· A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference· Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of desire· In an artificially generated afterlife, anything can be sexual if you want it to be· A young widow on a sleeper train shelters a criminal in her carriage· A bisexual woman cheats on her wife with a baker
· Anyone can hire a holographic gigolo in 2098 â but one client gets a lot closer than sheâd intended· Female friends, sharing a hotel room, give in to long-repressed feelings· The Rapunzel myth is rewrittenâŠ
Twenty-seven well-known writers, their imaginations unleashed by anonymityâŠ
CosmopolitanâNow is how you write erotica. And itâs delicious to readâthisnull
âThe building tension in âHistory Lessonâ overwhelmed me so much I needed to pause to relieve some tension of my own⊠The updated variation on âRapunzelâ [is] so horny Anne Rice is weeping with pride in the afterlife⊠the best part of this book is the anonymityâNew York Times
GuardianâGorgeousâ
TLSâHere is sensuality gloriously released from gender, opprobrium, or the constraints of fleshâ
LA TimesâA sizzling assemblage of top-notch literary fictionâ
âAn early contender for the steamiest book of the yearâPOPSUGAR
In this diverse and ground-breaking collection there is something for everyone, from teenage experimentation to sex in the afterlife, from married couples pushing their boundaries to illicit encounters between strangers. Perhaps you will guess which story was written by your favourite author, perhaps you wonât, but the excitement is in the journey.
Twenty-seven erotic stories, anonymously written by:
Robert Olen ButlerTrent DaltonTony EprileJamie FordPeter GodwinRebecca MakkaiDina NayeriTĂ©a ObrehtMary-Louise ParkerJason ReynoldsMeredith TalusanSouvankham ThammavongsaPaul TherouxEdmund White, Catherine Chung, , Heidi Durrow, , Louise Erdrich, , Julia Glass, , Hillary Jordan, , Valerie Martin, , Chigozie Obioma, , Helen Oyeyemi, , Victoria Redel, , S.J. Rozan, , Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, , Jeet Thayil, , Luis Alberto Urrea,
This collection hit the bestseller list in Canada on 17/02/2022
