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Riffing on Bodice Rippers
“I hate you!,” Kelsie spat. Stumbling out the door, blinded by the sting of unbidden tears, she ran with no immediate goal except to get away from Sterling.
But, encumbered by her flowing skirt, she could not. Quickly overtaking her, Sterling grabbed her arm and pulled her so close she could feel his rock-hard
chest.
“Kelsie, oh Kelsie,” he moaned into her flowing, coppery hair. “It’s not Connie Corcoran I love. It’s you. Don’t you see? It’s you.”
Awww. Don’t you just love a good bodice-ripper? I do. There’s nothing like a good, old-fashioned boy-meets-girl-girl-resists-boy-boy-coerces-girl-girl-secretly-falls-
in-love-with-boy-boy-pushes-girl-away-and-pretends-to-love-some-other-
biatch-girl’s-heart-gets-broken-boy-comes-to-his-senses-they-get-
married romance novel to spice up one’s (real or imaginary) love life.
And what would the romance novel be without the cover art? A muscular man clutching a damsel in distress — how romantic!
Graphic artist Mark Longmire has helpfully reimagined some romance novel book covers, to splendiforous effect.
(via boingboing)
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