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Bareback riding on Mars + Daddy issues 🐎🍑🐎🍑🐎🍑
Veesta found herself. John Carter found...himself in a Martian pile-up.
Parneet Gosal
June 13, 2025
The cousins have (mostly) recovered from last Sunday’s newsletter, so I’m back to stirring the pot.
I have a treat for you tonight: Veesta the V is a tender, taboo, and achingly beautiful story of queer Muslim love. It’s a slow-burn poly romance wrapped in care, consent, and a scene that made me close my laptop and stare at the wall. Oof.
Next, someone unearthed a “lost” version of A Princess of Mars that made me gasp. Then laugh. Then text a friend: “YOU ARE NOT READY.” Turns out John Carter didn’t just fall for Dejah Thoris - he also had unresolved tension with his war buddy, very curious feelings about Martians, and a LOT to say about bareback riding. This “unexpurgated” edition is campy, erotic, and honestly, kind of perfect for Pride. (It’s also our first big fan fic!)
Also, it’s almost Father’s Day, so if you’re looking for a reason to say “Daddy?”, this list features dads, DILFs, and zaddies. Happy Father’s Day! 😏✌️
With love,
Parneet
Co-founder, Theo Reads
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Esakay Kabba pens erotic romance novels that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, people of color, and interracial relationships. Read her stories here.
 | Veesta the V By Eskay Kabba (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Forbidden Office Romance) Veesta, a married Muslim woman, explores her desires for women. |
 | Bathed In Sin By Lilith Young (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Forbidden Love, Heterosexual, Gay) “I just saw God,” Austin said with bliss, after he and Ellie’s seemingly mundane coffee-shop chat is interrupted by Father Michael’s unexpected—and scandalous—proposal. What began as a tense confrontation spirals into an intensely taboo encounter, leaving Ellie questioning everything, and Austin thoroughly enlightened. |
 | Father’s Day Race By Quinn Blueheart (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Comedy, Erotic) A playful couple turns Father's Day morning into a sexy, competitive game. With toys and teasing, they race to reach two orgasms, but one partner has a secret trick up their sleeve. This erotic tale from Quinn Blueheart will make you eager to play along. |
 | When He Gets Home By Lucy Felthouse (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Comedy, Erotic) A playful couple turns Father's Day morning into a sexy, competitive game. With toys and teasing, they race to reach two orgasms, but one partner has a secret trick up their sleeve. This erotic tale from Quinn Blueheart will make you eager to play along. |
 | A Princess of Mars By Nobilis Reed (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Comedy, Erotic) Imagine if you will, a discovery. You are browsing some ancient book shop, or picking through the dusty documents of an estate sale. Imagine, further, discovering an envelope containing a stack of typewritten pages, a story you thought you knew well, only to discover, on closer scrutiny, that there was something else there, something you perhaps had not seen before, that caused you to look at it in a whole new light. It is my hope that it is in this frame of mind that the gentle reader will approach this book. This "unexpurgated" version of A Princess of Mars contains all the sexy parts that might have been there, but would have been edited out for an early twentieth century publication. |
 | Bittersweet Irish Cream By Eskay Kabba (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Enemies to Lovers, Gay) Still reeling from her father's death, Carmen Delgado is lost. She needs time to grieve, explore her options, and figure out what to do with her life. The last thing she wants is a new romance. But tell that to the sexy Irish chef who showed up just when she needed someone most... Liam O'Leary never thought he'd end up co-owning a taco taxi with his late mentor's entirely too-tempting daughter. But Carmen needs him. |
| Bull-y For You By G.G. Wylde (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Couple, Erotic) Daddy helps his baby girl get to know their new neighbour. |
 | Good Girl, Bad Girl By Sinclair Sexsmith (🌶️🌶️🌶️ Age Play, Dark Romance) Sometimes, I am a Bad Daddy: I hate it. I hate it and I want it and I crave it and I hate that I want and crave it, this, this girl, this way that I use her, this way she uses me. Sometimes I resent it. Her, me, my own desires. Why do they run this way? Where did these wounds come from, or are they scars now? And it is a fetish, or maybe rather it is many fetishes wrapped up and tied with a big pretty satin red bow. Power. Gender. Age. I hate it, but I have never loved any play more. |
 | Just a Taste By Shannyn Schroeder (🌶️🌶️🌶️ Slow Burn, Forced Proximity) Still reeling from her father's death, Carmen Delgado is lost. She needs time to grieve, explore her options, and figure out what to do with her life. The last thing she wants is a new romance. But tell that to the sexy Irish chef who showed up just when she needed someone most... Liam O'Leary never thought he'd end up co-owning a taco taxi with his late mentor's entirely too-tempting daughter. But Carmen needs him. |