Anna Bardin brings readers captivating stories of plus-size girls finding love and lust wherever it may lie. A sampling: Ali, a happily married coffee shop owner, nonetheless worries about The Last Three Inches her short body has thus far been unable to conquer. With help from her friend and onetime lover Kacy, walls are broken down and new frontiers of love spring into their lives. Dirty Laundry details an anonymous encounter that shakes up Julie’s world at a time when her self-esteem is ...

Libidinous yearnings too long deferred ache for fulfillment in this compendium of adventurous erotic tales. In 'Taker,' Kaia's serial quest to deflower young men brings her perilously close to addiction as she finds a willing victim who will not go quietly from her wild imagination. 'A Quick One' brings two strangers together at the irresistable behest of their bodies, if only for a beautiful, breathless moment. Ellie loves Drew, but also wants Hal. Boundaries are tested as she dares to ex...

Publishing essays in the age of the tweet is a bit like selling buggywhips next to the car dealership. One would only expect such an activity to be pursued by old fuddy-duddies waving their canes at the kids on their lawns. We are actually huge proponents of social media. The restrictions of 140 characters have brought soul back to wit, and created surprisingly elegant moments of poignancy in the decade since first we tweeted. Still, sometimes, after consuming a cascade of snappy one-liner...

On Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences (human and non-human) to reflect on the polysemic and polymorphic characteristics of extremity and the category of the extreme. The editors and authors aim to contribute to a living, breathing, and expanding definition of extremity that helps us understand what we gain, or lose, when we interact with it, create it, and share it with, or...

A comprehensive review of the recent developments in microbial bioprotectantsCovers key classifications of bioprotectants: bacterial (e.g. Bacillus spp.), fungal (e.g. Trichoderma spp.), and viral (e.g. bacteriophages)Discusses the general issues that arise with the use of key bioprotectants throughout agriculture (e.g. risk of development of resistance against bioprotectants)