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