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WICKED LOVELY (by Jess C Scott / Incest Story.01)

Wicked Lovely ($2.99)

Reworked Edition at:
Amazon (USA) | Amazon (UK)

Also Available at:
B&N | Smashwords (multiple formats)

Title = Mature Audience / FIRST BOOK BANNED BY AMAZON!

* The March 2011 re-issue is a slightly tweaked version (with regards to the characters' ages in Wicked Lovely).

DESCRIPTION:

A short story where a brother and sister look to themselves, and not society, to make sense of the sexual love they share.

SUMMARY: Ed has been (guiltily) attracted to “Goddess Julie” for as long as he can remember — but moves out once he finishes high school. Unexpectedly, Julie discovers she has similar sentiments…

Wicked Lovely features in the short story collections, 4:Play, Incestiable, and Primal Scream.

LENGTH: Novelette | 13,000 words

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REVIEWS:

"I was surprised that I ended up liking Wicked Lovely. Not too into the whole incest thing, especially in brother-sister relationships. (I have a brother myself, so thinking about that sort of theme is generally something I don’t indulge in.) But it worked in this story. I can only think of one other instance in which a brother-sister relationship didn’t bother me (Angel Sanctuary series). The fact that they were brother and sister is overshadowed by their sheer desire to be with one another, that that other person is the only person for them. That made the story for me."
— Review @ It’s Basement Time

"Wicked Lovely is a fantastic tale of forbidden love."
— Author/Poet Dan Schwartz (click on image above for full review / captured screenshot via Google cache in Dec 2010)

"What a very tender romantic book, thank you!"
— MK / E-mail from a reader/customer, Apr 2011

"I read a chunk of WL and I found it highly well-written and enjoyable. I think you really captured the mania of a teenage boy's sexuality in the opening pages and I want to see what is next."
— E-mail from a reader/customer, NYC | Jan 2012

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MEDIA MENTIONS:

Q&A with Jess on Incest (Nov 2009)

* Wicked Lovely sells 12 copies on first day with zero marketing/advertising/media mentions — July 11, 2010

* WL hits #3,019 Paid in Kindle Store (overall) — September 5, 2010
* WL hits #691 Paid in Kindle Store (UK) — September 8, 2010
* WL enters the Amazon Kindle bestseller lists
#42 in Books > Bargain Books (30 days in Top 100) — October 10, 2010

* WL is banned! As reported on TeleRead and The Register UK.

* Dec 2010: Also reported by Provisions Library (Arts for Social Change).

* Listed as "Related Books" with Theatre of Incest (Dalkey Archive Press), and House of Incest (Anaïs Nin), on Google Books (3 August 2011).

* Cool graphic feat. a quote from Jess C Scott's Wicked Lovely
(courtesy of Mika | Jan 2012)

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EXCERPT:

[Ed / 4 June 2006]

YES — I’ve the whole house to myself.

Nine Inch Nails is playing upstairs, God how I love that fuck you like an animal song. Music’s so-so-so-so L-O-U-D. Rhythm’s so hypnotic it’s giving me a headspin.

Dad’s with golfing buddies. Mom’s at some beading class or bingo session. Don’t know it don’t matter.

And Julie? Julie Elle Drake is out with Bobby.

Bobby the Nice Guy.

Bobby the Prince.

Bobby the Sweet Guy who Asked Me Out with the Burnt Cookie he made at Home Ec class.

Bobby the Everything.

Think about going over to Kingston’s house for a while. Dude owes me 100 bucks. I should steal that and more when I’m over. He and his CEO dad share a stash of porn mags and expensive tobacco. But oh. It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon. Too half-assed to even reach over, pick up the phone and dial a number.

Switch TV on. Lounge around. It will only last a few minutes.

This languid tranquility is the prelude to what comes next.That feeling, suddenly picks up again. I try and try but I can’t get away. Cell by cell, my brain is wired to the signal. It’s like a strange invisible smoke line, luring you in...to the destination place.

“This is so weird.” I speak my thoughts out loud. One nice thing about having the house to yourself is that you can voice your own thoughts without fear.

Everyone will kill me if they know about this. I’m a perv, a deviant, a psycho, a twisted individual! This is gross unhealthy abnormal I’ll cross over a line that should have never been crossed if I haven’t already and I need counseling or should I see a psychiatrist and get myself checked out, maybe we were brought up in a screwed up kind of way?

“I don’t think so.” Detective Green on Law & Order. Lost track of what’s going on in this episode. Can’t concentrate. Can’t concentrate on shit.

Body is aching. In the craving way.

Peel myself off the sofa. Ed, you sicko.

I wanna tell the voice in my head and the whole world to shut up. They can talk and talk but they’ve not been in the same situation, they don’t even know what they’re missing out on.

That. That’s the exact thing that fuels their disgust and anger. It’s a displaced frustration, that they can never have access to this deranged special kind of arrangement. Go, Ed!

Drag myself up the stairs in a weird mix of dread guilt apprehension and uncontrollable wild anticipation and excitement.

Find myself in front of Goddess Julie’s room. The door is closed but you can’t lock it from the outside. Glare at the morons on the poster. Some lame brothers emo-looking band with way too much eyeliner and black hair dye that really sucks BIG TIME, nothing but pop "rock" crap for 12 year old girls to listen to (Julie isn't 12 — figure of speech). Their lyrics are about their love life and if those lyrics are indeed true, damn their love life blows. They don’t have one insanely hard and talented guitar solo, no drummer, no bass player, and no talent. They are just another manufactured product and who knows what their appeal is. Where’s a new Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Nirvana, or Guns n’ Roses? Good music is dead. So once again, I don’t think they suck, I KNOW they suck.

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