Oh, no. I am pretty sure I understand what it means. I just can't understand how someone thought it up, and then that that someone was able to bear writing it down for the world to read.

Is it in a published work?

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Oh yeah. Bertrice Small is famous for her sex scenes, and she used to (perhaps still does) all kinds of, uh...colorful metaphors like that. "Love grotto" and "throbbing lance" were just two of her stock phrases.

She dates back from the 80s, though, when sex scenes in romance were generally a little more metaphor-happy (and much more purple). That was the age of titles like "Love's Savage Passion" and "Desire's Wild Flower," et cetera.

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I've read about lots of throbbing things (usually members and manhood). I don't know if I've ever read about a throbbing lance, though. That sort of anthropomorphizes it, since Lance is a name, and it's not a good thing. *shudder*

If only it would scan, I would so filk Love Grotto to Love Shack.

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Amy, those titles always bring to mind the scene from the Ice Pirates movie and the woman with the husky, hesitating voice, "Welcome! to...Passion's...Storm..."

I love the Ormand idea for the cop short story, Deb.

And I loved Sail's drabble. I'm thinking Lady or the tiger, but it won't come out in drabble form, so the subject's not got my name on it.

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AmyLiz made me snort coffee through my septum lining. It's almost as nasty as cocaine. Evil woman. "Love grotto".

And also the submission piece about Patrick Ormand.

The mind. It goes places it oughtn't

Wait until London Calling. He and Domitra have to team up, and neither of them is too thrilled at the idea. But not to worry - she'll put the boy firmly in his place.

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Wait until London Calling. He and Domitra have to team up, and neither of them is too thrilled at the idea. But not to worry - she'll put the boy firmly in his place.

I've been waiting for that in the hoping sort of way, but she had to go off with other boy in WMGGW.

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I've been waiting for that in the hoping sort of way, but she had to go off with other boy in WMGGW.

Oh, they were just having splendid sex (implied, not written), and looking at martial arts toys together.

But since there's a high probability that she and Bree are both going to fetch up in a jail cell in Nice or Cannes together, and JP is going to have to swallow his pride and his prickly jealousy and offer Patrick a shitload of money to take a week off SFPD Homicide and fly to France on Blacklight's dime and figure out a) who stole the master reels to the rockumentary and why, and b) who actually did the killing?

Well. Work together. I wouldn't know who to put my money on, and hell, they're my characters.

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He and Domitra have to team up, and neither of them is too thrilled at the idea. But not to worry - she'll put the boy firmly in his place.

I looooove the idea of them together, in whatever way that happens. Two very interesting personalities.

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Amy, those titles always bring to mind the scene from the Ice Pirates movie and the woman with the husky, hesitating voice, "Welcome! to...Passion's...Storm..."

The queen of overwrought titles was/is Cassie Edwards, who usually writes stories with some kind of Native American twist. Some of my favorite titles of hers are: Elusive Ecstasy, Desire's Blossom, Savage Innocence. Desire's Blossom -- the mind boggles with ways to interpret that.

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As a Bayliss girl still in love with the coffin sex,I think I like where Cindy put Ormand. heh heh heh. Some of my drabbles have been ficcy, but for fandoms three people here care about. Spoiling has never been an issue.

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