By Wehttam Tropapar

The novella is linked here.

To keep the entire corpus of Matthew Rapaport’s work together, I cannot fail to mention this book attributed to Anonymous & Anonymous. Make no mistake. Mr. Rapaport is one of its authors. Yes, only one of them.

In the mid-2000s, Matthew had an affair with a married woman whose real name and location still cannot be revealed. Known only as J., he discovered she was a good writer of erotica and they conspired to co-create an experimental novella in which each party uses a paragraph or two to describe some part of a scene, the paragraphs alternating between Matthew (M) and J as they proceed through the story. To separate the two voices, each author’s part is written in a different font and signaled with an M or J.

The story concept is simple: a man travels from the West Coast to the Midwest to buy a house for his family because his job is to be transferred there. His realtor, J, meets him at the airport and they go off together looking at houses. Each finds the other attractive, and back in his hotel room, Matthew seduces J. As it turns out, J, married for 25 years, does not have a great sex life in her marriage and lustfully craves the orgasms Matthew’s tongue delivers. What follows is a weekend of house hunting punctuated by a lot of over-the-top explicit sex.

Unlike Matthew’s other novels, The Out of Town Buyer is not a story mixed with a lot of sex. Rather, the sex is the story! As an experiment, it works well. Matthew did all the editing, but J’s voice comes through nicely, the two complimenting one another well. The story, written in 2005 wasn’t published until 2012 when Amazon publishing came to Matthew’s attention.