Cunning Linguists

The New Smut Project’s 4th anthology is released May 18, 2022

Language. Literature. Lechery.

Thirty authors, including Rachel Kramer Bussel, Sonni de Soto, Kristan X, and Good Sex Award honorees D. Fostalove and jem zero, share clever, sensual stories of the many ways we communicate about and around our desires. From erotic epistolary tales to steamy retellings of classics, this collection bursts with memorable and hot new reading material.

Heated banter simmers until the sexual tension boils over. An academic aches with curiosity about the mysterious woman behind the letters she translates–and the mysterious woman working alongside her. Lovers seek a common language after the fall of Babel. Without a physical body, a spaceship’s AI makes love to her captain with words. A domme and her sub negotiate kink titles that reflect all they are to each other. After saving his nonbinary partner, Victor Frankenstein celebrates both erotically and electrically.

Diverse characters find pleasure in body writing, music, virtual realities, fanfiction, first-time phone sex, the queer truth behind local folklore, and reading aloud despite a boyfriend’s best attempts at distraction. Stories ranging from the lighthearted to the bittersweet explore what happens when someone finds just the right thing to say in bed—or says the wrong one—or speaks eloquently without using any words at all.

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Table of Contents:

1.     One Tongue – A.C. Quill

2.     Dido Burns – Taylor Verdon

3.     Blue Rising – Max Turner

4.     Head to Toe – Camille Devine

5.     I Ought to Be Thy Adam – Seb Palumbus

6.     Barako – Rachel Woe

7.     Draft – T.C. Mill

8.     Astronautical Intimacy – Tiana Talaria

9.     Sky-High at Aquarius – jem zero

10.  The Meaning of Anything – Kristan X

11.  Muse – Sprocket J. Rydyr

12.  On the Line – Sonni de Soto

13.  Noi Leggiavamo Per Diletto – Alex Freeman

14.  We’re Not Tentacle Porn – Koji A. Dae

15.  Spark to the Tinder – Cathy Bryant

16.  Written – Ollie Fox

17.  Frontiers – Moxie Marcus

18.  Cave Suckers – Elizabeth A. Allen

19.  Under the Table – Rachel Kramer Bussel

20.  Planet Rolling Over – Peach Berman

21.  Moonlight and Madness – A. Zimmerman

22.  First Time – Alex Yan

23.  Inkmanship – Melissa Snowdon

24.  Welcome to EvolWorld – Louise Kane

25.  Spell Ling B – D. Fostalove

26.  Unsexed, Sexy – Danny McLaren

27.  The Feeling’s Mutual – D.J. Hodge

28.  The Training of the Tongue – Evadare Volney

29.  More Than Words – Lillian James

30.  Phantom Centre – T.J. Cooke