Interspersed with artwork, Consuming the Muse is a collection of erotic tales flirting with time, space and the senses, on a woman's journey through Eros. Some of these stories may titillate, some may make you think. Sensual: of the senses or the indulgence of appetite: fleshy, sensory; devoted to, or preoccupied with, the senses or appetites; voluptuous... Food, drink, Dionysian indulgences, passion, obsession dominate AstridL's collection of erotic stories. Some are amuse-bouches, 'By the Skin of the Nose, ' and others a groaning-board of orgiastic excess. I loved 'Dancing with Chopsticks'...