Romance and erotica authors Lynn Townsend and Elizabeth L. Brooks have joined forces to assemble this collection of "flash-fiction" ultra-short stories generated in response to prompts offered by fans and friends and touching on dozens of aspects of lust, love, and desire.<br><br>The stories in this collection span contemporary, historical, steampunk, fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, taking you from a modern living room to the high seas to Victorian London to planets and times at the edge of imagination. Explore relationships all along the romantic and erotic spectrums, including the thrill of a one-night stand, the fierce burn of rivalry, the heady flush of new romance, the intense trust of BDSM, and all the pros and cons of long-term partnerships. Meet characters who defy conventional gender boundaries, including a preoperative transmale, several aliens, and a few characters whose genders are left open to reader interpretation. Sexual orientations on display vary nearly as widely, with groupings that include M/F, M/M, F/F, and F/F/M -- not to mention those aliens!<br><br>With 46 stories to choose from, there's something here for every moment and mood, something to whet any appetite.

Whetting the Appetite

He gaped a wordless protest, his blood rushing through his veins, breathing hard.


Anje traced something else over his skin. He jumped, jerked away from it reflexively. Thin, light, the object fluttered over his body. He squirmed away, it was damned ticklish being poked at with it. Anje made a soft sound in her throat, almost like a purr and for a moment Ollie was so entirely enchanted that he forgot what he was supposed to be doing, forgot to concentrate and think. Blindly he turned his face toward her as if he could see through the blindfold, wishing he knew what she was thinking.


Chapter 20