Looking for stories about a larger-than-couple relationship (triad, quad, whatever) that is committed and exclusive. Longer is better.
Genders of the participants irrelevant (though given how rare they are, having more than one guy is a plus). BDSM beyond light dom/sub is a squick, all other codes okay. Thanks in advance.
I dearly love aroslav's Model Student, Nextdoor to Heaven, and Jacob Hopkins, but they're not what I'm looking for here: there's always other girlfriends outside the main relationship. If he's others that fit, I'd love to find them.
Try Dual Writer's Florida Friends series. There are several committed poly groups there.
I'm currently writing a story with a poly, but only have a few chapters published so far. "Crossing the line" is the one. If you decide to check it out and like it or dislike it, I'd appreciate some feedback either way if you are so inclined. Seems to have good reviews so far, but its hard to get any real feedback in the comments.
a story with a poly
Be sure to include a guy from Georgia or possibly North Florida. They are known as Crackers, and Poly wants a Cracker.
Be sure to include a guy from Georgia or possibly North Florida. They are known as Crackers, and Poly wants a Cracker.
It also needs a woman named Anna.
That's racist.
Believe it or not, the original term usage has nothing to do with race as there were colored cowboys from that area as well. Not many, it's true.
Believe it or not, the original term usage has nothing to do with race as there were colored cowboys from that area as well. Not many, it's true.
It may be even older than that and from the eastern seaboard, not the west.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/07/01/197644761/word-watch-on-crackers
I asked Jelani Cobb, a historian at the University of Connecticut and a contributor to The New Yorker, if he might know. (Full disclosure: Cobb is a friend.) He'd written about the etymology of some anti-white slurs: peckerwood, Miss Anne and Mister Charlie, and buckra, a term that was once widely used throughout the black diaspora, in the Americas, the Caribbean and in West Africa.
"Cracker," the old standby of Anglo insults was first noted in the mid 18th century, making it older than the United States itself. It was used to refer to poor whites, particularly those inhabiting the frontier regions of Maryland, Virginia and Georgia. It is suspected that it was a shortened version of "whip-cracker," since the manual labor they did involved driving livestock with a whip (not to mention the other brutal arenas where those skills were employed.) Over the course of time it came to represent a person of lower caste or criminal disposition, (in some instances, was used in reference to bandits and other lawless folk.)