I just came up with a possible story about an incubus. I actually have a few others about incubi/succubi, but none of those do much beyond suck out energy and, in one case, get someone pregnant.

However, this latest idea, probably a oneshot, has the incubus seduce a woman before doing the incubi thing and sucking out her soul. This kills her. My question is this: does this count as snuff? Personally, I’m not sure (and if it does, I’ll probably abandon the story). It’s just, in my experience, snuff is written for sexual pleasure. While I do show the sex scene (or I will, depending on how much I believe I can get away with), I’m not aiming for the reader’s sexual pleasure in the soul-sucking and death section.

Basically, the woman and the incubus (though she has no idea he is one and I’ll leave only minor clues throughout the story until this part) sleep together. When they climax, the incubus kisses her and does something magical. This intensifies and keeps her climaxing until he can suck out her soul, which happens quickly. After that, she twitches briefly in the sort of aftershocks of death and then goes still. And that’s it.

This is only a draft and writing it like that has made me worried about whether it could be interpreted as being written for sexual pleasure (it isn’t, let me assure you). I’m perfectly willing to accept rewrites, but what do you think? As is, would it could as snuff?

A second, related question is, how would Fiction Press react to me posting this? Should I risk it? Or should I post somewhere else?