Steve Almond is the guest editor of our winter fiction issue. In his intro he bemoans the lack of sex in
contemporary fiction. Thus, he promises, “As guest editor, I’ve endeavored to
keep the smut quotient high.”
First up, "Couplings" by Robert
Olen Butler
.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler’s
forthcoming book, Intercourse, is 100
short stories that imagine the thoughts of 50 famous couples while they were
having sex. We’ve posted three, including Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
Anne: “A bejeweled codpiece falls
and from a slash in a pair of breeches comes a too-small prick attached to a
fat and distracted man and if its fluids do not blend with mine such to create
a boy, I will sure be cast aside.”
Read the entire story here.
