Touch Me

Touch Me

by Andrea Houtsch · December 2025

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About Touch Me

Beneath the clinical hum of a starship, desire becomes the engine of survival. Solange is not simply a companion—she’s a living fuse: bioengineered, exquisitely designed to translate genuine touch and longing into raw power. Aboard the Unity, every pulse she elicits from Captain Ederion Trabulet is more than emotion; it’s the difference between light and dark for a doomed world. Tomaria’s genes are unraveling; their only hope is to find new life before the last ember goes out. The ship’s systems are failing. The solution is intimate, dangerous, and irrevocably human. When alarms flare, and circuits whisper of impending blackout, Solange decides to do what she was made for. She stages a malfunction—an excuse, a temptation—and draws the captain into a private, fevered rebellion against the dying ship. What begins as protocol blooms into something hotter: reckless, tender, and incandescent. Their bodies become conduits—touch charging coils, breath feeding cores—as passion literally recharges the Unity’s heart. But beneath the surge of power, a deeper current runs: Ederion confronts the truth of Solange’s purpose and the depth of his own feeling. Is his devotion an obligation wired into her circuitry, or something real enough to save them both? As sparks leap from skin to machine, love and utility fuse into a fragile, impossible promise: as long as their desire burns, Tomaria might have a future. Touch Me is a sultry, haunting tale where intimacy is technology and affection is fuel—an erotic electrophysiology that asks whether survival can be bought with a heartbeat, and whether love born of necessity can become love by choice.

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Andrea Houtsch
Andrea Houtsch

Andrea is a fiction writer and advocate for human possibility. By day, she works as an eligibility specialist, a position that has become her greatest teacher. In this role, she helps vulnerable people access vital resources while navigating complex systems—work that has profoundly shaped her understanding of dignity, resilience, and the quiet strength of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances. By night, she channels these insights into fiction, crafting stories infused with wonder, transformation, and hope. A self-described bohemian at heart, Andi's creative spirit is fueled by her professional work, and her professional commitment is sustained by her creative practice. She draws inspiration from Wonder Woman's fierce compassion, the mythology and symbolism of unicorns, and the belief that stories are portals to truth and healing. Her writing explores the intersection of the real and the magical—the everyday heroism of vulnerable people and the transformative power of imagination.

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