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 [...]
Issue: June 2007
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.