Embrasement

“Embrasement” is a fiction, the portrait of a flying woman about to die. Written for the Prix de la nouvelle érotique 2020, i suspect it wasn’t selected because of its queer vision and the lack of usual heterosexual sex. Ignoring the background task given at the time of writing (“cure the ill by the male”) which I found revolting, I used photographs from UNE HISTOIRE MONDIALE DES FEMMES PHOTOGRAPHES, by Luce Lebart & Marie Robert. Most importantly the self-portrait of Anne Noggle, 1982, p. 284.