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Founded in 1998, Clean Sheets is a weekly magazine devoted to encouraging and publishing quality erotic fiction, poetry, and art, providing honest information and thoughtful commentary on sexuality, and fostering an ongoing discussion of sexuality in the lives of individuals and in a global society. Adults Only

COVER STORIES

Lily Lick's Love Signs for April 2013 - astrology

"Only difference this month is that obstacles and distractions are bigger but your strategy to handle them should remain the same: get hold of your lover, retreat to your big comfy bed, and indulge each other."

Product Review: Tingletip - reviewed by Lily Lick

"This little device packs a pretty big punch in a very multiple orgasmic kind of way. "

Smooth: Erotic Stories for Women - reviewed by Jean Roberta

"Have you ever dreamed about being suddenly naked in unusual circumstances? The emotional flavor of such dreams depends on how much you dread exposure or how much you secretly or openly yearn to be seen -- and it depends on who sees you."

Triad - reviewed by Jean Roberta

"My favorite story is 'Crossroads,' about extramarital temptation as a spiritual trap. The narrator is a collector of rare old blues records, and the story title refers to the legend that bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil for musical talent at a crossroads before being killed by a jealous husband in the 1930s."

EXOTICA

Fish - Van Rijn (art) / Words by Annemarie Ryders

"I dreamed of fish, I say. I stare at the ceiling into the dim light. Tons of fish. They are unloaded on the beach. The buckets topple. Thousands of fish squirm above and beneath each other. They twitch, they thrash their tails. I am naked."

disrobing - Lady Dragonfly

"You wander naked into my bedroom where I wait for you, fully clothed, because I love the way you undress me slowly, unbuttoning button by button, unhooking hook by hook, lifting fabric and shifting things and leaving things on, then ripping them off in a moment of urgent passion as you realize that they really are in the way of your intentions."

Acceptance - Nicolas James Hampton

"I mean come on, how many toefuckers can there really be? By now the silent had spoken almost every time I told this story, so the verdict was in. Sometimes people fuck with toes."

In Transit - Shauna M. Greenwood

"His boots are thick black ropes binding his spread legs to my kitchen chair. Torn clothing strewn in haste, his naked body writhes against leather restraints, immobilizing all but his mouth."

FICTION

Hold - Adam Berlin

"Fucking is fucking even when it means something. When my wife was in bed with me, her state-of-the-art BDSM studio with its cage and chains and whips and canes many subway stops downtown, her work far from the doorway of our home, our apartment so close to Riverside Park we smelled the leaves turning in fall, that's what we did. We fucked."

Strokes of Raw Sienna - Martha McKinley

"But had he ever acted on any of these urges...other than acting them out in our bedroom? For whatever reason, his fantasies turned me on. They were so absurd, and far from making me suspicious, when he brought them up in bed at night, I wanted to play along. I became the big-bosomed Aussie who smothered him with her tits, or the wide-assed African who yanked on his hose".

Encounter - Bluette Mayfield

"I am wearing heels and stockings, a short black dress which hugs my body. I am on my way to a dance. I adore women of a certain type-- this type. She is a female incarnation of James Dean. Jeans, white T-shirt, hair slicked back...a sensual curl to her lip, channeling Elvis. She's a townie. I'm a geek. I already want her."

Good Girls Don't Tease - Verity Blackthorn

""If the writing was especially titillating or if he was in a good mood, he'd spank her after this exchange. It gave her reason to reach for further depths of depravity." "

POETRY

Deeper Inside You - Bill Wolak

"Under your flesh / closer to your blood / than skin / I want to lick / the inside of your nipples / tickle your breasts / from inside their swaying"

Pearls, Another Use - Marina Kris

"double-tied, wrist to wrist / an if-I-wanted-to slip knot / pretty cuffs he's tied for hands / pressed palm to palm"

Making Music - Jimmie Ware

"We crescendo/solo togetherI am your clef note / Moaning to your trombone / You sax wildly / Exciting my inner soprano / California screamin' on such a winter's night"