Choices: A Collection of Questionable Decisions

by Pamela Brodman, Flo Golod, Pam Flores-Lowry

A Collection of Questionable Decisions features six new voices that show how choices we make shape who we are.

118 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 6, 2018

Reviews

[Patricia Berg · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection offers a nice change from your typical erotica. The characters reveal quirks and flashes of intelligence that take us far beyond their lust.

I particularly enjoyed "Since I Fell For You," by Flo Golod, who laces her story with wry references to the heady academic atmosphere of the early 1970s. Lindy, a graduate student who is "more or less engaged in a study of women in utopian communities," is hungry for something to distract her from her dreary proofreading. Enter Harry and Lena, the couple downstairs. Harry is "learning to do cabinetry from an old Finn who sang workers' songs" while Lena, providing the sexual soul of the story, floats in and out of her art studio in a halo of luxurious red hair. Both of them seduce lucky Lindy, of course. Linda recalls, "I'd put my head on her lap under the shade of the willow tree and she'd braid my hair and laugh because she said I looked like Raggedy Ann, only more intellectual."

These stories are sexy without the ditzy, edging-on-porn breathiness that ruins so much erotic literature. It may be that these stories are more about love than about sex.

[Jeannie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Flo Golod writes with a wry sense of humor, and an experienced hand at subtle irony. She’s created fleshy, fully-developed characters who are on an exploration with each other that is emotional, mental and physical. Her immediately likeable protagonist is a grad student who is “more or less” having an affair with her advisor while she is “more or less” studying women in utopian communities. She is also studying her new, sexy neighbors. Summer heats up and in that suspended time her world simmers with sensuality. But summer is ephemeral and never lasts. It may not be utopia but the the journey is a joy to read. Golod infuses her characters with compassion and curiosity.

[Dana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Valerie Taylor is an evocative and descriptive writer. In her story “"Dirty Girl Diary: Misadventures of a Sexual Anarchist" her forthright writing about human sexuality and sensuality is full of humor, keen observations and humanity. She is not afraid to experience and write about the great joy and loss that love – of all kinds – brings. This is fine storytelling.