MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI is a London-based novelist and editor. He was born in the UK and educated in France. Following a career in book publishing, he opened the world-famous Murder One bookshop in 1988 and has since combined running it with his writing and editing career. He has edited a series of 14 bestselling erotic anthologies and two books of erotic photography, as well as many acclaimed crime collections. His novels include It’s You That I Want To Kiss, Because She Thought She Loved Me and On Tenderness Express, all three recently collected and reprinted in the USA as Skin In Darkness. Other books include Life In The World of Women, The State of Montana, Kiss Me Sadly and Confessions Of A Romantic Pornographer. In 2006 he will be publishing a major erotic novel which he directed and on which 15 of the top erotic writers in the world have collaborated, America Casanova, and his collected erotic short stories as Fools For Lust. He is a winner of the Anthony and the Karel Awards, a frequent TV and radio broadcaster, crime columnist for the Guardian newspaper and Literary Director of London’s Crime Scene Festival.
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THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF
Best
New Erotica
Volume 6
Edited and with an Introduction
by Maxim Jakubowski
ROBINSON
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First published in the UK by Robinson,
an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2007
Collection and editorial material copyright © Maxim Jakubowski, 2007
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Contents
Copyright & Acknowledgments
Maxim Jakubowski
INTRODUCTION
Marie Lyn
WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT GIRL
Cervo
FRIDAYS AT THE BENOIT
Sacchi Green
GOING POSTAL
Robert Buckley
THE EXCHANGE
Tara Alton
JENNY AND THE BIG BAD DEPARTMENT STORE
Catherine Lundoff
“VIVA LAS VEGAS”
William Starr Moake
TO DELPHINE, WITH LOVE AND J. D. SALINGER
Debra Gray de Noux & O’Neil de Noux
THE SHADOW OF WHITE DEATH
Shaun Levin
SHOES
Riain Grey
FIVE GIRLS
Tom Piccirilli
DOSTOYEVSKY
Aimee Nichols
THE MERCY OF STRANGE MEN
Amanda Earl
THE TRAVELLERS
Sage Vivant
APPETITES
Simon Sheppard
THE HULA-HULA GIRL
Lisette Ashton
PENNSYLVANIA HOTEL, 7TH AVENUE, NEW YORK
Kathryn O’Halloran
PHOTOS
Amanda Gannon
FULL BLOOM
J. D. Smith
HUMILIATION
Gwen Masters
LUCKY NUMBERS AND MARLBOROS
Maxim Jakubowski
EDWARD HOPPER DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
Alicia Wag
MAGMADOOTCH
Kathleen Bradean
ORBITING IN RETROGRADE
Wayne Courtois
TEN APOLOGIES
Lisabet Sarai
FIRE
Tsaurah Litzky
GUILT
Betti Mustang
THE CIGAR
Colleen Chen
STEEL TRAP PUSSY
Mike Kimera
EVE’S FREEDOM
Thomas S. Roche
THE WATERS OF AL ADRA
Rachel Kramer Bussel
SPIKE
Jean Roberta
SOUL SEARCH
J. D. Munro
FAIRY TAIL
K. L. Gillespie
ANOTHER ASSIGNATION WITH CHARLES BONNET
C. D. Formetta
EVERYTHING THAT YOU WANT
Clauda Lalumière
DIFFERENT FLESH
Kristina Wright
AT MIDNIGHT, IN THE MONTH OF JUNE
Susan DiPlacido
NEON NIGHTS
Stanfield Major
THE BLUES MAN
Larry Tritten
DREAM OF SHADOW, SHADOW OF LOVE
Marcelle Perks
ZOO PROWLERS
M. Christian
REGRETS
Donna George Storey
BLINDED
Copyright & Acknowledgments
Introduction & Selection © 2006 by Maxim Jakubowski.
FRIDAYS AT THE BENOIT by Cervo, © 2005 by Cervo. First appeared in EROTICA READERS AND WRITERS ASSOCIATION. Reprinted by permission of the author.
GOING POSTAL by Sacchi Green, © 2005 by Sacchi Green. First appeared in SUSPECT THOUGHTS. Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE EXCHANGE by Robert Buckley, © 2005 by Robert Buckley. First appeared in EROTICA READERS AND WRITERS ASSOCIATION. Reprinted by permission of the author.
JENNY AND THE BIG BAD DEPARTMENT STORE by Tara Alton, © 2005 by Tara Alton. First appeared in SLIP-TONGUE.COM. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“VIVA LAS VEGAS” by Catherine Lundoff, © 2005 by Catherine Lundoff. First appeared in STIRRING UP A STORM, edited by Marilyn Jaye Lewis. Reprinted by permission of the author.
TO DELPHINE, WITH LOVE AND J. D. SALINGER by William Starr Moake, © 2005 by William Starr Moake. First appeared in SLIPTONGUE.COM.
THE SHADOW OF WHITE DEATH by Debra Gray De Noux & O’Neil De Noux, © 2005 by Debra Gray De Noux and O’Neil De Noux. First appeared in BRUTARIAN QUARTERLY. Reprinted by permission of the authors.
SHOES by Shaun Levin, © 2005 by Shaun Levin. First appeared in A YEAR OF TWO SUMMERS. Reprinted by permission of the author.
FIVE GIRLS by Riain Grey, © 2005 by Riain Grey. First appeared in CLEAN SHEETS. Reprinted by permission of the author.
DOSTOYEVSKY by Tom Piccirilli, © 2005 by Tom Piccirilli. First appeared in NAUGHTY STORIES FROM A TO Z, VOL 4, edited by Alison Tyler. Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE MERCY OF STRANGE MEN by Aimee Nichols, © 2005 by Aimee Nichols. First appeared in PALMPRINT. Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE TRAVELLERS by Amanda Earl, © 2005 by Amanda Earl. First appeared in EROTICA READERS AND WRITERS ASSOCIATION. Reprinted by permission of the author.
APPETITES by Sage Vivant, © 2005 by Sage Vivant. First appeared in CONFESSIONS, edited by Sage Vivant and M. Christian. Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE HULA-HULA GIRL by Simon Sheppard, © 2005 by Simon Sheppard. First appeared in SKIN AND INK, edited by Jim Gladstone. Reprinted by permission of the author.
PENNSYLVANIA HOTEL, 7TH AVENUE, NEW YORK by Lisette Ashton, © 2005 by Lisette Ashton. First appeared in THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EROTIC PHOTOGRAPHY. Reprinted by permission of the author.
PHOTOS by Kathryn O’Halloran, © 2005 by Kathryn O’Halloran. First appeared in CLEAN SHEETS. Reprinted by permission of the author.
FULL BLOOM by Amanda Gannon, © 2005 by Amanda Gannon. First appeared in ANAISDOTFMK.COM. Reprinted by permission of the author.
HUMILIATION by J. D. Smith, © 2005 by J. D. Smith. First appeared in SATIRE. Reprinted by permission of the author.
LUCKY NUMBERS AND MARLBOROS by Gwen Masters, © 2005 by Gwen Masters. First appeared in RUTHIE’S CLUB. Reprinted by permission of the author.
EDWARD HOPPER DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE by Maxim Jakubowski, © 2005 by Maxim Jakubowski. First appeared in FOOLS FOR LUST. Reprinted by permission of the author.
MAGMADOOTCH by Alicia Wag, © 2005 by Alicia Wag. First appeared in CLEAN SHEETS. Reprinted by permission of the author.
ORBITING IN RETROGRADE by Kathleen Bradean, © 2005 by Kathleen Bradean. First appeared in EROTICA READERS AND WRITERS ASSOCIATION. Reprinted by permission of the author.
TEN APOLOGIES by Wayne Courtois, © 2005 by Wayne Courtois. First appeared in SUSPECT THOUGHTS. Reprinted by permission of the author.
FIRE by Lisabet Sarai, © 2005 by Lisabet Sarai. First appeared in FIRE AND OTHER STORIES. Reprinted by permission of the author.
GUILT by Tsaurah Litzky, © 2005 by Tsaurah Litzky. First appeared in THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST. Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE CIGAR by Betty Mustang, © 2005 by Betty Mustang. First appeared in CLEAN SHEETS. Reprinted by permission of the author.
STEEL TRAP PUSSY by Colleen Chen, © 2005 by Colleen Chen. First appeared in SLIPTONGUE.COM. Reprinted by permission of the author.
EVE’S FREEDOM by Mike Kimera, © 2005 by Mike Kimera. First appeared in CLEAN SHEETS. Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE WATERS OF AL ADRA by Thomas S. Roche, © 2005 by Thomas S. Roche. First appeared in TRANS FIGURES, edited by M. Christian. Reprinted by permission of the author.
SPIKE by Rachel Kramer Bussel, © 2005 by Rachel Kramer Bussel. First appeared in BEST WOMEN’S EROTICA 2006, edited by Violet Blue. Reprinted by permission of the author.
SOUL SEARCH by Jean Roberta, © 2005 by Jean Roberta. First appeared in BEST WOMEN’S EROTICA 2005, edited by Marcy Sheiner. Reprinted by permission of the author.
FAIRY TAIL by J. D. Munro, © 2005 by J. D. Munro. First appeared in CHIRON REVIEW. Reprinted by permission of the author.
ANOTHER ASSIGNATION WITH CHARLES BONNET by K. L. Gillespie, © 2005 by K. L. Gillespie. First appeared in CLEAN SHEETS. Reprinted by permission of the author.
EVERY THING THAT YOU WANT by C. D. Formetta, © 2005 by C. D. Formetta. First appeared in NAUGHTY STORIES FROM A TO Z, VOL 4, edited by Alison Tyler. Reprinted by permission of the author.
DIFFERENT FLESH by Claude Lalumière, © 2005 by Claude Lalumière. First appeared in SCIFI.COM. Reprinted by permission of the author.
AT MIDNIGHT, IN THE MONTH OF JUNE by Kristina Wright, © 2005 by Kristina Wright. First appeared in CLEAN SHEETS. Reprinted by permission of the author.
NEON NIGHTS by Susan DiPlacido, © 2005 by Susan DiPlacido. First appeared in RUTHIE’S CLUB. Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE BLUES MAN by Stanfield Major, © 2005 by Stanfield Major. First appeared in BOUND TO BE PLEASED AND OTHER STORIES. Reprinted by permission of the author.
DREAM OF SHADOW, SHADOW OF LOVE by Larry Tritten, © 2005 by Larry Tritten. First appeared in VA VA VOOM, edited by Astrid Fox. Reprinted by permission of the author.
ZOO PROWLERS by Marcelle Perks, © 2005 by Marcelle Perks. First appeared in NAUGHTY SPANKING STORIES FROM A TO Z, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. Reprinted by permission of the author.
REGRETS by M. Christian, © 2005 by M. Christian. First appeared in CONFESSIONS, edited by Sage Vivant and M. Christian. Reprinted by permission of the author.
BLINDED by Donna George Storey, © 2005 by Donna George Storey. First appeared in CLEAN SHEETS. Reprinted by permission of the author.
All efforts have been made to contact the copyright holders, either through their last-known e-mail address or care of the editors or magazines who published them. Should anyone who could not be reached thus and did not respond to our mails wish to make themselves known, contact Maxim Jakubowski c/o the publishers.
Introduction
Maxim Jakubowski
Another splendid year for erotic writing with a veritable avalanche of original anthologies being published all over the place and the emergence of many new talents. In addition, web magazines publishing fiction continue to proliferate and some of the best authors in the genre have offered us sterling collections regrouping some of their best stories from past years, whether from small presses or more often from important mainstream publishers. We are certainly living through a Golden Age of erotica.
One of the more pleasing aspects for this hardened veteran, as the Mammoth Erotica series reaches 13 volumes already (earlier books had individual titles before we began actually dating them . . .) is to witness many of our short story authors breaking through with their own books and novels, as the market steadily expands. Granted many of them are the jewels of my new Neon
list, but I am no longer the only acquiring editor around . . .
Many new names feature in this volume and, once again, I have attempted to present a fair balance of what is available from erotica writers today: from the sexy to the shocking, from the gender-twisting to the explicit, from the exciting to the dangerous.
Sex and emotions are the greatest gift humankind have been presented with and men and women alike have displayed singular talents to renew on an ever-ongoing basis their hardy exploration of the realms of lust, love and desire. This bumper book of short stories travels through the spectrum of bodies, feelings and taboos with bravura, I am sure you will recognize. The imagination is a powerful aphrodisiac, and I for one would hesitate to decide which of these hot tales are purely fiction and how many derive from real life. That ambiguity is just one the many pleasures of reading good erotic writing. It touches you in the most intimate places, it can educate you, it dares you to think (and even act) differently as the realm of the senses magically comes to life. It’s a carnival, a celebration and after following our adventures over 13 books, nearly 15 years, almost 7,000 pages and around 500 stories (and a thousand or so photographs in our illustrated incarnations, THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF EROTIC PHOTOGRAPHY (in America THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF ILLUSTRATED EROTICA) and THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF EROTIC WOMEN), I hope our loyal (as well as curious) readers will stay along for the ride for many years to come.
Savour these myriad delights . . .
Maxim Jakubowski
What Happened to That Girl
Marie Lyn
Christy, my fourth and final foster sister, disappeared from our home on the morning of her 18th birthday, three weeks before both Jason and I left for college in Santa Barbara. Now apparently Christy’s a porn star. Jason called me this morning at 9 a.m. to break the news.