Dreams and Swords by Katherine V. Forrest

Classic short story collection featuring the treasured erotic novella O Captain, My Captain. Also includes stories featuring LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield and characters from the Daughters of a Coral Dawn science fiction series.

A lesbian couple must decide whether to risk their only child in the most daring and unprecedented of experiments... When LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield visits long-time lesbian friend Jessie Graham, now sheriff of a California seaside town, Kate immediately becomes embroiled in an inexplicable disappearance that Jessie suspects is murder... Joan Bronson Randall is a lesbian helplessly trapped in a sham marriage... but now Joan's father ties dying in a hospital, and inexorable events are set into motion... In a tale of ultimate, chilling horror, a woman awakens in a white room in a place of endless corridors, and soon learns where she is and why she is there... In O Captain, My Captain, a compelling and erotic novella, Lieutenant Harper accompanies space transport Captain Drake on a routine two-woman voyage to the Antares asteroid belt. But the magnetically attractive Drake is an enigma of the first order... and the journey turns into peril beyond all Harper's imagination... and a voyage of passion beyond all her dreams. Plus five more enthralling tales...