The Great Spirit of All Living Things has decided the Bertie has grieved long enough. A Monarch butterfly delivers the Spirit’s message. Suddenly, Bertie’s life has new meaning! She and husband George set out to redefine pornography; rebranding the genre as ‘Intimate Artistry.’ With their persistent attention to detail and marketing genius, the enterprising couple create Marty as the innocent, cherubic image of Intimate Artistry.
Marty gets the finest wardrobes; best directors, speech, and acting coaches; best stage and lighting crews. She’s groomed by the best hairdressers, makeup artists, manicurists, pedicurists, and masseuses. Acting skills, voice diction, fornication and fellatio techniques are practiced and perfected. Bertie produces three spectacular, wildly successful films, challenging established religious beliefs and morality. Marty’s burgeoning cult mania restores Pagan prostitution worship from twenty thousand years ago to America. Goddess Marty endorses products; graces media advertisements; signs autographs. Tabloid columnists rave about her peccadillos. Billionaires, politicians, film, and sports stars seek her intimacy. School girls imitate her unrepentant shameless promiscuity. And the boys adore them.
Predictably, Bertie and George both fall in love with her. Will their FLUTTER BRAND celebrity remain loyal to them, or will she simply flutter away?
‘Inspiration for the Series originated with a recurring premotion. I imagine our world plunging into its Second Dark Ages. Our First Dark Ages cast humanity into a terrible abyss. People died of plagues, starving, and cruelty. Our Second Dark Ages may also have similar abysmal occurrences; but mainly, it will be remembered as the time when many abandoned their morality and accepted the new era’s immorality. Rather than choosing sides in this great moral struggle, the Series’ fictional saga showcases the behaviors of characters caught up in the changing morality; reveals the underlying causes of their behaviors: Greed; Lust; Passion; Romance; Power and Control; Manipulation; Narcissism; Ambition; Jealousy; Revenge; and Love, the most compelling cause of all.
Mục lục
CHAPTER ONE
For a man, he must go with a woman, which women don’t understand; or the sort that say they can see it, they aren’t the marrying brand. (Rudyard Kipling: The Mary Gloster)
What is it about our porn stars? Why do they fascinate us; make us wonder about them, and ourselves? Is it the salacious deeds they perform? Their bodies? Their casualness about peccadillos and depravity? Four yeses; but even more are the workings of their minds. Are they different from other women; or, like them, all fine martinis; but with added drops of spicey bitters and tarty twists of lime? (Rosemary Ness-Bitner: Author)
THE MARTY BRAND
CHAPTER TWO
No terms, except your unconditional and immediate surrender, can be accepted. (General Ulysses S. Grant to the commander of Confederate Forces at the battle of Fort Donelson, controlling Tennessee’s Cumberland River)
GEORGE’S SURRENDER
CHAPTER THREE
All the privilege I claim for my own sex…… (Jane Austen: Persuasion)
THE GLORIOUS PEACH
CHAPTER FOUR
Tis beauty calls, and glory leads the way. (Nathaniel Lee: The Rival Queens)
Beauty is nature’s coin, must not be hoarded…. Beauty is nature’s brag and must be shown… (John Milton: Comus)
IMAGE WORK
CHAPTER FIVE
FIRST CHAPTER MURDER, FIRST SEX
CHAPTER SIX
HER METAMORPHOSIS
CHAPTER SEVEN
Though this be madness yet there is method in it. (Shakespeare: Hamlet)
PRODUCTION TECHNIQUE
CHAPTER EIGHT
In her first passion, woman loves her lover, in all others all she loves is love. (Lord Byron: Don Juan)
LOVER JOSH
CHAPTER NINE
EATING MILKWEED
CHAPTER TEN
RUSH FEELING
PREVIEW for BUTTERFLY TRADECRAFT
’Then touch me, ‘ My eyes promised my lasting commitment to our sins. I knew Josh loved me, as a woman. I turned to him and clasped him in my arms. ‘Let’s both lose our souls.’ …………………………………………………………………………………………………………Chapter Three.
Bertie knew what she had! It was there! She saw it! Visions of Olympic gold medals flashed through Bertie’s mind. Amanda was one of only a handful of skaters who had ever performed the extraordinarily difficult, perfect Quadruple Axel. Now Bertie watched closely, her trained eyes riveted on Amanda’s right skate. Could her daughter finish it? Could Amanda, after her blurring spin, land perfectly on her right skate inside edge coming out of her four and a half rotations? Bertie clenched her hands, held them to her mouth and held her breath. Bertie sent her telepathic thought and prayer to Amanda:
’Yes, Amanda, you can do this! Yes, my baby, you will do it! I’m going to be the first person to see you do it!’
Then, horrors of horrors! Disaster struck! It couldn’t be! It must be all a mistake! ‘Noooo!’ Bertie screamed: ‘Noooo!’ …………………………………… Chapter Nine
Giới thiệu về tác giả
It was in memory of a dear friend that I wrote THE SECRET BUTTERFLY SERIES™. I tried to imagine what her life might have been like had she been born into wealth before choosing her path in life, like the Marty character in the SERIES. Through Marty, I imagined my friend came back to me and followed her dream of becoming a star of intimate artistry. Her soul now lives with mine. It moves forward through time in the personas of Series’ characters Barbara, Sheila, Cecilia, Connie, Jo Anne, Linda, Pattie, Sandra, and the others. The soul that arose in my friend has long walked alongside humanity’s progress. It blessed humankind from across the millennia when it assumed the personas of Astarte, Sarah, Jessabelle, Salome, Cleopatra, and the others. It was present when Moses consigned his family to the Nile crocodiles and when Salome had her nemeses, John the Baptist, beheaded.The history of the Series’ secret jewels traces their escape from Nazi Germany and intersects with the lives of Series characters Marvin, Susan, Marty, Bob, Jen and Thor. Human life, debauchery and depravity intertwine as the jewels change ownership. Reflecting on what I wrote, I wonder whether characters Susan and Marvin’s choices project justifications for my own choices? Could Susan’s soul’s quest actually be my own? Why was I compelled to describe Marty’s explicit feelings while she seduced? Why was I so descriptive of her rapture while she murdered? Reaching my friend’s soul required learning how spirits relate to humans. They do communicate with us through the butterflies! It’s true. I’m certain of it. Bertie’s character illustrates this phenomenon. It happened with me as it did with her character. By relating to my friend’s spirit in this straightforward way, I brought her soul into mine. Now I can see her again and embrace her. We are together and happy again.
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