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I’ve begun a new series, The Adventures of Robert Teasdale’s Tales, featuring new stories every few months for the next four to six months. First up, Easy-Peasy: a story where we meet Robert and he tells us about one of his exploits. Robert explains that he’s a serial rapist. While he implies he is a cop, he is such an unreliable narrator that we can’t be sure of anything he says.

Now, as to his claims of rapes, I believe him. Since I’m the writer, I should know. However, can I even be sure?

Being totally candid, Robert has a real-life model. Perhaps inspiration is the best word, as it isn’t based on this cop’s actual misdeeds. I’ve only used his existence for my portal of him as a police officer. He’s spending the next 200 and some years in prison. Should he live that long. They convicted him of 18 sexual abuses or rapes, but the total is probably well over that.

Small note, he cried like a baby as they read each conviction, what he did to be convicted, and the years in prison to be served for it. If you rape someone, you should expect that if you get caught, you’re gonna suffer the consequences. I’ve been told by someone that a cop show featured the line, “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.”

Some people think I’m condoning rape when I write my stories. I’m not, yes, some of the badies get away with it. But that’s the way it is in the real world. Most rapes go unreported. Most rapist never get caught, of those who do, far too many don’t go to jail. Those are the dark realities in my writing.

By the way, Robert T. is an equal opportunity rapist and doesn’t discriminate based on sex, sexual preference, or gender identity. He hates everyone in the world equally.

https://zbookstore.com/s/3946/the-adventures-of-robert-teasdale-easy-peasy

What is Transgressive Fiction? Good question. Glad someone asked me once a while ago so I can answer it here.

Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature that focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free of those confines in unusual or illicit ways. The name of the genre is a newish named category in the world of fiction. With that said, it is as old as the scandalous writing of the Marquis de Sade.

Not all of the fiction contains violence or rape. However, much of it does. One example from over a century ago is Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, in which a married woman, feeling confined by the gender constructs of her society and pressures imposed upon her by her family and friends to be keen in her duties as a mother and wife, leaves her family and pursues extramarital relationships.

Not a big deal these days. But it was huge in the year of our lord eighteen-hundred & ninety-nine.

A more recent example of the TF genre is American Psycho, a horror novel by author Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story features Patrick Bateman, an overarching antagonist of many Bret Easton Ellis novels. He also appears as a supporting antagonist in The Rules of Attraction and Glamorama, and a post-mortem antagonist of Lunar Park.

Rene Chun, a journalist for The New York Times, described transgressive fiction as, “A literary genre that graphically explores such topics as incest and other aberrant sexual practices, mutilation, the sprouting of sexual organs in various places on the human body, urban violence and violence against women, drug use, and highly dysfunctional family relationships, and that is based on the premise that knowledge is to be found at the edge of experience and that the body is the site for gaining knowledge.”

My stories explore deviant behavior by men with questionable morals and sanity. My work is not comparable to the other writers I mentioned in his blog posting. I’m not that good! I’m sure some of my works are and or will be too simple, too violent, and too Rapey for many people.

My first story in Bookappy is The Reckoning. You can buy it here or read it behind the play wall at Stories OnLine.