The Center of the Universe: Volume 8, Chapters 34-38

When Douglas begins an affair with his stunning yet prim colleague, Nguyet, neither of them suspects how turbulent their liaison will become. Over the years, not only their intimacy and audacity grow, but also their susceptibility to temptation. On their journey of unbridled lust, they meet others who are equally liable to sin, so that eventually an orgy circle forms in their sleepy little town in the center of Vietnam. While Douglas' muse Nguyet is heavily pregnant, her sweet colleague Thuy is longing for sensual pleasures, and so they arrange to meet for a tender tryst, before a ravishing assistant at work seems open to offering herself. At a café, Ngan and Douglas have a grand time, diving into the quirkiness of the Vietnamese language, until a cosmic event literally forces them to rush back to her modest abode. Nguyet has just given birth, when Douglas bumps into Thuy again at the supermarket. Together, they call the freshly-minted mother, who then relays Douglas' ribald plans to Thuy. In the penultimate installment here, Douglas receives a surprise visitor at his home, before he meets Ngan, the teaching assistant, for another cosmic loin twirl. All novellas here are told in a charming, light-hearted and very revealing manner while, in passing, each chapter also offers insights into Vietnamese culture. Without taboos, all episodes explore the sources and dynamics of erotic desire and lure the reader under the spell of an exotic world. The author of this extensive series of erotic stories has been enjoying Southeast Asia for ten years now. After living in Germany and the U.S. for most of his life, Douglas ventured in the opposite direction in 2010: first, he taught at a community college in the South Seas for three years, before settling in Vietnam. Naturally, all novellas reflect his undying love for young Southeast Asian women.