Twelve Desires
One collection. Twelve stories. All of them true in the ways that matter.
These are stories about what desire actually looks like — not the version that's been tidied up or made palatable, but the real thing. The wanting that keeps you awake. The need you can't quite name. The moment you realize the thing you've been afraid to want is the thing you want most.
The collection ranges from a vanilla hotel encounter between strangers to a deeply kinked evening inside a long-term marriage, and treats both with equal literary seriousness. Twelve stories, varied in length, tone, dynamic, and explicitness. Unified by craft and by the conviction that desire reveals character — that what we want in bed is never really separate from who we are.
This is not romance. There is no guaranteed happy ending. There is only the honest, contradictory mess of wanting, rendered with precision and without apology.
This collection includes explicit content ranging from literary erotica to kink: power exchange, female-led relationships, chastity and denial, voyeurism, submission and dominance. Every story is consensual. Every dynamic is treated with the same literary care. The range is the point — because desire doesn't come in one flavor, and neither does this book.
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While she’s out: A story of devotion and denial
Some desires don't have a name yet.
You know the shape of it. The wanting that lives underneath the wanting you're allowed to talk about. The particular ache of imagining something you've never quite admitted, even to yourself.
While She's Out takes you inside one marriage where those desires aren't secret anymore. A husband prepares for his wife's evening out: locked in chastity, permitted to watch, kept until morning. What looks, from the outside, like one person losing is — from the inside — the deepest form of being known.
This is a story about devotion and humiliation, and about the distinction between the cruelty of the game and the love underneath it.
It's explicit. It's intimate. It's an invitation to stop pretending you haven't wondered.
The Compliant Stranger: A story of want and reclamation
You know what it's like to stop wanting things.
Not dramatically. Not all at once. Just gradually — the slow accommodation of a life that keeps asking you to be reasonable, to be professional, to be fine. And then one day you realize you've been fine for so long you can't remember what wanting actually felt like. What it felt like to be in a room with someone and have your body know something your mind hadn't caught up to yet.
The Compliant Stranger takes you inside one night with a woman who has spent six months — and maybe longer — being impeccably fine. A hotel bar. A stranger who sees past it. She sets every rule. He agrees to all of them. And she discovers, somewhere in the hours that follow, that control was never what she was actually after.
This is a story about desire after loss, and about the particular cost of keeping yourself so contained that you forget you have a body. It's about what it means to finally take something — not because someone gave you permission, but because you stopped waiting to be asked.
It's explicit. It's uncomfortable in the way that honest things are. It's an invitation to remember what wanting feels like.
Explicit literary erotica. Shifting power, female sexual agency, light restraint, one-night encounter.
Dynamics: femdom, cuckolding, chastity and denial, voyeurism, worship.
Dynamics: shifting power, female sexual agency, light restraint.
Additional story listings to be added as collection is completed
Margaux Duvall. Literary erotic fiction for readers who want the real thing.
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