12oclocktales
siren songs
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Just as an aside, Oyster Bay (on Long Island, NY) was where Theodore Roosevelt lived (Sagamore Hill); I wonder if he ever made a connection between oysters and vaginas and thought of lesbian lovers cavorting in the moonlight on Long Island Sound! Maybe while he was racking up animal heads by the carload on one of his African safaris.We were driving around the coast of Maine and we went down Oyster River Road, and I thought, "Hmm, 'Oyster River' just sounds like a cool title."
It took a while to come up with an idea for the title, but I thought about how oyster has been used as a slang term for vagina, and that made me think it should be a lesbian story set in Maine, and the seafood connection made me think one of the main characters should work on a lobster boat, and off I went...