Flying High
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“Heading back,” says Bob over the radio, and there’s a dip of Buttercup’s wings as he prepares to turn.
Leon’s hand twitches; I can sense his withdrawal. He’s behind me, slightly stooped to work his fingers over my cunt. But he’s also got his harness on and there’s no danger. So I close my legs, trapping his hand. My inner thighs are tight and muscled from the wing walking, and he can’t get away. He tries again, a tug, but his hand is trapped there as Buttercup banks around and heads back to the airfield.
Bob is still humming a Sousa march, and the sun is now hot on my face. Now that we’ve straightened out again, there’s not long until we’ll be on the ground. So I relax my thighs, free his hand, and Leon wiggles his fingers in appreciation. And then he starts to stroke in earnest, getting beneath my panties to caress my lips and circle my clit with an urgent fingertip.
I’m not sure if the ground is rushing up to meet me because Buttercup is coming in to land or if it’s just the thrill and the buildup. But there’s a tightness in my chest with the beauty and the glory of it all, and a trembling beneath my feet as Bob throttles back Buttercup’s engine. And Leon’s fingers are as fiery as the sun that burns my face and my world is tilting, the sky is falling or the ground is rising, and as Buttercup floats down out of the wide white sky, I come, screaming my joy into the wind.
Not a second too soon. Buttercup bumps down on the grass and we’re racing along, and Leon whips his hand away—I see his fingers shining with my juices—and we both grip the support tightly, totally unprepared for the landing.
Bob brakes and Buttercup meanders into her turn and taxis back to the hangar. I breathe slowly and deliberately, letting the world straighten itself again. I look over at Leon—my new partner—and smile, and he grins back with all the joy of flight in his eyes. The sun is golden on my face and Buttercup is steady beneath my feet. And here I am, on the wing, there with those that I love the most.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Written under the names Cheyenne Blue, Maggie Kinsella, and Charles LeDuc, CHEYENNE BLUE’s erotica has previously appeared in many anthologies, including previous volumes of Mammoth Best New Erotica, Best Lesbian Romance, Best Women’s Erotica, three of the Erotic Alphabet series from Cleis Press, Best Gay Romance, and many other anthologies and websites from 2001 to the present. She has several stories upcoming in various anthologies.
ELIZABETH COLDWELL is the editor of the UK edition of Forum magazine. Her short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies including Sex With Strangers, Best S/M Erotica 1 and 2, Yes, Sir and Spanked: Red Cheeked Erotica. She believes that occasionally you have to make your own in-flight entertainment.
MATT CONKLIN is a dominant dirty old man who is even dirtier when he writes. He has penned many smutty tales on lonely, horny airplane rides. His writing has also been published in Hide and Seek and He’s on Top.
DESIREE is a writer, foodie, and comic-book geek. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her cat Ramses and has always had an inclination toward the naughty. She once scored seventy-six points in Scrabble with the word clitoris. She blogs about sex and life at www.baserinstincts.com, where she dares you to find any words misspelled.
JEREMY EDWARDS is a pseudonymous sort of fellow whose efforts at spinning libido into literature have been widely published online and have appeared in numerous print anthologies. His greatest goal in life is to be sexy and witty at the same moment—ideally in lighting that flatters his profile. Readers can drop in on him unannounced (and thereby catch him in his underwear) at http://jerotic.blogspot.com.
RYAN FIELD is a thirty-five-year-old freelance writer who lives and works in both Los Angeles, CA and New Hope, PA. His fiction has appeared in many erotic collections and anthologies. He is currently working on a novel that is based on some of his erotic experiences.
STAN KENT is a chameleon-hair-colored former nightclubowning rocket scientist author of hot words and cool stories. A dedicated voyeur and world traveler, Stan has penned nine original, unique, and very naughty full-length novels including the Shoe Leather series and dozens of quickie reads on everything from spanking with shoes to cupcake sex to voyeuristic orgies to techno-rave group spankings on the dance floor. When not globe-trotting and jet-setting, Stan has hosted an erotic talk show night at Hustler Hollywood. The Los Angeles Times described his monthly performances as “combination moderator and lion tamer.” To see samples of his works, his latest hair colors and travels, visit Stan at www.StanKent.com or email him at stan@stankent.com.
BILL KTE’PI is a full-time writer who has written fiction, encyclopedia entries, textbooks, academic essays, and assorted copy, while cultivating tastes beyond his means. He’s currently on an extended layover in New England, and maintains a website at http://www.ktepi.com.
GENEVA KING (www.msgenevaking.com) has stories appearing in several anthologies including: Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2006, Best Women’s Erotica 2006, Ultimate Undies, Caramel Flava, and Travelrotica for Lesbians 1 & 2. A transplant to Northern Maryland, she’s constantly on the prowl for her next muse.
ZACH LINDLEY was born in Sheffield, England, raised in Oregon and Nevada, but considers his home town to be Earth. He loves to examine the power of sensuality with the inimitable magic of the written word. He owes a debt of gratitude to his wife Magdalene, who is the breath of life to his erotica.
SOMMER MARSDEN’s work has appeared in numerous online and print publications. Some of her favorites include: I Is for Indecent; J Is for Jealousy; Yes, Sir; Love at First Sting; Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2008; Forum UK; Oysters and Chocolate; and Clean Sheets. To keep track of Sommer and her work (and her fat red wiener dog) go to http://SmutGirl.blogspot.com or visit her website www.freewebs.com/sommermarsden.
TERESA NOELLE ROBERTS has turned a perverted mind and insatiable curiosity about other people’s sex lives into a career. Her short erotic fiction has appeared in dozens of anthologies, including Spanked: Red-Cheeked Erotica; Yes, Sir: Erotic Stories of Female Submission; Yes, Ma’am: Erotic Stories of Male Submission; Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women; Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women; Lipstick on Her Collar and several volumes of Best Women’s Erotica. She also writes as Sophie Mouette with coauthor Dayle A. Dermatis (Andrea Dale). Teresa loves to travel, but hates to fly.
THOMAS S. ROCHE’s short stories have appeared in more than four hundred anthologies, magazines, and websites. He has written, edited or coedited more than ten books, including the Noirotica series of erotic crime-noir stories and the short-story collection Dark Matter. He also blogs about sex, drugs and cryptozoology and occasionally podcasts erotic fiction at www.thomasroche.com.
CRAIG J. SORENSEN has been flying the friendly skies since he was six months old. He has been crafting stories nearly as long. His erotic works have appeared online on Clean Sheets, Oysters and Chocolate, Lucrezia, and Ruthie’s Club. He has had stories recently accepted for print anthologies.
DONNA GEORGE STOREY actually does love the smell of jet fuel on the breeze, morning, noon or night. Her erotica has appeared in many anthologies, including Yes, Sir; He’s on Top; She’s on Top; Best Women’s Erotica; The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica and Best American Erotica 2006. She is the author of Amorous Woman (Neon/Orion), the story of an American’s love affair with Japan and her steamy encounters with many men and women along the way. Read more of her work at www.DonnaGeorgeStorey.com.
Called a “trollop with a laptop” by East Bay Express and a “literary siren” by Good Vibrations, ALISON TYLER is naughty and she knows it. Her sultry short stories have appeared in more than eighty anthologies including Rubber Sex (Cleis), Dirty Girls (Seal Press), and Sex for America (Harper Perennial). She is the author of more than twenty-five erotic novels, most recently With or Without You (Virgin), and the editor of more than forty-five explicit anthologies, including J Is for Jealousy (Cleis), Naughty Fairy Tales from A to Z (Plume), and Naked Erotica (Pretty Things Press). Please visit www.alisontyler.com for more information or http://www.myspace.com/alisontyler if you
want to be her friend.
VANESSA VAUGHN is a twenty-something currently living in Dallas. After pursuing a short but successful career in nonprofit fundraising, she is now devoting herself to what she loves best: writing. Some of the many things that turn her on include vampires, tennis skirts, long cigarettes, any woman from a Wachowski Brothers movie, tattoos, uni, gold bullion, Stephen Colbert, WOW geeks, burlesque, and fine wine, in no particular order. This is her first published work.
In high school, KRISTINA WRIGHT was known as the girl most likely to be a writer—but no one could have predicted what this former “good girl” would end up writing. Kristina’s fiction has appeared in over fifty anthologies, including Best Women’s Erotica, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, and Bedding Down: Winter Erotica. She loves to travel, but she’s never run into an old boyfriend…yet. For more information about Kristina, visit her website, www.kristinawright.com.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL (www.rachelkramerbussel.com) is an author, editor, blogger, and reading series host. She has edited or coedited over twenty books of erotica, including Do Not Disturb: Hotel Sex Stories; Tasting Him; Tasting Her; Spanked: Red-Cheeked Erotica; Naughty Spanking Stories 1 and 2; Yes, Sir; Yes, Ma’am; He’s on Top; She’s on Top; Caught Looking; Hide and Seek; Crossdressing; Rubber Sex; Sex and Candy; Ultimate Undies; Glamour Girls; Bedding Down and the nonfiction collections Best Sex Writing 2008 and 2009. Her work has been published in over one hundred anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006, Zane’s Chocolate Flava 2 and Purple Panties, Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong, Single State of the Union and Desire: Women Write About Wanting. She serves as senior editor at Penthouse Variations, and wrote the popular “Lusty Lady” column for the Village Voice.
Rachel has written for AVN, Bust, Cleansheets.com, Cosmopolitan, Curve, Fresh Yarn, The Frisky, Gothamist, Huffington Post, Mediabistro, Newsday, New York Post, Penthouse, Play-girl, Radar, San Francisco Chronicle, Tango, Time Out New York, and Zink, among others. She has been quoted in the New York Times, USA Today, Maxim UK, Glamour UK, GQ Italy, National Post (Canada), Wysokie Obcasy (Poland), Seattle Weekly, and other publications, and has appeared on “The Martha Stewart Show,” “The Berman and Berman Show,” NY1, and Showtime’s “Family Business.” She has hosted In The Flesh Erotic Reading Series since October 2005, about which the New York Times’s UrbanEye newsletter said she “welcomes eroticism of all stripes, spots and textures.” She blogs at lustylady. blogspot.com and cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com.
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