Getting a little help from my friends!

I sometimes get asked where I get ideas for my stories. If I answer truthfully I have to say my friends.

Here’s what I mean. One friend who I won’t name to protect her identity (Michelle) decided the other day she really wanted a cheesecake.

Being the sort of woman who loves to cook (and I always have friends who are cooks so I get great food without doing it myself), she decided to make one. Her oven was a little dirty, but she didn’t want to take the time to clean it. Cheesecake, apparently, has to be cooked at a high temperature, which can be a challenge with a dirty oven.

So, she put a towel over the smoke detector in her house. Of course that didn’t work and soon her kitchen was filled with smoke. Her smoke detector, one of the ones that are linked to the fire department, went off and shortly a fire truck was on her doorstep.

They were nice and put out the fire, yes there was one, and managed to save most of the cheesecake in the process. It was still yummy, by the way, Amoretto flavored with only a touch of smoky taste on some of the crust. (No we didn’t throw it out. It’s cheesecake, for God’s sake. Why throw out the baby with the bathwater?)

I would like to tell you that story was the basis for my short erotic romance, Five Alarm Love (shameless promotion here. Five Alarm Love is available as a download here or in my latest paperback release, Trixie’s Treats, IV.)

Sadly, I wrote Five Alarm Love before Michelle’s incident but it makes for a great story. It also is a good example of how my friends live much more exciting lives than I do. I promise to change the names to protect the innocent. Most of the time, that is.

Oh by the way, Michelle reports the firemen who came to her house were all incredibly polite and good-looking. We’re thinking about making another cheesecake (without the burned crust) and delivering it to the station as a thank-you. I just have to convince Michelle that she should take me with her instead of her husband. She really has no idea what I can do with good-looking firemen, burned cheesecake or whatever…Fictionally only, of course!

Trixie Stilletto

http://www.trixiestilletto.com