Split Lips: Stories About Love & Sex

by Chad Fjerstad (Editor and Contributor), Kris Kidd (Contributor), Oriana Small (Contributor)

SPLIT LIPS unites a slew of Los Angeles’s predominant artists to present a remarkable anthology, granting readers a multi-faceted perspective on intimacy they otherwise may never know.

Love knows no boundaries, a timeless concept revisited and drilled deep into the psyche through tales of unthinkable fetishism, secretions, esoteric romance, insecurities, and grief. Visions of intimate relationships will be transformed once filtered through the minds of these peculiar writers, sex workers, filmmakers, musicians, and other eccentrics. Now, open up as they have for you.

140 pages, Paperback

Published August 9, 2017

About the author

Chad Fjerstad has written two fiction novels, Warship Satan (2017), and Popping Cherries (2014). He's also curated the anthology collections The Shrieking Garden (2019), and Split Lips: Stories About Love & Sex (2017). All published through his own imprint, Ephemerol Night Terrors, which has also released music by artists such as Geneva Jacuzzi, Cobra Czar, Rains of Apathy, and a multitude of his own projects including More Ephemerol, K'mono, and Ass Life.

Reviews

[Alison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Exploring a variety of themes ranging from the tenderness of love's bloom to outright carnal depravity, any reader is bound to find at least one story in Split Lips that resonates. Personal favorites were "Sitting" and "Love Dream."

[K · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was okay. There were only a few stories, that actually kept my attention.

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars. Solid collection of transgressive short fiction.