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Fop

A term coined in the seventeenth century describing a fashionable man obsessed with his appearance.  Fops often carried with them extreme feminine undertones, however the connection between these characteristics and homosexuality came much later in the fop’s history.  In early American history the fop was often described in opposition to American masculinity characterized as “rugged, aggressive, unafraid of fighting, and comfortable asserting himself” (Bronksi 29).  This “American man” ironically did not describe most of the founding fathers, though American masculinity was quickly tied to patriotism and love of country while foppishness was identified as British.  [Alex]
American Male

The identity of the “American male” has developed over time and changed in some ways, however there are common characteristics throughout each iteration of the “American man”.  During the colonial era American masculinity was defined as being “rugged, aggressive, unafraid of fighting, and comfortable asserting himself” (Bronksi 29).  Later in the early 20th century, American masculinity became associated with “self-control, conscientiousness, moral courage, fearless discharge of duty in the face of obloquy and prejudice, [with] firm determination to do what is right and pleasing to God” (Bronski p 135).  American masculinity is an example of how the personal can be political, as the idea of the “American man” has been used as a political issue (Bronski 119).  The concept is often used in opposition to femininity, especially as expressed in men.  [Alex]
Queer Theory and History in the US Wikia

## Welcome to the Wiki

This wiki has been created as a learning tool for Professor Longo's Oakes 150 Spring 2015 class "Queer Theory and History in the US". Throughout the wiki you can find a number of glossary terms to aid in your learning experience. Along with this wiki, three other sister projects have been created for the class:

A historical archive of queer history - http://queerarchive2015.tumblr.com/

A historical timeline of queer history - http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/463723/United-States-Queer-History/

## What is Queer Theory?

Queer theory is a field of post-structural analysis that challenges the idea that sex, sexuality, and gender are static and essential concepts. Queer theory often deals with non-conformity and expressions outside of the binary.

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Bebilith

— The wiki's staff

 **Language(s)** | * Abyssal (understand)

A **bebilith** is a massive demonic spider the size of a plow horse. They delight in causing suffering and pain in others, but especially so in demons whom they hunt for food. The bebilith seem to be some form of supernatural demon predators.

## Ecology

### Description

Bebiliths have spider-shaped bodies, with long fore-legs ending in razor-sharp claws. These claws are used to penetrate and rip armor plating from the bebiliths’ foes. Just as with spiders, bebiliths have a lethal bite, but rather than a venom (to which demons are immune), they inject a vile fluid, a type of necrotic liquid, that causes accelerated rotting of the flesh.

### Combat

Bebiliths are incredibly aggressive and will attack anything they see.
Biological Determinism

Biological determinism refers to the idea in which your sex, or physical characteristics, determines both your gender expression and sexuality. Within this theory, people who have a penis will identify as male and like women and people who have a vagina will identify as female and like men (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). This viewpoint is problematic because sex itself is a social construct and should not be equated with sexuality and gender expression. Biological determinism inherently excludes queer people.   [Satveer]
Stay Awake

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*Stay Awake* is a short story thatwas originally published as a chapbook in 2000. It clarifies the ambiguous romantic relationship between Ghost and Steve in *Lost Souls*. Taking place the following summer after the events of the novel, the pair have become lovers. Steve is haunted by guilt after the death of his ex-girlfriend, Ann, and Ghost is haunted by her ghost itself. Ann is stuck in limbo, feeling betrayed by her former friends, and torments Ghost. He protects Steve, already in a fragile psychological state, from this knowledge.

This was the last story written by Brite about Ghost and Steve.
Third Wave Feminism

This is where intersectionality came to rise about with revolutionary texts such as This Bridge Called My Back. This form of feminism challenged the falsely proclaimed universal category of woman within Second Wave Feminism and recognized that the status of being a woman did not divulge into merely one category. This form of feminism was against binaristic thinking and involved more race based and gender and sexuality based analysis of feminism as well. It started in around the 1990s and extends to the modern day (Rampton).
Ghour

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The **ghours** are a race of demons in the service of (and possibly/probably created by) the demon lord Baphomet; whom is best known as the patron of minotaurs. They are an uncategorized species of demon; not belonging to either the tanar'ri, obyrith or loumara demonic subcategories. These monstrosities work their master's will among the minotaurs, ogres and renegade giants that serve him.

## Ecology

### Description

Ghours are 20-foot tall humanoid creatures that resemble a cross between an oversized ogre and a minotaur. Its hide is thick and hairy, its features bestial, and its body powerfully muscled. It has cloven hooves in place of feet; and two enormous horns jut forwards from its skull.

### Combat

Ghours charge into combat like rampaging elephants, pummeling opponents with their fists and goring them with their horns. Ghours have a breath weapon in the form of a cloud of noxious gas they can breathe once per minute. They can also bellow an ear-splitting roar that stuns and deafens nearby opponents. Whenever possible, ghours like to enter combat with a roar, blast of their breath weapon, or both.

### Society

Ghours can be found among any group of chaotic evil giants, ogres or minotaurs. These creatures view a ghour's presence as a sign of Baphomet's great pleasure.

## Background

A tribe of ogres in the Ice Spire mountains, north of Citadel Adbar and west of Anauroch, worships Baphomet with great devotion. These ogres are larger and stronger than their common cousins and in recent years have been more active than ever before. Rangers and sages suspect that the cause of this increased activity is the presence of a ghour in their midst. There are also reports, increasing in frequency, that a ghour has appeared among an ogre tribe in Thar, gathering various tribes under his banner with promises of restoring the ancient glory of the ogre kingdom.
Poppy Z. Brite Wikia

## Welcome to the Poppy Z. Brite Wikia

This wiki is dedicated to the works of Poppy Z. Brite, contemporary queer horror and dark comedy writer.

## Describe your topic

Billy Martin, pen name Poppy Z. Brite, published his first novel, *Lost Souls*, in 1992. Since then, he has published numerous novels and short stories, moving from horror fiction to culinary-themed works. Martin is known for extensively using LGTBQ+ characters and themes, being gay and transgender himself.

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Lost Souls

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**Spoiler Warning:** This page may list intricate plot details and summary.

## History

*Lost Souls* is the debut novel of Poppy Z. Brite. It was first published by Delacorte Press in 1992. Brite began writing about the characters featured in the novel in his late teens, penning what was latter published as *The Seed of Lost Souls*novella in 1987-1988.
Hungry for Love

A collection of zombie-themed erotic fiction edited by the fabulous Sommer Marsden. Sales proceeds benefit the American Diabetes Association.

**TABLE OF CONTENTS**

* Little Deaths (Cora Zane)
* My Name is Brighton (Alana Noel Voth)
* Dead in the Water (Lynn Townsend)
* Head Full of Zombie (Alison Tyler)
* Zombie Apocalypse: First Responder (Kissa Starling)
* You Look Better Dead (Jeffrey L. Shipley)
* Zombie Goddess (Sadey Quinn)
* Dark Hunger (Erzabet Bishop)
* Love Never Dies (t'Sade)
* Meat (Bobby Diabolus)
* Annie Morgan (Armand Rosamilia)
* Queer Zombie Disco (Kirsty Logan)
* The Tenderest Meat (Elise Hepner)
* Last Man on Earth (Blacksilk)
* Zombie Factory (Kiki Howell)
* Screen Siren (Annabeth Leong)
* You Make a Dead Man Come (Sommer Marsden)

eroticanthology.com/zombies.htm
Queer

“The term “queer” emerges as an interpellation that raises the question of the status of force and opposition, of stability and variability, within performativity” (Butler 18).  Queer is “not an argument against using identity categories, but it is a reminder of the risk that attends every such use” (Butler 19).  It is “a blending that proves that all blood is inextricably woven together, and that we are spawned out of similar souls” (Anzaldúa 85)  It is an expansive term often used to encompass anyone whose sexual practices, identities, or genders do not fall into what is considered the norm.  The term originated in the early eighteenth century meaning “odd” or “quaint” (Bronski xvii).  While the term queer includes many different peoples, it also has faced problems in immersing itself into communities of people of color.  [Alex]
Blue

It's a civilized planet for human beings. Ladies meet in the afternoon to take tea at the club. Their men have respectable pursuits, such as running plantations or serving in the military. And the Blues, those native to the planet, play their proper role serving these civilizing angels. For Eleanor, though, the news that one of these placid Blues has risen up and killed his master means so much more than it does for the ladies at the club. For tonight, her husband is coming home, and he... likes to watch. Can she play his game, enact his fantasy, while living in terror of this servant race? Can her fear, mixed with desire, guide her to a true understanding of the strange, the alien? (M/F interracial romance | 6400 words)
Coming Together Presents

**Presents** is Coming Together's elite line of single-author titles edited by the incomparable Lisabet Sarai. Whether short story collections or complete novels, all proceeds from the sales of these volumes will benefit the charities selected by their authors.

* M. Christian
* Remittance Girl
* C. Sanchez-Garcia
* Robert Buckley
* Teresa Lamai
* Amanda Earl

eroticanthology.com/presents.htm
The Erotic Cocktail v1

Smut. Porn. Erotica. Whatever you want to call it, ladies and gentlemen... This is it!

**Coming Together: An erotic cocktail** is an impressive collection of stories, poetry and illustrations by amateurs from across the globe. In these pages you are sure to find feelings, thoughts, dreams and desires that will strike very close to home. There are stories of the mundane made glorious, and stories of the glorious made mundane. There are fantasies that could never happen in real life, and others that most certainly could and probably have. There are sexual orientations of every kind, positions galore, and more than a few moments that will make you laugh out loud even as you get turned on. There will be times you want to put this book down, and there will be times you simply cannot bear to do anything but keep reading. In other words, everything you want is right here.

~ Gwen Masters

**Table of Contents**

* Foreword (Gwen Masters)
* Preface (Alessia Brio)
* Introduction (Dave Edgar)
* *The First Time* (Justanne Farrow)
* Not What You See, What You Feel (Victoria Blisse)
* *petition* (4degrees)
* Sex & Candy (Yui)
* *stretch marks* (Janie Andersen)
* She Had Had Enough (Vella)
* *What Lie Is This?* (Amy Sweet)
* She Danced (Liar)
* *Cusp* (Alessia Brio)
* The Flintstone Experiment (Selena Kitt)
* The Sequoia Secret (Anna Lyzer)
* *Mind Fuck* (Angelic Minx)
* Faded Rose (Amy Sweet)
* *Coffee Break Fuck Poem* (Liar)
* Use Your Imagination (The Earl)
* Mythical Encounter by the Stream (Savannah Reardon)
* *Beast* (Will Belegon)
* Wetter Has Never Been Better (Alessia Brio)

(poetry is *italicized*)

ebook ISBN 978-1-4523-1160-9

eroticanthology.com/v1.htm
Presents C. Sanchez-Garcia

*Presents* is Coming Together's elite line of single-author titles edited by Lisabet Sarai. All proceeds from their sales will benefit the charities selected by their authors. In this volume, Coming Together is delighted to present C. Sanchez-Garcia, whose chosen charity is RAINN.

eroticanthology.com/presents (C Sanchez-Garcia).htm
For the Holidays

A collection of holiday-themed erotic fiction edited by Alessia Brio. All proceeds benefit Stand Up for Kids.

**TABLE OF CONTENTS**

* Gravity on Thanksgiving (Daniel Burnell)
* Solstice (Robert Buckley)
* In December (Erzabet Bishop)
* Holiday Hours (Lynn Townsend)
* Fox's Holiday (Leigh Ellwood)
* Honouring the Solstice (Skilja Peregrinarius)
* Chaos and Comfort (Salome Wilde and Talon Rihai)
* The Lesser Beatitudes (Robert Buckley)
* Accosting Santa (Sommer Marsden)
* New on the Naughty List (Delilah Night)
* Last Minute Gift (Lisabet Sarai)
* The Seven (Alessia Brio)

eroticanthology.com/fortheholidays.htm
For Equality

A collection of diverse erotic fiction with an anti-bullying theme edited by Beth Wylde & Alessia Brio. Proceeds benefit the Planting Peace - Equality House.

A companion journal is also available via CreateSpace and Amazon.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* Tsuki, Tsuki © Lori Lake
* Taking It for the Team © Logan Zachary
* Pink Lady Friends © Allison Wonderland
* They Say That He's Charming © Jamie Freeman
* Who'd Want to Fuck Penny Gagliardi? © Robert Buckley
* Risk Rider & Dare Take the Con © Annabeth Leong
* Dairy Queen © Ily Goyanes
* Necessary Roughness © Beth Wylde

eroticanthology.com/forequality.htm
Alessia Brio

Alessia (a/k/a impressive or just "Imp" from LITEROTICA) is one of Coming Together's original contributors & its editor-in-chief.

Take one part Appalachian redneck, one part once-upon-a-time wet dream, and one part filthy-minded wordsmith. Mix well and serve with chocolate-covered cherries. There you have the one and only Alessia Brio. Alessia writes all colors and flavors of erotica, from heterosexual to ménage to same sex, and from twisted to humorous to deeply touching.

Her work has earned her critical acclaim in the form of an EPIC Award for Best Erotica (fine flickering hungers), two EPIC Awards for Best Erotica Anthology (Coming Together: Against the Odds & Coming Together: Into the Light), a Next Generation Indie Book Award for Best Erotica (Squeeze Play), and a Romantic Times Top Pick (Coming Together: For the Cure) in addition to a plethora of glowing online reviews. Readers can find her online via **Twitter**, **Facebook**, or her indie publishing label, **Purple Prosaic**

Alessia's fiction and/or poetry appear in the following Coming Together publications:

* The Erotic Cocktail v1
	+ *Cusp*
	+ Wetter Has Never Been Better
* The Erotic Cocktail v2
	+ *There's Always Heaven*
* The Erotic Cocktail v3
	+ *Someone*
	+ *Cave*
* Hurricane Relief Edition
	+ Wetter Has Never Been Better
* For the Cure
	+ Butterfly
* For Gabrielle
	+ q*uest*
	+ Decisions
	+ d*ream coding*
* Under Fire
	+ *wither*
* Into the Light
	+ Jake
* With Pride
	+ Past Perfect
* At Last
	+ At First
* Al Fresco
	+ Pantheism 101
* Against the Odds
	+ Undercover Angel
* By Hand
	+ Digital Manipulation
* With a Twist
	+ Past Perfect
* Pro Bono
	+ Blood on Love
* For the Holidays
	+ The Seven

Additionally, Alessia serves as Coming Together's primary cover artist. She has completed the cover art for all Coming Together publications ***except***:

* Wicked Prey (Colors)
* Stripping for Daddy (Tabooty)
* Bad for Daddy (Tabooty)
* Whispered Words (Tabooty)
* Undeniable (Tabooty)
* Seduced by the Game

Some of Alessia's short stories can be read for free on Literotica.
Against H8

A keepsake autograph book featuring some of your favorite authors and publishing industry personalities. The left page contains an author-supplied bio/photo while its facing page is blank enabling fans to collect autographs. ALL proceeds from the sale of this special collector's item will benefit the NOH8 Campaign.

The 2010 keepsakes debuted at the Romantic Times Book Lovers Convention in Columbus, Ohio (April 28-May 2, 2010) where many of the participating authors were on hand to sign copies!

**2010 EDITION PARTICIPANTS**:

* Barry Eisler
* Jenna Allen
* Laura Baumbach
* Will Belegon
* Gogo Delectatio
* Lee Benoit
* Mychael Black
* Victoria Blisse
* Alessia Brio
* Jenna Byrnes
* Angela Caperton
* Kate Davies
* Tina Donahue
* Leigh Ellwood
* eXcessica Publishing
* Mari Freeman
* Tilly Greene
* Michelle Houston
* Jolene Hui
* Carolan Ivey
* Angela James
* DC Juris
* Skylar Kade
* Selena Kitt
* Adriana Kraft
* Vana Lafayette
* Maximilian Lagos
* Helen E.H. Madden
* J.T. Marie
* Jude Mason
* Syd McGinley
* Lucy Monroe
* Rainbow Reviews
* Nobilis Reed
* Remittance Girl
* Jean Roberta
* Teresa Noelle Roberts
* Stephanie Rose
* C. Sanchez-Garcia
* J.M. Snyder
* Samantha Sommersby
* J.E. Taylor
* Ramona Thompson
* To Love and To Cherish
* J. Tomas
* Saskia Walker
* GS Wiley
* Caitlyn Willows
* Lara Zielinsky
* Heather Lin
* 1 Romance Ebooks
* 1 Erotica Ebooks
* Republica Press
* Monocle
* DL King
* The Sweetest Kiss: Ravishing Vampire Erotica
* Sherri Leigh
* The Rainbow Studio
* Beth Wylde
Outside the Box

A pioneer-themed collection of erotic fiction edited by Nobilis Reed and benefiting The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation. Cholangiocarcinoma is the vicious, unrelenting cancer that took PG Holyfield from us.

**TABLE OF CONTENTS**

* To Boldly Go (Lisabet Sarai)
* A New Man (A.F. Grappin)
* Geyser (Lukas Scott)
* Lyon's Den (Leigh Ellwood)
* Pioneer (Ian Jade)
* Getting Plowed (Nobilis Reed)
* The First Choice (CM Brooks)
* Breeder (Nickie Jamison)
* Dear Doctor (Salome Wilde)
* Shadow (Precea Warren)
* Perfect (Jennifer Melzer)

eroticanthology.com/outsidethebox.htm
With Sommer

Psychic medium Martee Hollywood and the Seekers tackle three cases in this compilation to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Together, they face a house full of lusty ghosts who don't want to cross over, an Indian girl who lost her love and then her life, and a mysterious intruder who can't seem to be hurt or stopped -- all while falling in love, into bed, and into one strange case after another. The paranormal world has never been sexier.
The Erotic Cocktail v3

Smut. Porn. Erotica. Whatever you want to call it, ladies and gentlemen... This is it!

**Coming Together: An erotic cocktail** is an impressive collection of stories, poetry and illustrations by amateurs from across the globe. In these pages you are sure to find feelings, thoughts, dreams and desires that will strike very close to home. There are stories of the mundane made glorious, and stories of the glorious made mundane. There are fantasies that could never happen in real life, and others that most certainly could and probably have. There are sexual orientations of every kind, positions galore, and more than a few moments that will make you laugh out loud even as you get turned on. There will be times you want to put this book down, and there will be times you simply cannot bear to do anything but keep reading. In other words, everything you want is right here.

~ Gwen Masters

**Table of Contents**

* Foreword (Hugo Sam)
* Preface (Alessia Brio)
* *Someone* (Alessia Brio)
* Encore (Dave Edgar)
* *Serengeti* (Liar)
* Angie’s Waterfall Woes (Jess Malarkey)
* *Just a Taste* (Gabrielle Miel)
* The Warrior’s Song (Sherry Hawk)
* *How Do I Want You?* (Justanne Farrow)
* Creativity in the Flesh (Anna Lyzer)
* *Darkening Hope* (Dar~)
* Take Me By Surprise (Alex de Kok)
* *To Borrow a Supernova* (Liar)
* A Walker’s Guide to the Gulf Stream (shereads)
* Threlan’s Gift (Savannah Reardon)
* *Poseur* (Lefty McGee)
* Night Noises (Janie Andersen)
* *Oh, No, Not There: Ode to Anal Sex* (Sarah Rose)
* Anal Sex is for Buttholes (Rideme Cowgirl)
* *Let Me* (Vella)
* His Toy Story (Sarah Rose)
* Does Not Do Well in Public (4degrees)
* *The Bed* (Pat Daniels)
* Second Chances (A.B. Guye)
* *The Horny Woman* (George Box)
* The Blow Job (Will Amado)
* *Dancing Wildly* (Will Belegon)
* Private Property: No Trespassing (Elizabeth McKenna)
* *Cave* (Alessia Brio)
* A Different Angle (Selena Kitt)

(poetry is *italicized*)

ebook ISBN 978-1-4523-1162-3

eroticanthology.com/v3.htm
Presents Amanda Earl

*Presents* is Coming Together's elite line of single-author titles edited by Lisabet Sarai. All proceeds from their sales will benefit the charities selected by their authors. In this volume, Coming Together is delighted to present Amanda Earl, whose chosen charity is GMHC.

eroticanthology.com/presents (Amanda Earl).htm
Bad for Daddy

*Bad for Daddy* by Gia Blue is from the Coming Together Tabooty line.

+ + +

No longer a virgin, thanks to her ex-foster father, Holly and Jack are engaged and it's time for his bachelor party. But she's determined that he won't be putting his dick anywhere near another woman's pussy. Her solution? She's going to be the all the entertainment he needs... even if it means she puts on a show for his friends as well. And, when his friends get a little involved... well, Holly has no problem being bad, as long as it's for her daddy.

ebook ISBN 978-1-4660-7323-4

eroticanthology.com/tabooty.htm
EDITORS

Coming Together's contributing editors:

* **Alessia Brio, editor-in-chief**
* Will Belegon
* Victoria Blisse
* Leigh Ellwood
* Lucy Felthouse
* Nicole Gestalt
* Lady Grey
* Lily Harlem
* Lucie LeBlanc
* Ashley Lister
* Sommer Marsden
* Dorla Moorehouse
* Nobilis Reed
* Lisabet Sarai
* Lynn Townsend
* Beth Wylde

Coming Together's contributing authors are welcome to pitch (and edit) new anthologies to benefit their favorite 501(c)(3) charities.
Like Clockwork

A line of steampunk themed short stories and novellas edited by Lady Grey. Submissions are continuously open & titles are released on a rolling basis. Periodically, individual titles will be collected into Omnibus editions.

All proceeds from the sales of Coming Together: *Like Clockwork* titles will benefit the National Math + Science Initiative.

eroticanthology.com/likeclockwork.htm
Kaary

**Kaary** is an Aries and a Clevelander who wanted to be an author before she knew how to print the whole alphabet. So, she wrote Sesame Street and Little House on the Prairie fan-fiction in 'cursive' (which was really just loops and squiggles to match her thoughts). Not much has changed in two decades. At some point, she traded in the green crayon for a laptop. Visit Kaary online at booksandbadbitches.com
Triumphantly

A collection of erotica that deals with reclaiming the body and sexuality after the trauma. It contains stories of triumph, of healing, and of appreciating the body and its abilities after (and in spite of) the changes brought about by illness/injury. This collection benefits the National Women's Health Network.

This collection was edited by Dorla Moorehouse, who pitched the idea to Coming Together as follows:

> In late 2010, my friend and fellow writer Reesa Brown and I decided we wanted to edit an erotica anthology based around reclaiming the body and sexuality after trauma, such as illness or assault. This idea was very important to Reesa, who was a breast cancer survivor. We mapped things out, found some interest from other writers we knew, and put together a call for submissions, but then Reesa's cancer returned. She spent most of 2011 fighting, and most of the time she was too ill to work. We planned to relaunch our efforts as soon as she was well, but unfortunately, that day never happened. After grieving her death in January, I've decided I want to continue along with the project as planned, even though she is no longer here to co-edit with me. While more than a year has passed since our initial plans, my motivation is stronger than ever.
>
>

**TABLE OF CONTENTS**

* Shy Bird (Lily Harlem)
* Scarlet's (Maxine Marsh)
* Mine Like The Rest of You (Teresa Noelle Roberts)
* How Love Can Triumph Over Cancer (Mark Lawrence)
* Love the Second Time Around (Eva Hore)
* My Stillness (Corey Fisk)
* Finding Christine (Alicia Baines)

eroticanthology.com/triumphantly.htm
Treasures Sommer Marsden

Once in a great while, an editor collides with an author who is an absolute joy to work with. One who delivers the goods on time (or even early), one who needs minimal edits and is gracious when changes are necessary, and--in the case of Coming Together--one who is unfailingly generous with her words. Given how hard won my words are to me, the latter is extremely precious.

Sommer Marsden has been a Coming Together contributor since its first open call way back in 2006. Back when ebooks were the inferior cousins of real books. Before Kindles and Nooks and iPads.

Sommer was there.

She has consistently submitted her stories to Coming Together collections ever since. I don't think I've ever turned one away. And why would I? She writes edgy, raw passion. Unapologetic sexuality. It really doesn't matter if the protagonist shares your kinks and triggers. She'll hook you with emotion.

Sex is extremely difficult to write well. Sommer makes it appear effortless! That said, I'd seek her work in any genre. She spins an engaging tale (tail?) regardless of realm.

This inaugural collection of Treasures will benefit the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, a charity selected by Ms. Marsden for very personal reasons. Your purchase not only benefits the organization directly, but also supports Sommer indirectly.

Thank you!

**TABLE OF CONTENTS**:

* *Making Me Do Things* from For the Cure
* *Boil or Bake*
* *Anal Alley* from Al Fresco
* *Pagoda*
* *You Make a Dead Man Come* from Hungry for Love
* *Sugar*
* *Good With His Hands* from Under Fire
* *Smokehouse*
* *Lush Buns* from With Curves
* *Reclaiming Spring*
* *Things That Go Bump in the Night* from With Sommer
* *Dying for Love* from With Sommer
* *Intruder* from With Sommer

eroticanthology.com/treasures.htm
Gravity

Every full moon, the folk who live under the ocean waves come together in the shallows to reenact their rituals of life and desire. But poor Umbriel stays always away, trapped in dreams of being human. In *Gravity*, Gayle C. Straun re-imagines one of the world's favorite fairy tales as an epic of lust and tragedy, of the passion that burns the boundaries between worlds. (7,540 words)
With Pride

A multi-author anthology of erotic fiction edited by Alessia Brio. Proceeds from the sale of this volume benefit AVERT. Just because there's a rainbow flag on the cover, do not assume that the contents are entirely GLBT-oriented. HIV & AIDS does not discriminate -- and neither does Coming Together.

**TABLE OF CONTENTS**

* Introduction (Will Belegon)
* *Today* (Kally Jo Surbeck)
* Raven (James Buchanan)
* A Girl's Best and Earthy Things (Heather Fowler)
* Don't Look Down (Mari Freeman)
* Echoes of the Past (Mychael Black)
* A Brief Discourse... (P.S. Haven)
* When the Angels Fall (Helen E.H. Madden)
* Customer Service (Eon de Beaumont)
* Nuit Blanche (Giselle Renarde)
* Western Pleasure (Shanna Germain)
* Chemistry (Lisabet Sarai)
* Fire and Ice (Cassie Exline)
* An Early Winter Train (C. Sanchez-Garcia)
* Selling Foxx (I.M. Cupnjava)
* Be Prepared (Storm Grant)
* Freedom to Serve (Nicole Gestalt)
* The Personal Is Political (Jean Roberta)
* Past Perfect (Alessia Brio)

        poetry is *italicized*

ebook ISBN 978-1-4523-1166-1

paperback ISBN 978-1-4505-4198-5

eroticanthology.com/withpride.htm
Will Belegon

Will (a/k/a Belegon from LITEROTICA) has edited the following Coming Together publications:

* Neat
	+ Dealing with Isabella
	+ Leget's Despair
	+ The Six Swans
	+ Tangled Roots
	+ Ryder's Mate
	+ Neat Omnibus v1
* Under Fire (with Alessia Brio)

Will's work appears in the following Coming Together publications:

* For Gabrielle
Arm in Arm in Arm...

A collection of erotic fiction with a tentacle sex theme edited by Nobilis Reed. All proceeds benefit Oceana, the largest international organization working solely to protect the world’s oceans.

**TABLE OF CONTENTS**

* A Perfect Place (Joyce Wegmuller)
* A Visitor in the Darkness (Kade Azkyroth)
* Caroline (Jessica Dylan Miele)
* Parley (Sarah Klein)
* Dehra (Raziel Moore)
* Deluge (Elizabeth Thorne)
* Fleshpot (Lisabet Sarai)
* Freedom for a Small Part (Annabeth Leong)
* His Black Mirror (Frances Jones)
* Holiday at Two Hoots (Molly Tanzer)
* I am S.A.M.I. (Jake M. Winters)
* Ink (Bernie Mojzes)
* Katrin & Brimi, A Love Story (Maxine Marsh)
* The Man in the Monstrosity (Skilja Peregrinarius)
* Polymorphously Perverted (Teresa Noelle Roberts)
* Sea Story (Lady Grey)
* Dream of the Fisherman's Daughter (C. Sanchez-Garcia)
* The Male of the Species (Kevin David Anderson)
* The Stars in the Sea (Jim Reader)

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Over the Rainbow

A 200-page 6x9 journal (right side lined, left side unlined & interspersed with inspirational words of encouragement and empowerment). Suitable for all ages. 100% of sales proceeds benefit the It Gets Better Project.

Matching swag also available: cafepress.com/comingtogether/7614358

paperback ISBN 978-1-4609-6283-1

hardcover ISBN 978-1-4583-4709-1

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Coming Together Wikia

## Welcome to Coming Together's Wiki

Coming Together is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit publishing label. This wiki is intended to be a repository for every little detail about Coming Together: its history, its publications, its contributors, its vendors, and the charities it supports.

## About Coming Together

**Coming Together** is about giving and about sex—a tantalizing combination in any context.

Conceived online in the Literotica®com Authors' Hangout, a forum for erotica writers, Coming Together is the passionate product of many talented individuals.

We were all amateurs when the first erotic cocktail was served in the spring of 2005. In the years since the inaugural volume hit the cyber shelves of Café Press, many of the original contributors have become successful professionals: authors, poets, editors, and artists.

To date, Coming Together has compiled dozens of collections and launched individual full-length and novella lines. I am thrilled with and humbled by both the quantity and quality of the submissions received. Critical acclaim is the cherry on top.

We strive for an inclusive mix across our publications, embracing the diversity of desire. The causes we champion span all demographic groups and so, appropriately, does Coming Together. While each individual intoxicant may not suit the tastes of every reader, the savory cocktail is sure to stir every
imagination.

Note, however, that these pages may contain stories in which the characters do not practice safe sex. Everyone involved with the publication of Coming Together encourages its readers to act responsibly and to take appropriate precautions against both unwanted pregnancy and the transmission of disease.

Bottoms up!

Alessia Brio, editor-in-chief

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Strange Shifters

A collection of shifter erotica edited by Lynn Townsend. Sales proceeds benefit the Bat World Sanctuary.

Publication: Halloween 2015

* Water and Fire (Jaap Boekestein)
* The Dive (Lukas Scott)
* Snowbound (Lisabet Sarai)
* Small Change (Adrik Kemp)
* A Reindeer by Any Other Name (Delilah Night)
* A Hand Outstretched (Elizabeth L. Brooks)
* Mine (Emma Whitehall)
* Gator Tail (Leigh Ellwood)
* Mouse Games (Lynn Townsend)
* Bored in Heaven (Daniel Burnell)
* Moonlight Ride (Marie Piper)
* Circus (Nickie Jamison)
* Valkyrie (Nickie Jamison)
* Tar Pit Triage (Lily Malone)
* Storyteller (T.G. Haynes)
* Rezoned (T.B. Bond)
* Champ (Margot McGuire)

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VENDORS

Coming Together publications are sold via the following sites:

* ~~All Romance~~ ~~/ OmniLit~~
* Amazon
* Create Space
* eBay
* eXcessica
* **Smashwords**
	+ Apple iBookstore
	+ Baker & Taylor (Blio)
	+ Barnes & Noble
	+ Diesel
	+ Flipkart
	+ Kobo
	+ Page Foundry
	+ txtr
	+ Oyster
	+ Scribd
	+ Sony
	+ Library Channels
		- Baker & Taylor's Axis360
		- Library Direct
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Gender Essentialism

the idea that there are essential characteristics that define men and women beyond their anatomy.  Common features include women as soft, passive, and fragile while men are strong, active, and robust.  Ironically people have claimed different aspects as being essential to each gender across time and space.  [Alex]
Smashwords

**Smashwords** is Coming Together's preferred ebook vendor. While Amazon is way bigger & All Romance passes through 100% of the sales price, Smashwords has consistently demonstrated a commitment to the type of publishing ethics that are in line with Coming Together's open, egalitarian philosophy.

Plus, Smashwords goes to bat for its indie authors, advocating for fair treatment from payment processors regardless of the genre.

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Leget's Despair

In pursuit of dreams, men venture beyond the world of their experience. Leget is such a man. Powerful and talented, he is also an innocent. Not sexually, but morally. He believes in simple answers to complex questions. Luckily, he has a guide and a protector.

Lancelot, hero of legend, is less naïve. Yet he finds his world view challenged by the honesty and beauty of young Leget and determines to bring the boy to Camelot. On their journey, Lancelot will remember things he had forgotten and discover that he is still capable of love.

Leget's Despair, by Rachel Green is a homoerotic tale of a knight and a hopeful squire who share more than a campsite; in which the simple honor of a country lad is tested to its breaking point. Leget will discover both the good and the evil in the world. On the road to Camelot, he will find companionship and the hope of a life more exciting than farming. He will also find that even a hero cannot protect him from everything, and that politics is quite literally a deadly business.

eroticanthology.com/neat (Rachel Green).htm
Bridge Games

*Bridge Games* by Paul Henry

Every autumn, four couples get together for a weekend bridge marathon at Jacob and Liv’s large lake cabin. This year’s tourney, however, is different. Thea and Old Bob divorced in April, so Bob is bringing a new young girlfriend. Ian has emerged from his wife’s closet, wearing her clothes. And David, the sexy librarian, is cheating on his virgin bride.

The tensions mount when the local sheriff’s office raids the cabin, forcing Jacob and Liv to come clean about the true nature of their party planning business. The result is an evening of strip bridge with old friends and new rivals. By the time the bridge champions are crowned, the players have each learned something about their sexual desires and those of their partners.
For Gabrielle

For three days in the fall of 2006, an Internet writers' community came together in a heart rending vigil for a tiny baby girl, born before her time and taken from this world far too soon. In her precious hours with us, however, Gabrielle reached more hearts than most people do in decades. Her life was not measured by the number of breaths she took but was measured by the depths of compassion she inspired.

Anyone who bore witness to this event can never again claim that online relationships are not real—or that they are in any way, shape, or form lesser than those taking place offline. The virtual candles glowed just as brightly, the e-hugs were just as warm, and the abundance of love just as palpable. I know that I, for one, will never be the same.

Many of the stories and poetry contained in this volume of Coming Together were written in the wake of Gabrielle's passing. Proceeds from its sale will be donated to BLISS, the U.K.'s premature baby charity.

Your purchase will help the next baby who leaves the womb too soon take more breaths and touch more lives. Thank you.

**TABLE OF CONTENTS**

* Introduction (Alessia Brio)
* I Believe (Luna Fae)
* The Tiny Angel (Scarlett Doutant)
* *Prayer to My Goddess* (Blackie Malone)
* *I Just Found Out Today* (Severus Max)
* *Particulate* (Harry Legg)
* *One Small Angel* (Cadin Black)
* Unicorn (J. McPherson)
* *Wild Child* (Vana LaFayette)
* *A Poem for Your Children* (Deanna Redd)
* *You Are Not Forgotten* (Gabrielle Miel)
* *There's Fire in My Heart* (Carolyn Heat)
* Love and Snow (Blackie Malone)
* *Father* (Sherry Hawk)
* *Les Feuilles Mortes* (Aurora Black)
* *Dark and Lonely* (Tex Randall)
* *My Perfect Child* (Will Belegon)
* The Last Dance (Rachelle Le-Monnier)
* *Lament* (Vana LaFayette)
* *Defenseless* (Will Belegon)
* *quest* (Alessia Brio)
* A Beautiful, Terrible Dream (Renee Blaine)
* *Grampa's Little Man* (George Box)
* *a rose* (R. Feeëriek)
* *Spirit Friend* (Deanna Redd)
* Mirror of Justice (Will Amado)
* Is there a dragonfly on your shirt? (Eliza Linh)
* *Light Eternal* (D.Spike Winters)
* Decisions (Alessia Brio)
* *Whispers of a Memory* (Amaya Dai)
* *Binky Biter* (George Box)
* I Alone (Sherry Hawk)
* *This Moment in Love* (Fallon Grays)
* *Thought I Knew* (J. McPherson)
* *dream coding* (Alessia Brio)
* Sanctuary (Vana LaFayette)
* *Light* (Jamison Landry)
* *Duerma con los Angelitos* (Nina Pulsipher)
* *Tomorrow, My Babies* (Helaine Christopher)

poetry is *italicized*

ebook ISBN 978-1-4523-1144-9

paperback ISBN 978-1-4348-1169-1

eroticanthology.com/forgabrielle.htm
With Curves

A collection of Rubenesque erotica & erotic romance edited by two of the genre's leading ladies, Victoria Blisse and Lucy Felthouse. All proceeds from the sales of this anthology as well as any individual titles released in ebook or audiobook will benefit Parkinson's UK, an international charity.

**TABLE OF CONTENTS**

* The Wrong End of the Stick (Lucy Felthouse)
* Red Rag to a Bull (Victoria Blisse)
* Bella Buxom, Just Squeeze Me (JoAnne Kenrick)
* Captivated/Kidnapped by Love (Elizabeth Lapthorne)
* Cross Trainer Number Four (Lily Harlem)
* Flesh for Fantasy (Lexie Bay)
* Lush Buns (Sommer Marsden)
* Six Lengths of Red Hemp (Tilly Hunter)
* The Big Reveal (Giselle Renarde)
* Girl Next Door (Bella Blake)
* Riding School (Bella Blake)

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At Last v2

A two-volume set of interracial erotic romance edited by Alessia Brio. All proceeds from the sale of these publications benefit Amnesty International.

**TABLE OF CONTENTS**

* Introduction (L.A. Banks)
* *A Little White Lie* (Steve F. Young)
* Love Under the Endless African Sky (Aliyah Burke)
* Slice (Ralph Greco)
* Around Midnight (Tex Randall)
* Island of Fantasies (Jude Mason)
* Seafood Cocktail (Sacchi Green)
* Instinct (Chloe Waits)
* My Secret Beauty (Jolie du Pré)
* Unchained Heart (Jae Knight)
* *Synchronized* (Allison Wonderland)
* Shorn (Selena Kitt)
* She's No Shrinking Violet (J.M. Jeffries)
* Just Be (Andrea Dale)
* Send More Japs! (Robert Buckley)
* Enough Said (Bridget Midway)
* *Black and White* (Chloe Waits)

poetry is *italicized*

ebook ISBN 978-1-4523-1175-3

paperback ISBN 978-1-4505-4290-6

eroticanthology.com/atlast.htm
Kimber Vale

Kimber Vale writes erotic romance of all stripes, from hot hetero to mouthwatering manlove. Find her M/M work published under K.Vale. Come for the sex. Stay for the story. Stalk Kimber on Facebook and Twitter @KimberVale, and check her site for updates, new releases, and freebies at authorkimbervale.com

Kimber has contributed to the following Coming Together publications:

* In Vein
* In the Trenches
* Pro Bono
Ashley Lister

**Ashley Lister** is a prolific writer of erotic fiction, having written more than two dozen full length erotic novels and over a hundred short stories. Aside from regularly blogging about writing erotica, Ashley also teaches creative writing. He has hosted a creative writing workshop at Eroticon, the annual conference for sex bloggers and erotica writers and presents a weekly internet radio show for poets on Fylde Coast Community Radio. Ashley lives in Lancashire.

Coming Together publication(s):

* In Verse
* In Vein
Stephani Maari Booker

Stephani Maari Booker of Minneapolis, MN, writes prose and poetry for the page and for performance in which she wrestles with her multiple marginalized identities: African American, lesbian, lower-class, nerdy and sexy. She holds an MFA from Hamline University of St. Paul, MN and is a contributing editor for the African American newspaper *Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder* (spokesman-recorder.com).

Journals that have published her creative work include *Adrienne: A Poetry Journal of Queer Women* (siblingrivalrypress.com/adrienne), *The Voices Project* (thevoicesproject.org), *Cactus Heart* (cactusheartpress.com), *Skin to Skin* (s2skin.com), *phati'tude Literary Magazine* (phatitude.org) and *Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette* (pittsburghflashfictiongazette.net).

Anthologies and collections that feature her work include *Jalada 02: Afrofuture(s)* (jalada.org, 2015), *Queenies, Fades, Blunts: A Zine* (The Lonely Londoners, 2014, issuu.com/riannajadeparker/docs/queenies\_zine\_2014); *Coming Together: Girl on Girl* (EroticAnthology.com, 2013); *60 Seconds to Shine: 221 One-minute Monologues For Women* (Monologue Audition Series, Volume 2) edited by John Capecci and Irene Ziegler Aston (Smith & Kraus Inc., 2006); and *Longing, Lust, and Love: Black Lesbian Stories* edited by Shonia L. Brown (Nghosi Books, 2006).

She has also performed most recently for Queer Voices: An LGBT Reading Series at Intermedia Arts, the Annual Women’s Author Event presented by Quatrefoil Library and the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection at the University of Minnesota, Power to the People Stage at 2014 Twin Cities Pride, and "The Love Project" presented by Obsidian Arts at Pillsbury House Theatre in Minneapolis, MN.

For more information about Stephani's work, go to goodreads.com/athenapm .
Through Time

A line of ebooks with a time travel theme. Individual stories are combined into *Through Time* anthologies each time a print threshold is reached. All proceeds from the sale of this line will benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

* A Man, a Woman, and a Time Machine (Nobilis Reed)
* Adam Event (James N)
* The Rise & Fall of the Burlesque Empire (Maxim Jakubowski)
* Waiting (Ralph Greco)

eroticanthology.com/throughtime.htm
Tangled Roots

*Tangled Roots* by Giselle Renarde

Control. Over her relationships, her heritage, her career... and above all, her emotions. It is what Simone desires above all else, and what she had managed to keep. But now that is changing. She is lost in the wilderness, and it will take a man named Moses to lead her to a promised land she never knew she wanted. Together, they will untangle the roots of her past, so they can grow together into their future.

eroticanthology.com/neat (Giselle Renarde).htm
Lefty McGee

Lefty McGee (a/k/a "The\_Fool" from LITEROTICA) is fond of cigars, whiskey, and words. Not to say that he is an aficionado of any of the three. He still tends to bite the end off of cigars rather than use a cutter. Whiskey may be drunk from the glass or straight from the bottle with or without ice and is typically "the good stuff." Words he treats with an equal lack of reverence; tending towards a less refined delivery, in other words, smutty. He enjoys taking an innocuous phrase and offering an erotic twist on it.

Because he has a short attention span most of his writing has been limited to short works. Some would call it poetry, he prefers to call it blurts, as they tend to be short, spontaneous and in his opinion, totally lacking in any social redeeming value. But that is okay for him as he tends to forget the words as soon as they are written. According to Lefty, once written, the words belong to reader rather than the writer.

Lefty’s alter ego is a staid, conservative engineer with a BSEE, MBA and lots of other initials after his name that are utterly meaningless out of context. He designs lots of different technical elements related to Telecommunication Infrastructures that have little impact on either poetry or erotica. He currently resides in Kansas where he continues to make life a living Heck (too lazy to make it a living Hell) for his wife, two sons and neurotic wiener dog.

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Lefty's poetry appears in the following Coming Together publications:

* Pondering the Indelible
* Under Fire
* Pro Bono
Jennifer Aarons

**Jennifer Aarons** is the nom de plume of Jennifer Lesh, who holds a Masters degree from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her work can be found in various online and print journals, such as Every Night Erotic, Clean Sheets, and The Erotic Woman. Her works have also been included in Daily Flashes of Erotica 2011, an anthology published by Pill Hill Press, as well as in Stretched, an anthology published by Rubicund Publishing, 2011. Her short story collection His and Hers was published by Books to Go Now in 2012. Ms. Lesh is currently working on a sequel to Death will be Sweet.
Teresa Lamai

**Teresa Lamai** was born in a car crash on Sandy Boulevard, Portland, Oregon, in 2003.

The woman in the passenger seat had been a dancer and a refugee activist, but a back injury from the crash left her laid up with far too much time on her hands. The world was turning just a little grey. Though she'd never written fiction before, somehow she found herself writing inappropriate stories, ones she couldn't possibly put her real name to. And so Teresa Lamai came to life.

Teresa Lamai’s erotic stories have appeared in anthologies ranging from *Best Women’s Erotica* to Zane’s *Caramel Flava* to *Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica*. Online, her stories have won awards at Clean Sheets. Reviewers have called her work "breathless," "searing," "miraculous," and "odd." She finds her inspiration in other art forms such as painting and dance. This anthology presents the best of her stories over the years--and some new ones besides.

Nowadays Teresa's real-life self still works in a refugee agency, and has begun writing novels and radio plays which have brought her a tiny bit of recognition and a huge amount of happiness. When she's not writing she reads novels, studies human rights law, takes on great quixotic projects in her garden, and bakes fantastic quantities of cinnamon rolls. Occasional dancing still occurs, especially when she learns that someone has enjoyed reading what she wrote.

She's chosen the charity Amnesty International, of which she's been a member since 1984, for its uncompromising defense of human rights around the world. We all of us have the right to live free of exploitation and oppression, so that we can get on with doing the marvelous things we were born to do.
In Verse

A collection of erotic poetry and risqué verse edited by Ashley Lister. Sales proceeds benefit Hope for Paws.

Contributing poets:

* Ashley R Lister
* Alessia Brio
* Victoria Blisse
* Lisabet Sarai
* Rachel Woe
* Janine Ashbless
* Liz Honeywell
* AJ Chilson
* Roy Clements
* Katy J
* Ashe Barker
* Lisa Bower
* PJ Bayliss
* Geneva Rose
* Jay Willowbay
* Slave Nano
* Lily Harlem
* Kay Jaybee
* KD Grace
* Norbert Gora
* IG Fredrick
* Jade A Waters
* Adrea Kore
* Bella Settarr
* Okami No Koga
* Daniel Davis
* Joanna Harrington-Cruise
* Sophia Sophia
* Le Petit Mortimer
* Eleanor Meadows
* Angell Brooks
* L Hollamby
* Blacksilk
* CA Bell
* Ian Jade
* Tamsin Flowers
* Ruby Red
* Colin Davies
* Desmond Field
* Rachel McGladdery

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