The Secret Lives of Married Women by Elissa Wald

Equally intriguing in these tales, though, are the little twists of everyday menace that point the characters to their yearnings. In Wald’s darkly erotic stories, characters enact the intricate and subtle ways that dominance and submission play a role in their daily lives: a young girl dreams of submitting to a boy who’s not interested in controlling her, an ex convict is so accustomed to serving his cellmate that he cannot adjust to the outside world, a professional dominatrix is beaten at her own game by a psychiatrist, and a student lies his way into the home of an army recruiter in order to become his houseboy.A subtle, beautifully crafted collection, Meeting the Master presents an accomplished new author whose lyrical economy and ability to see the erotic in everyday life make her stories a riveting pleasure to read. Secret Lives is a pair of novellas about twin sisters, opposites on the surface, digging down to their deeper erotic selveswomen with healthy fantasy lives should easily relate.

Its a page-turner thats propelled forward-relentlessly-by a search for truth about desire. Written with an astonishing voice that penetrates wisdom far beyond the author’s years, Meeting the Master is a provocative exploration of the pleasures and rituals of dominance and submission. 'The Secret Lives of Married Women pulls back the veil. From its opening pages, Elissa Wald’s Secret Lives of Married Women signals its debt to Cain, from the first-person confessional voice to the heroine’s fear of sounding like a.

The Secret Lives of Married Women by Elissa Wald