It’s that time of year. Snow’s falling, Christmas decorations have been up for months, and Cleis Press has released its annual compendium of erotica written by female-identified authors. This year’s umbrella theme is ‘play,’ which encompasses everything from playing an instrument to playing a game to watching some theatre.
As always, the book encapsulates a wide variety of stories in a single volume. Among the best examples here are ARS Amandi by V.A. Vaquez, featuring two LARPers who find a moment of in-character lust and Ruby Lang’s Happy Now? about a cousin and ex-girlfriend of the groom who hook up at a wedding. Fiona Zedde’s Whenever You Need Me made a strong impact on me; it plumbs the depths of heartbreak as the narrator has to deal with being the only conduit between a scientist Ellie and her wife Ava after Ellie passes away. The kicker is that the narrator has been in unrequited love with Ava for years, and before she died, Ellie transplanted some of her consciousness into the narrator. Ouch. A vampire is made, a threesome happens in a greenhouse, and there’s a lot of D/s going on.
There’s a good mix of styles and content here, and a whole lot of options when it comes to story styles, from the humorous to the thrilling – and (thankfully) no-one is masturbating while eating meat as per last year’s volume!PIf you’re looking for something to heat thing up on a cold winter night, there’s lots to enjoy in this collection.
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Publication Date: 12/2022
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