The erotica in this collection centers around themes of sacrifice, death and dark desire. Men who love men find themselves in strange encounters with the supernatural in a fantastic world of monsters and magic. "No Sound of Water" is about a young man is spirited away to the country by his father in an attempt to escape a lottery to the Rain God. In hiding, the young encounters a most unusual gardener. In "Red Clay" A bull dancer of Akkil has an accident in the ring that changes his life forever. Snake Bite focuses on Jhirin, a novice in the House of the Snake Mother, who is chosen to become the goddess' chief oracle despite his mortal fear of snakes. What occurs on the night of his initiation, is something no one could have expected. Read Snake Bite at your own risk! "Grave Offerings" is based on a Germanic folk tale about a young man who is buried alive with a corpse and ultimately freed by tomb robbers. Here is an unusual combination of the homoerotic and the dark fantastic.