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Humping a Hulder by a Hytte High on a Norwegian Hilltopby Abbe Ireland

It was a classic combination: the American Girl Scout and a Norwegian version of I Am Curious Yellow hiking together on a warm sunny day. Me, the perennial Girl Scout, stooping to examine pine needles and flowers along a narrow path winding upward, checking for animal spoor and tracks, while my lover returned to her dense native forest with tall, translucent ferns thick under towering pines, and hatched elemental plots, folklore plots of trolls, nøkken, nisse, and alluring, seductive hulder.

We climbed higher, breathing crisp fresh air pungent with pine sap and rich soil. Sparkling water in a clear, cold stream beside the trail rushed pell-mell over sticks and stones. An hour into our journey, a small white cabin appeared above us under a canopy of dark evergreens.

"Look! A hytte!" my lover exclaimed. "I wonder whose it is." She skipped lightly in blue Norwegian rubber boots along a half-hewn log crossing the stream. "I wonder if anyone's here."

I hurried behind, also curious to check the cabin and the view from its tiny railed porch. Far below steep hillsides of lush forest, a cold and deep blue mountain lake shimmered in the sunlight, home to scary-eyed nøkken pointing spindly fingers at passersby--I'd learn later--living among its sunken logs and moss-covered branches.

We peeked in every window of the cottage and saw a tidy, rustic interior with metal cot and mattress, black iron stove, faded green table, four matching chairs, coffee pot, lantern, matches, and split firewood stacked beside the stove.

"No one here," my lover announced. "Not all summer, looks like. Too bad the door's locked. Shall we stop to rest? We could snack too."

We carried with us in knapsacks a thermos of coffee, creamy cheese on fresh bread, and homemade dessert. Norwegians don't bother with American Express cards, I'd discovered already: It's coffee and sweets they never leave home without, unless the host at their destination guarantees to provide them. My lover even packed a red-and-white tablecloth and linen napkins. I was also learning that manners, indoors or out, were

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #654723 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781555835385
• Condition: NEW
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About the Author
Nicole Foster had edited a number of acclaimed erotic collections, including "Show and Tell," and "Wet."

Customer Reviews

Another winner from Nicole Foster!
Nicole Foster does it again. Her first collection, Awakening the Virgin, was wonderful. This surpasses it. I love collections of real life lesbian stories and this does not disapoint. I think people of all sexual orientations should read it. It will help everybody understand that love is beautiful in all forms.

Fascinating
The writing is well crafted and the stories rely on heavy erotic dream scenery, reading thru altered my pulse and my breathing, even felt a very private tingling, hot wet dreams are built on this. I reccomend it.

OK, but not great
I have read other anthologies that are juicier and more exciting. These stories are fine, but some of them miss their mark and seem more like therapy than erotica. There is a lot of buildup to set the stage, but out of a 6 page story, 4 1/2 pages might be build up, which to me is not the proportion I am looking for. There is a nice mix of butch and femme perspective, and of couples vs. one nighters. I might say more of a good introduction book, and then you can focus on what gets you going in other books.