About Toy Box: Gags Edited by M. Rode, featuring stories by Kiernan Kelly, Willa Okati, and Megan Rose Toy Box: Gags offers up three scorching stories about what happens when the silence speaks for itself, letting the love and heat shine through. The boys from Big Enough for Five are back in Willa Okati’s Mouthing Off. Baz’s big mouth has gotten him in trouble one too many times, and Marcus and his other lovers decide to teach him a lesson. In Shh, by Megan Rose, Julia is tired of getting her heart broken, and decides to just go for quick, silent sex. But even gagged, her new lover, Sprite, gets through loud and clear, without ever speaking a word. Will Julia lose everything if she expresses her love? And in Kiernan Kelly’s Ballin’ the Jack, Jack figures everyone in his small town is getting it but him. He’s lonely and horny, but when a new salesman shows up at his sex toy shop, Jack thinks he might just need a personal demonstration. Bite down on this one today! SampleFrom Ballin’ the Jack It was Jack’s favorite time of the day – early afternoon, when several hours stretched lazily ahead of him before the evening rush with nothing to fill them but daydreams. The bell over the door was silent, the register hadn’t started clanking and clattering and spitting up receipts, and the soothing quiet in the store was like a warm, fuzzy blanket. Damn, but his dogs hurt. He’d be restocking shelves since eight that morning, and his new shoes pinched. Removing his shoes and socks, he wiggled each toe in relief. Sighing, Jack leaned back in his chair and put his bare feet up on the counter, folding his arms behind his head. Such was life for Jack McGill, proprietor of The Sensuous Shopper, the one and only erotic supply house in town - not that the lack of competition was surprising. The town wasn’t much more than a flyspeck on the map, located in the middle of God’s hairy ass, with a population of less than what a good-sized stadium would hold. What was surprising was the fact that from the day he’d bought the store a year ago, business had been booming. He didn’t even really understand why he’d bought it in the first place. If he thought about it – which Jack tried not to do, since it gave him a bastard of a headache – purchasing an erotic supply store smack dab in the middle of nowhere should not have struck him as a sound financial investment. But when Bill Miller, the balding investment broker Jack had recently met in a club, had shown him the sales the shop had generated over the previous six months, he couldn’t resist. About the Editor |