Notta Lotta Love Stories

by Amber Gayle

I grew up thinking I would find true love on crossing the golden threshold into adulthood. We would be drawn to each other at first sight. We would love each other enormously. We would empathize in every way and have magic sex. What I didn't expect was that gravity pulls us toward so many people, and we love, or make love, or wrap our expectations around them even when in retrospect they were not anyone in particular, not anyone at all. I loved people I could never travel through life with, and who's to know the difference until its too late? .... These are stories about people I've loved for an ultimate purpose that remains mysterious. How can such definite emotions lead us down dead end lanes? But they do and do and the rising and falling is part of the passion that keeps us moving through the world with our eyes wide open.

50 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2000

Reviews

[Sandra Del Rio · Rating 4 out of 5]

While reading, I kept wondering who might be the ideal reader for this book: Euphoria fans? Sally Rooney fans? People who liked "Inventory" by Carmen Maria Machado? Granted, Notta Lotta Love Stories is nowhere near the edginess of the aforementioned media.

Regardless, I had a nice time reading this little zine. I found it during a library book sale for free and was really, really pleasantly surprised. I think more people might like it, however empty some of its content is. Am interested in My Evil Twin Sisters' other books/zines it may have published in the early 2000's.

[David Macpherson · Rating 4 out of 5]

a collection of stories about the men she had been with in her travels. There is a nice sense of community and space in the writing. I have read her before and my feeling with the first book holds with this one where there is a sense of sameness in the stories that does not detract. It creates a spell like you are under a trance. I enjoyred this