Peep Show - erotic fiction by Cleis Press Inc. - review by Dragon

Jared thought that he was going to lose his mind. He'd been waiting on sex while he waited on the baby to come. Quite by accident he went to pick up some food for his wife and found the door to the kitchen of the diner open. Chuck was just pulling up Dana's skirt and Jared found himself looking at very long legs and a birthmark as Dana leaned over a stainless steel counter. Sights and sounds drifted toward him and his hand drifted down toward his own cock. The funny thing was, Dana turned and winked at him!

Billy the Drag King thought he was lucky to have any space at all that counted as a dressing room. He was pouring whiskey and removing the stage makeup when he heard a sound. It wasn't a mouse, but someone hiding with the timidity of a mouse behind the curtain. She didn't want to be found. He listened to her. Listened to her voice telling him to undress until he realized that there was real desire, then he told her to watch him. He ends up with soft lilac panties with a tangy smell and he starts to count to three.

"Peep Show" is a collection of stories edited by Rachel Kramer Brussel with the theme of being watched or watching. Published by Cleis press, the book is a slightly oversized paperback consisting of almost 200 pages. Consistent with all the books that I've ever seen by Cleis press, there is a table of contents and a section about all of the authors. Most of the authors have published in other collections previously, but there are a few new talents to be discovered here.

This collection covers a wide range of stories. Everything from the couple that is high on exhibitionism and has sex in the movie theater and almost gets caught to being watched (and felt as if you are being watched) by your ghost of a lover.

Chris is the one setting up the webcam project. He shares with only one person that it actually goes live a day early. Troy ended up in a room with Kendall while they watched Kendall's roommate. Trini's antics escalate in popularity increasing her odds of a run in with the campus police. Naturally, there is a story called sleeping beauty too.

This is an interesting collection of stories, but I found some of them just too strange. (Some of them were great!) I strongly dislike stories where the plotline is to disconnected. Glass by Nobilis Reed seemed to be three different stories where two of them were tied together with one line at the end. I also have difficulty with ghosts and eroticism.

It's the wide mix of stories that cause me to rate this as a three star product.