Best Lesbian Erotica 2009

by Tristan Taormino

  I allow myself to think I’m going to get fucked. My pussy softens; my mouth is dry from panting; I listen as hard as I can, straining to hear the rip of a condom package, the unzipping of her trousers. Everything is very still.

  Then there’s the sound of something coming through the air, and in my dazed state, I don’t recognize it until the cane has caught my upper thighs so hard I fall forward, scraping my cheek on the rug. Right away, I’m sobbing. I haul myself back up and she mutters something, then the cane is falling on me like the breakers, no relief, no stopping, just pounding and pounding. I can’t take it. I do take it. I hardly notice when she brings the cane to my lips—I kiss it distractedly, weeping more softly now, and it hurts so bad. Did I say thank you like I was supposed to, or did I say, “Don’t leave me”? Sir doesn’t comment. She’s got a soft shammy cloth and is wiping me down like a horse who’s just had a hard run. Then she snaps her fingers and I’m back on the floor, pressing my burning cheek into the rug, slowly, slowly, letting myself relax. Sir is gentling me, and I smile secretly into the rug.

  “You’ve been a very good girl,” says Sir, still stroking me with the soft cloth. “But surely you remember there was some behavior from last week.”

  I tighten up again; she feels it and laughs. “Get up.”

  I push myself onto my knees. My entire back, my ass, my legs throb and burn. “Show me your breasts,” she says, then turns away to get something out of her bag. I kneel there with a breast in each hand, offering them to her. She comes back and quickly dresses one nipple in a clamp with a weight hanging from it. She sits on the couch with her legs spread and snaps. I stand in front of her and she takes the breast without the clamp into her mouth, tonguing the nipple so sweetly. She lets me stand there for a long time as she eats my tit, every once in a while reaching over to pull on the weight. I am moaning and writhing; she reaches around to slap my ass and I am immediately quiet and still. She slowly unclamps my nipple and I can’t hold back a yelp. Her mouth is hot and wet and she takes my sore nipple roughly, deftly clamping the other nipple now. She goes back and forth like that, back and forth, for a long time, until my breasts are a mess, until I can’t believe they’ve ever been an erogenous zone. Finally she takes the clamp off and I start to relax a little. When she pulls the snakebite kit out of her pocket I start to cry. “I can’t, Sir! I can’t!”

  She cocks her head and raises an eyebrow. Her lips are plump from sucking. “No?”

  I can’t stand not to please her. Still crying, I hold out my breasts. They feel as if a car has run over them on a gravel road. She nods, then puts the kit to one nipple, pumping it until I’m seeing stars. I sway and she releases the pressure, lifts off the kit, and puts her mouth there, her teeth. Then the other nipple. Back and forth. I can’t stop crying. I am hers. I am trying so hard to be good. Through my tears, I can see her look of pleasure as she pinches first one nipple, then the other, the snakebite kit forgotten beside her. She has her tools, but I know she prefers skin on skin, the strength of her own body, flesh against flesh. She snaps and I am on the floor, flooded with relief. She rests her boot on my head, rocking it back and forth.

  “Whose girl are you?”

  “Yours, Sir!” I say so loudly she laughs.

  “Well, perhaps for today. Now roll over and show me your cunt. Keep your eyes closed.”

  I whimper as I obey, eyes squeezed shut. I get onto my back so I can spread my pussy for her the way she taught me, legs wide, ass lifted, lips peeled back. I hate this position and I especially hate it when she makes me touch myself. But that doesn’t seem to be what she has in mind. At last, I hear her opening a condom, the small kissing noises it makes as she rolls it onto her dick. As sore as I am, my pussy is still ready. I still want it. She is pleased with me, she has to be. I took it all so well. I outdid myself. I smile another secret little smile. I allow myself to think that maybe this time, I’m going to get to come. I allow myself to think that now Sir will never leave me.

  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  D. ALEXANDRIA (d-alexandria.com), a Jamaican descendant, unapologetically wallows in perversion while residing in the Boston area. Published in the Best Lesbian Erotica series, Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2006, and under the pseudonym Glitter in GBF Magazine and Kuma2.net, she is currently penning her first collection of black lesbian erotica.

  RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL (rachelkramerbussel. com) has edited more than twenty erotic anthologies, including Glamour Girls: Femme/ Femme Erotica; First-Timers: True Stories of Lesbian Awakening; Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex; Yes, Sir; Yes, Ma’am; He’s on Top; She’s on Top; Caught Looking; Hide and Seek; Crossdressing; Sex and Candy; Rubber Sex; Spanked: Red-Cheeked Erotica; Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 1 and 2; and the nonfiction Best Sex Writing 2008. Her work has been published in more than one hundred anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006, Chocolate Flava 2, Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong, Single State of the Union, and Desire: Women Write About Wanting. She hosts In the Flesh Erotic Reading Series, is senior editor at Penthouse Variations, wrote the popular “Lusty Lady” column for the Village Voice, and has contributed to AVN, Bust, Diva, Fresh Yarn, Gothamist, Huffington Post, Mediabistro, Newsday, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York, and Zink. In her spare time, she blogs about cupcakes at cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com.

  JEAN CASSE is a San Francisco writer who collects religious icons. She has been published previously in Best Women’s Erotica 2007.

  DYLYNN DESAINT (dylynndesaint.blogspot.com) lives with her partner in the Southwest. An avid people watcher, Dylynn finds inspiration for her stories in everyday life and on her annual treks to the busy streets of New York City. Her work has appeared in Purple Panties: An Eroticanoir.com Anthology, Iridescence: Sensuous Shades of Lesbian Erotica, and Best Date Ever: True Stories that Celebrate Lesbian Relationships.

  LUCINDA L. FLANARY grew up in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. She has always been inspired to write, especially erotic short fiction and poetry. She has recently completed her first book of poetry and is working on a follow-up edition. She is currently living a small town Midwest life, but aspiring to fulfill her New England dreams.

  SHANNA GERMAIN (shannagermain.com) believes love takes many forms, and always arrives on wings of some kind. Her work, erotic and otherwise, has been widely published in places like Absinthe Literary Review, Best American Erotica 2007, Best Bondage Erotica 2, Best Gay Romance 2008, Best Lesbian Erotica 2008, and Salon.com.

  VICTORIA GIMPELEVICH (vocalminority.wordpress.com) is an evil (vegan) lesbian from San Francisco. She puts herself through college by modeling, writing, massage therapy, and other random stuff. She enjoys sex, punk rock, kittens, and cookies. All of her erotic writing comes from thorough research into the subject.

  SACCHI GREEN writes in western Massachusetts and the mountains of New Hampshire. Her stories have appeared in a hip-high stack of books with inspirational covers, including multiple volumes of Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Women’s Erotica, and The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. She has also coedited three anthologies of lesbian erotica, Rode Hard, Put Away Wet; Hard Road, Easy Riding; and Lipstick on Her Collar , with a fourth, Girl Crazy, in the works.

  NAIRNE HOLTZ is a Montreal-based author whom the Globe and Mail has identified as a “writer to watch.” Her first novel, The Skin Beneath (Insomniac, 2007), won the Alice B. Lesbian Debut Fiction Award and was a finalist for Quebec’s McAuslan First Book Prize. She is also the coeditor of No Margins: Writing Canadian Fiction in Lesbian (QPress, 2006), which was short-listed for a Lambda Literary Award.

  MOXZI LANTANA rides and writes mostly from the sultry American South, but loves to travel. She has won writing awards and been published in print and on the Internet in various venues. Her projects include novel length and shorter fiction when she is not distracted by a woman. Good thing she is a quick writer.

  THEA LETICIA is a Latina queer high femme switch with a passion for adjectives, transgressi
on, hard-packing butches, and social justice. Having discovered her queerness and kink thanks largely to some very naughty erotica, she has a strong commitment to making butches wet with her own paradoxical fantasies. When she isn’t busy baking daddies cookies, Thea is an activist, educator, writer, and performer.

  ZAEDRYN MEADE (zaedryn.com) is a queer butch writer whose erotica has been published in Penitalia: Collegiate Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica (2006 and 2007), Secret Slaves: Erotic Stories of Bondage, and Love at First Sting. Born and raised in the rainforest of Southeast Alaska, she now lives in New York City.

  EVAN MORA is a recovering corporate banker living in Toronto who’s thrilled to put pen to paper after years of daydreaming in the boardroom. She now subscribes to a “have laptop will travel” philosophy, and can often be found in coffee shops and downtown parks writing erotica and working on her first novel.

  Whether it’s erotica or more mainstream queer fiction, JODI PAYNE (jodipayne.net) prefers to read and write about real women with real flaws living real lives. Her lesbian work includes 2008 Eppie finalist For Better or Worse and several short stories including “The Good Life,” published in Torquere Press’s hot lesbian anthology, Under this Cowgirl’s Hat. Jodi lives and works in the Northeastern United States with her partner of seven years and their family.

  RADCLYFFE is a retired surgeon and full-time award-winning author-publisher with more than thirty lesbian novels and anthologies in print, including the Lambda Literary Award winners Erotic Interludes 2: Stolen Moments edited with Stacia Seaman and Distant Shores, Silent Thunder. She has selections in multiple anthologies including Best Lesbian Erotica (2006, 2007, and 2008), Best Lesbian Romance 2009, Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists, Hide and Seek, A Is for Amour, H Is for Hardcore, L Is for Leather, and Rubber Sex. She is also the president of Bold Strokes Books, one of the world’s largest independent LGBT publishing companies.

  JEAN ROBERTA teaches English in a Canadian university and writes in several genres. Her stories have appeared in approximately sixty print anthologies, including several editions of Best Lesbian Erotica. Three of her articles are included in the reference work LGBTQ America Today. Obsession, her collection of erotic stories in diverse genders and genres, is available from Eternal Press (eternalpress.ca).

  TERESA NOELLE ROBERTS turned her curiosity about other people’s sex lives into a career. Her erotica has appeared in Best Women’s Erotica 2004, 2005, and 2007, Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2007, Lipstick on Her Collar, Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2, The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica, and many other publications. She also writes erotica and erotic romance with Dayle A. Dermatis as Sophie Mouette. When not writing, Teresa spends too much time deciding what to wear.

  LISABET SARAI (lisabetsarai.com) has been writing and publishing erotica since 2000 and has three novels, two short-story collections, and two erotica anthologies to her credit. Her stories have appeared in more than two dozen collections including the past three years’ editions of The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Recently she began ePublishing with Total-E-Bound, Eternal Press, and Phaze. Lisabet also reviews erotica for the Erotica Readers and Writers Association and Erotica Revealed.

  TAWANNA SULLIVAN is the webmaster for Kuma (kuma2.net), a website that encourages black lesbians to write and share erotica. Her work has appeared in Longing, Lust, and Love: Black Lesbian Stories; Iridescence: Sensuous Shades of Lesbian Erotica; Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity; and Purple Panties. She lives in New Jersey with her civil union partner, Martina.

  Finding herself uninspired to write her doctoral dissertation, CHELSEA G. SUMMERS began writing her award-winning blog, pretty dumb things, in March 2005. Since then, her work has appeared in Penthouse, GQ, Scarlet, and New Woman magazines, as well as in erotic anthologies edited by Susie Bright and Rachel Kramer Bussel. Currently, Chelsea is working on a memoir about her life in men. Having gleefully abandoned the world of academia for that of writing, Chelsea lives and writes in glamorous New York City.

  LINDA SUZUKI works in Washington, D.C. as a writer of erotica. Secretly, she dreams of leaving it all behind to pursue her true passion—which is to write technical manuals for the federal government.

  JESSICA SWAFFORD (jnicole58@hotmail.com) is a queer femme dyke artist, recently returning to Asheville, NC, by way of San Francisco. She is working on two sci-fi queer smut novels. She has been a professional dominant, a Daddy, and is currently a teenage boi in femme drag. She loves butches. This is her first publication.

  SHARON WACHSLER (sharonwachsler.com or sickhumorpostcards. com) lives in rural New England with her partner and service dog. Her erotica has appeared in Best American Erotica (2004 and 2005), Periphery, Bed, Lipstick on Her Collar, and many other places. In 2006, the Astraea Foundation named Sharon an “Emerging Lesbian Writer” in fiction. She is the founder of Breath & Shadow (abilitymaine.org/breath), the first cross-disability literary journal written and produced exclusively by people with disabilities.

  ANNA WATSON is an old-school femme mom who lives with her two sons and her butch Beau near Boston, MA. Her passion for writing smut often gets subsumed by the daily marathon of baseball games, hip-hop classes, and science fair projects, but she does her best to keep sending out stories. Look for more butch/femme sexcapades in the two previous Best Lesbian Erotica anthologies, as well as in Fantasy: Untrue Stories of Lesbian Passion, on the Steamy Audio website, and forthcoming in the drag king anthology by Suspect Thoughts Press. In keeping with the computer age, she maintains a blog at queer-today. ning.com, putters about on butch-femme.com and madfemmepride. com, but is generally completely overwhelmed by the Internet and would prefer to just read a good book (or write one). She would like to thank Karen Friedland, who wrote the poem mentioned in her story.

  ABOUT THE EDITORS

  JOAN LARKIN (joanlarkin.com) is the author of My Body: New and Selected Poems, which received the Publishing Triangle’s 2008 Audre Lorde Award, and editor of A Woman Like That: Coming Out Stories by Lesbian and Bisexual Writers. Her books include Cold River, which received a Lambda Award, A Long Sound, Housework, and Sor Juana’s Love Poems (translated with Jaime Manrique). Larkin cofounded Out & Out Books during the feminist literary explosion of the ’70s, coediting the groundbreaking anthologies Amazon Poetry and Lesbian Poetry with Elly Bulkin and Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time with Carl Morse. She lives in New York.

  TRISTAN TAORMINO (puckerup.com and openingup.net) is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, and sex educator. She is the author of four books: Opening Up: Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships; True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn and Perversion; Down and Dirty Sex Secrets; and The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women. She is a columnist for the Village Voice and Hustler’s Taboo. She is the creator and original series editor of Best Lesbian Erotica, which has won three Lambda Literary Awards. She runs her own adult film production company, Smart Ass Productions, and is currently an exclusive director for Vivid Entertainment. For Vivid, she directs a reality series called Chemistry and helms its sex education imprint, Vivid-Ed, for which she has written, produced, and directed several titles including The Expert Guide to Anal Sex, The Expert Guide to Oral Sex 1: Cunnilingus, The Expert Guide to Oral Sex 2: Fellatio, and The Expert Guide to the G-Spot. Tristan has been featured in more than two hundred publications and has appeared on CNN, HBO’s “Real Sex,” “The Howard Stern Show,” “Loveline,” “Ricki Lake,” MTV, Fox News, the Discovery Channel, and on over five dozen radio shows. She lectures at top colleges and universities on gay and lesbian issues, sexuality and gender, and feminism, and she teaches sex and relationship workshops around the world. She lives in upstate New York with her partner and their three dogs.

  Copyright © 2009 by Tristan Taormino. Introduction copyright © 2009 by Joan Larkin.

  All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or online reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any for
m or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Published in the United States.

  eISBN : 978-1-573-44447-7

  “Hard To Get” © 2008 by Rachel Kramer Bussel first appeared in Purple Panties: An Eroticanoir.com Anthology edited by Zane (Streber Books, 2008); “Lipstick on Her Collar” © 2008 by Sacchi Green first appeared in Lipstick on Her Collar and Other Tales of Lesbian Lust edited by Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia (Pretty Things Press, 2008); “Spike” © 2007 by Jodi Payne first appeared in ebook format (Torquere Press, 2007); “Dream Date” © 2007 by Radclyffe first appeared in In Deep Waters: Erotic Excursions 1 edited by Karen Kallmaker and Radclyffe (Bella Books, 2007); “Tough Enough to Wear a Dress” © 2007 by Teresa Noelle Roberts first appeared in Crossdressing: Erotic Stories edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Cleis Press, 2007); “Velvet” © 2008 by Lisabet Sarai first appeared in ebook format (Eternal Press, 2008); “Stuck at Work and Late for a Date” © 2008 by Chelsea G. Summers first appeared in Yes Sir: Erotic Stories of Female Submission edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Cleis Press, 2008).