Ted is an orphan, a young gay man living on the streets following the death of both his parents. Hope seems futile, though hope is exactly what he finds when a surprising email informs him that an unknown wealthy relative has died, that a reading of a will is soon to occur clear across the country. Ted will inherit something, but what that something is remains to be seen.Benny is a young, homeless drug addict, straight except for when cash is involved. Benny has never had a reason ...

Sit back and enjoy seven lip-smackingly sensual stories of all kinds of oral pleasure. Stories of nostalgia for the taste of a lover, long distance relationships, and revenge. Stories taking in both the distant future and pleasures in the past. Oracles, ranchers and café cooks, all united by their love of using their mouth. And tongue. And fingers, for assistance. Edited by Jillian Boyd (Spy Games - Flappers, Jazz and Valentino) Licked is a tribute to the act of oral sex - to the intimacy,...

Nord wakes up to find himself sort of dead. Well, that is to say, he's dead, alright -- murdered, in fact -- but not in heaven, at least not yet. In this limbo-like state, he meets Max and learns that everyone there is waiting for the final poof, hopefully to a better place. Only, with unfinished business back in the real world, like bringing his murderer to justice, Nord's poof is nowhere in sight. So he and Max set out to find the killer and make things right again. Of ...

Vegas hadn't been very good to Chuck. Celine sucked, his hotel room faced a bank of windows, it was hotter than hell outside and cold as an iceberg inside, and worst of all, the convention still had a full day to go. But things begin to look up when a seemingly chance encounter with an old high school buddy turns Chuck's fortunes around.NOTE: This story appears in Rob Rosen's best-selling collection, Short Spurts.

In the gripping tale of D.B. and Me, the enigmatic hijacker D.B. Cooper parachutes into the unknown with $200,000 in ransom money, but little does he know that his daring escape is just the beginning of an unforeseen journey filled with mystery, suspense, and steamy romance.D.B., now Tim, finds himself along the banks of the Columbia River attempting to fade into the shadows. However, fate has other plans when he encounters Adam, a charismatic stranger who's also in hiding...

When orphaned Trip Jackson's granny dies, leaving most of her extensive estate to him and a puzzling stranger, the mysteries start piling on from there. How did Trip's parents really die? What's the deal with the conservative senator who shares the stranger's last name? What's with all the blackmail? And does Billy Ray really have the hottest, saltiest boiled nuts this side of the Mason-Dixon? Only Trip and his hot stable boy-boyfriend Zeb know for sure, and how they come by the answers ma...

Rob Rosen, editor and novelist with more than two hundred published short stories to his credit, brings twenty more erotic short stories from the past two decades, running the gamut from soft and tender to rough and tumble, humorous to emotional, sci-fi to contemporary, and all in his award-winning signature romantic style.Whether it's delivery men or frat boys, young men experimenting or older men setting out on new adventures, surfers or bartenders or dairy farmers, a randy yeti,...

A return home to the deep south puts these two old friends, all grown up now, on a collision course once old memories boil to the romantic and steamy surface.NOTE: This story appears in Rob Rosen's best-selling collection, Short Spurts.Rob Rosen, award-winning author of the novels Sparkle: The Queerest Book You'll Ever Love, Divas Las Vegas, Hot Lava, Southern Fried, Queerwolf, Vamp, Queens of the Apocalypse, Creature Comfort, Midlife Crisis, and Fate,...

A man's journey to a new home, a new life, gets momentarily derailed when his car breaks down at a rest stop. Thankfully, he's rescued by a hunky trucker -- in more ways than one.NOTE: This story appears in Rob Rosen's best-selling collection, Short Spurts.Rob Rosen, award-winning author of the novels Sparkle: The Queerest Book You'll Ever Love, Divas Las Vegas, Hot Lava, Southern Fried, Queerwolf, Vamp, Queens of the Apocalypse, Creature Comfort, Midlife Crisi...

Mysterious forces are at play when Paul's vacation to Spain unexpectedly detours to Gibraltar and then Morocco, to a vodka bottle in a hole in the wall bar, to a handsome genie with a slew of secrets, plus almost limitless powers, virtually no memory, and a keen desire to be freed from his curse. Along the way, Paul is reunited with his ex-lover and the genie's previous master as fate draws them ever deeper into a murky, dangerous past.On our heroes travel, from the frigid north of...

Santa was beside himself. It was two days until Christmas, and three of his elves were out with the flu. So he had little choice but to hire Jingle, the very unusual, not to mention very horny little elf who will ultimately turn another elf's toy-making life around.NOTE: This story appears in Rob Rosen's best-selling collection, Short Spurts.

The aliens settled in Africa and Europe, what with their love of giraffes and Alpine skiing and all, and forced the previous inhabitants to move out. But when two of said inhabitants meet one of said aliens, plus his unusual body parts, that's when their world gets turned upside down. E.T. does more than phone home in this funny, steamy threesome of a tale.NOTE: This story appears in Rob Rosen's best-selling collection, Short Spurts.