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Groblek is hands down my favorite author of unbirth fiction, and I'm particularly impressed with how he can combine sexy unbirth stories with different genres. His previous book, Sasha's Healing Womb, was a lesbian sci-fi romance that made the idea of a woman taking another grown woman into her womb seem weirdly plausible. His latest story, Regression at the Rawlings Reunion, is a much darker supernatural fantasy. I thought it was just as sexy as Sasha's Healing Womb, but while that was sweet this one is delightfully twisted and transgressive.

The title gives you some basic idea of what to expect, but you'll be amazed at the places it goes. Groblek sets up this family reunion so it all seems very realistic, these people relate in ways we can understand. But then a sinister Entity arrives and works her magic, and suddenly there is an outbreak of age regression and swollen bellies! Mothers are regressed to the womb as daughters find themselves the mothers of their own mothers. There is an eerie thrill in the plight of the family, as they see what's happening around them and realize they'll soon be regressed or impregnated too. We're there with them as they are transformed one by one, and the whole scenario is brought to life with the kind of vivid detail Groblek's fans have come to expect.

If you enjoy the unbirth genre, any new Groblek story is a must-read. But this wild, kinky story is definitely one of his best yet.

Folks, if you love unbirthing stories, you have GOT to read Groblek's latest! (NSFW, obviously.)

Samuel Rafael's Remaining Samuel is a must-read. If you're transgender you may be amazed, as I was, to find so many aspects of your own experience reflected in Samuel's story. If you love a transgender person or just want to learn more about us, this book will be invaluable. This is a story told with rare insight and honesty, vividly capturing both the joys and agonies of Samuel's experience as a transgender person.

While clearly autobiographical the story is told in the third person and with a somewhat academic style, deliberately distancing choices that actually serve to make some of the darker events more harrowing and tragic. We can sense how painful these memories are, that the author is choosing to view them from such a remove. At times it almost reads like horror fiction, with a cool and clinical voice describing the tortures inflicted upon this undeserving soul.

But the book isn't a grim slog by any means. Samuel becomes a successful therapist, finding peace and helping others find it too. By the end of the book you get the sense that he brings lifetimes of experience to his practice, that all of this suffering has been put to its best possible use. I sometimes marvel at how some people use their own misfortune as an excuse to inflict pain on others, while others develop a profound empathy and set out to do what they can to make this world a better place. Samuel is one of the latter, and his story is truly inspirational.