Product Description

New original romantic fiction by Katherine V. Forrest (Curious Wine), Karin Kallmaker (One Degree of Separation), Claire McNab (The Wombat Strategy), Jane Summer (The Silk Road), Carol Guess (Gaslight), Ann Wadsworth (Light, Coming Back), Lesla Newman (She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not), and Diana Cage (Box Lunch).

Angela Brown is the editor of Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003 and Mentsh: Queer Jews Speak Out. She lives West Hollywood, Calif.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1071786 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

About the Author
Angela Brown is the editor in chief of Alyson Publications. She is also the editor of Set in Stone and Best Lesbian Love Stories, 200, 2004 and 2005. She lives in West Hollywood, Calif.

Customer Reviews

If you only buy one lesbian anthology, make it this one.
This has to be my favorite lesbian anthology of the year, and each year it doesn't disappoint. Once again, Angela Brown has assembled a collection of fine authors, writing some of the best lesbian fiction around. Stories are varied. The opener is a cheeky tale about an author trying to seduce her editor through the story line of her novel. Another one that made me chuckle aloud was a gloriously wicked story about two (...)driving to a Star Trek convention. But the majority of stories are reflective rather than uproarious, poignant and emotive tales, for the most part finely-crafted and incredibly readable. My personal favorites were "The Accident" by Mary Vermillion, a subtle little gem full of parallels and allusions, "Parting Agents" by Carol Guess with its poetic language, and "Dublin Buy & Sell" by Maggie Kinsella, a tale of unfolding love with a straight woman. Contributions by well-known lesbian authors Judith Nichols, Rakelle Valencia, and Karin Kallmaker certainly don't disappoint either. In all, out of 23 stories, there were only two that I failed to find engrossing--a pretty impressive percentage for any anthology

Sex Plus Heart and Soul
Best Lesbian Love Stories 2005 is a collection of well-written prose by a variety of national and international authors, including one from Ireland who has a wonderful sense of humor. These stories evoke well-drawn, believable characters that exhibit a compelling range of emotional depth. Yes, the majority of them are lesbians but they are also daughters, caretakers, mothers, sisters, and above all human beings who struggle, along with everyone else, to do the best they can and have a good life. The last story of the collection, Attempts At Rescue, combines three love stories - one involves an elderly man and woman, the second this elderly woman and her granddaughter and the third embraces the budding awareness of the granddaughter's sexuality as well as her first love relationship with another woman. I thoroughly enjoyed the author's eloquent contextualization of the three "types" of love that work together to suggest a few of the commonalities relevant to the human experience.

Glad I spotted an author I wanted to read
I picked this up when I spotted an author that always delivers a terrific story -

Karin Kallmaker's 'Reunion' was very passionate as well as erotic and well written.

As a bonus there were 23 stories and wide variety of excellent writers including -

Claire McNab
Carol Guess
Cheyenne Blue
Mary Vermillion
Anne Seale
Rakelle Valencia
T. Stores

What the book did not have were short stories by authors mentioned in the amazon book description (hopefully they can be found in future books in the series).

MIA are Katherine V. Forrest, Jane Summer, Ann Wadsworth, Leslea Newman, and Diana Cage