I had been reading stories in Literotica for years. I have a healthy libido and enjoy fantasizing along with the stories I read. It was a lot of fun.
I had also written quite a few stories for my enjoyment. I had a many-part series about a man with a wife and stepdaughter. It was extremely detailed and very hot. It was written before "cloud storage" existed for the common man, and a hard drive crash took it away. I was so disheartened that I didn't start more for a year or so, but I kept reading on Literotica. I liked it.
One day I discovered the Erotic Chat on Literotica. I know it had been there forever but I just didn't go into it. When I tried the first time it wanted a username and password. Well, I didn't have one so I set up an account and chose the username YoungTerrence. One of the perks I heard about about was publishing my own stories. I thought, "Hey why not?"
I had created a 13-part series that started with two teenage boys, Tom and Hal, who discovered masturbation together, and then Hal discovered he loved sucking cock. It progressed through a bunch of episodes with Hal's mother and many other erotic couplings.
Anyway, I started publishing those and I quickly started to gain a following, including some that I chatted with.
Transitioning back to real life, I had a friend, we'll call her Brooklyn, who was also my wife's stylist. She became my stylist, mostly because my wife suggested it. Brooklyn is drop-dead gorgeous and always dresses to kill. Tight pants and a top that accentuates her great tits. She is probably in her 40s, married, and has 2 kids. The suggestion that she cut my hair met with absolutely no resistance.
There were many times during our friendship that I tried to flirt with Brooklyn but my attempts were always rebuffed. Not rudely or anything, she just wasn't biting. I can respect that.
One day she was cutting my hair and we were chatting and she asked what I do on days when the weather was crappy. I told her I liked to write stories. She said "Really! Tell me about it. Can I read some?"
I said, "Brooklyn I don't think you would like my stories. They can be quite raunchy."
Brooklyn said, "Mike, I am not a nun. Let me read your stories."
I told her they were published in Literotica. I was watching her face in the mirror. Her eyes got big and she blushed. Obviously, she knew what Literotica was. Whether she had ever been there is hard to say, but I suspect that maybe she had at some point because of where the conversation went.
She asked, "Are they published under your name?"
I told her they were not, and gave her the name I published under. She said she wasn't sure if she would get a chance to look at them but she would try.