Butch Bait (Vol. Two): An Anthology of Butch4Butch Desire

by MJ Marlowe (Editor), Phoenix Mendoza (Editor)

Couldn’t get enough butches from BUTCH BAIT Volume One? Lucky for you all, we have another jam-packed edition with more butch4butch, stud4stud and masc4masc art, poetry, personal essays, photos, and erotica for you to enjoy. Nostalgic, trans inclusive and diverse, BUTCH BAIT is our personal homage to the dyke zines of the 70s-early aughts, using a multi-media format to celebrate love, desire, hunger, and solidarity between butches, studs, and mascs of all kinds.

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Published October 5, 2026

About the author

Residing on the east coast as an author of erotica, horror and dark romance, MJ Marlowe (They/Them) figures if writing doesn’t work out, they’re happy to become a local legend of the forest. Catch them lurking on Instagram . For business inquiries, please email them at authormjmarlowe@gmail.com

Reviews

[Mostly Sapphic Books · Rating 3.75 out of 5]

Another wonderful overload of butches!! I think the artwork was my favorite medium this time around.

This volume felt like it had fewer short stories than the first, probably because it featured a couple of longer-than-average pieces. The longest one dragged a bit for me, but there was a nice variety overall. Lots of genre play and gender play. Truly something for everyone. Barbershop was my favorite. (One boy, two low taper fades... iykyk) Really enjoyed the essays too.

Huge thanks to the anthology editors for the arc copy and for creating this. You're not getting this many butches or this much gender fuckery anywhere else!! Truly a beacon of hope in the butch4butch desert.

[LYS. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the dual nature of the phrase butch bait: not just bait for butches, but butches as the bait themselves.
—Phoenix Mendoza, “Introduction”

i received an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

this was such a joy to receive in my inbox. may an email containing a pdf of hot butch desire find you! this has such a cool zine feel to it that i love. the art / photography is genuinely so good and i love the titles of each piece (“Lick the hands that feed you,” “I Suck Butch Cock,” “God Will Understand,” “WILL THIS HAUNT YOU? WOULD YOU LET IT?”) because they add the fucking juice to an already banger piece fr. i’m no art connoisseur but it was very sexy which is yummy enough for me <3

as for the writing! mendoza’s intro was a killer start. love the way the writing pieces flowed into the art. love when an anthology has cohesion. one of my favorite short stories is definitely s. sen’s “Urban Lycanthropy.” oh my god, guys. butches being lycanthropic while femmes are vampiric…the prose is so fucking fantastic i kept going back to it and wanting to stay in that piece forever and ever and ever. the narrator calling herself an “old dog” and calling her lover “kid”—i’m BUZZING. BARKING, EVEN. BARK BARK BARK. heart in my fucking throat about this one. it’s just so good i just don’t have the words. wow…that’s not to say the other short stories are bad, but this one was just a standout. shoutout to “Barbershop” for being sexy as fuck, and “Shock Absorber” that had my nerves lighting up, and “ANDROSEX” for the trans/gender-fuckery of it all. obsessed with this more than words can say fr. i literally don’t know how else to review this i’m going to be so honest with you so i will leave y’all with this: i love butches so much this entire thing made my brain black out. YAYYYYYY! :)))

all right, love n light, guys!

[Lionelle Pmuls (That's Slump Backwards & It's What I Do) · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars

This was perfect... I love every photo and story!
I learned things about myself... it was refreshing and beautiful.