Closet Freaks

Closet Freaks
Teresa Wayne
Mardi Gras Publishing LLC
ISBN: 0-9787262-0-0
Fiction, Erotica
Reviewed by Dave Thompson

Unveiling its great denouement with somewhat less finesse than it ought to, but no less arousing for all that, Closet Freaks is a short (22 pages) examination of the small-town hypocrisy that now seems to dominate our society, and the even smaller-minded hypocrites who stand responsible for its supremacy.
Three seemingly unconnected chapters detail an episode apiece in the love lives of three couples- the make-believe rapist and his witless wifely victim, the whip-cracking dominatrix and her mouse-man husband, and the RV-driving couple with a taste for threesomes and double penetration.
Each adventure is detailed with loving attention to detail- indeed, although the language does occasionally get a little flowery (“he rose from her garden, to manipulate a breast”), there’s usually an earthier moment just around the corner, and Wayne’s command of what certain people might call deviant behavior is so visual that, although you’ve probably already guessed what the punch line is, still it’s great fun watching it play out in the fourth and final scene.
The Pastor and his wife, the Mayor and the school principal, the Sheriff and the accountant- they’re such upstanding citizens that butter probably wouldn’t melt in their mouths. But at least we now know of a few other things that will.