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  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Introduction

  SALAMANDER

  EXPOSING CALVIN

  THE TOW JOB

  STOP ’N BUY

  NORMAL

  ROAD CREW COCK

  BLUSH

  THE SPANKING SALON

  ON THE VERGE

  SUSANNA

  MEET ME AT THE SPANISH STEPS

  DIRECTOR LADY

  BEING HIS BITCH

  LAST CALL

  HIGHLY INSPIRED

  AIR CONDITIONING. COLOR TV. LIVE MERMAIDS.

  NIGHT SCHOOL

  THE FATTENING ROOM

  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  ABOUT THE EDITOR

  Copyright Page

  INTRODUCTION:

  SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS

  This book is a sex toy.

  Each story draws a map from where you’re sitting right now, straight along the shortest path, to arousal. Like me, you’ll read these stories and encounter familiar landmarks set like furniture within your sexual psyche—but in the hands of these supremely talented authors, they don’t look quite like you’ve always remembered them.

  With a one-track mind, Josie ponders human anatomy and what kinky things to do with that anatomy as she sees the players’ balls and bats. She likes to feel the balls of her men slapping her pussy lips repeatedly like last week in the library, bending over the table.

  But today she wants something a little different.

  She wants to feel the hard equipment push into her backside while she bends over, pushing backward, and she wants the guys to enter her in a tight, juicy hole a little higher than they’re used to. She wants to bend as if in prayer, as if she were offering her body, and for the guys to give her absolution because sex is her religion.

  —Rosalia Zizzo, “On the Verge”

  I took a hard look at the world and business of erotic writing before I started work on this collection of stories. The genre is experiencing seismic shifts. Erotica collections are a dime a dozen these days, and explicit novels of lowered quality become bestsellers. Women want good porn, but many people still think that’s scandalously breaking news—and continue to sell us soft-serve when we want hard candy.

  When he handed her the ice-cream bowl, she purred like Eartha Kitt, “I eat ice cream, you eat me?”

  “That’s the idea,” Jeremy replied before diving at her left thigh. The caramel spread across her flesh was heavy and sweet, and he licked it like an animal, working his way up for chocolate from her belly and marshmallow from her breast.

  —Giselle Renarde, “The Fattening Room”

  The stories in Best Women’s Erotica 2013 are designed to do three things: turn you on, show you sex with the lights on and transport you into a scene so expertly crafted that you’ll revisit it like a hot porn loop in your head long after the book is closed. Each of these scenes holds a promise of delightfully nasty replays for a quick turn-on—just as sure as I can promise you’ll wonder how long you’ve had your thighs clenched as you page to the next story, eager to consume the next riveting fuck.

  He can be smooth when he wants to be. Charming, even. Lots of girls liked him, before I got him.

  But lots of girls probably wouldn’t understand him saying—smoothly, of course—“Would it be such a bad idea if we played that game again?”

  —Charlotte Stein, “Normal”

  Making this edition of Best Women’s Erotica live up to these promises was no easy feat. But it was the necessary outcome of the problem I was faced with after the last edition was released. Modern erotic writing is struggling for its next Anaïs Nin, its Pauline Réage, its A. N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice), its Emmanuelle Arsan. Looking around at the turbulent landscape of erotic writing in a time when, more than ever before, the most popular erotica was also the most disappointing, it was clear that erotic fiction was having an identity crisis.

  …I followed him inside, through to a room with black walls and bare wooden floorboards, lit only by the light of flickering candles in wrought-iron holders. Masked men in formal wear stood round in twos and threes, chatting and sipping champagne.

  It struck me this place resembled nothing so much as a miniature version of the gentleman’s clubs where discreet networking took place and business deals were struck. A haven where no women intruded and who you knew was more important than what you knew.

  —Elizabeth Coldwell, “The Spanking Salon”

  To become the promise I describe in the first two paragraphs of this introduction, Best Women’s Erotica had to demonstrate what the popular new erotic books can’t quite seem to grasp: that so-called “women’s erotica” is really about superlative writing and believable characters who have hardcore, explicit sex at the dizzying heights of exquisite fantasy with the lights on, and you, the reader, get to see everything.

  I decided that to find the very best stories of the year, stories that were about women living out their unflinchingly explicit sex fantasies (and not overwrought stories starring stereotypes), I had to go about finding stories differently than had ever been done for any edition of the series.

  I’m thinking about Aurora, about her pressing her ass against him, about her whispering in his ear.

  “I’d want her to suck your cock while I lick her pussy,” I say, suddenly grateful for the cool air, for the fact that I can close my eyes and hear all the city sounds roaring around me and not think quite as much about how that idea makes me blush, makes me shake, makes me—who thought I was so sophisticated and blasé about strippers—tingle as his fingers slide inside me.

  —Rachel Kramer Bussel, “Exposing Calvin”

  Rather than putting up a call for submissions for five months and reading through the hundreds of stories that came in, I did this—and much more. Knowing that a number of high-quality erotic anthologies had come out in the beginning of the year, and more were set for release at the end of the year, I reached out to erotica editors around the world.

  I asked the writers at the top of the genre—of all the stories they’d read through and selected as the finest for their collections, which stories had they read that they thought were the best? Which stories were the most memorable, and who was the hottest erotic writer they’d worked with?

  Now he stood behind Amanda, just as she had done, resting his cock in the crease. He worked the mazes of her ears with his tongue—had a hand caressing her face and lips, another for her breasts—and every so often rocked her suddenly backward, so she could feel him getting harder.

  —Eliani Torres, “Salamander”

  At the same time I was pestering editrixes far and wide, I looked up erotic authors that were prolific, were favorites online and had loyal fan followings, and whose talent currently cut a swath through the genre. I emailed a selection of these gifted women and asked, which of their stories in the past year did they think were their very best? And, had they read anyone else’s erotica that they thought was stunning, arousing?

  Say you want a guy to tie you up, and you might win a raised eyebrow. Ask for a spanking, and there’s a pussy type of man who will raise his hand—not to smack your ass, but in protest—and tell you he doesn’t go in for that sort of thing.

  But confess what you really desire, what keeps you up in the night, is to have a line of men take turns fucking you, and you’ll find out who your friends truly are.

  —Alison Tyler, “Last Call”

  My task was set: to track down as much of this erotica as I could find, to hunt and consume all the recommendations my sources offered. I had my work cut out for me. I read outside the lines of my recommendations, too—once people sent me soon-to-be-published manuscripts, it just made sense for me to read all the stories, in
fear of missing something hot.

  I read hundreds and hundreds of stories—and I’ll bet you didn’t know that so much erotica was being produced each year. It is: and I’ll bet you also don’t know—not just yet—that a hell of a lot of it is excellent. It is.

  I wanted to picture it; wanted to know how he took off his clothes, if he did it slowly or with a boyish smile, or if his clients preferred to unwrap him like a gift.

  I wanted to know his techniques for pleasing clients; if he was better at being forcefully passionate or tender and sensitive. I wanted to know if he preferred men or women.

  I wanted to know what it would be like if I hired him.

  —Valerie Alexander, “Night School”

  What you hold in your hands is a distillation of all this. Hot scenarios by cream-of-the-crop writers, literary porn that doesn’t fade out when the sex starts. Instead, each tale is fast-acting aphrodisiac.

  I hope you use this book like the sex toy that it is.

  Violet Blue

  San Francisco

  SALAMANDER

  Eliani Torres

  She had hoped the sex would be bad. It would serve her right. The blond man Amanda brought home from the park shrugged when she told him she was horny, nothing more—a kind of forgiveness. His name was Sal, like her first high school boyfriend, Salvador Acosta, a church kid who was fearless and raunchy but brushed his teeth before and after oral sex, and made her do the same. Hearing the name again reminded Amanda of standing naked with the skinny boy in front of his parents’ twin sinks, squeezing toothpaste, gargling cinnamon mouthwash. A marble Saint Theresa had stood on the counter, all patience every time she watched them spitting pink foam into the swirling waters to either side of her.

  But the sex was good after all, that first rough fuck in the hallway between bedrooms, loud and embarrassing in her empty house. They were in fuller voice the second time around, exclamations and murmurs, questions and whispers, traveling each other’s bodies and responses. She ran her palms over Sal’s hair, a vulnerable fuzz of stubble that drew her hands to it like velvet. She put her nose to his scalp, the fold of his neck, her lips to the place where his biceps tucked against his sides, and breathed in his smell: as clean as new laundry, and she could just keep inhaling while he made fists in her hair, she could keep pulling air deeper and fuller into her lungs, caught by the sleek sweet undertone of his skin. He smelled to her like wonder and like trust maybe. So she latched on to his nape with her teeth, groaning, felt him drop his chin to watch her moving hands, which she had snaked around his flanks to the front of him, as though they were his own.

  She thought he would come: the first of it slippery along the inside of her wrist. She’d palmed and squeezed, sliding back and forth, his sheath stretching thin on the upstroke, gathering in soft folds on the way down. But instead Sal reached behind abruptly and pulled her before him; he liked lifting or tipping or lowering her into place—adjusting her—and she wanted to be handled. He was slowing them both down, getting her hotter. Amanda was already sinking to her knees, but instead he put her fingers in between her legs for her, and made her keep them there. He stroked a gloss along each of her hip bones.

  Now he stood behind Amanda just as she had done, resting his cock in the crease. He worked the mazes of her ears with his tongue—had a hand caressing her face and lips, another for her breasts—and every so often rocked her suddenly backward, so she could feel him getting harder. She stroked her swelling clit, and the moment he yanked at her nipples—tugging them down as far as she could stand it, running his tongue between her shoulder blades—she frothed onto her fingers, saying that she was, she was going to, she was coming. Only when her balance teetered did he turn her around. She was laughing; he was laughing.

  Watching her lover suck her fingers clean one and two at a time, Amanda was thinking of the boys who knew her while she was trying not to become the woman she was right now. That first Sal working a furled hand tight inside her; opening herself to Ruben, who even cried once, and then to Otis in college; a summer spent craving the salt of Malik, which she let course down the back of her throat—she remembered they had been sincere. They hadn’t known yet not to keep the promises their bodies made. The men who would love her later, she met after she had forgotten what it was to be worshipped by a young thing simply for being one herself. Like this.

  She could not believe the beauty in this unfamiliar face, in eyes clearer and kinder than she had expected, in the tremble of his straining arms, and in his subtle vanities—determined to please her, he’d shake his head at himself when he could tell he’d missed something of her—it all made her forget where on their bodies they were touching and where they were not. She could taste all the wants and the delays of her life, with one sharp inhalation, and then another, if he only held her crumpled against him, if he only doubled her knees back against her chest.

  She climaxed again beneath his driving jaw, urging him with yeses, closing her eyes tight, and then heard him give one last noisy lick when she had gone quiet, which made her yelp. Sal poised himself over her belly to finally come, holding her right foot in his left hand to push it back in her direction. He let her know he wanted to get a look at the glaze of her cunt, to see its darkened lips stretched. She groaned at the sound of his voice, so hushed and turned on, and opened herself even more, pulling on one knee and plucking at her nipples. He bit his lip at the sight of her, the stroking both faster and tenser, faint sticky sounds in the moments before he lost control. He jetted a few times—saying, Here it comes; saying, Oh, god; saying, Oh, fuck baby—hot on her belly. They swayed apart while their breath returned to them.

  Sal dragged a knuckle across her and painted her chin with it, went back to kissing her, and now his prick squelched in that slickness between their bodies, which melted and tickled her sides where it ran down her ribs. When they peeled apart, she would not look at his eyes, but focused on his chest, those places where his pale hair was gelled by sweat. She wouldn’t speak.

  He sat quietly with her now, on the edge of her bed, setting his cool foot atop hers affectionately, barely damp. He was curling his toes every few seconds, gently gripping her foot. They faced the brass-edged mirror of her closet a long while, looking at themselves. They didn’t assume the luxury of passing out together, interlocked, as she might have wanted, as she wouldn’t suggest. A clock ticked on the wooden nightstand, keeping time for her, a slow metronome that would in a few minutes force her to make Sal dress himself and leave.

  Amanda’s hands were folded in her lap; she still hadn’t spoken. Sal had splayed his hands on his knees. She searched his face now, for love or blame, either one of which would have been unbearable. He told her softly that she would be okay. That she already was, didn’t she know that? When she nodded wonderingly, Sal shared another burning kiss. The kiss smelled and tasted of her—like wax, like smoke, like the inside of a wineglass—and held promises to herself that she forgot she had made.

  EXPOSING CALVIN

  Rachel Kramer Bussel

  “Let’s go to a strip club,” I say, my eyes lit up. I haven’t been to one in years, and certainly never with my husband. I can see right away from the way he looks at me that he doesn’t think we’re the type of people who go to strip clubs, all that judgment packed into one lift of his brow, a simple set of his jaw.

  “Honey, what? We are not too old. We’re forty-two and forty-five? I bet there’ll be guys in their seventies there!”

  We’re on a long weekend in New York City. The kids are with their grandparents. I’m full of energy and excitement and want to do something we can’t, or at least, don’t, do at home. Plus I want to show him something that used to be a part of my life. No, I was never a stripper, but I used to go to places like that with my girlfriends, just for fun. Calvin’s been once, and he said he felt dirty about it.

  “Marnie, I just don’t know. I don’t want to be the guy with his tongue hanging out looking like an idiot because a woman is taki
ng her clothes off. I don’t want them to laugh at me. Plus, I have you,” he tells me, walking toward me and pulling me close for a hug.

  My Calvin is a good man, a good husband, and still hot to me. He was never drop-dead gorgeous but he is sexy in his own way, with his big, slightly balding head, his big hands, nose, body. He’s six foot four and husky, whereas I’m a foot shorter and petite. Even when he’s not trying to slam me against the wall, a nudge from him in that direction and I’m wet as can be. I’m usually the sexual instigator, and I don’t mind. I have a higher sex drive than he does, but he’s never turned me down. I’ve been the one to introduce toys, to get him to relax enough to let me play with his ass while I blow him, to ask him to spank me. It’s not that Calvin’s repressed, but there is still a part of him that thinks that other people will care what we do in bed, that feels like someone—not necessarily G-d, but someone—is watching every time we do anything the least bit risqué.

  That makes me laugh because I’m not an exhibitionist, either, save for my occasional low-cut dresses, and if I thought someone was watching me get it on, I’d be self-conscious, too. We both grew up in small towns with Jewish families that were on the more buttoned-up side, but I escaped at eighteen and never looked back. Calvin, I’m afraid, is always on the verge of looking back, and in our thirteen years of marriage, my job has been to pull him forward, into both the future and the knowledge that he is an adult and can enjoy his body.

  Sometimes I do things just to shake him up, like when I went on my last business trip and gave him a bottle of lube and a porn DVD that I’d originally intended to take with me. “I think she’s hot,” I said, pointing to Jesse Jane. I knew he’d been tempted to roll his eyes at me—the blonde with the big boobs, really?—but then I pulled him down into our easy chair and started whispering in his ear, relaying the filthiest fantasy I could think of, one that ultimately involved his cock shoved between Jesse Jane’s breasts. By the time I took his cock out and started stroking it, he could barely last a minute. I know that inside him lurks the heart and soul of a pervy—a nice, friendly, pervy—guy, and I like to bring him out to play when I can.