**Peter Baltensperger's Ethereal Differentiations was published in Pink Litter

Peter Baltensperger, whose Nocturnal Tableaux graced this site in October 2012, has had another story published: Ethereal Differentiations, in the fifth issue of Pink Litter.

It should be noted that this story, as well as this site, are for "mature readers" only - meaning: adults, eighteen years old and older.

Check this story out!

**Erotica Readers & Writers Association's May-June flasher gallery is up

Erotica Readers & Writers Association's May-June microstory  - aka "flasher" - gallery is up.  It is the fourth microstory gallery I have had the honor to select, as ERWA's flasher editor.  If you have a few minutes, check out these stories, which will appear on the site until June 30, 2013:

 john e's "Ex-Stripper" and "Not Home"

Daddy X's "Finally, The Last Straw"

Damian Bloodstone's "First Confusion"

Valentine Bonnaire's "F**king Technology" and "Happiness was his warm gun"

Robert Buckley's "P-Town P.C.: The Consecration"

Rose B. Thorny's "Verdict"

Ian D Smith's "What Sauce?"


Thanks to the above authors for their excellent work, and thanks to those readers who have supported our endeavors, as authors and editors!

**One of my microstories, Desire's retreat, was published on the Erotica Readers & Writers Association website

One of my microstories, Desire's retreat, was published on the Erotica Readers & Writers Association (ERWA) website.  

Desire's retreat, by-lined under the nom de plume Nikki Isaak, is a sentimental and mainstream piece about a cabbie, his wife and a popular Seventies sex club.  It will appear on the site until June 30, 2013.  Check it out!

**Erotica Readers & Writer's Association's April flasher gallery is up.

The Erotica Readers & Writers Association's April microstory  - aka "flasher" - gallery is up.  It is the third microstory gallery I've selected, as ERWA's flasher editor.  If you have a few minutes, check out these stories, which will appear on the site until April 30, 2013:

R.E. Buckley's "Ass in a Sling"  and "Take a Number"

Ian D Smith 's "At the End of a Busy Day"

John Eivaz's "Dialogue of the Interior"

Daddy X's:  "Did Her Best"

Amanda Earl's "Enfleurage"

Melissa Coffey's "Flash-Hot Rock Star"
 
Michele Micheal Rakes's  "Flayed"

Big Ed Magnussen's "Naive"

Elliot DeLocke's "On the Falsity of Tobler's First Law of Geography"

Damian Bloodstone's "Plastic Wrap"

Valentine Bonnaire's "Tartine"

Thanks to those readers who have supported our endeavors, publishing- and otherwise; expect a similar ERWA flasher update next month. =)

**Book review: The Owl, Alvin G. Burstein

(pb; 2012: novelette)


Review:

When college professor Lou Meade is accosted by a talking owl - a familiar of the Greek deity Athena, "goddess of wisdom, the practical arts, and warfare, and the protectress of cities"* - it's the first moment in his new life phase, an era that will lead him further into the works of author C.S. Lewis and intellectual warfare against Eris, the wily Greek goddess of discord.

Burstein's writing is straightforward, smart and exciting in a dry-humored way, which serves this atypical, Lewisesque work well. 

Readers of Lewis and gentler, clean cut-to-it readers of fantasy would do well to own this 70-page "neo-Pagan Fantasy" (as Burstein subtitles this intriguing work).  Don't expect the epic bombast and graphic grimness of George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, but do expect to be entertained in a cerebral, sometimes phantasmagorical manner.

Worth owning, this.  You can purchase it here.

[*The Free Dictionary.com]

[This review was originally published on the Reading and Writing By Pub Light site.]


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Burstein's earlier, much-shorter work  - The crawfish boil - graced this site on January 11, 2012.  If you haven't read this story, check it out!

**Erotica Readers & Writer's Association's March flasher gallery is up.

The Erotica Readers & Writers Association's (ERWA) March microstory  - aka "flasher" - gallery is up.  It is the second microstory gallery I've selected, as ERWA's flasher editor.  If you have a moment or ten, check out these stories, which will appear on the site until March 30, 2013:

 Valentine Bonnaire's "Year of the Snake"

R.E. Buckley's "Merritt Parkway"

John Eivaz's "Domestic Security"

Elizabeth S's "Starting Off on the Right Foot"

Ian D. Smith's  "Terminological Precision"

Rose B. Thorny's "Turning the Tables"

Daddy X's:  "Regular Places"


Thanks to those readers who have supported our endeavors, publishing- and otherwise; expect a similar ERWA flasher update next month. =)

**Two of my short sex-pulp works were published last week

The Amoses: Molly and Chris was published on the Erotica Readers & Writers Association [ERWA] site, by-lined under the name Nikki Isaak. It will appear on the site through March 2013.

The Amoses incorporates a previously published microstory, Lithe undead (ERWA/October 2002), and, in loose link fashion, tells the offbeat tale of a death-resurrected woman, her scientist husband, a blackmailing IRS agent, and a famous horror movie house.

 

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Corporate Roach Facility, 1999 – c**krocked was published in issue #5 of the online magazine, Pink Litter.

Corporate is a Sapphic fluff piece with darkish overtones, involving a scientist, a security guard, hentai, BDSM and an insectile soundtrack.

 

Check these stories out, if you're a legal adult and so inclined!