From Scylla, author of Short Tales of Exhibitionism, comes
nine brand new tales of lovers – unlikely encounters,
amateur prostitution, sex snatched in secret moments and
fear of heights. From slut wives to sleeping with your
friends, Love Bombs explores the edgy thrill of infidelity.
These explicit and perceptive stories are a must for anyone
who has ever dreamed of breaking a promise. Get ready to be
blown apart.
Review: Explosive stuff --It is hard to say exactly why
Scylla’s stories are so good. Somehow she always manages to
hit a chord. I think it is because her tales are always
infected with a wicked psychological excitement that is
often hard to find in mainstream erotica. For Scylla sex is
never normal - it is always a transgression, a catastrophe,
a compulsion - something extraordinary that happens to
ordinary (and not so ordinary) people. Scylla has the knack
of getting inside the experience of desire. She doesn’t shy
away from emotion or pathos and knows that what happens in
the head is just as important as what happens in bed (or in
a garden shed, an alley or a London taxi). The stories here
are gritty in their themes - they deal with adultery, with
promiscuity, with physical and emotional jealousy, with
sexual indecision and even (in Executive Decision) with a
kind of loveless sex that borders upon rape. (As one of her
characters says, ‘everybody should think the unthinkable
from time to time.’) Her preoccupation in several of the
stories (particularly in Milo, Vertigo and A Friend in Need)
is with the frightening frisson that arises when a person
dares, with or without their partner’s consent, to risk sex
outside their relationship. The potentially explosive
consequences of such an act are the love bomb of the title.
This is honest writing of a very high quality – confident,
poetic and perfectly pitched. I came to this collection from
reading her excellent Late Night Confessions series, but
Love Bombs shows she is a master of the short story too.
Scylla’s descriptions of sexual encounters are sensual and
highly erotic, they are never sugary or cloying but are
rather bitter sweet and utterly compelling. In my opinion
she is one of the best writers of erotica around.
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