Polly Liticat – nerdy, feminist erotica, usually queer some way. they/them.

2025 Golden Pigtail Winners

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Uh. https://alexasommers.com/the-golden-pigtails-2025/

So that’s a 1st-place win for “Summer Teases” and 2nd for “Season’s Spice,” and I have stories in both. 2nd-place wins for “Polymonstrous,” “The New Sub,” and “Booty Call of Cthulhu,” and 1st for “Polly Jolly Christmas”, and “Fuck the Rich.”

Hello, I’m a big gobsmacked. Thank you to everyone who voted, and read the stories.

I’m leaving the paywall down for another month on my Medium stories to celebrate, if you want to check out either Fuck the Rich or The New Sub. Summer Teases 2 and Season’s Spice are both exclusive to Amazon but free to read if you have Kindle Unlimited. Polymonstrous and Polly Jolly Christmas are both 50% off for the rest of the month (extended through March), or free to read if you have Kobo Plus, and Booty Call of Cthulhu is free to read forever.

2025 Golden Pigtail Finalists

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Uh, all seven of my nominated works made it through to the final voting round 😳http://alexasommers.com/the-golden-pigtails-2025-finals/

I took the paywall down for the month on my Medium stories, if you want to check out either Fuck the Rich or The New Sub. Summer Teases 2 and Season’s Spice are both exclusive to Amazon but free to read if you have Kindle Unlimited. Polymonstrous and Polly Jolly Christmas are both 50% off for the rest of the month, or free to read if you have Kobo Plus, and Booty Call of Cthulhu is free to read forever.

I’d love it if you wanted to check any of these out, and would be grateful for your vote. I also hope you’ll check out the other nominees—there’s a lot of great erotica in this year’s slate, and it’s nice to know that even if I don’t win anything this time, friends and collaborators are pretty likely to.

2025 Golden Pigtail Nominations

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I, uh, I have SEVEN semifinalists in the 2025 Golden Pigtail Awards. How did that even happen? I’d be honored if you wanted to help any advance to the finals.

I have stories in 2 of the entries in the “It’s Always Better Together” anthology nominees: Summer Teases 2 and Season’s Spice. These are both Amazon exclusive and available in Kindle Unlimited.

Polymonstrous is nominated in the “Being Scared Turns Me On” Paranormal/Horror category. This collects 4 stories originally published on Medium, and it’s available on most ebook retailers, or directly from me if you don’t mind side-loading.

Polly Jolly Christmas is nominated in the “Any Holiday is a Smut Holiday” category. This collects 4 Christmas themed stories. It’s also available widely or right from me.

The New Sub is nominated in Medium Long Erotica, and Fuck the Rich in Medium Serial Erotica. These are exclusively available there for now.

And finally, “Booty Call of Cthulhu” is in the “Shouldn’t You Be Monetizing This?” category, and is free to read in Shousetsu Bang*Bang 117

A big THANK YOU to my editors and beta readers at Exceptional Erotica, Erotica Consortium, and SSBB. I couldn’t have done it without you.

And as for 2026—stay tuned! I’ve been invited to contribute to Summoner 2.0 and I hope to have more to announce soon. The, uh, erotica will continue until the morale improves. And probably after.

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2025

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Polly Liticat's 2025 output, featuring thumbnails of all the book cover or story illustrations.
Short stories at Medium, “To Stone Turned” illustrated with a gorgon head, “Woman of Steel, Men of...” with a woman wearing a latex dress and stockings, “Fuck the Rich” with a handsome man in a white shirt and black vest, and a woman in a backless silver dress, “The New Sub” with a woman in a school girl outfit sitting backwards on a chair, and “Uncanny Valley of the Fae,” with a woman in a strapless dress with a glittery magical background.
Anthologies: “Hot Horsehead Summer” in “Summer Teases 2” illustrated with a swimsuit-clad woman on the edge of a pool, “BBE-001” in “The Best Bi Erotica of the Year Volume 2” with a woman with rainbow colored hair, “Booty Call of Cthulhu” as Cattus Politterarum in Shousetsu Bang*Bang Issue 117 “The Old Ways” with a red-skinned figure with horns, a tail and cloven hooves silhouetted against a full moon and trees, and “The Triple-X Holiday Cross-up” in “Season’s Spice” with a woman in lingerie reclining on a snowy night.
Short story collections: “Polly Jolly Christmas” is illustrated with a woman in red & white stockings lying under a decorated Christmas tree, “Polymonstrous” with the same gorgon head from “To Stone Turned.”

Five short stories published with Exceptional Erotica at Medium: To Stone Turned; Woman of Steel Men of…; Fuck the Rich; The New Sub; Uncanny Valley of the Fae.

Four short stories published in anthologies with other authors “Hot Horsehead Summer” in Summer Teases 2; “BBE-001” in The Best Bi Erotica of the Year Volume 2; “Booty Call of Cthulhu” (as Cattus Politterarum) in Shousetsu Bang*Bang Issue 117: The Old Ways; and “The Triple-X Holiday Cross-up” in Season’s Spice.

Two short story collections of my own work, Polly Jolly Christmas and Polymonstrous.

…and that’s a wrap on 2025.

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New collection! And new publisher.

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The cover of Polymonstrous by Polly Liticat features a black and white illustration of a gorgon head, a fierce-looking woman with a dense mass of serpents for her hair.

Surprising me nearly as much as you, I have a new collection featuring the four monster-frolicking stories I published with Exceptional Erotica. You can get it directly from me at itch.io or, well, pretty much anywhere.

For the last 6 years (!) I’ve been publishing at Smashwords with an independent erotica publisher, and I’m pleased to announce I have a new publisher: me. I’ll have more direct control over art and e-book formatting and how I present myself and my author brand.

I’m officially hanging out the new shingle with the first four books to make it over from the old site. I’ll be adding more in the coming weeks, and figuring out how to handle some of the older pieces that don’t meet my current standards for quality.

Polly’s first press clipping!

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An excerpt from a review of Best Bi Erotica of the Year, Volume 2 as featured at https://www.biwomenquarterly.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/bwqWinter-2026.pdf
The second story in the collection, “BBE-001” by Polly Liticat,
for example, explores what it means to make erotica—or
rather, porn—intended for a bisexual audience—the “bisexual
gaze,” as it were. Two queer couples, Adam & Gary and Elena
& Cerise, fight stereotypes by recording the “most bisexual
porno” anyone’s ever made, complicated only by the fact that
Elena and Adam used to be a couple. The drama!

“BBE-001” is called out in a four-star review of The Best Bi Erotica of the Year, Volume 2 by Lauren Taylor Bak, in Bi Women Quarterly.

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I’m in a book I’m in a book I’m in a book

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The cover of “Season’s Spice: A Sexy Holidays Collection” shows the torso of woman in black stockings and lingerie, with a fur around her shoulders, reclining on a magical snowy, starry night. The book features Ian D. Smith, J. Tiffany Noore, Scarlet Lee Winters, Polly Liticat—hey, that’s me!—and Saddletramp1956

Season’s Spice: A Sexy Holiday Collection is available right now in ebook and paperback from Amazon, featuring my gonzo tribute to/attack on Hallmark-style one-kiss-at-the-end movies, “The Triple-X Holiday Cross-up.” Funny thing about this anthology: we kicked around more specific themes, but wound up writing to the general theme of winter holiday erotica—and then a bunch of us randomly used similar plot elements: dream hook-ups, metatextual references to TV and movies… and background music!

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“Booty Call of Cthulhu” in “The Old Ways”

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I’ve been teasing this Lovecraftian Mythos story for more than two years, and it’s finally out as part of “The Old Ways,” issue 117 of Shousetsu Bang*Bang (under my S2B2 alternate name Cattus Politterarum) Miss Emily Breedlove is informed of a strange inheritance… and things will get eldritch, oh my yes, they will.

The cover of “The Old Ways” Issue 117 of Shousetsu Bang*Bang from October 2025 depicts a red-skinned nude humanoid with horns, pointed ears, a tail and cloven hooves between two stark trees at night, silhouetted against a full moon.

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Summoner v2.0

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I’ve been invited to participate in and interviewed about Summoner v2.0 an all-new anthology of paranormal romance in the Summoner universe created by Clea Salar and Tallis Salar. The crowdfunding campaign describes it as “a collection of stories by authors who thought the Summoner universe sounded like a fun time, and wanted to write their own story. “ and, friends, not ashamed to say I begged to be allowed to play in their sandbox.

A fun time shall be had INDEED, by me, and hopefully by you, too.

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Editor’s Choice at Exceptional Erotica

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A screen capture from the Exceptional Erotica e-zine at Medium shows that “All for You” by Kaylee Pace had the most claps from readers in September 2025, “From Best Friends to Swingers” by Sylvia Rose had the most reads, and “The New Sub” by Polly Liticat—hey that’s me!—was the Editor’s choice.

The New Sub was Editor’s Choice at Exceptional Erotica for September! A word of warning, this is darker than my usual fare.