Exposed

By MJ Williamz

Second Chance at Love
Small Town Romances

Animal Control Officer Randi Hansen was blindsided when her girlfriend left her for a smooth operator. Determined to keep her heart safe, she never takes home the same woman twice. A recent transplant from San Francisco, Eleanor Bremer’s struggling to make a life for herself in small-town Florida. She’s determined not to risk her teaching position, and fears coming out in a town much more conservative than she is used to. 

When Randi rescues Eleanor from a rogue alligator sneaking into her backyard, she’s immediately drawn to the beautiful damsel in distress. But she refuses to live in secret. Eleanor must decide what matters most or lose her chance at love.

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The Outcasts

By Alexa Black

Disability
Other Worlds

Sue Jones is a spacebus driver from a nowhere colony. Yearning for adventure, she pilots a shuttle into uncharted regions—and crash-lands in a harsh world. Kara is an alien whose people are Outcasts who have been banished to this world and survive in Rings above the storm-swept surface. 

When Kara rescues her and brings her to the Rings, Sue soon learns that the Outcasts believe humans belong on the surface. As Sue discovers her protector’s secrets, Kara struggles to keep Sue safe and her own feelings at bay. Can love bridge the gap between worlds and heal the deepest of wounds?

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All About Us

By Radclyffe

A Radclyffe Short Story

A contractor gets a special treat when her wife packs her lunch. A sexy romance short.

Previously published in A Is for Amour, ed. Alison Tyler (Cleis Press, 2007); republished in Radical Encounters (Bold Strokes Books, 2009).

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Certain Requirements

By Elinor Zimmerman

BDSM

Phoenix Gomez wants nothing more than to be a full-time aerial dancer, and after years of hard work, her dream is coming true. That’s until her Oakland rent spikes and her roommate moves across the country with his boyfriend. Desperate for a way to make a living, she accepts a position with a woman looking for a live-in submissive. Phoenix has always kept her love of kinky submission strictly behind the bedroom door and inside the bounds of romantic relationships, until she meets Kris Andersen.

Why would Kris—a dapper butch, seasoned dominant, and tech hotshot—be interested in such an arrangement? Because in her rigidly ordered life, she has no time to fall in love. When Phoenix challenges the rules Kris thought she wanted, their connection grows, only to be put to the test when Phoenix’s career threatens to take her away from the Bay.

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Helplessly Hers

By Radclyffe

A Radclyffe Short Story

Two women take their edgy sex public—the combination of being watched, being envied, and being helpless in the hands of a domineering lover ups the heat factor into the too-hot-to-handle zone.

Previously published in Radical Encounters (Bold Strokes Books, 2009).

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Private Passion

By Ronica Black

Children / Families
Virgins/First Love
Age Gap

Dana Cooper is a busy working student. Any free time should be happily spent with her new husband. But he’s distant and angry, leaving her neglected and frustrated. Dana throws herself into her women’s studies class. When she’s assigned to do a report on lesbianism, her curiosity turns to self-discovery, and like an animal, it begins to eat her alive. 

Valerie Weldon is the married mother of two with a huge secret. She’s attracted to women. But her kids are great, they live comfortably, and she has a successful business, so she’s afraid to rock the boat. But how long can she push happiness away in order to stay in a stale marriage?

One cold night, Dana logs into a lesbian chatroom where she meets an alluring stranger. Both are lonely and curious. And when the two meet, passion ignites, changing both their lives forever.

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Meeting FtF

By Radclyffe

A Radclyffe Short Story

What can you expect when you finally meet the woman you've been falling for online? Two women find out when all those late-night fantasies suddenly come true.

Previously published in Change of Pace: Erotic Interludes (Bold Strokes Books, 2004); republished in in First-Timers: True Stories of Lesbian Awakenings, ed. Rachel Kramer Bussel (Alyson Publications, 2006).

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First Sight

By Radclyffe

A Radclyffe Short Story

An artist, a model, a secret unspoken. Strangers, roommates, a passion revealed in silent glances. Two women share an erotic night after class is dismissed and the true lesson begins.


Previously published in First-Timers: True Stories of Lesbian Awakenings, ed. Rachel Kramer Bussel (Alyson Publications, 2006); republished in Radical Encounters (Bold Strokes Books, 2009).

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Hookin' Up

By MJ Williamz

Friends to Lovers Romance

Leah Davis has just been dumped by her partner of five years. The reason? Leah is no good in bed. She decides to learn to be a better lover by meeting women on a lesbian hookup site. Dillon Franklin is Leah’s best friend and co-owner of their bar. She is also secretly in love with Leah. She is adamantly against Leah’s idea to hook up with numerous women in an attempt to learn to be a better lover. She knows she could teach her but is afraid of ruining their friendship. Eventually, Dillon gives up on Leah and starts dating Stephanie. This causes Leah to grow insanely jealous, but she can’t understand why. Will Leah stop her string of meaningless encounters to pursue Dillon? Or will they grow apart and never find true love?

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You Don't Bring Me Flowers

By Radclyffe

A Radclyffe Short Story

A romantic evening gone awry turns into a hot interlude when two women refuse to let unavoidable obstacles derail their passion. The story revisits two all-time favorite lovers from Turn Back Time.

Previously published in Love Burns Bright: A Lifetime of Lesbian Romance, ed. Radclyffe (Cleis Press, 2013).

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Erotica 101

By Radclyffe

A Radclyffe Short Story

Two BFFs spend a dateless night together complaining about the absence of hot sex in their lives—until a bet over the likelihood of a steamy erotic story being just the remedy for a terminal case of horniness delivers a payoff that rocks their universe.

Previously published in Erotic Interludes 3: Lessons in Love, ed. Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman (Bold Strokes Books, 2006).

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Cinnamon Secrets

By Radclyffe

A Radclyffe Short Story

When two medics share more than forbidden sweets at the fairground, summer temperatures soar and passions ignite. Giving in to their hunger turns cinnamon secrets into kisses that promise so much more.

Previously published in Sex and Candy: 22 Succulent Stories, ed. Rachel Kramer Bussel (Pretty Things Press, 2007); republished in Radical Encounters (Bold Strokes Books, 2009).

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Lessons in Desire

By MJ Williamz

College Life

Crockett Devine is a butch playboi and assistant professor of English. She wants forever someday, but not today. Until she meets Gina, her wingman Melinda’s TA, and sparks fly immediately. They’re falling hard and fast for each other until fall semester starts and it looks as if they’ll crash and burn. When their hot and happily ever after is cooled by academic politics, Crockett insists they see other people despite Gina’s protests. 

Will they be strong enough to withstand the temptations of their unwanted lessons in desire? Or will they give in and lose each other for good?

 

A lesbian erotic romance.

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Secrets of the Heart

By Radclyffe

A Radclyffe Short Story

Two BFFs decide to spend Valentine's Day together and discover the true love they've been seeking in all the wrong places. 


Previously published in The Perfect Valentine, ed. T. Szymanski and B. Johnson (Bella Books, 2006).

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By the Light of the Moon

By Radclyffe

A Radclyffe Short Story

One night during a lunar eclipse, four friends with a Ouija board open a door to another dimension, and two women from different worlds share a night of passion that changes past and future. 

Previously published in The Call of the Dark, ed. T. Szymanski (Bella Books, 2005).

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Complications

By MJ Williamz

Friends & Community
Blue Collar
California

In this sequel to Escapades, Mel O’Brien has a string of bad luck with women but is determined to take another chance with Susan Maloney who’s new to the women’s community in which Mel lives. Susan Maloney moved to Maybon Tir looking for a new start after a bad breakup. She is determined to stay single and happy.
 
Things seem to be going Mel’s way until Susan’s ex, Dorinda, shows up in town, determined to take Susan back. Will Mel be able to win Susan’s heart? Or will she crash and burn once again?

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Nick of Time

By Radclyffe

A Radclyffe Short Story

A writer with a deadline she'd like to ignore finds a welcome diversion when her best friend calls and their conversation unexpectedly moves from playfulness to passion. 

Previously published in Fantasy: Untrue Stories of Lesbian Passion, ed. B. Johnson and T. Szymanski (Bella Books, 2007).

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Shameless

By Kris Bryant and Others

Firefighters

Fire Investigator Emery Pearson doesn’t have time for a relationship. Her career is everything, so the rest of her life is put on hold until she reaches her professional goals. Sex is always on the table, though. Finding the perfect woman who only wants a quick hookup seems like a fantasy, but when she meets Lily online, the fantasy turns to reality when they agree to meet. Their tête-à-tête at the museum is more than Emery could imagine—satisfying, exciting, and passionate. Can Emery walk away from sex this good with no strings attached? Or will the lure of lust keep her going back for more?

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