Best Women's Erotica 2004

by Sheiner, Marcy

• ISBN13: 9781573441810
• ISBN10: 1573441813
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-23
• Publisher: Cleis Press

Summary

Presenting the sexiest, most honest women's erotica of the year in a single collection - Best Women's Erotica 2004. Loved by both readers and critics, this sexy number offers an assembly of stories that have raised the bar for women's erotic writing. For 2004, editor Marcy Sheiner has gathered a superb batch of passionate stories that explore the variety and emotional depth of female desire. Best Women's Erotica 2004 tells the truth about women's sexuality, with all its surprises, twists and turns.

Author Biography

Lisa Archer is the alter ego of a San Francisco-based writer. Her fiction has appeared in Best Bisexual Women's Erotica; Best Women's Erotica 2002; Five Minute Erotica; Awakening the Virgin 2; Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person; and other anthologies. Kathleen Bradean lives in Los Angeles, where her long commute allows her lots of time for wicked little thoughts. Several of her short stories have been featured on erotica, scifi, and horror websites. Tenille Brown resides in South Carolina with her husband and two children. Her first novel, What It Looks Like from the Outside, is set for publication in 2004. She is currently working on the first novel of a three-book series. Tulsa Brown is an award-winning Canadian author who donned a hat and dark glasses and crept over genre lines in the middle of the night. Her mother thinks she's writing something scholarly. Shh. Rachel Kramer Bussel (www.rachelkramerbussel.com) is the reviser of The Lesbian Sex Book, coauthor of The Erotic Writer's Market Guide, and coeditor of the erotica anthology Up All Night. Her writing has been published in Adult Video News (print and online), Bust, Curve, Diva, Girlfriends, On Our Backs, Oxygen.com, Playgirl, Rockrgrl, The San Francisco Chronicle, and over twenty erotic anthologies, including Best Women's Erotica 2003 and Best American Erotica 2004. Rosalind Cary's first stab at smut was intended as a gift for a boyfriend, and landed her the prized "Best Lay of the Month" honor in Penthouse Letters Magazine. Cary was so inspired that she decided to write stories as gifts to herself. She has recently been published in Cliterature and is honored to be included in Best Women's Erotica. She lives in New York. Elena Coats is a Wisconsin-based secretary who uses erotica to shape her naughty thoughts. She has enjoyed all forms of writing since she was old enough to hold a pen, and must have something good to read at all times. "Rococo" is her first published story. Sacchi Green ([e-mail]) lives in western Massachusetts, with occasional forays into the real world. She's published fiction in five volumes of Best Lesbian Erotica, two previous volumes of Best Women's Erotica, as well as in Best Transgender Erotica, The Mammoth Book of New Erotica '03 (the prequel to this story), Penthouse, and a knee-high stack of other anthologies with very inspirational covers. Cameron Haus grew up in a steel town in southern Ontario, not far from Buffalo. She couldn't wait to leave. Today she lives with her partner and feline family in Toronto. She likes to make up stories about people she sees on the street, in malls, and, in this case, at Disney World. Honest. Rachel Heath has been published in Ripe Fruit, A Movement of Eros: 25 Years of Lesbian Erotica, On Our Backs, The Spanke Shoppe, Stand Corrected Jr., and Bad Attitude. She enjoys lying in bed, listening to the radio and reading-among other things. Adhara Law is a former scientist turned writer living in Southern California with her husband, though she calls Wyoming her real home. Her work has appeared both in print and online over the years, and she enjoys indulging in the digital ego project that is www.adharalaw.com. Lisa Prosimo's stories, articles, and essays have appeared in anthologies, journals, and online forums. She lives in Northern California with her husband and several thousand grapevines. When she isn't writing, you'll find her traipsing the Sonoma hills sans shoes, her feet stained a curious purple. Teresa Noelle Roberts is a fiction writer, poet, Middle Eastern dancer, and gardener, among other time-consuming avocations. Her erotic fiction has appeared in Ripe Fruit, Stars Inside Her, The Phonebook.com, satinslippers.com, Touch Words II and Moist. She is one of the two writers behind the pseudonym Sophie Mouette, whose work has appeared in Moist and StoryMistress. Maria Elena De La Selva was born in Panama and grew up in a temporary clearing now being reclaimed by the jungle. She lives in Seattle, where she cofounded the School Alliance Program at the Richard Hugo House, an urban writing center. She is a winner of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference Poetry Contest. Helena Settimana lives in Toronto, Canada. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared online at Scarlet Letters, Clean Sheets, and Dare. In print, her work has been featured in many anthologies, including Best Women's Erotica 2001 and 2002, Erotic Travel Tales, Best Bisexual Women's Erotica, and From Porn to Poetry: Clean Sheets Celebrates the Erotic Mind. She moonlights as Features Editor at the Erotica Readers and Writers Association (www.erotica-readers.com). Danielle Smith's stories and novels have appeared in many print and electronic publications, including Penthouse Variations. Her flash fiction received a turn as "Author-of-the-Month" at Amoret Online. She's also an active participant in the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, which first published "Brushing Back the Years" for its gallery. Susan St. Aubin has recent work in Best American Erotica 2003 and Best Women's Erotica 2002. She is currently fascinated by the intersection of sex and politics, due to her own inappropriate attraction to Donald Rumsfeld. Lana Gail Taylor's stories have appeared in Best Bisexual Women's Erotica; Ripe Fruit: Well-Seasoned Erotica; Bedroom Eyes: Lesbians in the Boudoir; Playgirl; Clean Sheets; Mind Caviar; and Blithe House Quarterly. Oscar Wilde said, "Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, this is the proper aim of art." So Lana dedicates this lie to Sally, RIP. Sage Vivant operates Custom Erotica Source (www.customeroticasource.com). Her work has appeared in The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 2003, Best Bondage Erotica, Naughty Stories from A to Z (II), Naughty Fairy Tales, Down and Dirty, Short and Sweet, and Juicy Erotica. She is coeditor, with M. Christian, of the anthology Leather, Lace and Lust. Gabriella West is the author of Time of Grace (Wolfhound, 2002). She earned an M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 1995. Her work has appeared in the Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly, as well as the anthologies Early Embraces; Hot Ticket: Tales of Lesbians, Sex and Travel; and Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica. She lives in San Francisco and is at work on a novel.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Say Yes to Everything	ix
Marcy Sheiner
Cutting Loose	1	(15)
Maria Elena de la Selva
The Captain and Claire	16	(18)
Gabriella West
Synesthesia	34	(10)
Teresa Noelle Roberts
Rococo	44	(7)
Elena Coats
Menage a Cart	51	(5)
Adhara Law
What She Was Thinking	56	(15)
Helena Settimana
The Mystery of the Perverts	71	(6)
Rachel Heath
Alternate Lives	77	(19)
Sacchi Green
The Great Name and the Novice	96	(13)
Tulsa Brown
Doing the Dishes	109	(9)
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Brushing Back the Years	118	(6)
Danielle Smith
Club Hopping in Paris	124	(8)
Lisa Archer
Grit	132	(7)
Kathleen Bradean
Danke Schoen	139	(7)
Cameron Haus
Lemon-Lime Firefly Girl	146	(8)
Lana Gail Taylor
Vive L'Erotique	154	(13)
Sage Vivant
The Whore You Really Are	167	(5)
Rosalind Cary
Tradition	172	(20)
Lisa Prosimo
Dissolve	192	(7)
Tenille Brown
A Love Drive-By	199	(18)
Susan St. Aubin
About the Authors	217	(5)
About the Editor	222