Review: Perfect Images
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2013
As a PR for a marketing company, I once accompanied a well-known actress when she went to a celebrity photographer to have a cover shot taken for her memoirs. The photographer took about a thousand shots in order to capture that one image that made her - at 34 - look stunning, thoughtful, intelligent and reflective, of which three of those things she was not. I asked the photographer in private why he needed to take so many and he said, as I am sure he must have said before: `To get the right face, the sitter's got to get into the right space.'The memory came back into my mind whilst reading this Chase Boehner anthology of relationship stories. I need myriad images to get into the right space. Like that first glass of champagne, a short story leaves me wanting more. With this collection, I was able to drink my fill.Boehner is one of those writers who creeps up on you like the tide coming up the sand, slowly soaking your emotions, reaching for each of your senses as if they are sand castles that must be  conquered. His characters are real, flawed, and their situations often border on the eccentric - the seeds of good erotica, and that's what he does well.I don't like the idea of favorites - it's like having three children and clearly loving one more than the other two. The collection maintains the same quality throughout, but I will just say I did, in `Sharing Kate', identify with the female protagonist and could see that in offering Carter the chance to `swing', she may very easily have been thinking of the soft sweet charms of Talia herself. No spoilers. Just a recommendation that you click the buy button before you leave this page.