Snakes and Earrings

Author: Hitomi Kanehara

Lui is nineteen years old, beautiful and bored. When she meets AMa in a bar she finds herself mesmerised by his forked tongue and straight-away moves in with him and has her own tongue pierced. Determined to push her boundaries further, she asks Ama’s friend Shiba to design an exquisite tattoo for her back. But what Shiba demands as payment for the tattoo leads Lui into a….Read More

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