English Womens Fiction

Women Destroy Science Fiction!, a special issue of Lightspeed magazine (winner of two Hugo Awards), is an all-science-fiction extravaganza, written and edited entirely by women.

Jody has started to settle into her new job as sheriff of the magical town of Harrow Bay. After two months, maybe she's figuring out this magic thing, and the town has been peaceful. Willa starts a new job and realizes something she never expected, while Isabel continues her campaign of terror against the Senior Center tyrant and her quest to really learn magic - at least until the nightmares start. The residents of Harrow Bay are short-tempered, tired, and grumpy after a spate of nightmares haunts their dreams.

Up until 24 hours ago, my life was the definition of basic. And that’s okay, because I was happy with my simple existence; co-running the Lustrous Bean, a bookstore café near the beach with my best friend, Willa. But when a small mix-up has my entire world going topsy-turvy, I’m realizing that nothing in life is ever as simple as it seems.

A failed engagement forces 43-year-old Lindsey Dell back to her hometown, and back to her best friend, Cameron, one of the area's top real estate agents. With her help, Lindsey's interior design business is thriving in no time. And when Lindsey starts seeing spirits, she's able to return the favor, clearing ghosts from haunted houses to make them easier for Cameron to sell.

Jersey, 1940. In the quiet of the English Channel, war is brewing. When the Nazis first set foot on her island home, 16-year-old Marcy comes to realize that nothing will ever be the same. Fueled by the devastating disappearance of the man she loves and in defiance of her distant mother, Violet, she joins forces with fellow islander Louisa to aid Jersey’s secret resistance.

Her name is Frances Deegan. She wrote 21 stories and 35 articles under her own name for the science fiction pulps between 1944 and 1952, when few other women were selling to them at all. Yet you won't find her listed in any book about science fiction. In fact, in the years since her death, Frances Deegan has become the forgotten woman of the golden age of pulp science fiction, and none of her stories have ever been reprinted.

It's 2004 in Minneapolis, and Hazel Ford is an English teacher at a diverse urban high school, where she loves discussing The Great Gatsby with her Advanced Placement students. Plus, she's crazy about her fiancé/fellow high school teacher, Vance. But when the two of them are involved in a horrific car accident, everything comes crashing down, leaving Hazel with a traumatic brain injury and no memory of the accident - or of her supposed breakup with Vance.

How did visionary women see the future? Written between 1931 and 1979, these 13 stories show how different women have, in different eras, envisioned the future of their sex. Selecting its contents from lesser known writers, Future Eves is fascinating to listen to, both as science-fiction and as an eye-opening view into futures past.

What happens when a serial seductress meets the only man who can claim her heart? With the freedom her status as a lady of immense wealth and aristocratic blood gives her, Alicia Laurence can do anything her heart desires, including seducing her way around the world. However, she is not only a seductress but also a woman of ambition who insists on using her skills for the benefit of her community.

Since 1944, when she published her first story, Elizabeth Spencer has been acclaimed as a writer of short fiction in the great tradition of Welty, Chopin, and Mansfield. The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction, her first collection in almost fifteen years, again makes available the author's most masterful stories and novellas, including "The Light in the Piazza" and publishes more than ten new stories for the first time.

This latest installment in the award-winning Herotica series focuses on keeping sex alive in committed relationships. But "committed relationships" by no means implies boring sex, vanilla sex, or even monogamous sex. The stories in Herotica 6 cover a full range of sexual expression, from multi-partner romances, to role playing, gender-bending, BDSM, and of course, sensuous lovemaking.

Car-En, a ringstation anthropologist on her first Earth field assignment, observes a Viking-like village in the Harz mountains. As Car-En secretly observes the Happdal villagers, she begins to see them as more than research subjects (especially Esper, a handsome bowhunter). When Esper’s sister is taken by an otherwordly sword-wielding white-haired man, she can no longer stand by as a passive witness. Knowing the decision might end her career, she cuts off communication with her advisor and pursues the abductor into the mountains.

While on vacation with her family in Valencia, Claire Halde witnesses a shocking event that becomes the catalyst for a protracted downward spiral and a profound personal unravelling as she struggles to come to grips with her role in the incident. This haunting novel, which unfolds across three timelines set in as many decades, takes the listener on a dark journey through the minds of three women whose pasts, presents, and futures are decided by a single encounter on a scorching summer afternoon.

Herotica 3 is the third in the ground-breaking series of sensual stories written by, for, and about women. By helping women to "claim the erotic frontier," Susie Bright explores a territory where sexuality is limited only by the imagination. In Michelle Handelman's "Blood Past," things heat up when an American tourist in Spain has a surprising encounter with a male glass eater and a female sword swallower. In Carol Queen's "Sweating Profusely in Mérida," a woman fulfills a longtime fantasy of exploring the men's baths with her bisexual boyfriend. In "Something Special," by Aurora Light, one woman seduces her twin's lover, who has no clue that the woman he's sharing pleasure with is not his usual partner! Other stories include: "My Date with Marcie," "Erotoplasmic Orgasmic," "Sileni," "Hope," and "Look What the Cat Dragged In." Adult listening. For Adults Only: Explicit language. Must be 18 years of age to purchase.

When the first Herotica anthology was published, it was an instant underground classic...leaving readers hungry for more stories to tantalize both the libido and the imagination. Herotica 2 is a completely new feast of spicy stories that celebrate sex and sensuality. Uncensored and uninhibited, this volume brings us all the nuances and the shapes of love...to be it candy-kisses sweet or razor-edge sharp. Includes: "Rubenesque," "Boca Chica," "Strangers on a Train," "Window Shopping," and more. For Adults Only: Explicit language. Must be 18 years of age to purchase.

Paige has just touched the surface of the crimes of the Angel Syndicate , and there are more murders, lies and secrets still to be uncovered.

Paige helps Leo search for his mother, who has been missing since his father’s violent murder at the hands of a still unknown assailant. When they find his mother, they start to realize that all is not as it seems as she doesn’t remember anything from the night of her husband’s death.

The joys of being his toy are endlessly fulfilling, both in surrender and submission and delicious dominance. The female perspective tells all, describing every detail and confessing every tease and moment of ecstasy experienced with the men in their lives in three very different short stories. Everyone wins, and the pleasurable benefits are plentiful for both sexes as these seductive female characters share the joys of thoroughly pleasing their men completely.

The everyday life of a military wife. This flash fiction collection takes you inside the lives of 10 military affiliated women. Whether they serve the military or support those who do, they all face relatable problems. Making new friends, finding new jobs, solo parenting. Being wives, being mothers, being women.