Issue: June 2007

Roseilda’s Tale

Matishka bound the first coils of paper into Roseilda’s hair on her twelfth birthday. Roseilda sat very still on the bed of white flowers, so that only the ever-present rocking [...]

The Weight of Dew

It was lilac season when I arrived in Rivertown. The air drifting through the windows was so damp and sweet that it drenched the car with its purple velvet, glazing [...]

Writing the Language of the Future

When you’re inventing a future, you need to create terms to describe the contents of that future – and so almost from the genre’s inception, writers were coining new words [...]

Dead Lovers

They say the worst thing you can do in a haunting is to acknowledge the presence of your ghost.
J– follows me around, I think, because he can. His eyes are [...]

Best American Erotica 2007, edited by Susie Bright

The title says it all: a collection of outstanding stories.