The twelve startlingly original stories about erotic situations collected in The Word “Desire” are the best opportunity yet for adventurous readers to discover the fiction of Rikki Ducornet. Always at ease with the sensuous‚ perverse‚ and eccentric aspects of human nature‚ Ducornet turns her attention in this collection to the most volatile and easily misunderstood emotion‚ desire. Each of these stories centers on a pivotal erotic moment in the lives of the men and women who narrate them‚ exploring the many strange reverberations that occur when desire is present‚ whether repressed or acted upon.

Contents:

• The Chess Set of Ivory
• Wormwood
• Roseveine
• Das Wunderbuch
• Vertige Dore
• The Many Tenses of Wanting
• The Student from Algiers
• The Foxed Mirror
• The Neurosis of Containment
• Fortune
• Opium
• The Word "Desire"