Want More Rules To Live By? Anna Zabo Talks Being Bi and CTRL Me (guest post and contest)

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Four intimate tales of power exchange, discipline, risks taken, and pleasures earned.

 

Anna Zabo on CTRL Me and bisexuality…

I’ve been thinking a lot about the rainbow flag recently, partly because I’ve been thinking quite a bit about my bisexuality and how there are times I feel very queer and times I feel like I do not belong because I have dated men far far far more than I’ve dated women. But I am queer and I do belong to that rainbow.

All this was probably rolling around my noggin when I started working on CTRL Me.

I knew, pretty much from the start that Tom was bi. I also knew he’d just ended a relationship that had gone unexpectedly sour because Tom was bi, partly because his ex actually assumed he was gay.

Because there is this assumption that bi people are actually either straight or gay. That bisexuality is always some kind of transit between discovering you’re one or the other.

However, there’s also the stigma in vilifying the ex-girlfriend in m/m. Which…I kind of did. So, I compensated by giving poor Tom a spectacularly bad ex-boyfriend as well.

Honestly, both men and women can be jerks. Turns out, Tom’s lousy at picking people to date. Horrible. He wants to trust so badly.

Luckily, this time it was Gabe who did the picking. And Gabe doesn’t mind that Tom’s dated and loved (mentally and physically) both men women in the past, because he has too. So he gets it. It’s a non-issue, as it should be.

He’s also very into trust, which is also as it should be.

 

 

• A list of rules to live by.

In Cari Z’s House Rules, jealousy leads Jonathan to break the rules his lover has established. He can’t decide which he enjoys more: his punishment, or the reward afterward. Good thing he gets both.

• A lesson in humility.

In The Harder They Fall by Heidi Belleau and Lisa Henry, spoiled college boy Tad hires a prostitute, but “Daddy” couldn’t care less about what Tad wants. Instead, he’s going to give his spoiled little boy exactly what he deserves.

• A cage that means freedom.

In Master Key by Anah Crow and Dianne Fox, Marquis offers Navin the key to the most intimate of locks, hoping it will help them to prioritize their relationship. And it does—until work and insecurities threaten to drive them apart again.

• A spool of rope and a desire to be bound.

In CTRL Me by Anna Zabo, a night out between friends turns hot and tempting when Gabe deliberately pushes Tom’s submissive buttons. Then Tom discovers rope in Gabe’s glove box—and not the type for securing luggage.

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