New From Pat Powers: "The Taking of Shining Cloud" Now On Smashwords!

 

Click on the pic or click here to be whisked away to Smashwords where you can buy "The Taking of Shining Cloud, my new 38K+ novella, just published today" for just $2.99!

If you liked my novel "Sword and Submission," you're going to like "The Taking of Shining Cloud." It's about Shining Cloud, a woman living a neolithic lifestyle on the high plains (think Southern Appalachians, only not). The only contact with anything resembling civilization the village of Kabonga has is the occasional trader who comes by to sell them iron pots and tools, spear points and knives and such, as well as such trinkets as the Kabongans like. For them civilization is a distant rumor. They don't even have much contact with other tribes. They live an idyllic life of subsistence farming, foraging, hunting, fucking, taking drugs and gossipping about everything.

Shining Cloud is young, healthy and good-looking, though not especially good-looking by the standards of her tribe, which doesn't care about looks all that much. When everybody knows everybody as a person, looks aren't as important, it's who you are that's important. Shining Cloud is popular with the men because, like most young adults in the tribe, male and female, she really likes sex. (She does not want children of her own, so she chews chingrilla leaves, a natural birth control drug.) Shining Cloud also likes children and helps care for them, and she likes foraging so she brings in food for the tribe and has a pleasant, relaxed nature that makes her popular with the Kabongans in general. They think she is beautiful because of her nature more than her looks.

When her village is raided by slavers, Shining Cloud's life is destroyed, along with the village. Slavers had never raided Kabonga or any place near it in living memory, so the villagers with their relaxed, peaceful culture were a pushover. All the men were killed, all the women taken captive, including Shining Cloud. (I do not mention kids in my story, primarily because of the CP issues. Everybody in my story is over 18, per the disclaimer, even though a village of neolithic hunter/forager/planters would naturally have lots of children about.) 

The raiders take them away to slavery, but the particular raider who finds Shining Cloud, Rogulus, takes a special interest in her. He fucks her, of course, but he is also kind. This is very much a fish-out-of water story and I have some fun with the way Shining Cloud and Rogulus misunderstand each other due to their different cultures, and the way the river port city strikes Shining Cloud and the other Kabongans.

I also have fun portraying the ways money acts as a force of evil, from Shining Cloud's point of view. And of course it is all within the context of lots and lots of sexual bondage and rape. Much of the rape of Shining Cloud by the raiders occurs where she is tied to the backs of various horses. No bestiality, of course, no thanks to the AI art program that so often wanted to take prompts that were about a man and woman fucking while the woman is tied ATOP the horse as bestiality. Eventually I just had to give up including horses of any type in my promo art, even in the background. I suspect this is because a lot of people are using AI art to create bestiality images, or furry images. Sigh.

Here's da blurb:

The slave raiders who struck the village of Kabonga were merciless, killing all the men and the older women and enslaving everyone else, a whole village harvested for its adult women. Shining Cloud was one of those villagers. She was young and beautiful and very popular with the men, which she liked. Now she was a naked, helpless captive, tied to the horse of a raider, riding away from the only home she had ever known, with her fellow villages tied behind wagons and in bondage. For they were now slaves, though the Kabongans didn't practice slavery and didn't know what that meant. They rode for many days, taking trails through dense, dark forests. They were headed for the mysterious town of Barbakoo, where Shining Cloud and her fellow Kabongans would find advanced technological wonders they never imagined existed, such as buildings. And they will have experiences they never had before, many of them sexual. Will Shining Cloud and Rogulus somehow remain together, or will the evil bits of metal the raiders called "coins" pull them apart? Will the wonder and spectacle of Barbakoo and all the strange, new and unsettling feelings she was experiencing ever since the raid overwhelm Shining Cloud? You're going to have to read this 38,000+ word novella to find out!