The Risk it Takes To Bloom is a collection of 10 sexy stories for the queer, the kinky, the unconventional, and the underrepresented. Among these provocative stories, a newly-open married couple meets an unexpected unicorn at a Pride weekend drag show, an acupuncturist invites a client to her home for a private session of pleasurable pain, and two lesbian co-eds sneak into a library for an erotic literature-fueled tryst.
Amanda E.K. is a writer, filmmaker, creative coach and Reiki healer, and the former editor-in-chief of Denver, Colorado’s Suspect Press magazine. She writes about sex and relationships, and about growing up in evangelical purity culture and the impact of religious trauma. Her production team—Glass Cactus—has won awards for their TV screenplay and short films, including their Pandemic in Pollyville webseries. Learn more at AmandaEKwriter.com and follow her @amanda.ek.writer.