The birds were called by the scent of the perfume: a savage, freezing scent that Ilmari created for his mysterious patron, Siegfried. Swarming outside his window in a kaleidoscope of blue, Ilmari knows there is something special, something powerful, about this creation: and the imminent arrival of Siegfried will soon show just how powerful.
With fuel all but vanished and governments unstable or collapsed, life has become simple. Find a factory; earn a few precious kilowatt hours to keep society limping along; work hard; don't get noticed. But Dray is beginning to notice too many things - from his children's truancy and fear to his own shaking limbs. A society at the point of breakdown, and one man trying to hold it together.
The Four Elements by Claude Lalumière (erotica)
From dress-up to sexual revenge, this series of vignettes explores the light and dark of sexuality through the elements. A deft combination of fantasy, horror, myth and erotica.
, by RE contributor Mathilde Madden.
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