Excerpt: A sound shaped itself in Will’s throat — not speech, only proof, surprising even to him, that he still had a voice. Kit’s hand fastened at the back of his neck, fingers tangling in the curls of his hair, nails passing lightly over soft, vulnerable skin. “Don’t,” he said, “compose poetry now.” He was […]
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Shakeslowe
That is, apparently, the ship name for William Shakespeare (of Sonnet 20 fame) and Christopher “Kit” Marlowe (of “all they who love not tobacco and boys are fools” fame). Aside from them both being quite possibly, in the modern sense, queer men, and boundary-breaking playwrights both working in London in the early 1590s, very close […]
Continue Reading....If You Were My Lover: Stories for Lovers of Literary Erotica
Twelve tales to tantalize and satisfy. This collection includes several gender pairings (and threesomes!), along with stories where you can choose how to interpret a character’s gender, plus a story whose narrator is deciding how to interpret their own gender. Historical, literary, and speculative short stories explore scent and sensation, language and bodies, religion, philosophy, […]
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