Give It To Me
With his tenth erotic short story collection, Give It to Me, the usually enticing author Sean Wolfe has curated twelve sordid tales that are mildly entertaining yet mostly predictable.
His 2011 anthology, "Hard and Fast," focused on men searching for something missing from their lives, and the prior collection, "Eight Inches," was a series of stories whose characters or events were all loosely connected, either by venue or a specific individual. The dozen stories featured in "Give It to Me" are all dark and each depicts at least one brutal scene involving pain, force and an unsavory character.
For those with a revenge fantasy, "Abducted" introduces James and Scott, two horny, brainless dimwits who kidnap an international soccer star from Brazil for their use and abuse, only to be outdone by his brawny bodyguard. In "Money Man," the tables are turned on Israel, a wealthy, violent old man with an appetite for hustlers, when two boys for hire decide to punish him for his wicked ways, and Michael is an officer with identity and anger management issues in the aptly titled, "Hands Above Your Head and Spread ’Em."
The author combines pleasure, pain and even a touch of romance in "Walk-In Closet," when a straight man, Cedric, visits an m4m hookup site and falls for the first trick he meets. Johnny and Rafael are cellmates turned lovers in "My Bitch." And the unconventional courtship of Miguel and Marcus includes breaking and entering, theft and criminal assault in the three-part serial, "The Bad Boy."
Continuing the BDSM flair of the series, Morgan is a brokenhearted drug dealer who earns the nickname "Bathhouse Billy," high school jocks Tyler and Dylan take advantage of twin brothers Chris and Cole in "Pool Party," and Benji is Cory’s full-time, live-in, leather love slave in "Master May I?" The oddest entry, "Nephelum," which one could argue doesn’t belong in this collection, tells the story of Cyrienne, a fallen angel who is sentenced to spend a century on earth among mortals after causing an accidental death.
I think we can all agree that mostly everyone enjoys a little slap and tickle, but the stories in "Give It to Me" require that the reader is partial to scenes of brutality, restraint and coercion. Select anecdotes have well-crafted characters and plots of intrigue, but most are explicit sexual accounts, featuring nameless, faceless people.
With ten anthologies to his credit, as well as several dozen published erotic stories, Wolfe clearly knows his audience.
Give It to Me
Sean Wolfe
Kensington, February 2012
$15.00
by Sean Wolfe
