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09:25 pm: Two great reviews of "The Innocent's Progress"
My steampunk erotica short story, "The Innocent's Progress", was reviewed at Obsidian Bookshelf:

The Innocent's Progress offers a compelling story arc, superior world-building, and complex characterization; it's my favorite story in the anthology.

Val Kovalin at Obsidianbookshelf.com

Lizard Lez did another review:

In the marvelously imaginative world of "The Innocent's Progress" by Peter Tupper, troupes of actors perform the archetypal roles of medieval drama onstage, and are available for hire as sex workers offstage. "The Innocent" is always performed as a delicate female victim who attracts rapists and abductors. When a sturdy lass performs as "the Innocent" in an audition, she is told she is better suited to other roles, such as "the Virago," a tough woman who can defend herself. The actress eventually leaves the troupe and the male admirer that first hires her because she is seeking an elusive sense of integrity (a kind of moral virginity) which she can only feel when performing one role. When her admirer sees her in a thinly-disguised version of a famous play about a formerly-conventional wife who discovers her own will, he finally understands the role which has been missing from his world.

"The Innocent's Progress" is in the Circlet Press anthology Like a Wisp of Steam.

Circlet plans to publish a second steampunk collection, and I'm working on another story set in the same world.

Tags: erotica, writing