THE LOVE THAT NEVER DIES: Erotic Encounters with the Undead
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I have to get out. I have to get away. I swung back to my bag, to continue to aimless throw whatever parts of my life I could get my hands on into it ... but it seemed smaller, like there were less, fewer clothes in it.
I stepped back, knocking the back of my legs against my desk chair, but when I swung around I saw nothing there. No chair. No desk. A few cobweb-dusted cables still plugged into the wall but nothing else.
My bed was there, but only the futon and not the comforter. My TV was gone, only the rickety table it used to sit on remained. My wall calendar was one. My rug was missing.
Turning, I saw that my suitcase was gone and the closet empty of even dust and cobwebs – like it had been freshly painted.
A twist ... and the bed was no longer there. The walls looked clean – too clean – not even twists of dust or hair.
My wallet was empty except for a few crumples of old money.
My name ... I couldn't remember any of it.
I softly cried, the tears hot lines beginning at my eyes and dropping down and then
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Laura Antoniou is the author of the well-known Marketplace series of erotic novels, but has also written dozens of short stories, essays and other works in various genres for over 25 years. Winner of the NLA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, she has presented, taught and ranted at over 150 conferences and events since the early 80's. In 2010, she hit the world of e-books as the Marketplace moved to Circlet Press, and Laura came out as Christopher Morgan, best-selling writer of gay male erotica, including the novel Musclebound. All of her other available works can be found listed at her website, lantoniou.com.
Laura is personally featured in Writing Below the Belt; Conversations with Erotic Authors, by Michael Rowe, and The Burning Pen; Sex Writers on Sex Writing, by M. Christian.
Laura plans more novels in the Marketplace series, and a collection of fan-written stories set in that universe as well. She is also working on a mystery titled The Killer Wore Leather, due out from Cleis Books.
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People fascinate billierosie. What makes them tick; what are their secrets and lies. The effete guy in the bank; the blonde lady shopping in the supermarket, the elderly lady living in a care home. What stories could they tell? Perhaps erotic stories of sex, intrigue and fetish?
And fetish is high on billierosie's agenda. The strange, haunting stuff that informs our darkest desires. It could be fur or feathers. Shoes, silk stockings, or toes. Poop or pee. An amputee's stump. If we made a list it would go on forever.
Billierosie has been writing erotica for about two years. "Winnat's Pass," is her new story. It is published by "Sizzler", it has not been published anywhere else.
Billierosie has been published by Oysters and Chocolate, "The Wedding Dress." She has also been published by Sizzler, in their Pirate Booty anthology. Also in their Sherlock Holmes anthology, My Love of all that is Bizarre. She also has a collection of short, erotic stories, Fetish Worship, available as a download at Sizzler and Amazon.
Billierosie lives in a pretty village in England. She doesn't fit with village life; certainly not the Women's Institute. Billierosie loves the theatre, Art, film, books and all things eccentric. Billierosie plans to have fun and stay young, writing pornography. She can be found talking about all things erotic at, www.billierosie.blogspot.com.
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M. Christian is – among many things – an acknowledged master of erotica with more than 400 stories in such anthologies as Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, and many, many other anthologies, magazines, and Web sites.
He is the editor of 25 anthologies including the Best S/M Erotica series, Pirate Booty, My Love For All That Is Bizarre: Sherlock Holmes Erotica, The Burning Pen, Guilty Pleasures, The Mammoth Book of Future Cops and The Mammoth Book of Tales of the Road (with Maxim Jakubowksi) and Confessions, Garden of Perverse, and Amazons (with Sage Vivant) as well as many others.
He is the author of the collections Dirty Words, Speaking Parts, The Bachelor Machine, Licks & Promises, Filthy, Love Without Gun Control, Rude Mechanicals, Coming Together Presents M. Christian, Pornotopia, How To Write And Sell Erotica; and the novels Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Me2, Brushes, Fingers Breadth, and Painted Doll. His site is www.mchristian.com
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Kannan Feng lives in a century-old building by an inland sea. Her current interests include old gods, turtle ships, and glaciers. She has also written the novellas Lord of Misrule and Under the Skin. Read more about Feng at www.kannanfeng.wordpress.com.
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Editor-in-chief for magazines and websites; columnist, reviewer, interviewer; internationally published author of short stories, SEO copy, children's songs, 800 # phone-sex 'scripts' and one-act plays; Internet radio D.J. and ASCAP licensed songwriter Ralph Greco, Jr. fails to keep his ever-expanding ego in check in the wilds of suburban New Jersey.
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In some circles, Ernest Hogan is known for writing "The Frankenstein Penis." He is also responsible for Cortez On Jupiter, High Aztech, Smoking Mirror Blues, and other acts of creative blasphemy.
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A. Leigh Jones resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she works for a local non-profit and dreams of other worlds. Her first (and to date, only) novel, Forever Crossed, is a paranormal romance available from ImaJinn Books.
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Jay Lawrence is a Scottish-Canadian author, with twenty erotic novels and many short stories published on both sides of the Atlantic. Jay has experienced much of what she writes about and has lived to tell the tale! Truth, she's discovered, is often stranger than fiction...
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Linda Watanabe McFerrin is a Bay Area author, poet, editor and travel writer. Her award-winning fiction includes her novels Namako: Sea Cucumber, The Hand of Buddha, and Dead Love (Stone Bridge Press, 2010), which was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in a Novel in 2010 and a nominee for a CBS (Carl Brandon Society) Award in 2011.
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A few years ago Nobilis Reed decided to start sharing the naughty little stories he scribbled out in hidden notebooks. To his surprise, people actually liked them! Now, he can't stop. The poor man is addicted. His wife, teenage children, and even the cats just look on this wretch of a man and shake their heads. The best that can be hoped for is to just make him as comfortable as his condition will allow. Symptoms include two novels, several novellas, numerous short stories, and the longest-running erotica podcast on Earth. His website is at www.nobiliserotica.com.
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Dominic Santi is a former technical editor turned rogue whose stories have appeared in many dozens of publications, including Hot Daddies, Wild Boys, Uniforms Unzipped, Caught Looking, Kink and several volumes of Best Gay Erotica. Future plans include more dirty short stories and an even dirtier historical novel. dominicsanti@yahoo.com.
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Jean Marie Stine is the author of a number of pioneering works of erotica published in the late 1960 and early 1970s, beginning with Season of the Witch in 1968, which was filmed as the motion picture Synapse (AKA Memory Run). Her erotic novels and story collections, including Thrill City, and Trans-Sexual are all available through Sizzler Editions. Her work has appeared in Amazing Stories, Eros, Transformation, Galaxy, Transgender and Cavalier; along with quality electronic journals such as suspect thoughts, LesbiNation, NestfullOVipers, Blood Moon, and Mind Caviar.
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Troy has written everything from humor to the erotic to the macabre, and is especially keen on stories that transcend genre pigeonholing. Recent publications can be found at www.melange-books.com, www.whispershome.com, and Renaissance Books (Sizzler), for those who like their tales filled with extra spice. See it all at www.troyseateauthor.webs.com and on amazon.com.
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Angelia Sparrow is a truck-driver living quietly in the Mid-South, She's the author of ten n
ovels and over sixty short stories, mostly GLBT focus.
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Karen Taylor is the author of several short stories that can be found in Friday the Rabbi Wore Lace, edited by Karen Tulchinsky (Cleis), First Personal Sexual, edited by Joani Blank (Down There Press), the 1997 Small Press award winner, My Lover, My Friend: True-Life Stories of Lesbian Romance Between Friends, edited by Lindsay Elder (Alyson), Best Bisexual Erotica, edited by Bill Brent and Carol Queen, Best Transgender Erotica, edited by Hanne Blank and Raven Kaldera, The Mammoth Book of Erotica (2000), edited by Maxim Jakubowski, Leather, Lace and Lust, edited by Sage Vivant, First Person Queer, edited by Lawrence Schimel and Richard Labonte (Lambda Literary Award Winner), and several anthologies edited by her wife, author/editor Laura Antoniou.
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Heather Towne's writing credits include Hustler Fantasies, Leg Sex, Newcummers, Naughty Neighbors, 18eighteen, Forum, Foreplay, Scarlet, and stories in the anthologies Skin Deep 2, Mammoth Book of Women's Erotic Fantasies, Wicked Words, Love on the Dark Side, Sexy Little Numbers, Nexus Confessions, Show & Tell, The Good Parts, Travelrotica 2, and Girl Fever.
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In the 1990s Chris DeVito published two infamous zines, Fuck Science Fiction and Proud Flesh. More recently he's published two books about the brilliant saxophonist and composer John Coltrane: The John Coltrane Reference and Coltrane On Coltrane. His novelette "Anise" appeared in the Sept./Oct. 2011 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
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PM White is the author of the Horror Manor trilogy available through Sizzler Editions. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies including Sex in San Francisco, My Love of All That is Bizarre: The Erotic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pirate Booty: Erotic Tales of Buccaneers and Captives, Bound For Love, and more. For The Love That Never Dies: Undead Erotica, White chose to imagine an immortal life, with perversion, due the fact that he would like something similar to happen to him should he ever die. White can be found online at www.pmwhite.webs.com.
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After moving several times about the country and Europe, C.C. Williams currently resides in the Southwestern United States with his partner JT. When not critiquing cooking or dance show contestants, he is at work on several writing projects. A finalist in numerous contests, C.C. has had his work appear in such collections as Frat Boys, Brief Encounters, Best Gay Romance 2012, as well as the forthcoming Wild Boys. He invites you to find out more at www.ccwilliamsonline.net.
INDICIA
"One Drop" By Laura Antoniou, used by permission of the author.
"Winnat's Pass" By Billierosie, used by permission of the author.
"Horror Vacui" By M. Christian, used by permission of the author.
"Alive She Cried" By Chris DeVito, used by permission of the author.
"Robber" By Kannan Feng, used by permission of the author.
"The Man Who Visited
Or Poor Brother Ed" By Ralph Greco, Jr., used by permission of the author.
"The Frankenstein Penis" By Ernest Hogan, used by permission of the author.
"Only In Your Dreams" By A. Leigh Jones, used by permission of the author.
"Deliverance" By Jay Lawrence, used by permission of the author.
"The Wolf Man And The Mule" By Linda Watanabe Mcferrin. Excerpted from Dead Love. Published by Stone Bridge Press. Used by permission of the author.
"Monster" By Nobilis Reed, used by permission of the author.
"Vamps" By Dominic Santi, used by permission of the author.
"A Rock And A Hard Place" By J. T. Seate, used by permission of the author.
"Between Despair And Ecstasy" By Angelia Sparrow, used by permission of the author.
"A Pearl Of Great Price" By Jean Marie Stine, used by permission of the author.
"The Ghost In The Machine" By Karen Taylor, used by permission of the author.
"Ghost" By Heather Towne, first published in Forum Magazine, June, 2008. Used by permission of the author.
"Memory Man" By PM White, used by permission of the author.
"Les Bon Temps" By C. C. Williams, used by permission of the author.
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