Herotica 6 (Down There Press, 1999), edited by Marcy Sheiner. The Album: A mostly-straight actress and her mostly-straight musician husband keep the spice in their sex life by living out each other's fantasies. (While I purely love all the anthologies I've been in, this is one of my favorites, partly because the book has so many totally varied hot stories, partly because of its theme is one of my favorite "kinks" -- creative sexuality within a committed relationship.)
ISBN: 0-940208-25-3

THE ALBUM
Exerpt from the story by Kate Dominic

Kris and I keep a special photo album, one that's just the two of us together. No family, no friends, no professional accomplishments. Just us. Even the wedding pictures in there are personal ones -- me eating the cake from his fingers, him taking my garter off with his teeth, the two of us sleeping naked in each other's arms early the next morning. He actually got up and set the timer for that picture, cuddling back up against me just as the flash went off.

Over the years, we've made a habit of including everyday photos along with the special ones. It's our journal, although the album itself isn't particularly fancy -- a plain leather binder with acid-free pages. Whole months can go by without our taking it down off the shelf. Other times, we keep it open on the dresser while we're deciding what to add next. But like any good book, it opens to some pages automatically.

The picture of us at the biker bar is one of my favorites. "Melissa and Her Pet" the caption reads. Just two leather dykes, dressed to kill in black and silver, sitting at a table with the end of a leash barely visible in my hand. It was our fifth anniversary, and the waitress took the picture. Kris' drag was perfect. Not that it doesn't seem strange to call cowhide and chains drag. But he was dressed to kill. The shot doesn't capture the smokey, sweaty ambiance of the bar. Not quite. But we'd met in a bar, and somehow that made the picture perfect.


Also Available: Herotica 6, Audio Version (Passion Press, 2002), edited by Marcy Sheiner.
The Album was one of four stories chosen for the two-CD audio version of the Herotica 6 anthology. Carol Queen (hot, hot, HOT! She's one of my erotic heros!) reads the story in four parts: Fate, A Ladies' Lunch, The Biker Bar, and Role Reversal.
ISBN: 1-886238-37-5