Stories about what we want —
and what it costs us.

twelve short stories about desire, power, and the honest, contradictory mess of wanting.

MARGAUX DUVALL

Twelve Desires: Tales of Want

This is literary erotica: explicit, psychologically honest, and deliberately wide-ranging. Tender encounters and deeply kinky evenings. Strangers and twenty-year marriages. Female-led relationships, power exchange, desire after loss. Every story uses the erotic as a lens for something true about the people involved.

It goes further than literary erotica usually dares.

That's the point.

Compliant Stranger

A divorcée meets a stranger, shifting power and agency in a charged, intimate encounter that blurs control and consent.

Date Night

A story about femdom, cuckolding, and voyeurism involving a husband in chastity.