O: Volume One - Erotic Lesbian Short Stories — An Illustrated Sapphic Anthology (Ebook)
O: Volume One - Erotic Lesbian Short Stories — An Illustrated Sapphic Anthology (Ebook)
Eight women. Eight worlds. The moment desire stops asking permission.
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Last year, bestselling erotic lesbian author Ruby Scott drew thirty-four women in their most intimate moments. This is the first eight, paired with the original ink portraits that began them.
Last year I sat down with a pen and started drawing women. O.
Thirty-four ink portraits in all, every one of them caught in private, every one a stranger I'd somehow already met.
So I asked the women who read my books to name them, and to tell me who she was before the ink met her skin.
This volume is the first eight. Eight erotic lesbian stories about women in the unguarded moment they stop managing their desire, and find themselves gloriously alive.
I drew them. You named them. They did the rest.
Volume One of four.
INSIDE VOLUME ONE
Shannon. Eleven years anchoring the network's late bulletin, and five Tuesdays now of leaving the side door unlocked at 10:45 for an extern she has run out of language to call a colleague.
Adeline. Newly arrived principal of a girls' boarding school six thousand feet above the Garhwal valley in 1920s India, undone in lamplight by a slim volume of Sappho left on her desk without a note.
Sienna. A US combat medic at 0200 in a desert shower block after a medevac that nearly cost her crew, and the Black Hawk pilot who flew them out.
Bailey. A half-Thai chef thirty floors above Bangkok, and the French sous-chef she hired knowing exactly what she was doing.
Rebecca. Afternoon office hours that stopped being office hours weeks ago. A constitutional law professor with an analytical streak, and a student who would do anything she asked.
Rowan. A converted cannery on a Pacific Northwest island, a single mother who has not let herself want anyone in six years, and the non-binary produce driver who arrives every Thursday on the eleven-fifteen ferry.
Vivienne. A Berlin ophthalmologist in a marriage of parallel schedules, and the sculptor whose face she held in her hands in the dark.
Valentina. A New Orleans bar owner who has spent seven years giving people the wanting and keeping the thing itself, until a guitar player from Frenchmen Street walked in and looked away first.
PERFECT FOR READERS WHO LOVE
- Slow burn to high heat
- Workplace and forbidden desire
- Age-gap encounters
- First-time sapphic experiences
- Non-binary love interest
- Combat zone setting
- International settings
- Single mother
- Married woman exploring sapphic desire
- Sapphic D/s and light BDSM
O: Volume One is the first of four illustrated erotic lesbian anthologies from bestselling author Ruby Scott. There are twenty-six more women waiting.
If you have read the Awakening of Desire series and wanted to know what Ruby Scott can do in shorter form, O is the answer.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Ruby Scott writes desire the way other authors write heartbreak. Quietly devastating, beautifully observant, and impossible to look away from.”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “The combination of the portraits and the stories makes this feel less like a book and more like holding someone’s private thoughts in your hands.”
Continue the O Collection
O: Volume One is the first of four illustrated sapphic anthologies. Volumes Two, Three and Four will follow as the remaining twenty-six portraits find their names and their stories.The signed prints of every woman in the collection are available as individual fine art prints by request, exclusive to newsletter subscribers for only £19.99. Email me at Ruby@Rubyscott.com with the name of the woman you desire.
More lesbian romance by Ruby Scott
If you enjoy steamy lesbian romance and emotionally intense relationships, you may also love:
- Awakening of Desire series — a bestselling erotic lesbian romance series exploring dominance, submission, slow burn desire, power exchange, and emotionally intense relationships between women
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The Healing Hearts series — emotionally rich slow burn sapphic romance with strong women, found family, deep emotional healing, and beautifully earned heat
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Ruby Scott writes desire the way other authors write heartbreak. Quietly devastating, beautifully observant, and impossible to look away from.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “The combination of the portraits and the stories makes this feel less like a book and more like holding someone’s private thoughts in your hands.”
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Tell Me More
Last year I drew thirty-four women in their most intimate moments. Then I asked the
women who read my books to name them. This volume is the first eight. Eight spicy
sapphic stories about women in the unguarded moment they stop managing their
desire, and find themselves gloriously alive.
Themes and Tropes
Themes and Tropes
Erotic sapphic short fiction
Illustrated anthology
Workplace desire
Forbidden attraction
Power-dynamic encounters
Age-gap relationships
Sapphic D/s and light BDSM
First-time sapphic experiences
Married woman exploring sapphic desire
Non-binary love interest
1920s historical setting
Combat zone setting
International / global locations
Single mother
Reader-collaboration project
Original ink art
Character-driven sapphic erotica
Literary erotica
Chapter One Look Inside
Chapter One Look Inside
SHANNON Inspired by Marisa Buccieri
The red pen has been uncapped for forty minutes and I haven't marked a word.
Tomorrow's rundown lies across the anchor desk in front of me, twenty-three items total, the
overnight ratings for tonight's bulletin clipped to the upper right corner so I can inform
tomorrow's editorial decisions with the discipline that has governed this newsroom for eleven
years. My governance. Eleven years of it and not a day missed.
There is a light on in the research bay.
It has not left my attention since the floor crew dispersed, since James, my floor manager for
nine of those eleven years, packed his bag without looking at me, since the studio contracted
to monitors and cold light and the distant mechanical rhythm from post-production two floors
below. I haven't looked directly at the research bay. I don't need to. I know whose light it is,
whose it has been on every one of the fourteen evenings I have extended my hours beyond
any editorial necessity I could credibly articulate.
Cara Walsh arrived six weeks ago on a Tuesday at nine-fifteen and disagreed with me in front
of seven people before she'd been inside the building forty minutes…
Full description
Full description
A year ago Ruby Scott set herself a question: what does a woman look like in her most honest
moment, when nobody is watching her and she has stopped curating herself for anyone?
The answer was thirty-four ink portraits, drawn over the course of the year, every one of them
a stranger she had somehow already met. She gave them to the women who read her books
and asked them to do what she could not — to name these women, and to tell her who they
were before the ink met their skin.
O: Volume One is the first eight to be returned to her with names attached, and the first eight
stories she wrote in response.
Eight encounters. Eight intimate portraits printed alongside their stories. Eight women, every
one of them stepping out of the careful, contained life she has been managing and into the
truth of what she wants.
This is character-driven erotic sapphic fiction in its most stripped-back, most intimate form.
Atmospheric and literary. Written for readers who want the unspoken finally made plain, and
the heat that comes when a contained woman lets herself be known.
O: Volume One is the first of four illustrated sapphic anthologies. There are twenty-six more
women waiting.
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Wow what a stunner of a book, Ruby Scott has done it again with this incredible start to a new series its bound to leave you breathless i couldn't put it down definitely must read congratulations
Thank you so much — I’m really glad this one landed that way for you.
I love that “couldn’t put it down” reaction, especially for the start of a new series. That’s exactly the kind of energy I hope it carries, where it just pulls you straight in and keeps hold of you.
Really appreciate you taking the time to leave this, and I’m so pleased it felt like another knockout for you.
Ruby x
One book, eight different characters, each with their own fleeting moment where abandoned desire takes over, and every story is just as perfect as the last. This is so much more than an erotic novel; it’s a masterpiece of writing, and the original illustrations by Ruby Scott add a wickedly personal touch. I paid attention to the instructions… and I can safely say I would never read this in public! I can’t wait for Volume 2.
Thank you so much for this review.
I have to admit, 'I would never read this in public' is exactly the reaction I was hoping for.
O: Volume One was such a strange and wonderful project because it started with drawings. Just women on paper. Then readers named them, imagined them, gave them histories, and somehow those fleeting moments became stories. Eight women. Eight lives. Eight moments where desire stops asking permission.
What I love most about your review is that you saw beyond the heat. Yes, these stories are unapologetically erotic, but each woman had to feel real to me first. I wanted readers to meet them, understand them, and then be swept away by the intensity of that particular moment in their lives.
And thank you for mentioning the illustrations. Drawing the women myself made this book feel more personal than almost anything I've published. It really does feel like readers are stepping directly into my sketchbook and getting a glimpse of where stories begin.
I'm absolutely delighted you enjoyed all eight women and that you're already eager for Volume Two. Trust me, there are plenty more women waiting to introduce themselves.
Ruby x
O Volume One
Absolutely loved it. My favourite was Valentina closely followed by Sienna.
Wasn’t sure if the sub/dom was my thing but I enjoyed Rebecca too! Can’t wait for Volume 2 don’t make us wait too long!🙈
Thank you so much! ❤️ I'm delighted you enjoyed the collection, and I love that Valentina and Sienna were your favourites. And I'm especially pleased Rebecca won you over too! 😉
As for Volume Two... I'm working on it! Thank you for reading and for taking the time to leave a review.
Well… that was a thoroughly indecent little masterpiece! 🔥
Ruby Scott’s ‘O’ series just ripped up the rule book on erotic shorts - you heard it here first!
Yes, this book gives us eight incredible women and eight exquisitely intimate moments, but reducing it to just erotica feels wildly unfair. This was an experience for me. It was immersive, sensual, and unexpectedly artful in a way that completely caught me off guard.
The fact that Ruby not only penned these stories but sketched the characters too - outrageous talent! It added such a unique layer of intimacy, as though I was being invited even further into her imagination.
And the range? Glorious. Different settings, different dynamics, different continents and tropes! I literally devoured every page of this book.
If you enjoy erotica with substance, style, and enough heat to ruin your evening plans… buckle up. This ride is fire! 🔥
Now the countdown is on for Volume 2! 👏🏼
Thank you so much for this lovely review! ❤️
I absolutely loved that you enjoyed both the stories and the drawings. The women of O started life as faces on a page long before they became stories, so it means a lot to know the artwork helped bring them even more vividly to life for you.
I'm delighted you found the collection immersive, sensual, and full of variety. And if it managed to ruin your evening plans, I shall take that as the highest compliment possible. 😉🔥
Thank you again for reading, and for taking the time to leave such a thoughtful review. Volume Two is coming, I promise!
Take some beautiful drawings of women’s faces at the most intimate of moments, the artists request to put names and back stories to these faces, the response from readers who took on the responsibility of this in earnest, and what is the result? Ruby Scott has taken her drawings and those ideas and turned them into something exquisite, magnificent, and breathtaking and with the simplest and most perfect book title ever 🥰
The O Collection - Volume One is, well, just brilliant! Each story is so evocative, passionate, moving and even thought provoking, and let’s face it, we all want to visit Hera’s art installation now,😂🥵and that is one intensely clever piece of writing.
Waiting for the following volumes is going to be unbearable 🖤
Thank you so much! ❤️
I love that you enjoyed seeing the women make the journey from drawings to fully realised stories. That was exactly what I hoped O would become, and I'm delighted it resonated with you.
And yes, I suspect Hera's art installation has created quite a waiting list of visitors! 😂🔥
Thank you again for your lovely review, and I'm sorry in advance for the wait for the next volumes. I'm working on them!
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