Callipygia (The Utopian World of Callipygia...just a legend?) (ePub)

Stephanie Daniels, 29, journalist for the Sheyenne Eagle, has received the assignment of her life. Too many women have gone missing in the region of the South Dakota Black Hills...plus there's the rumor of a lesbian sex slave camp. And the sidebar of men smelling of alcohol wandering on back roads and telling of being abducted, drugged, tied up, and used as a stud.
Are the three stories related?
Stephanie will go undercover to find out. She'll be glad to get out of town for awhile too, and get away from her boyfriend. He's not abusive, exactly, but he's also not the love of her life she has always hoped for. In fact, she feels, they live together expressly for the purpose of neither being alone—she really hates their relationship, but has never allowed herself to say it, or even think it!
On the bus ride to the Black Hills she comes to realize her long string of meaningless relationships have only been a prelude and learning experience to what she really wants: the love of another woman!
Weeks will pass as she interviews the families of the missing women, and the—so-called—abducted-used-as-studs-men, but very little information arises about the Dakota Amazons, as the locals have named the imagined lesbian sex slave camp.
Feeling discouraged and wondering if she should return to her job without the main story, she relaxes in a bar one night, feeling tearful and more alone than ever when a blonde woman appears in the outside door and causes her stomach to turn into a whirlwind. What's going on? No man has ever caused her to feel so...so—she couldn't even give her feelings a description.
The young woman notices her too, and approaches, and introduces herself as Megan, and mentions seeing her tears, and tells her she needs a break, and offers to take her to the mythical land of Callipygia, a place with a humanistic goal but questionable methods. Stephanie will soon find herself wondering if her job still awaits her, and responsible for two pregnant women.