This is the fourth installment of the bestselling international lesbian erotica series, Hot & Bothered, that consist of stories of 1,000 words or less that articulate desire between women.

Hot & Bothered 4 includes stories by many award-winning writers, including Lesléa Newman, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Carol Queen, Nisa Donnelly, Barrie Jean Borich, Gabriella Glancy, Wickie Stamps, Sara Graef, and Tamai Kobayashi.

Aren X. Tulchinsky is the award-winning author of Love Ruins Everything (Press Gang Publishers), a novel that was named one of the top ten books of 1998 by the Bay Area Reporter and has been translated into German and French; its sequel, Love and Other Ruins (Polestar); and In Her Nature (Women’s Press), a collection of short fiction which won the 1996 VanCity Book Prize.His screenplays have been short-listed in the Praxis Screenwriting competition and the Los Angeles-based Chesterfield Film Company Writer’s Project. He is a graduate of the prestigious Canadian Film Centre’s Professional Screenwriting Programme, where he wrote two feature-length screenplays and a short film, Straight in the Face, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and was broadcast on Showcase TV.Tulchinksy has written for numerous magazines and newspapers, including the Vancouver Sun, Georgia Straight, Now Magazine, Xtra West, Canadian Screenwriter and the National Post, and has taught creative writing at Langara College and Screenwriting at the UBC Writing Centre.

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. . . [the stories] take everyday situations and inject believable sexual tension, longing, or sexual escapades.
-Capital Xtra!

Capital Xtra!

...little nuggets of desire, all full of anticipation and longing and regret and retaliation and surprise and delight and all the other things that make 'lesbian desire' great.
-ButchDykeBoy.com

ButchDykeBoy.com

... Hot + Bothered 4 is a collection of unusually high quality, worth reading--or nibbling--from beginning to end.
-Bookmarks

Bookmarks

Not only is brevity the soul of wit, it is at the heart of desire as well.
-Herizons

Herizons

...a wonderful collection...so steamy...
-Stonewall News Northwest

Stonewall News NW

This book explored a wide range of hot activities that are going on out there. It is hot hot short short yum yum good!
-Trade

Trade