Bittersweet: An Elegy for Sawyer

By Audenzia

Kiwi backpacker Sawyer is trying so hard to pass as a dude. But the jig is up the first night at the bar when an old drunk makes her as a woman. Sexy bartender Gianna likes men and ladies, so androgynous Sawyer is the best of both worlds. They become lovers in a Sicilian town where small minds are opposed to anything different. These ladies are young, gorgeous, and planning a life together. But will a homophobic troglodyte put an abrupt end to their happiness?
This lesbian love story features an androgynous/gender non-conforming main character. It includes graphic depictions of lesbian sex acts, including cunnilingus and fingering. It is a bit darker than the author’s prior works. It's for grown and sexy readers 18+

• Language: English
• Publisher: Audenzia
• Release date: Feb 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005797577

Audenzia

Audenzia means “one who is fearless, one who dares”. Where I come from, it’s still taboo for a woman to enjoy sex, still taboo for a woman to speak freely about her desires. I was born somebody else, but I became Audenzia, daring and fearless, when I decided to own my sexuality, enjoy my sex life, and speak openly about my desires.I'm Sicilian by birth but currently live in New York City. I'm bisexual. I first wrote naughty, fetishy stories to entertain friends and amuse myself at school. By day, I lead a boring existence as a translator, but by night, I'm here to entertain you with sexually charged stories. My stories will feature:-straight girls;-bisexual women;-lesbians;-non-white characters;-plus-size/ women;-gender non-conforming women;-transwomen.-exotic flavors of womanhood

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Bittersweet

an Elegy for Sawyer

By Audenzia

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This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names,

characters, businesses, places, events, & incidents in the book are either

the product of the author’s imagination or are being used in a fictious

manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual

events is purely coincidental.

Lui è proprio lei/He’s Really a She

Summers in Sicily, I worked at my uncle’s bar.  I did it to have some spending money for school up in Rome.  My town wasn’t a particularly touristy area, and we mostly had a small group of regulars.  There were the gentlemen I referred to as The Ancient Mariners.  The English word mariner is like the word marinate, and while the gentlemen weren’t actual sailors, they were elderly & in the habit of starting their drinking early in the afternoon, drinking so much grappa they came to smell as though they’d been marinating in it.  On days when there was a soccer game, most of the town would show up to watch it on TV, make bets and side bets with each other, and drink all day. 

The summer I was eighteen, my town was....infested, with Australian backpackers.  They were about my age, and everywhere they went, they were loud and rowdy.  I’m told Australia has an expression, Drunken Backpackers, to describe this contingency of booze-fueled traveler.  So we had the Australian backpackers that summer in addition to the regular crowd.

One Saturday afternoon I was behind the bar, setting Don Michele and Don Lucca, two of the ancient mariners up with another round of grappa.  There was a table of sauced-up Aussie backpackers at the back, getting loud as they watched a soccer game.

Oi, one of them announced, flinging a handful of the peanuts we put out for people to munch on while drinking, at the TV, "somebody get that ref a seeing eye