Cheryl Tan

* A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference * Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of desire * In an artificially generated afterlife, anything can be sexual if you want it to be * A young widow on a sleeper train shelters a criminal in her carriage * A bisexual woman cheats on her wife with a baker * Anyone can hire a holographic gigolo in 2098 - but one client gets a lot closer than she'd intended * Female friends, sharing a hotel room, give in to long-repressed feelings * The Rapunzel myth is rewritten... Twenty-seven well-known writers, their imaginations unleashed by anonymity... 'The building tension in "History Lesson" overwhelmed me so much I needed to pause in the middle to relieve some tension of my own... The updated variation on "Rapunzel" [is] so horny Anne Rice is weeping with pride in the afterlife... As with a casual tryst, the best part of this book is the anonymity; the promise of no strings attached... the thrill is in taking a chance on the unknown' New York Times