The final edition of the bestselling Best American Erotica series, featuring erotic stories by: Susie Bright, Steven Saylor, Greta Christina, and Alicia Gifford. In Susie Bright’s own contribution, Story of O Birthday Party, she recounts her lover’s elaborately orchestrated birthday gift: a re-creation of Pauline Réage’s classic S/M tale, with Susie at the center of the action. Joe Maynard enters a love/hate relationship with a two-million-dollar sex toy in Fleshlight. Greta Christina’s Are We Having Sex Now or What? asks the provocative question: What defines authentic sexual connection and experience? Included in this collection:Halves by Rowan Elizabeth Surviving Darwin by Alicia Gifford Playing Doctor by Eloise Chagrin Innocence in Extremis by Debra Boxer The Program by G. Bonhomme The Letters by Eric Albert The Desires of Houses by Haddayr Copley-Woods Horny by Greg Boyd Pinkie by Jennifer D. Munro Three Obscene Phone Calls by Marian Phillips Tennessee by Patrice Suncircle Up for a Nickel by Thomas S. Roche This Isn’t About Love by Susan St. Aubin Blue Light by Steven Saylor, writing as Aaron Travis Previously published as Best American Erotica 2008.
