It is Time...a fresh new look at Erotica
IT IS TIME
BY ANNA BAYES
There are two genres I tend to be wary of writing, horror and erotica. As a writer I'm very aware of the subconscious desire to up the ante and make it more horrifying or erotic to satisfy your readers, and in a finite world I'm afraid there are only so many positions, methods and scenarios available before you run out of steam, so to speak. I mean men who can perform faultlessly for hour after hour after hour is totally beyond the realms of possibility, sorry ladies.
Enter Anna Bayes with her compilation of fifteen short stories titled, It Is Time. The cover photo is quite impressive and the stories are certainly worth reading. Some of the stories could do with a bit more meat but in defence of 'short' short stories these vignettes do hold your attention. The opening story, It Is Time is a bitter sweet tale of being just one of three other women and her attempt to outshine them, there is hot, sweaty sex, pillow talk and a resolution that was different.
Ticket to France doesn't have the same graphic sexual descriptions and is more of a vignette where our heroine graduates from cam sex to buying a ticket to you guessed it, France. We don't know what happens when she reaches France but that's the beauty of these stories. Instead of focusing on the steamy, graphic sex or challenging positions, Bayes has forged a connection with the ordinary world around about us. Let's face it, even though I never read Fifty Shades, the thought a woman could carry on an abusive relationship for three whole books made my ears hurt just hearing about it. Bayes' talent for taking very ordinary situations and sexing them up is refreshing. For readers with a fetish for bondage, there are BDSM stories in there as well, I can't judge them however as I'm definitely not into that but the stories do read well. The only story I found odd was the last one, Lucy Reborn, which is a paranormal tale and while it's well written and entertaining enough, I felt it didn't belong in this particular collection. Others may disagree but I felt the inner rhythm was coming along nicely without that last story. There's a feeling we've stumbled across a diary of fleeting memories faithfully recorded and then discarded and that's the strength of these tales, because in the real world that's how it happens and all we are left with often is just a memory.
My favourite story would have to be Stockings, Pendant, Arousal because it builds slowly and then leaves you wondering what happened next and that to my mind is the secret to writing good erotica, leaving the reader to imagine the rest or fill in the blanks. On a scale of five I'd give this four point five because as previously mentioned, the last story didn't belong in this anthology. However Anna Bayes has a talent for writing erotica and I'll certainly be returning to this collection more than once and keeping a look out for more of the same.
Check out It Is Time for yourself.
It Is Time and Other Stories
BY ANNA BAYES
There are two genres I tend to be wary of writing, horror and erotica. As a writer I'm very aware of the subconscious desire to up the ante and make it more horrifying or erotic to satisfy your readers, and in a finite world I'm afraid there are only so many positions, methods and scenarios available before you run out of steam, so to speak. I mean men who can perform faultlessly for hour after hour after hour is totally beyond the realms of possibility, sorry ladies.
Enter Anna Bayes with her compilation of fifteen short stories titled, It Is Time. The cover photo is quite impressive and the stories are certainly worth reading. Some of the stories could do with a bit more meat but in defence of 'short' short stories these vignettes do hold your attention. The opening story, It Is Time is a bitter sweet tale of being just one of three other women and her attempt to outshine them, there is hot, sweaty sex, pillow talk and a resolution that was different.
Ticket to France doesn't have the same graphic sexual descriptions and is more of a vignette where our heroine graduates from cam sex to buying a ticket to you guessed it, France. We don't know what happens when she reaches France but that's the beauty of these stories. Instead of focusing on the steamy, graphic sex or challenging positions, Bayes has forged a connection with the ordinary world around about us. Let's face it, even though I never read Fifty Shades, the thought a woman could carry on an abusive relationship for three whole books made my ears hurt just hearing about it. Bayes' talent for taking very ordinary situations and sexing them up is refreshing. For readers with a fetish for bondage, there are BDSM stories in there as well, I can't judge them however as I'm definitely not into that but the stories do read well. The only story I found odd was the last one, Lucy Reborn, which is a paranormal tale and while it's well written and entertaining enough, I felt it didn't belong in this particular collection. Others may disagree but I felt the inner rhythm was coming along nicely without that last story. There's a feeling we've stumbled across a diary of fleeting memories faithfully recorded and then discarded and that's the strength of these tales, because in the real world that's how it happens and all we are left with often is just a memory.
My favourite story would have to be Stockings, Pendant, Arousal because it builds slowly and then leaves you wondering what happened next and that to my mind is the secret to writing good erotica, leaving the reader to imagine the rest or fill in the blanks. On a scale of five I'd give this four point five because as previously mentioned, the last story didn't belong in this anthology. However Anna Bayes has a talent for writing erotica and I'll certainly be returning to this collection more than once and keeping a look out for more of the same.
Check out It Is Time for yourself.
It Is Time and Other Stories
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