I had been reading stories in Literotica for years. I have a healthy libido and enjoy fantasizing along with the stories I read. It was a lot of fun.
I had also written quite a few stories for my enjoyment. I had a many-part series about a man with a wife and stepdaughter. It was extremely detailed and very hot. It was written before "cloud storage" existed for the common man, and a hard drive crash took it away. I was so disheartened that I didn't start more for a year or so, but I kept reading on Literotica. I liked it.
One day I discovered the Erotic Chat on Literotica. I know it had been there forever but I just didn't go into it. When I tried the first time it wanted a username and password. Well, I didn't have one so I set up an account and chose the username YoungTerrence. One of the perks I heard about about was publishing my own stories. I thought, "Hey why not?"
I had created a 13-part series that started with two teenage boys, Tom and Hal, who discovered masturbation together, and then Hal discovered he loved sucking cock. It progressed through a bunch of episodes with Hal's mother and many other erotic couplings.
Anyway, I started publishing those and I quickly started to gain a following, including some that I chatted with.
Transitioning back to real life, I had a friend, we'll call her Brooklyn, who was also my wife's stylist. She became my stylist, mostly because my wife suggested it. Brooklyn is drop-dead gorgeous and always dresses to kill. Tight pants and a top that accentuates her great tits. She is probably in her 40s, married, and has 2 kids. The suggestion that she cut my hair met with absolutely no resistance.
There were many times during our friendship that I tried to flirt with Brooklyn but my attempts were always rebuffed. Not rudely or anything, she just wasn't biting. I can respect that.
One day she was cutting my hair and we were chatting and she asked what I do on days when the weather was crappy. I told her I liked to write stories. She said "Really! Tell me about it. Can I read some?"
I said, "Brooklyn I don't think you would like my stories. They can be quite raunchy."
Brooklyn said, "Mike, I am not a nun. Let me read your stories."
I told her they were published in Literotica. I was watching her face in the mirror. Her eyes got big and she blushed. Obviously, she knew what Literotica was. Whether she had ever been there is hard to say, but I suspect that maybe she had at some point because of where the conversation went.
She asked, "Are they published under your name?"
I told her they were not, and gave her the name I published under. She said she wasn't sure if she would get a chance to look at them but she would try.
I didn't give it another thought for a few weeks. I kept writing and publishing. I started some new stories, having decided that my first series had run its course. I hate going in there and seeing stories with "Part 35". Those get boring.
There is one area set aside for authors to check to see if anyone is following, making stories "favorites" and so on. One afternoon I was looking at those stats and I saw a new follower. "StyleB" was the user name. I clicked on it to look at the profile. There was no information, which is not unusual for users who only come in for reading, so I didn't think much of it.
That user also added my stories to their favorites. Not very often a user adds all my stories to their favorites so I was pretty excited. I wanted to somehow reach that user to thank them, but wasn't having any luck.
Fast forward a few weeks, and I am in for another haircut. Now typically, my wife and I schedule our cuts the same day so we only have to make the 20-mile trek once. But for whatever reason I was there on my own that day and it was early; right after the salon opened. There was one other customer in the place and only one other stylist.
So, Brooklyn was cutting my hair, and my efforts to chat with her were going nowhere. Finally, because she is a friend, I asked, "Are you OK Brooklyn?" She stopped cutting my hair and looked at me in the mirror.
"I read your stories, Mike," she said. I felt myself blush. Uh oh. I didn't want to put her on the spot, so I said "I told you they were raunchy, my friend. But you did insist on reading. I'm sorry if you didn't like them."
She spun the chair around to look at me. "Are you kidding?" she said. "They are some of the most creative, well-written, and erotic stories I've ever read." She looked around a little and said "Does Ann know you write?"