1) "Lots of Girls Do It": Tina Tirrell takes a break from the MILFs and wades into lesbian erotica, though it's actually bi-curious, as our flat-chested narrator insists that she wants a boyfriend. But in the event, the action is all girl-on-girl. We're often attracted to what we're not, what we as individuals don't have. We need that yang to cozy up to our yin. Male and female, for example. Or, if the genders are the same, and if that gender is female, perhaps it's diametrically opposed chest size. Such is the gentle set-up in this excellent high school story by Ms. Tirrell. Our heroine, now 18 and a senior in high school, was harshly denied by genetics. She recalls how, earlier in the 8th grade, she saw all of her fellow girls develop as if they "had gone to breast camp over the summer". Nothing for our poor narrator. There's a lot of detail about the feminine life and its particular agonies here, especially as they're experienced during adolescence. In high school all we ever want is to be like everyone else. One of the markers of growing up is when you stop wanting to be like everyone else and start feeling comfortable -- in this case, *really* comfortable -- in your own skin. Tina Tirrell takes us back to that time, and those feelings, with this splendidly written story.

2) "She Tricked Me Into It": It's an absolute delight. The prose zips along: the writer is clearly on fire. Descriptions of family life always seem to bring out the most vivid characterization from writers, and Ms. Tirrell is no exception. She gives us a mini-Brady-Bunch scenario here: a young man and his father, who has married a woman with a daughter. The daughter is older than the young man. "Evil Lauren" -- the most annoying stepsister imaginable. She looks at your crush's Facebook page -- the horror. :) She beats you to the shower -- "Too slow, Joe!" -- and burns out the water heater before it's your turn. I found her deeply attractive and wonderful, full of sass, spirit, and boldness. Well, our unnamed male narrator catches her nekkid in the shower ... and his education begins. Ms. Tirrell furnishes a nice plot where Lauren, having noticed that her lovelorn brother is mooning over a girl's Facebook page, decides to become the young man's teacher, preparing him for whatever delights "Haley" might have in store for him. One can feel as one reads that this story was lovingly written. It has the tang of real life to it. As for the erotic part, Ms. Tirrell pulls out a dandy -- listen to this description of the aftermath: "It was like being empty and all filled up at the same time. Like being totally tired but full of energy. I still couldn't move." Nice, Tina, very nice. :) And I'm not the only one smitten with "Evil Lauren". Our narrator concludes, "... my incredible sister, the very *best* sister any boy could hope for."

3) "All Grown Up": Straight-up erotica from Tina Tirrell. Ms. Tirrell is particularly gifted at describing complicated physical scenarios: the scene in “John’s” car is a textbook example of carefully prepping a physical interaction and building the scene brick by brick as it goes forward. Oh, and it should be noted that the description of our heroine getting orally pleasured by the guy is hot! -- the details are ripe and exact. One can smell the perfume and taste the salt. This is the 19th or 20th story of hers that I’ve read, and in this one, another Tirrell Trope emerges: the Lollipop Metaphor. “Go ahead and put it in your mouth,” Susan’s lover instructs her, “just like a lollipop.” Tirrell’s heroine goes on to narrate, “It kind of looked like a lollipop, too. The end was purple, just like grape-flavored candy.” (LOL, Tina!) I call it a trope because in another story of hers, “The Big Tease”, Ms. Tirrell makes a comparison to a lollipop licking CONTEST. Where the heck was I when this was going down? Ms. Tirrell has disabused me of the notion that I had an exciting youth. Sigh. Anyway, Ms. Tirrell’s prose is peppered with similarly piquant details, not just in this story, but in all her work.

To conclude: these three stories are among Ms. Tirrell's "realistic" group of fictions. She also writes in various other sub-genres in the wide realm of erotica, everything from giantess fiction, gender-swapping, and more. But a writer must prove herself with realistic, day-to-day, this-could-happen fiction. A writer must prove that she can create a world we recognize, populate it with people we know, give those people an interesting story to live out, and finally be empathetic to such "real" people and their stories. Done.

5 out of 5. This collection proves Tina Tirrell to be among the very best in her field.

I can't figure out which book is my favorite.  I didn't even realize how much a turn-on that taboo theme can be!  I'm aching all over, and I'm not even sure why.  I just know that I have to have more!

Give me more! I am loving these bundled book collections.  I can't believe I haven't discovered these gems in Tina Tirrell's catalog before!