Perhaps you ve been there: a first-time event tying your lover by the wrists, binding their ankles, blindfolding their eyes and coursing through imagination with the intent to surprise the partner, now a relative object. The adventure into soft play that leaves the participants refreshed; or the shock of hardcore turned somehow embarrassing and misdirected, spoken or unspoken boundaries that were there at the outset but broken.
Garth Greenwell
Arriving just in time to relieve us of our cloistered funk,
Kink: Stories (Simon and Schuster), edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, is an anthology of fourteen blazing, vivid stories that come together and make up a collection that plunges into different definitions of embodiment, escapades and forays into the multi-layered discipline of intimacy.
How not to learn about the American past
In the mid-1940s, Edmund S. Morgan, a mild-mannered young
historian, was teaching at Brown and making a name in the quiet field of early
American studies. Having published a slim, well-received collection of essays
on the New England Puritans, he might have seemed the very model of the
unassuming scholar at the outset of a modest career, satisfied to refine the
work of great forebears in a narrow field. That wasn’t Edmund Morgan. The
Second World War was over. The United States was developing an energetic
vision, which would come to fruition in 1960 with the election of John F.
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Megan Pillow is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction and holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kentucky. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in, among other places, Electric Literature, SmokeLong Quarterly, Hobart, The Believer, Brevity, and Gay Magazine. Megan has also had stories featured on the Wigleaf Top 50, an essay honored as