough that he could see just what was in store for him. As he licked his bottom lip you saw a spark of worry in his eyes.
“Scared?”
Smirking he stretched his body and groaned. “Should I be?”
“I don’t know. I could do whatever I want to you.”
“I’m counting on it.”
His cockiness was too damn attractive, and you couldn’t believe you liked it. Scoffing, you lowered yourself over him. His eyes dropped between your legs and watched with bated breath. He looked like he was mumbling an incantation in his head drawing your body to his. Just before you sank onto him, you stopped hovering just out of reach. Chris groaned then cracked his neck.
“Are you afraid?”
“Not at all.”
“Then sink that gorgeous, deliciously tight pussy on this cock.”
“No please?”
He smirked.
“Oh, so you want me to beg.”
“Are you above it?”
Chris brought one hand to his mouth, licked his thumb then brought it to your clit. The first stroke was feather-lite.
“Mmm.”
“Are you?” He dipped his thumb lower swiping your slit coating his finger before bringing it back to swirl around your bud. You moaned again but made a silent vow to not give in.
“Try as you will, I guarantee you will not hear me beg for anything.”
“No?”
For emphasis he gently pinched your clit sending a sharp electric charge through you and right back to your sex. Unconsciously, you dipped lower, your folds brushing the tip of his cock. You both groaned at the same time, both bucked your hips together, but you were the one to rise back up.
“Stubborn huh.”
“More than you know. However, I would have mercy on you if you said the magic words.”
“What words may they be?”
His finger was now going back and forth and round and round in a synchronized show of skill. It was becoming harder and harder to resist. You wanted him to fill you as much as he wanted to be nestled in your heat.
“Please—take this—dick.”
Again, your body dipped lower and brushed his tip. This time you didn’t lift up, instead, you rocked your body back and forth like a wave coating his bulging appendage. With each swipe of your sex, Chris softly grunted and subtly lifted his hips. You didn’t know if it was an involuntary movement or if this was a ploy.
“God, you’re so wet for me, Cali.”
“Mm-hm. Dripping.”
His finger sped and you knew you were close. You just hoped he gave in before your body betrayed you. Circling your hips, you took a few centimeters of him giving him the impression you were giving in but when his hand came to your waist you lifted up denying him the satisfaction. The groan he let out was one of frustration. You saw the veins in his neck protruding and wondered how much longer he could hold out.
“Still so tight,” he whispered.
“Do you want to stretch me out?”
He scoffed, smirked, and angled his head back.
“You are playing a dangerous game, Cali.”
The authority in his voice made you straighten your spine. He sounded like he often gave orders, and you wanted him to command you.
“This dangerous game has consequences. Can you afford them?”
“Like?”
The pressure he applied to your pearl increased and you knew your face betrayed how much you liked it.
“Loss of voice, sore muscles, raw throat, inability to sit properly for a week or two, among others.”
“What about the consequences for you? Can you afford them?”
“Such as?”
“Inability to think of anything else but this tight, dripping pussy, hallucinations of seeing me everywhere you go but when it isn’t me wishing it were, daydreams that take you back to this night for months on months, frenzied wet dreams every single night, and the fate of inadequate self-pleasuring where it never is good enough because it is not my hand, my mouth, my tight delicious pussy. Your punishment for tonight will be a lifelong one. Can you afford the price of your pleasure?”
He looked at the end of his rope like he was about to release the beast any moment. His jaw ticked, throat bobbed, and breath shook.
“Cali—please—take this dick so I can fill you and stretch you so perfectly that weeks from now you will not be able to have another because you will only see my eyes.”
As the victor you dropped onto his cock, taking him fully into your body and loving every second of it. Chris grunted then gripped your hip. He didn’t move you though, he wanted you to take control. You instantly set the pace bucking against him with quick swipes. Chris sucked in a breath and watched you move, in complete awe. Rather than sticking to one pattern, you swirled around him before you began bouncing on his hardness.
“Fuck!”
He matched every move you made with an upward flick of his hips. Every time he did it, it threw you off until you’d stopped moving completely and allowed him to jackhammer up into your core.
“Fuck! Chris, yes, right there. Oh my god, I’m gonna cum.”
“Cum for me—cum with me.”
His thrusts became more and more aggressive and the sharp twinge of pain at your hip from his fingertips said you’d have a bruise to remember this night. It was a bruise you wouldn’t mind. Chris sprang up, held your hips more firmly, and rocked you against him as he fucked you. You could tell by the glazed look in his eyes that he’d lost control and was chasing the same thing you were—a release.
“Yes, Yes, God Cali.”
Your eyes locked and you felt the same longing he did. If only tonight wasn’t all you had.  Before you knew it, you’d crescendoed over the edge pulling him with you. Both of you rode the wave of pleasure that kept producing sparks of fire and thrill straight through you making neither of you want to break apart. You kissed him allowing everything you were feeling to spill into him.
If tonight was all you had, then you would take it and press it to memory.
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gothhabiba · 10 months
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The Arabic letter kaf, nominally representing a /k/ phoneme, has several clearly distinct graphical forms. These derive from varying calligraphic traditions, and Arabic speakers understand them to be mere variations in the style of writing a single letter. [...]
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Figure 1: Three forms of the Arabic letter kaf. [ID: The forms are labelled A, B, and C. A is U+0643, Kaf; B is U+06A9, Keheh; C is U+06AA, Swash Kaf. end ID]
[...] Although standard Arabic does not write a /ɡ/ sound, in Morocco the use of a form B kaf with three dots above is well established as the letter representing /ɡ/. Published literature is generally in standard Arabic, and as such does not use this letter, but it is seen in other situations such as road signs, product labels, etc. It is also used in writing the Amazigh languages of Morocco. The following photographs show examples of this letter used in Moroccan Arabic:
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Figure 8: Street name in Arabic and Latin scripts. [ID: white text on dark green background with white decorative border. text reads "زنقة احمد الفݣيݣي / Rue Ahmed el Figuigui‎‎". end ID]
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Figure 9: Petrol pump, labeled ‘gasoil’ in Arabic script. [ID: yellow text above an electronic read-out screen reads "ݣازوال". end ID]
[...] Figure 11 is taken from the Royal Moroccan Academy’s new Amazigh dictionary, and shows the letter in initial, medial, and final forms.
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Figure 11: From Shafiq (1996), page 136; note the “makeshift” isolated gaf. [ID: a two-page spread of printed text; words containing the gaf have been circled by hand in blue marker. end ID]
Close examination of figure 11 shows that the author did not have an appropriate character available, and therefore used a standard kaf and added the three dots by hand. The isolated form is of particular interest, as here the author deliberately added a kashida (extender) character in order to achieve an approximation of kaf form B, in preference to simply adding the dots to the form A kaf [which has a different appearance when it is the last letter of a word] which would otherwise have appeared.
Jonathan Kew, "Proposal to encode Jawi and Moroccan Arabic GAF characters," 2003. Unicode document L2/03-176.
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beljar · 1 year
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She took my head between her hands, the way I would have taken a small bird so as not to injure it.
Mohamed Choukri, from For Bread Alone, 1972
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fatehbaz · 1 year
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Occupying an interstitial position between different continents [...], [t]his position as a space-between-spaces makes the Maghrib a hub [...]. [I]nvestigate the location of the Maghrib beyond the dominant binary of Arab vs. Francophone, the much-critiqued idea of the Sahara as a barrier, or the assumption of the Maghrib as an insular space. [...] [T]he Maghrib was a revolutionary concept [...]. [T]he idea of the Maghrib was rooted in anticolonial thought, one which the machinations of colonial power and exigencies of postcolonial state building and border disagreements have stalled ever since. [...]
Tamazgha -- as indigenous Amazigh activists have chosen to call North Africa since the 1990s -- was populated by Amazigh populations of Christian and Jewish faiths. [...] These dynamics, however, neither eliminated Amazigh language and culture nor drove out the sizable Jewish populations that shared this Judeo-Islamic space. Rather, it was nineteenth- and twentieth-century European colonialism [...]. Governments have either entirely silenced Amazigh language and culture, as was the case in Libya and Tunisia, or actively repressed them, as was the case in Algeria and Morocco.
Nevertheless, a vibrant Amazigh Cultural Movement (ACM) has struggled to re-Amazighize the Maghrib by inventing traditions and refiguring toponymies.
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Tamazgha, which this ACM defines as extending from the Siwa Oasis in Egypt to the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, has replaced both “North Africa” and “the Maghrib” in activist nomenclature.
Activists have thus reinscribed this consciousness of “al-dath al-amazighiyya” (the Amazigh self/subjectivity) in public spaces as well as in the markers of Maghribi geographies.
Gone are the days when Amazigh people could be simply erased from the cartography of their native lands. Tamazight has acquired a constitutional status in Morocco and an official one in Algeria. Its speakers are working to have it recognized in Libya and Tunisia. [...]
The ubiquity of the Tifinagh alphabet (the Tamazight script) and the proliferation of Tamazight literary and audiovisual production has created a new cultural reality. Across short stories, novels, film, and music, Amazigh creators are reinventing the Maghrib and reconciling it with its indigenous past. [...]
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The rise of taskla Tamazight (Amazigh literature) and cultural production is the single most transformative literary development in the last thirty years of the Tamazghan intellectual movement. [...] Amazigh cultural producers are not just rehabilitating their mother tongue. They also rehabilitate an erased geography, a sense of indigeneity, and the relation-ship between space and people.
Shamal Iiriqiyya (North Africa in Arabic), Afrique du Nord (North Africa in French), or the Maghrib, are geographical and political appellations superimposed on the region [...]. Alternatively, Tamazgha is a politically conscious name that is from the same root as Tamazight.
Tamazgha means the land of the indigenous Imazighen, which reconfigures space, revisits history, and questions accepted toponymies. [...]
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The plurality of the Maghrib and its multilingualism will undoubtably acquire a different meaning when we read them from the perspective of indigenous authors in Amazigh languages. Immersion in the discourses of the ACM reveals [...] foundational ideas like le Maghrib pluriel (the plural Maghrib) [...]. These organizations seeded and then advocated the idea of “al-wahda fi al-tannawwu‘” (unity in diversity). [...]
Whether it is Algerian Kabyle musician Idir, the Moroccan band Izenzaren (Sun Rays), or Malian Tuareg band Tinariwin (Deserts), Amazigh melodies and poetry travel, cross boundaries, and reconnect Imazighen across the globe.
This “traveling Tamazgha” complicates the Maghrib’s location and invites a constant mapping and remapping of the space and its aesthetics.
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Text by: Brahim El Guabli. ”Where is the Maghreb? Theorizing a Liminal Space.” Arab Studies Journal Vol. XXIX, No. 2. Fall 2021. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]
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misseffect · 7 months
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Tagged by @serendipitys-teapot @iheartgarrus @diaphanouso - thank you!
Last song I listened to: fresh bruises, Bring Me The Horizon
Favourite content to watch: Monster Factory, F1 compilations and dog grooming videos lmao
Favourite games: Mass Effect, RDR2, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the Ace Attorney series
Favourite colour: don't really have one? but I wear a lot of olive / khaki green
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Favourite food: I feel like I've talked about it before but there's this Moroccan-spiced veggie stew with fried halloumi that we make almost every week in my house. So good.
Sweet, spicy or savoury: savoury
Current obsessions: Mass Effect (always) and Formula 1
Last book I read: currently reading my grandma's copy of The Colour Purple
Last thing I Googled: "thank you cards multipack"
Relationship: very recently married! Like last weekend! Hence Googling thank you cards 😅
Fun fact: my undergrad degree is in English Literature and Creative Writing but I cannot for the life of me win a game of Scrabble and that fact annoys me endlessly.
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readitreviewit · 8 months
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mchiti · 9 months
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instead of writing my thesis i'm having a fight with WHITE french people under an instagram post. Yarab help me because you can't win with them. The post was basically one french actor from the 50s talking and one french lady commented "he speaks so differently than today". So another user asked what's different, and she replied "old-fashioned, well mannered, nowadays french is tainted by arabic slangs". Of course languages evolve but out of all the explanations karen could have given us she had to complain about arabic influences. lmao. What MADDENS me more than anything is when they bring languages into it like you don't understand I'm not getting this degree for nothing.
So I said to this french karen: sis, change is inevitable. LANGUAGE CHANGE. The whole idea of purity is utter bullshit because languages change all the time, where is the purity coming from? All neo-latin languages like french, italian, spanish, do you know why they were born? BECAUSE LATIN ITSELF CHANGED. The latin they teach you at school when you study Cicero and all that - that's latin from the "golden age" of latin literature. It lasted like, 2 centuries. It was different before and it changed after. And after the fall of the roman empire - just imagine a whole empire falling down - of course latin was bound to change more rapidly: because with the falling of the roman empire you didn't have a stable school system anymore, or stable institutions. + the germans started coming, especially in france. LIKE FRANCE CHANGED ITS OWN NAME it's literally called "land of the franks" who were germans btw. it is the most germanic-influenced language out of the neo-latin languages (which is also the reason it's more distant than italian/spanish/portuguese). French, like Italian and spanish etc, come from a "tainted" latin from the middle ages - irregular, unstable, very distant from the norm, full of errors to the point if you look at latin written documents between the V and the VII centuries they don't even make sense, and that's because orally it was evolving into something else: romance languages.
Like imagine talking about purity for european languages who were born out of a very unstable, poor in lexicon and grammar latin spoken by "commoners". And by the way YOU went to colonise north africa. moroccan darija is considered hard to understand by other arabic speakers because it also has a lot of french influences. We should be the one complaining lmaooo
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