Set in Stone by Angela Brown

While there's no lack of rude, inventive lesbian erotica at the moment, a few specialty interests have been overlooked in the better-known anthologies, among them the sweaty allure of butch-on-butch love. Editor Angela Brown blames the early, corrupting influence of the television show Prisoner: Cell Block H for her fascination with butch women, but she will make plenty of converts with this collection of wicked deeds, well-described. M. Christian's 'The Bang Gang' begins with a trio of dyke terrorists firing a gun in a Ladies Room, and ends with two butches blushingly making a date. In 'Bubbles and Buddy' by Lisa E. Davis (Under The Mink), a college student sent to interview a retired nightclub performer for a book on 'older lesbians' winds up learning more than she expected. And, in 'Who Casts the First Stone?' by Patrick Califia-Rice, an aging leather dyke chooses not to re-enact her own youthful humiliation at the hands of a stone butch, but to allow her new lover to touch her. With plenty of fetishistic attention to leather jackets, boxers, and boots, this book may even make a good fishnet stocking stuffer for kinky femmes. --Regina Marler