This collection of five stories is not your traditional erotica. There is no sex when you want it, and more than you can handle when it comes. These are dark tales inhabited by regular people who slide into the fringe without fully knowing how or why. The author (male/female?) drags you along eyes wide shut. Told with style, and lacking the cliches of most erotica, Fringe Desires entertains by being sometimes funny, and at other times frightening. If you’ve ever had a rape fantasy, it will forever be colored by one of these stories. Likewise for the last story about the fantasy of college freshmen everywhere of endless opportunities for sex. Like all of the previous ones, it surprises and pleases on many levels. The language is opulent, the settings are gritty, the characters are worth knowing. I recommend it.
(reviewed the day of purchase)