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Somnophilia
by Kannan Feng

“You’re so handsome,” the incubus whispered, his lips gently tracing the rim of my ear. He curled up behind me as though we had been sleeping together for years, and I could feel how hard he was, though he kept still as a stone.

See how good I am? he seemed to be saying. See how good I am for you?

The hand draped over my waist started stroking the sensitive skin there, and I made myself keep still. It was pleasure unasked for, but I still couldn’t prevent myself from rocking my hips, even if the motion brought me closer to him.

“I’m sure you have lovely eyes,” the incubus said coaxingly. “Won’t you open them for me, Petrushka? I could show you such wonderful things…”

His hand drifted lower, stroking my erection like a woman might stroke a cat, and he pressed his lips to the back of my neck. I kept my breath slow and steady, but I could feel how taut my body was against his.

It’s no sin to want another man, but it is most definitely a sin to want him.

“I’m beautiful,” he said, kissing the join of my shoulder and my neck. “So beautiful. Do you never wonder what I look like?”

Of course I did. Every time he fucked me, every time he climbed on top and slid my cock inside him, smooth as silk, I wondered. Would I see a face as lovely as an angel’s, or something tusked and fanged? Would I see the scared, sweet boy that he sometimes sounded like?

I kept my eyes shut.

With a hand pressed to my shoulder, he rolled me onto my back, and I could feel the heat across my face, knowing that I was naked and so exposed. I felt his body slip over mine, lighter than I would have thought, and warmer too. Briefly, there was a sweep of long hair across my chest and then it was gone, only to be replaced by a hot mouth around my cock.

I felt my body rock against his mouth, helpless against him, but my eyes stayed closed and I could feel in the way that he clawed my hips that it maddened him.

It was short and brutal; I spilled in his mouth like blood from a mortal wound and then I felt his face, damp with tears, nuzzle against my chest.

“Damn you,” he whispered. “Open your eyes and look at me.”

He was gone by morning, with neither stain nor scar to mark his visit, and the dawn light found me, as it always had, innocent.

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Kannan Feng seeks personal advancement through unorthodox means.

Call for Submissions: Like the Knave of Hearts

What if Alice returned to Wonderland as an adult, and met up with the White Knight or the Red Queen again? What if there was more going on between the Queen of Hearts and the Knave than just those tarts? And what kind of adventures was Mary Ann, the White Rabbit’s maid, up to when she wasn’t at home? We’re looking for a darker, sexier view of Wonderland. Be creative, keep it legal, and don’t be afraid to explore your nightmares as well as your dreams.

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

The submission deadline is December 1, 2009. Email submissions only. Stories are best submitted as a word processor document (.doc, .rtf, .txt, etc.) attached to the email, but do not forget to include your complete contact information on the attached document! (If it’s only in the body of the email, it’s quite easy to have a brilliant story come out of the printer and then have no way to trace back where the heck it came from.) Manuscripts should be correctly/professionally formatted for submission. (If you’re not sure what we mean by that, Google it.)

Preferred word length is between 3000 and 7000 words. All stories must include explicit sexuality and erotic focus. (For more details on our editorial preferences, see the general submission guidelines on circlet.com. We highly recommend reading the guidelines, especially the “do not send” list, to increase your chances of sending us something we’ll love.) Try to avoid cliches. Fresh and direct language is preferred to overly euphemistic. Sex-positive, please, no rape/nonconsensuality/necrophilia or other purposefully gross topics. We do not publish horror.

Original stories only, NO REPRINTS unless the distribution was truly obscure. Ebooks pay $25 per story, with an additional $25 if the book gets a print edition. Authors get one copy of each edition, as well. Author retains the reprint rights to individual story; we buy non-exclusive rights to inclusion in this anthology only.

Send submissions to: msjblackmore (at) gmail (dot) com

Announcing! A print edition of FAEWOLF by D. M. Atkins and Chris Taylor.

Circlet is pleased to announce the first of our ebook titles that now has a print edition, instead of the other way around!

Faewolf, the printed edition, contains all the text of the ebook and comes to 290 whopping pages. It retails for $14.95, the same price as our usual 200-page trade paperbacks!

To order, follow this link to CreateSpace, where it is printed and shipped direct to you!
https://www.createspace.com/3388414

Faewolf is a paranormal m/m erotic romance.

Faewolves, like werewolves, can walk among men. What happens when Kiya White Cloud, a young gay college student in Santa Cruz, wants one of these men enough to risk his heart–and his life?

D.M. Atkins is an author of both non-fiction and fiction. An anthropologist, Atkins has edited several anthologies on LGBT topics, including Looking Queer, Lesbian Sex Scandals, and Bisexual Women in the 21st Century and is the former editor of both Locus and Shadows Of… magazines. Visit DMAtkins.net. Chris Taylor has been writing for years but FAEWOLF is Taylor’s first original fiction novel. Taylor is a New Yorker, attending college.

Warning: explicit sex, dubious consent, and rough scenes.

We’re having a short break in author chats, with our next one being the fabulous Vinnie Tesla on July 10-11. Join us then at Circlet’s LiveJournal community.

Mr. Tesla is one of the first people whose LiveJournal I followed when I dipped my toe into the social networking pool. He has the all-too-rare talent of writing fiction that is both hot and so funny that you’ll hurt yourself laughing. He is an expert in such diverse areas as Victorian erotica and tentacle porn. His story “The Ontological Engine, or, the modern Leda appears in the Circlet anthology Up for Grabs, which is available from Circlet Press for a dollar off the cover price.

(We hope you have been enjoying a new microfiction every Friday here at Circlet.com! There are many more to come. See you next week, too!)

The Spy Who…
by Andrea Howe

“This… is it?” Her majesty Nyrlina den Bonafair, Light of the East, Star of the Three Western Towers, looked down into the several-times locked chest that had been brought to her private chambers in great secret, opened with particular keys that had been sent by several different messengers (one via a trained pigeon) over the course of as many months, and reached up to scratch her head.

“Yes, my Queen,” her head spy responded from the far side of the chest, his hands sliding along the edge of the lid and slipping down in to grasp the corners of the cloth within, lifting it out to drape for her inspection.

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I remember my first kinky book.

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Peter Tupper will be hosting our next Circlet author chat at our LiveJournal community. Peter penned “The Innocent’s Progress” in Circlet’s recent publication Like a Wisp of Steam. An “accidental expert” on steampunk erotica, Peter maintains the blog Beauty in Darkness: the history of BDSM.

The Hymn of the Pearl
by Lauren P. Burka

Sunset raked the dirt-streaked windows, spilling colors of blood and fire into the stairwell. The man warmed his toes in the receding pools of light. He had no clothes but a thin, white shift that shielded neither his skin from the cold nor his buttocks from the steel and concrete stair. During the previous three days he had eaten nothing, drank only sips of water, and was denied sleep by drums and rattles. Mind and body had come uncoupled. He could not remember his name.

Neon light replaced the vanished sun filtered through the windows, but the colors were the same.

A candle flame cut the reddened dark of the stairwell and outlined the form of the illuminated messenger. He wore a hooded robe over his shift and a knotted cord over both. His bare feet made no sound. The candle flame dipped, acknowledging the neophyte, who rose to follow his messenger down the stairs. So many stairs. No elevators were permitted on this trip to the underworld. Small creatures and noises populated the shadows, as if hell’s attendant monsters and fiends encroached, restrained only by the candle flame. Read the remainder of this entry »

Up For Grabs: Exploring the Worlds of Gender
edited by Lauren P. Burka

With stories by Vinnie Tesla, Anya Levin, David D. Levine, Zachary Jernigan, and Ellen Tevault.

An anthology of erotic stories where gender is up for grabs. Thousands of people spend time on the Internet identified with a gender other than the one they were born with, for erotic gratification or to stretch their imaginations. But we asked our writers what if you got a tax break for changing your gender? What if you could choose to be no gender at all until you went on a date? What are the implications, both sexual and social, of gender possibilities beyond the choices and ideas our society currently holds.

Buy it directly from us here at Circlet.com as a PDF, or from one of our retailers:

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D.M. Atkins and Chris Taylor, the co-authors of Circlet’s recent ebook publication Faewolf, will be hosting our next author chat. To participate, check out our LiveJournal June 15-17. You will not need to have your own LJ account to participate.

D.M. Atkins is an author of both non-fiction and fiction. An anthropologist, Atkins has edited several anthologies on LGBT topics, including Looking Queer, Lesbian Sex Scandals and Bisexual Women in the 21st Century and is the former editor of both Locus and Shadows Of… magazines. In recent years, Atkins has been a popular fan fiction author, under a pseudonym, and has won awards for online erotic fiction. Atkins lives in the Bay Area with two husbands, a girlfriend, their son, Atkins’ mother, three cats and a dog.

Chris Taylor has been writing for years but this is Taylor’s first original fiction novel. Taylor is a New Yorker, attending college. Along with Atkins, Taylor has been writing fan fiction and won awards for erotic fiction in online communities.