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Other Titles by Susie Bright

The Best American Erotica, 1993–2007 (editor)

Inspired by Andrea: Essays on Lust, Aggression, Porn, & The Female Gaze

Three Kinds of Asking for It (editor)

Three the Hard Way (editor)

Mommy’s Little Girl: Susie Bright on Sex, Motherhood, Porn, & Cherry Pie

How to Write a Dirty Story

Full Exposure

The Sexual State of the Union

Nothing But the Girl (with Jill Posener)

Herotica, 1, 2, and 3 (editor)

Sexwise

Susie Bright’s Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex World Reader

Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World

Susie Bright’s Journal

Copyright

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2008 by Susie Bright

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Dedication

This edition of The Best American Erotica
is dedicated to the memory of my father and
editorial guru, Bill Bright

Contents

Introduction

Rowan ElizabethHalves

Alicia GiffordSurviving Darwin

Eloise ChagrinPlaying Doctor

Debra BoxerInnocence in Extremis

G. BonhommeThe Program

Eric AlbertThe Letters

Haddayr Copley-WoodsThe Desires of Houses

Greg BoydHorny

Jennifer D. MunroPinkie

Joe MaynardFleshlight

Greta ChristinaAre We Having Sex Now or What?

Marian PhillipsThree Obscene Telephone Calls

Patrice SuncircleTennessee

Thomas S. RocheUp for a Nickel

Martha GarveyThe Manicure

Susan St. AubinThis Isn’t About Love

Steven Saylor writing as Aaron TravisBlue Light

Tsaurah LitzkyEnd-of-the-World Sex

Steve AlmondA Jew Berserk on Christmas Eve

Serena MolochCasting Couch

Nelson GeorgeIt’s Never Too Late in New York

Susannah IndigoThe Year of Fucking Badly

Susie BrightStory of O Birthday Party

Top of the 15th: Best American Erotica’s Authors, 1993–2008

Readers’ Directory:
The Most Influential Erotic Editors, Journals, and Web Sites of the Past 15 Years

Contributors

Credits

About the Editor and Author

Introduction

This is the fifteenth anniversary of The Best American Erotica series, and my last turn as editor.

Whew.

In this volume, I’ve invited some of my favorite storytellers to make an encore appearance. I interviewed each author, and asked:

What inspired you to write your story in the first place? How do you see it, now, compared to when you first wrote it?

When Debra Boxer first penned “Innocence in Extremis,” she was deliberately and publicly a virgin. When Greta Christina wrote “Are We Having Sex Now or What?” she demanded to know what authentic sexual connection was made of in the first place.