H.O.T.

Horny. Oppressed. Tameless.
Stories of sex under oppression.

WHAT IS H.O.T.?

7 authors have gathered to bring you erotic short stories exploring the place that sex takes in totalitarian societies. Whether it's digital surveillance, classism, queerphobia, how do we resist with our bodies?

Stories included

  • 5K, by Merlina Garance

  • Sexcrime: Doublemarkgreen, by Joachim Heijndermans

  • Obscenity, by Selina Shaw

  • No Cam, by Jana Sol

  • Into The Ocean, by Nikki Ali

  • Labyrinth by J.T. Adria

  • A+ by Aaron Hunt

CONTENT WARNINGS

  • Explicit sexual content

  • Dystopian societies (dictature, surveillance, class system, censorship...)

  • Mentions of prostitution

  • BDSM (consensual dom/sub dynamics)

  • Pregnancy and related medical tests

  • Gendered terms for a trans person's body (used by the trans person themself)

  • Mentions of sexism, transphobia

  • (More detailed content warnings available at the beginning of each short story)

authors

Merlina Garance
(they/them)

Merlina Garance is an author from France. They have published several queer romance books. When they're not too tired from collecting chronic illness symptoms like trading cards, they also like to read queer fantasy, eat too much chocolate and play videogames.

Jana Sol (SHE/HER)

Jana Sol (she/her) approaches writing like a kaleidoscope showing strange and wonderful worlds. As the spice-focused alter ego of fellow kaleidoscope writer Magnolia Fay, she takes the same vibes of magic, fantasy, sci-fi and whimsy and blends the exploration of new realities with the exploration of bodies, and all the ways they pulse, connect, seek pleasure. She aims to thrill, sometimes raise eyebrows, nearly always coax a chuckle or a smile. The short story No Cam marks her debut as an author of erotica.

Joachim Heijndermans
(he/him)

Joachim Heijndermans is a writer, artist and filmmaker from the Netherlands. He has written many short stories, comics, podcasts and his work has been adapted to film and television. He publishes erotic monster novellas through his Beautiful Beasts imprint.

Nikki Ali (she/they)

Nikki Ali is a writer, teacher, dancer, and activist based in Newark, NJ. She writes sensual and creative erotica where the world and the dreams of the senses are for everyBODY. She is also a writing and creative guide who writes books on the writing craft and guides writers to making their dreams a reality. Hit Nikki up at mistressm.podia.com.

Selina Shaw
(she/her)

Selina Shaw (she/her) is an English love witch and writer of queer femme delight, hunger and power in romance and horror. She believes storytelling is a crucial site of resistance, and uses nature, eroticism, and the unresolved to explore rewilding the self.As well as getting feral with her own books, Selina has been featured in multiple anthologies and lit mags, including Anarkiss, Tulip Wolf Journal, Discord Comics and iReadIndies. When she isn’t writing, she’s splitting her time exactly equally between horror movies and Barbie TV shows, or getting lost in the woods.

J.T. ADRIA (they/them)

J.T. Adria is the author of the romantic fantasy series Aether Archives, beginning with The One Who Slept, and the sci-fi romance duology Stars & Time, beginning with Forest of the Stars. They can be found running through a forest in the summer and curling up with a blanket and their oversized coffee mug in every other season, like the sentient indoor cat nobody can prove they are.

AARON HUNT (he/they)

Based in rural Wales, Aaron Hunt (He/They) is an author who loves to write Monster, Queer & Dark Romance, often blending genres to achieve the right blend of angst and yearning. When they’re not writing, you can find them reading on their own Kindle and scouting out new Horror media to absorb.

© Merlina Garance 2025, @merlinagaranceauthor