Short Read – SEETHINGS III (ch8)

2 mins of the sexiest, darkest fiction you’ll ever read.

Don’t let the scene fool you. Chapter Eight of SEETHINGS III is one of the most visually shocking and psychologically revealing chapters in the entire novel. What begins as a planned “art performance” quickly becomes a symbolic unravelling of boundaries, relationships, and sanity.

Felicity and Mitchell strip, paint each other, and transform themselves into embodiments of primary colours: red (Mitchell), blue (Felicity), and yellow (shared accents). Their bodies become tools—brushes, rollers, stamps—smearing symbolism across the canvas. Each colour mix represents a sexual variation, a metaphor for intimacy, pleasure, and intrusion. The first quadrant becomes a sensual expression of missionary love; others turn progressively wilder, rougher, more unrestrained.

Hayden, still filming, is eventually dragged into the piece—literally. Mitchell orders his footprints into the artwork, merging voyeur and participant, husband and outsider. What follows is a chaotic blend of eroticism, humiliation, and power-play as the trio pushes the boundaries of their arrangement further than ever before.

The session culminates in a violent, passionate climax that leaves physical imprints on both the canvas and Felicity’s body—most notably the accidental “wall art” Mitchell creates when he slams her against the plaster, leaving behind a painted silhouette that astonishes Hayden.

By the end, the canvas is no longer sellable in pieces. It has become a single, disturbing, inseparable story—a sexual timeline with Hayden’s footprints running through every chapter.

If you want a thriller that blends psychology, sexuality, art, and danger in ways few novels dare, SEETHINGS III will take you places you’ve never read before. Available now at SMASHWORDS.COM.

–Michael (Dark Fiction. Author of SEETHINGS (the first book), free for a limited time)