Another great anthology of erotica that I highly recommend is SwitchHitters, edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel. I purchased this book for the main purpose that it included a short story from Laura Antoniou, the author of The Marketplace series. Her particular entry in this anthology is about one of the characters from the premiere book in that serie...
Those of us who live in the thirtieth century pride ourselves in our rationality and civility. Still, we crave adventure, as humans have always done for untold millennia. For that reason, I put on my jet backpack and hiking boot boosters and trekked to Sirius 265, a well populated world in a nearby stellar system. The star, known simply as the Flame to loca...
Chapter 1 Kit Agrabah walked the streets of Almas greeting many of Desna's worshipers – sailors, travelers, merchants, and so on – on his walk to the temple. His white and black robes blew in the calm wind. Although Kit's demeanor was not one to overtly cause trouble, as a Halfling he often found himself in the midst of it. Today was no exception. Rounding...
When the landlady knocked on his room door on the second floor, rousing him from slumber, Salomon Bismarck was initially irritated. And then the big and tall young Jamaican tenant looked at his cell phone and noticed that it was ten o'clock in the morning. Dammit, he overslept again. In spite of all his precautions, he slept through his alarm clock. Dammit,...
A Tale from the Erotic Adventures of Solomon Magus CHAPTER ONE Arpakshad is a land of exotic wonders. On any given day---save the Day of Celebration, for that is when all businesses close and all the people remain in their homes, or congregate in their spiritual temples to honor their goddess, Rani---but on most other days, one can travel through the mark...
Chapter 1: Xanthe - The Beginning Xanthe had always been brought up as an independent child, which in her world was almost unheard of. Her family's Greek origins left them as socially different to the Bedouin and Arabic people who inhabited their desert home. Her father's only child she had inherited his vast trade empire taking wine and goods across the se...
There is a legend more than three thousand years old. It tells of a beautiful woman walking out of the sea. She was gifted with extraordinary abilities and she was not of this earth. She was to undergo many trials before fulfilling her ultimate destiny in the long-range fate of all men and women on planet Earth. The woman walked out of the sea. She marched...
©2003, k.x. As he crossed raw space on his way to the Haradza hab, Govinda watched the ship he'd just left dwindle into a minor star in his hindsight. He'd recognized the design as soon as he was outside: a converted Kunyunese Heavy Cruiser, pointed at both ends, with a massive hypertorus around its middle. There were no markings, though, so he couldn't tel...
Naruto Uzumaki had been signed into office as the Hokage for little over a year and the pride he felt of holding such a title made him glad even now. Hailed as a hero by everybody for saving the entire world, Naruto had been promoted straight to Hokage at the record age of seventeen. Now with his eighteenth birthday just a week gone, Naruto reflected on how...
I awoke with a start and sat up in bed. By the angle of the moon's light through the east window, I guessed it was four in the morning. Beiju stirred in the bed next to me, but did not wake. I thought of rousing her to make love, but decided to let her sleep. We were in the village of Deleng on the Amur River, where the Chinese Empire maintained a military...