Who says romance is dead? The erotic stories of Best Lesbian Romance put a spin on the old "walk into the sunset" of lesbian love. In Lynne Jamneck's "Shooting Snow," set in Greenland, a photographer and the scientist who has brought her north gradually melt the glacier between them. Annika Jones's "Catching a Dreamer" follows a woman as she lures her lover into an erotic interlude with a pathway of words on paper. In Lisa Figueroa's "Under the Skin," a butch-femme couple on a tropical holiday discover the difference between new love and deep commitment. For nearly a lifetime, the heroine of Cheyenne Blue's "Glory B." yearns for the imaginary friend of her childhood, a corn-rowed, gap-toothed, black-skinned girl who tastes like guava. Will she conjure Glory B. at last?

Angela Brown is the editor of numerous anthologies, including Best Lesbian Love Stories. She lives in Los Angeles.