Cain Berlinger's Dark Side

by Cain Berlinger

A selection of Cain Berlinger's darkest, most depraved, disturbing and debauched stories in one intense volume.

Tales of sexual obsession taken to extremity. Explore the depth and breadth of gay BDSM with the master of edgy erotica, Cain Berlinger. Dark, shocking, wild and often painfully human, these stories will take you to the limits, and beyond. This collection of short fiction pushes boundaries in every way and is not suitable for the fainthearted.

Cain Berlinger’s Dark Side includes the following stories –
Penance
Acquiring Elliot
Prison Boy Toy
A Night with Jan Bollerman
Intensity
Intuition
Sebastian
The Timekeeper
Sculptures
What They Don't Tell You
I Captured a Killer
Ty's Solution
They Say and Morphine
all of which have previously been published as individual ebooks by www.loveyoudivine.com

438 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 20, 2011

About the author

January 24, 1953, yes, an Aquarian and all that being an Aquarian implies. Born in Cleveland Ohio with a Gemini/Taurus ascendant. We moved to New York when I was seven years old, my mother, younger brother and I. We lived in all five boroughs but settled in Richmond Hill Queens. Since then I got another brother and both my parents are now deceased.

In 1987 while recovering in Europe from major foot surgery I started writing short stories. I wrote about things I knew, which at that time were the gay sex and the fetish communities of which I was, and am still a part of. I submitted and sold outright, 25 typewritten short stories to TOY and MRSM magazines which operated out of Denmark but sold throughout the world.

When I returned to the states and purchased my first word processor I re-wrote all of the stories, tweaking, updating, seriously editing those 25 stories. Then I peddled them to prominent gay magazines in the sex industry. Meanwhile back in Europe, a few of my stories had been translated into German.

Later I reworked those 25 stories by changing characters, locations, races and sexual fetishes. Again, more of those sold. Meanwhile I was becoming a better, more prolific writer exploring challenging new ideas. My philosophy is that if you take the sex out of the story, you should still have a good, entertaining tale to tell. Although every now and then ...

I let my erotica ventures rest awhile and took a different road with my writing, as I did with my life. In Amsterdam, Europe I owned and operated a gay back room leather bar. Later, once back in the states I became a personal trainer as well as an Interfaith minister, doing two years in a Manhattan Seminary. That's when I did my self help books on Meditation, Prayer, Health and Fitness under the name RD Cain.

Somewhere in there I did the essay 'black men in leather' and 'sex:in the dungeon', my free diabetes booklet guide to healthful play during sex. The last two books mentioned have garnered a lot of good will, awards and honorable mention in and outside the industry. That's enough for now, google the rest. I blush easy. Anything else you want to know on a personal note? Just ask me.

Reviews

[Bryn · Rating 5 out of 5]

A dark, dark collection of short stories, this is not for the fainthearted. Charting the extremities of gay sex, the psychlogy of perversion and the landscapes of the damaged and derranged, there is nowhere Cain Berlinger fears to tread. It is a brilliantly shocking anthology of intense story telling and there is nothing else like it that I have ever encountered. My only grumble is that this should not be being sold as 'erotica' - a frequently undervalued genre. This is a book with a great deal of literary merit.

[David messner]

wonderful writing