Idea for a Novel, Possibly Erotic

An atheist writer writer her erotica stories in a church coffee shop. The coffee is weak but cheap. The light is good and the tables and chairs made from wood. The writer likes the contrast of writing about unsuppressed lust in a place that preaches healthy suppression. She smiles when she’s writing the sex scenes while Christian rock music plays quietly. She really smiles when she works some of the music into the scenes. The power ballads take everything over the top.

She was only going to write there for a week, but the place got the hooks in her, and now she’s considering writing an erotic novel about the shop where all the characters are undercover devil kink and they use the church/shop for their wicked assignations. They love throwing out that word wicked.

It really isn’t fiction because that’s what happened at her church when she was a kid, a preacher’s kid. It got pretty wild at times. This novel would write itself!

Another reason she likes the shop is because she met some of the volunteer baristas. There’s the mute woman who colors and plays solitaire with real cards. There’s the old man who plays games on his tablet and bitches about digital privacy. There’s the single mom recovering from sex addiction who claims she saw the visage of the Savior in the frosting of a maple bar. And there’s the owner of the building where the church/shop is housed. The church used to be a bar/strip club! He ran it for years and nearly drank himself to death. Lots of coke, too. He got multiple DUIS. He got into fights. He went to jail. He lost an arm. He finally gave up the booze and shut down the bar but it wasn’t about finding Jesus. One day a man walked into the closed-down bar and asked about leasing it for a church he was starting in town, a real rock and roll church. The owner thought why not? A few months later he was converted, a deacon, and now played drums in the church rock band. Yes, a one-armed drummer for Christ. They even covered a Def Leppard song as a gag.

When the writer heard this Def Leppard detail, she knew it was going into the novel.