Dark Desires - Maria del Rey

Dark Desires – an erotic short story anthology enticingly subtitled as ‘The Bizarre Fantasies of Maria del Rey’ has just been re-issued as a Nexus Classic. Unlike most porno short story collections there’s more to the contents than a collection of different sexual scenarios designed to produce the maximum bang per buck (if you know what I mean). A good short story, in any genre, should draw the reader in, give us enough of the characters to engage our sympathy and then leave us with a twist in the tail or some other ending which makes the whole thing work. There’s a skill to writing good short stories, and unfortunately most writers of ...