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State of the Polly, October (mid)

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So far this year I have stories in, uh, SEVEN, anthologies.

Report for “Erotic Re-Direction and Training Services” a tale of extremely inappropriate workplace behavior, features in the brand new Absolute Filth, Volume 2.

Meet “A Very Annoying Demon” with a self-esteem kink in Summoner 2.0.

More shenanigans with an HR person who really, really, should know better in “Touchy Negotiations,” featured in The Best Bi Erotica of the Year, Volume 3.

Over the course of “Four Nights at Trick’s Place,” secrets, and blood, will be spilled. So Wrong It’s Gotta be Right, an anthology of “queer wrongs,” is free to read! (Mine is murder-y, and one of the tamer entries, so mind the CWs.)

“A Bank Job” should probably not include stopping mid-robbery for an orgy, but sometimes needs must, or whatever. Included in Absolute Filth, Volume 1.

“Atomic Summer” is my love letter to the campy b-movies of yesteryear—and a hate letter to the threat generative AI poses to artists. In Summer Teases 3.

“Fuck the Rich,” my exploration of power dynamics at a kinky garden party, originally appeared on Medium. The canonical version in Wicked Little Miracles has been edited slightly. Just as pervy; reads better.

Yet to come:

Some Halloween confections, to be announced/appear shortly. (I just turned in “The Secret of the Clarendon Slasher,” and my first foray into erotic horror—as opposed to horror erotica—will shortly appear as well.)

Not one, not two, but three! exciting new shared-world projects with some frequent collaborators.

… of course an “absolutely filth” winter holiday edition.

… and another PAIR of spooky tales, but not for Halloween. Schedule to be announced.

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State of the Polly: Aug 2026

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It’s been a weird year for any number of reasons, but after not having anything new out in the first half, I’m set up to have a busy finish.

Wicked Little Miracles is out, a collection of stories from Exceptional Erotica, including my “Fuck the Rich.” (not technically new, but seems to be finding a wider audience)

Summer Teases 3 is out on August 3rd! This is my …4th? time appearing in an anthology with the Erotica Consortium/Erotic Celebrations team, and my first time coordinating one. A fantastic, if hair-raising, learning experience already, and I still need to format the print edition. (Was I trying to submit fixes to a handful of typos THREE SECONDS before Amazon locked the pre-order file? Mum’s the word.) My entry “Atomic Summer” has me up to my usual shenanigans, homage to campy/pulpy films of yesteryear, hot threesome with a telepath, anxiety about LLMs, you know the drill.

Absolute Filth: When You Only Have Time for the Good Stuff volume 1 is out on August 10th! And Volume 2 is out October 12th! These are edited by Olivia Lawless and Christian Pan from EC, and the focus is high-heat stories that cut to the chase. “Bank Job” appears in volume 1 (More group sex, no telepathy. Just a smidge of anti-capitalism, you know, for spice) and my entry for the second, BDSM-themed volume, is called “Erotic Re-direction and Training Services.” There just MAY be more volumes in this series TBA too… 👀

I just signed the contract, and the book is announced, so I think I can tease my appearance in Christian’s “Best Bi Erotica of the Year Volume 3”, which will be out September 23rd for Bi Visibility day! “Touchy Negotiations” is about a corporate headhunting trip that goes into territory the head of human resources should not approve… let alone participate in. You can catch up with volumes 1 and 2 in the meantime.

And there are still more projects I can’t talk about quite yet, including 2 winter seasonal stories, something fairy-tale-ish, and of course, a spooky little treat.

Can talk about but on the back burner for now: My very gay portal fantasy novella, “The Artificer, the Roué, & the Demon”; the horny clone book.

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No, really, I’ve been busy

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My Golden Pigtail award-winning story “Fuck the Rich” is featured in the extremely spiffy “Wicked Little Miracles” a collection of 18 of the best (they said it, not me) stories originally published by Exceptional Erotica.

The cover of Wicked Little Miracles features a black and white photo of a young woman, glass in hand, slumped fetchingly away from a desk on which a manual typewriter sits. It’s not clear if she’s about to type something salacious or if she just, er, finished.

Just look at that cover, y’all. whew.

I have three, count ‘em, three stories accepted for anthologies that I hope to announce soon, and pitches accepted for two more anthologies.

I’m also lightly curating Summer Teases 3 with my friends at the Erotica Consortium, and so far the announced list of contributors includes JK Mill, Christian Pan, Saddletramp1956, Ian D Smith and Scarlet Lee Winters.

Oh, and me. My novelette “Atomic Summer” is a loving tribute to classic B-movie scifi, with a UFO, monsters, and a MacGuffin. And is there telepathic sex? Yes, Virginia, there is telepathic sex.

And! We still have more contributors to announce for ST3.

And then, after all this anthology action settles down, I will be unleashing my novella The Artificer, The Roué, and the Demon. It’s another portal fantasy, and features a 900-year age gap. (waggles eyebrows suggestively)

(That lovely moody cover is by Dae Storm)

And sometime after that, have I promised a horny clone book? Yes, I have promised a horny clone book.

(the cover is by me. I will probably change it before publication though, because this doesn’t necessarily scream queer? and this book? extremely queer.)

And also! I believe that I licensed heavily retouched photos of multi-pack man and wasp-waist lady. But I am not 100% sure at this point that they may not have been generated with so-called “AI” tools and I am not down with that shit in any shape or form.

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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

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