COVER STORIES

Lily Lick's Love Signs for July 2009 - astrology

"Your most valuable information will come to you indirectly. Your partner’s not going to outright say “Let’s give anal a whirl,” or “Gee, dicks on chicks sounds like fun,” it’s going to come at you as a side comment, or double entendre."

Best Gay Stories 2008 - reviewed by Jean Roberta

"These are stories of gay men meeting, loving, breaking up, and most of all, dreaming of what could have been or what could be. If there is a theme in this collection other than gayness, it seems to be the persistence of memory."

Like a Wisp of Steam - reviewed by Jean Roberta

The first e-book from Circlet Press, which celebrates the mating of sex and science in the nineteenth century.

EXOTICA

Being Me - by Ann Greene

"What am I to you? Are you actually interested in me, or am I just a fuck on the side?"

Adam and Eve Reading (almost) Quietly in the Bathroom - by Christopher K. Miller

"Charles tiptoes up behind Linda, who is leaning over the bathroom sink's countertop reading some Year's Best Erotica anthology."

Plasticity - by Salome Wilde

"when I slipped my tongue up hard between those creamy tender plastic thighs, the pitch raised and I realized, without a doubt, that it was Barbie herself who was moaning."

The Fabric - by Jeremy Edwards

"And you know that sizzle you get from meeting someone's gaze, just for an instant, at that sweet spot in the middle of a bout of shared laughter...when you nearly forget what you're laughing about?"

FICTION

A Lovely Rose - Cynthia Lucas

"I watched my expression as I came. It was as though an electric bolt struck us, igniting the salon with multicoloured lights."

The Western Front - Alicia Night Orchid

"He'd appeared on my doorstep two days after Carlisle deployed. He acknowledged that I was Carlisle's new wife and all, then offered to fuck me every once in a while in Carlisle's absence so I wouldn't be tempted to step out on my man."

Second Trimester - Clive Dixon

"Steph had read in one of her many pregnancy books that some women experienced an increase in libido during the second trimester. Since she'd read it between bouts of vomiting, she'd dismissed it as the stuff of fantasies."

Indiana Jones, with Camera - Gwen Masters

"Some believe a photograph steals the soul. I am on the bed, hands tied to the headboard, belly down, ass up. He tells me to spread my legs wider and I do, burning my knees on the rumpled sheet."

POETRY

Synecdoche - by Erin Lyndal Martin

"As of right now, this breast of yours / is almost mine, resting beneath my hand / so that my fingers drape its concave"

Poems - Sonja de Vries

"Let me lick the salt from your throat / bury my teeth in the sand of your flesh / suck the ocean from your veins"

Reading Myself - Kathleen Kelly

"The center of me / The wanting of me / The brilliance that is so frightened of being extinguished."

Hard Like A Star's Iron Heart - Joe Girard

"black lace / eggshelling her sunflower / skin by comparison / strap snaps parting the pieces / fragmenting / the fist-and-finger focus"

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