by Violet Blue
And then somehow, after many minutes of silence, of mouths opening and then closing, of words and thoughts gently tiptoeing back into our heads, pushing us over to what humans do best, we smiled at each other. He tumbled onto his back and pulled me on top, and we laughed, while a few errant tears raced down my cheeks. “I think I know what your next tat should be,” he said, doodling his finger against my right bicep. “Wild Animal—because you are.” Later, he sketched it for me, somehow managing to recreate the essence of what we’d done with elaborate gothic letters, a forest surrounding them, danger signs lurking amid beaded eyes and sharp teeth. For now, I’m just keeping his sketch in my pocket all day, so I can pull it out and look at it and be reminded of him, of us. There are some things I want the world to know about, things I can’t stand to have assumed so must emblazon them prominently, but Aidan and I together, well, that’s something else entirely. Besides, anyone watching closely enough when I smile just so, making my incisors gleam and my eyes flash, should be able to see the animal in me. And if they don’t, they’re just not looking closely enough.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
JANE BLACK lives with her compatibly pervy husband and their three kids in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her erotica and nonfiction have appeared in Good Vibrations Magazine (GoodVibes.com). She can be reached at [email protected].
KATHLEEN BRADEAN’s stories can be found in Amazons: Sexy Tales of Strong Women, Best of Best Women’s Erotica, Blood Surrender, and Garden of the Perverse, as well as Clean Sheets and the Erotica Readers and Writer’s Association website. Visit her blog at KathleenBradean.blogspot.com.
RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL is every bit as dirty as her story implies. She serves as Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations and writes the “Lusty Lady” column for the Village Voice. She’s editing such anthologies as Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 1 and 2, First-Timers, Up All Night, Ultimate Undies, Sexiest Soles, Secret Slaves, Glamour Girls: Femme/Femme Erotica, and Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists. 2007 sees the release of He’s On Top and She’s On Top, companion erotica anthologies dedicated to the thrill of dominance, and Sex and Candy: Sugar Erotica. Her writing has been published in over sixty anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006, as well as AVN, Bust, Cleansheets.com, Diva, Girlfriends, Playgirl, Mediabistro.com, the New York Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Punk Planet, and Zink. She hosts the monthly In The Flesh Erotic Reading Series in New York City. Visit her at rachelkramerbussel.com.
JEAN CASSE is a Bay Area writer who collects gloves, hand lotions, and antique manicure kits.
JENNIFER CROSS is a writer, writing group facilitator, and member of the erotica collective Dirty Ink. Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies (in some as Jen Collins), including Back to Basics, Best Fetish Erotica, Glamour Girls, and Naughty Spanking Stories A-Z (volume 2). As a survivor of sexual abuse, she is a strong advocate of the beautifully transformative power of smut. She lives and writes in San Francisco.
SCARLETT FRENCH is a short-story writer and a poet. She lives in London’s East End with her partner and a pugnacious marmalade cat. She is a dirty bisexual, complete with deviant monogamy. Her erotic fiction has appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica 2005, Va Va Voom, First Timers: True Stories of Lesbian Awakening, and Travelrotica for Lesbians. She is currently working on her first novel but is repeatedly distracted by the urge to write filth.
REEN GUIERRE likes sex with a twist. Her steamy stories always end with a little surprise. Her characters—far from being perfect—encounter the unexpected, experience uncertainties, and commit faux pas, but despite the ado, still manage to have great sex. Reen lives with her partner in the north woods where staying toasty warm on a winter’s night is as paramount as the pines are tall. Her stories have appeared in CleanSheets, Goodvibes, and Oysters and Chocolate (though not always under the same name). Contact her at [email protected].
SUSIE HARA lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her stories have appeared in several anthologies, including Stirring up a Storm, Best of Best Women’s Erotica, and Best American Erotica (under the pen name Lisa Wolfe). Writing erotic fiction is the most fun she’s ever had with a laptop.
THEA HUTCHESON burns up the pages with lust, leather, and latex, brims over with juicy bits in Best Lesbian Erotica 2001, 2002 and 2006, Hot Lesbian Erotica, Cthuthlu Sex Magazine, Amatory-Ink.com, and Hot Blood XI: Fatal Attractions. She lives in economically depressed, unscenic, nearly historic Sheridan, Colorado. When she’s not hard—or wet—at the computer, she’s a Tarot reader and teacher.
KAY JAYBEE is a nomadic thirtysomething with a collection of part-time jobs, who currently happens to be residing in the Grampians of Scotland. She writes during any spare moments she may have, providing she has plenty of black coffee at hand. Her fiction appears in Lips Like Sugar as well as Sex and Music. She has also recently become a contributor to the erotic website Oysters and Chocolate.
KAYLA KUFFS has been writing BDSM erotica and nonfiction for six years, and is the editor/owner of the online zine The Dominant’s View. Kayla’s writing has appeared in Whiplash, Leash, Prometheus, and Smut magazines, as well as various websites.
SOPHIE MOUETTE is the pseudonym of two longtime collaborators and long-distance lovers. Her first novel, Cat Scratch Fever, was published by Black Lace Books, and she has been published in Wicked Words (multiple volumes) and Best Women’s Erotica, among others. Individually, both authors are multipublished in erotica, SF/F, and romance.
Erotica by TERESA NOELLE ROBERTS has appeared in Best Women’s Erotica 2004 and 2005, Garden of the Perverse, FishNetmag.com, and many other publications. When not immersed in writing erotica and erotic romance, Teresa is a poet, belly dancer, and medieval reenactor.
RITA ROLLINS is an ex-dancer/model and aspiring erotica writer. She has been published anonymously in Hustler; this is her first credited publication. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her fiancé, who loves to read her bedtime stories.
DONNA GEORGE STOREY has great faith in the magic of words. Her fiction has appeared in Clean Sheets, Scarlet Letters, Taboo: Forbidden Fantasies for Couples, Foreign Affairs: Erotic Travel Tales, Garden of the Perverse: Fairy Tales for Twisted Adults, The Sexiest Soles: Erotic Stories About Feet and Shoes, Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 4 and 5, Best Women’s Erotica 2005 and 2006, and Best American Erotica 2006. Read more of her work at DonnaGeorgeStorey.com.
Called “a trollop with a laptop” by East Bay Express, ALISON TYLER is naughty and she knows it. Over the past decade, Ms. Tyler has written more than fifteen explicit novels. Her stories have appeared in anthologies including Sweet Life I & II, Taboo, Best Women’s Erotica 2002, 2003, and 2005, Best of Best Women’s Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, and Best Lesbian Erotica 1996, in Wicked Words 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10, as well as in Playgirl Magazine. Don’t miss her latest from Cleis Press, Exposed: The Erotic Fiction of Alison Tyler. She is the editor of Heat Wave, Best Bondage Erotica (volumes 1 and 2), Three-Way, and Merry Xxxmas (all from Cleis Press), as well as the Naughty Stories from A to Z series (Pretty Things Press). Please visit alisontyler.blogspot.com/.
Born in Cornwall, IRMA WIMPLE currently lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with her seven cats and one tame cougar. A former community college professor, she is a pastry chef by day; at night she is transformed into a torrid and prolific romantic fiction writer. A veteran of five marriages that she considers successful—in that they are over—Irma devotes her time to gardening, ice fishing, reading, and hiking.
JORDANA WINTERS is a Canadian writer whose work has appeared online at eXtasybooks.com, thermoerotic.com, oystersandchocolate.com, and free-sex-story.org. Jordana’s writing has also appeared in print form in the anthologies Best Women’s Erotica 2006, Uniform Sex, and Erotic Tales. When not hiding behind her computer telling filthy tales, Jordana is an often disgruntled white-collar worker. She spends much of her time reading, writing, doing as much and as little as possible, and pissing people off. Her web
site is jordanawinters.tripod.com.
KRISTINA WRIGHT’s short fiction has been published in over thirty anthologies, including Best Women’s Erotica 2000, four editions of the Lambda-award-winning series Best Lesbian Erotica, Sweet Life: Erotic Fantasies for Couples, Amazons: Sexy Tales of Strong Women, the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica (volume 5), Blood Sisters: Lesbian Vampire Tales, Ultimate Undies: Erotic Stories About Lingerie and Underwear, and Secret Slaves: Erotic Stories of Bondage. Her writing has also been featured in the nonfiction guide the Many Joys of Sex Toys and in e-zines such as Clean Sheets, Scarlet Letters, and Good Vibes Magazine. Kristina lives in Virginia with her husband and a menagerie of pets and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in humanities. For more information about Kristina’s life and writing, visit her website, kristinawright.com. And no, she has never made an obscene phone call, no matter what anyone says to the contrary.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
VIOLET BLUE is a professional sex educator, sex columnist, female porn expert, and pro-porn pundit. She is an author at Metblogs SF and is “girl Friday” contributor at Fleshbot.com. She is the editor of the Cleis Press anthologies Best Women’s Erotica series, along with Best Sex Writing 2005, Sweet Life: Erotic Fantasies for Couples, Sweet Life 2, Taboo: Forbidden Fantasies for Couples, and Lips Like Sugar: Women’s Erotic Fantasies. She is the author of many sex guides from Cleis Press, including the Smart Girl’s Guide to Porn, the Adventurous Couple’s Guide to Sex Toys, the Ultimate Guide to Adult Videos, the Ultimate Guide to Sexual Fantasy, the Ultimate Guide to Fellatio, and the Ultimate Guide to Cunnilingus, the latter two of which have been translated into French, Spanish, and Russian. Blue has appeared on Playboy TV’s Sexcetera, NPR, and CNN, and she has been featured in such publications as Esquire, Cosmopolitan, O, The Oprah Magazine, Salon.com, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Visit her website at tinynibbles.com, or listen to her podcast, Open Source Sex.
Copyright © 2006 by Violet Blue.
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eISBN : 978-1-573-44454-5
“Worth It” by Alison Tyler originally appeared in Luscious: Stories of Anal Eroticism edited by Alison Tyler (Cleis Press, 2006).