Best Fantastic Erotica, Volume 1

Monsoon 9 Arinn Dembo Venus Rising 29 Diane Kepler Marked Cody Nelson 39 The Harrowing Corbie Petulengro 55 Capture, Courting, and Copulation: Contemporary Human Mating Rituals and the Etiology of Human Aggression 69 Carolyn & Steve Vakesh Copperhead Renaissance 77 Argus Marks The Night the New Hog Croaked Or the Lascivious Dr. Blonde: A Romance 99 Thomas S. Roche Nocturnal Emissions Joe Nobel 119 "And What Rough Beasts..." 151 Robert Knippenberg The Bridge 159 Connie Wilkins Twilight 169 Catherine Lundoff Music From My Bones 185 Anya Levin The Lift 201 Kal Cobalt The Caretaker 223 Fauna Sara Smoke 235 Jean Roberta Opening the Veins of Jade 243 Ren M. Charles Circe House 261 Jason Rubis The Gantlet 273 B. Lynch Black A Circlet Crossword 313 Dan Recht Acknowledgements 314 Contributors 315