Jess Taylor

People Always Leave. They've proved it time and time again for as long as I can remember. You'd figure I'd be used to it, but that feeling, the one of losing someone you love, it can be unbearable. That's why it's easiest to never let people too far in to begin with. It's the cardinal rule that I broke with one look into his deep blue eyes. I let him in. All of him. His touch, his love, his secrets, his lies. I thought it was the fairytale that I never believed in. ﻿I thought that we were soulmates. But how could he be my soulmate when my soul was broken from the start?

Forget Me Not

In Just Pervs, Jess Taylor's sophomore story collection, contemporary views of female sexuality are subverted and complicated -- no longer are women figures to be acted upon my men; here they have agency over their desires and their bodies. Through the characters in these stories we discover how sex can be many things: it can be gross, shameful, exhilarating, hidden, or open, but it is always complicated. Just Pervs explores the strange oppression and illumination that desire can create, the bewilderment of adolescence, the barriers to intimacy we discover within ourselves and the ones that are imposed on us. All while speaking honestly and openly about sex and championing expressions of female sexuality.

Just Pervs

Love. A four letter word describing a feeling that most children grow up surrounded by. I didn't. Until Asher Gray. The guy always up for a good time. The friend I could always rely on. The man who also happened to be my brother's best friend. He made me feel more cherished than anyone else ever had. I'd gotten used to our friendship, regardless of how attracted to him I was. I never thought we could be anything more. Until the look in his eyes changed, and I realized that maybe we were never really friends at all. Maybe the love I always longed for was standing right in front of me. But now my past is coming back to haunt me and suddenly I don't know how to protect the man I love from it. I don't even know how to protect myself. All I do know is that I want him by my side through it all.

Bleeding Hearts

"Two sex addicts meet and fall in love. A woman catches her husband cheating on her with their dog and escapes to her sister's horse farm. Four girls--fellow pervs--grow up and drift apart, pining for each other in silence until one of them is murdered. In Jess Taylor's sophomore story collection, contemporary views of female sexuality are subverted, and women are given agency over their desires and bodies. Through these characters, sex is revealed to be many things at once: gross, shameful, exhilarating, hidden or open--and always complicated. Reminiscent of the works of Maggie Nelson, Mary Gaitskill and Chris Kraus, the stories in Just Pervs explore the strange oppression and illumination created by desire, the bewilderment of adolescence, and the barriers to intimacy both discovered within and imposed upon ourselves."--

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