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This month: sex at gunpoint, navel play, and feminine fisting. Rate each entry below in three categories: literary merit, heat and originality. Each month's highest-ranked entry will proceed to the year-end competition. Two winners of that contest will be announced: grand prize (as chosen by a panel of a celebrity judges) and readers' choice. The judges' pick will receive $1,934, commemorating the publication date of Tropic of Cancer.
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From How We Are Hungry
by Dave Eggers
(Vintage)
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OVERALL RATING: 5.690
 

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"Turn around," I said.
    She faced the shed, her back to me. I opened my coat and wrapped it around her, my arms joined at her stomach.
    "Warmer?" I asked.
    "Yes." She did a quick shake to indicate her coziness, pushing herself into me. I was already hard. I assume she noticed, because she stopped moving.
    I brought my mouth down to her ear and licked the top. She made no sound. I tightened my grip around her stomach and pulled her closer, throbbing against her. All was soaring, my head gone like buckshot. She reached around and rubbed my lower back, while I took her whole ear into my mouth and breathed hotly onto it. She bent her knees and turned to face me.
    "No," I said, turning her around again. I pulled her pants down and then my own.
    "What are you doing?" she asked.
    "I'm so..."
    I couldn't finish the sentence. ...read more
 

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"Turn around," I said.
    She faced the shed, her back to me. I opened my coat and wrapped it around her, my arms joined at her stomach.
    "Warmer?" I asked.
    "Yes." She did a quick shake to indicate her coziness, pushing herself into me. I was already hard. I assume she noticed, because she stopped moving.
    I brought my mouth down to her ear and licked the top. She made no sound. I tightened my grip around her stomach and pulled her closer, throbbing against her. All was soaring, my head gone like buckshot. She reached around and rubbed my lower back, while I took her whole ear into my mouth and breathed hotly onto it. She bent her knees and turned to face me.
    "No," I said, turning her around again. I pulled her pants down and then my own.
    "What are you doing?" she asked.
    "I'm so..."
    I couldn't finish the sentence.
    "What?" she breathed.
    "I just want..." I was feeling around between her legs, searching for moisture. I plunged my finger in.
    "Ah! That hurt."
    "Sorry," I said.
    I moved myself between her legs, passing just under her. It was warm, dry. I needed—
    "Wait," she said.
    "I can't," I said. I found my way in and pushed. My cheek pressed into the back of her neck, her smooth hair in my mouth. I lunged further. She spread her feet, her hand above her, palm flat against the shed. I stepped back, hands on her hips, and found my way fully inside. I felt huge within; it was so close, everything was. Her skin, exposed, was cold.
    I opened my eyes and looked around and there were three sheep, not twenty feet away, staring, motionless. The wind scraped at the two of us, very small in the valley. The sheep did not move.
    I couldn't keep my eyes closed, couldn't stop watching the sheep watch us. I was out of breath, I was frozen, dizzy. Without finishing I felt finished. I slipped out of her and stepped back. I buttoned my pants and backed away, in the path of the wind. The nickly shimmer of the moon sat blankly, doing nothing. click to close
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From "Fever Blisters" in Stirring Up a Storm
by Joyce Carol Oates
(Thunder's Mouth)
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OVERALL RATING: 3.477
 

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    Gamely, Virginia resumed massaging Douglas, as provocatively and as sympathetically as she could; for theirs was a bonded plight. She decided not to worry about the fever blisters, but kissed him full on the mouth. "My love! Yes!" Quickly, Douglas became hard, and, like a man rushing with a glass of water filled to the very brim, desperate to spill not a drop, very quickly he pushed himself into her, where she was rather dry, and parched, and feverish, but ready for him — "Oh yes!"
    How long then they labored together, like drowning swimmers, the roaring of the vacuum cleaner pervading the room, and the shabby bed nearly collapsing beneath their exertions, neither might have said. Virginia stared open-eyed past her lover's contorted face, where droplets of sweat gathered like tears, seeing that the ceiling seemed to be lifting — floating...
    The bed was jiggling so violently, Virginia didn't know if Douglas's accelerating pumping was causing it; or the damned maid, inconsiderately banging the bed with the vacuum cleaner nozzle. Maybe, when this was all over, Virginia would complain. ...read more
 

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    Gamely, Virginia resumed massaging Douglas, as provocatively and as sympathetically as she could; for theirs was a bonded plight. She decided not to worry about the fever blisters, but kissed him full on the mouth. "My love! Yes!" Quickly, Douglas became hard, and, like a man rushing with a glass of water filled to the very brim, desperate to spill not a drop, very quickly he pushed himself into her, where she was rather dry, and parched, and feverish, but ready for him — "Oh yes!"
    How long then they labored together, like drowning swimmers, the roaring of the vacuum cleaner pervading the room, and the shabby bed nearly collapsing beneath their exertions, neither might have said. Virginia stared open-eyed past her lover's contorted face, where droplets of sweat gathered like tears, seeing that the ceiling seemed to be lifting — floating...
    The bed was jiggling so violently, Virginia didn't know if Douglas's accelerating pumping was causing it; or the damned maid, inconsiderately banging the bed with the vacuum cleaner nozzle. Maybe, when this was all over, Virginia would complain.
    To encourage her lover, she began to moan softly. In pleasure, or in the anticipation of pleasure. Or in a fever-delirium?
    Seeing then, vividly as if the girl were sitting at her bedside, her own daughter, a petulant smirky high school girl of some years ago who had astonished Virginia by asking, suddenly, with no warning, one day when Virginia was driving her to a shopping mall, "you and Mr. Mosser — did you? When I was in grade school?" and Virginia blushed hotly, and stammered a denial, and her daughter interrupted her carelessly, saying, "Oh hell. Mother! — as if any of that matters now."
    Virginia wanted to protest, But doesn't everything matter?
    She opened her eyes to see her lover's sweaty beet-red face contorted above hers, veins prominent in his forehead, eyes narrowed to slits. His breath was so wheezing and labored, a dread thought came to Virginia: had Douglas died, too?
    "No. It isn't possible."
    She shut her eyes quickly to dispel the thought, and saw, at once, the most unexpected, and the most beautiful, of visions: Douglas Mosser, aged thirty-five, in a white T-shirt, shorts, sandals, leaning to her to extend a hand to her, Virginia, his friend's wife, to help her climb aboard his yacht; smiling so happily at her, his eyes shining; squeezing her fingers with such emphasis, she felt the shock in the pit of her belly. And she cried aloud, now, in room 555 of The Paradisio — "I did love you! I still do! It was worth it!"
    A fiery sensation immediately welled up in her loins, that part of her body that had felt nothing for so long; and shattered, yet continued to rise; and yet continued. Virginia clutched at her lover's sweat-slick body, weeping and helpless. As he groaned into her neck, "Ginny! Darling! I love you too!"
    The bed jiggled, sagged, clanged in a final shuddering spasm. click to close
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From "Confessions of a Sex Maniac" in San Francisco Noir
by David Henry Sterry
(Akashic)
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OVERALL RATING: 7.786
 

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The tip of my lip got the softest lick from her rough cat tongue as her other hand grabbed my package hard, knocking the air right out of me, while she shoved me back into the wall with a thud, her claws digging into my boys.
    And then I understood. This is her thing: Getting guys by the balls. Literally. Her grind finding mine, she dug in, yes it did hurt, but at the same time, pleasure shot to all my centers, all at the same time. Pleasure. Pain. Pain. Pleasure. I couldn't tell anymore where one ended and the other began. She dragged me back and forth fiercely, and I had never felt more alive in my entire life. She squeezeboxed me like a rhythm queen working overtime, working me over but good.
    I was now waiting to wake up overheated and covered in cold sweat from this dream.
    But no. ...read more
 

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The tip of my lip got the softest lick from her rough cat tongue as her other hand grabbed my package hard, knocking the air right out of me, while she shoved me back into the wall with a thud, her claws digging into my boys.
    And then I understood. This is her thing: Getting guys by the balls. Literally. Her grind finding mine, she dug in, yes it did hurt, but at the same time, pleasure shot to all my centers, all at the same time. Pleasure. Pain. Pain. Pleasure. I couldn't tell anymore where one ended and the other began. She dragged me back and forth fiercely, and I had never felt more alive in my entire life. She squeezeboxed me like a rhythm queen working overtime, working me over but good.
    I was now waiting to wake up overheated and covered in cold sweat from this dream.
    But no.
    She pushed me hard, my back literally up against the wall. She shoved me down onto the floor, and plopped down on me, she had me pinned, straddling one boot on either side of my thighs, black skirt up over her hips, sucking on my tongue so it shivered me with freezing heat, and that little prick of a gun was always there, hard and cold in my earhole, my death at her whim a whisper away.
    The Snow Leopard started making crazy growly hissing sounds, I could feel the pull of the moon from inside her, and I knew I never wanted to leave there.
    She maneuvered herself open, pulled back her head and looked into my eyes, inviting me inside to ride her Ferris wheel to the stars. She took a deep breath, and a sweetness came over her face, it filled me up, everything softened and she melted me in places I didn't even know I had places.
    Then she grabbed me behind the neck with her free hand and gathered herself like a hurricane off the coast.
    And then BOOM! she shoved down with all her might, with all those muscles, with all that leverage, all that wet and that swell, sliding down deepdeepdeep into the depth of her holiness, all the way to the bottom of the well, splitting her open like an atom, an explosion of heat blowing my mushroom-cloud heart all the way up.
    More crazy roar big cat scratch fever screams as she rocked slowly, flexing in rhythm with the tide, tugging and grinding, pressing flesh on flesh, sweat beading out now, the sound of squishing liquid wet, ecstasy crawling from pleasure center to pleasure center up and down my tingling spine as she pulled me up higher and higher while ripping into my skin. Is that sweat or blood trickling down my neck? my brain asked. Yes, it is, my body answered.
    She was back in my face again, the Snow Leopard. I could finally see her, as a strip of moon filtered through her skylights, and she poured herself through my windows, and this is what took me to the edge of Lover's Leap.
    She nodded at me ever so tiny, she wanted to know if I was ready to jump off with her, to take the great plunge, and into her eyes I nodded, Yes, I'm ready, jump off and I'll jump with you.click to close
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From "An Exploration" in Stirring Up a Storm
by Dorothy Allison
(Bloomsbury)
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OVERALL RATING: 4.032
 

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    I know remarkably few women who enjoy anal fisting. But there was a time in my life when I became quite accomplished at it. Not that I listed being fisted up the ass as a goal — I just had lots of fantasies about anal sex, and I told a woman I was seeing at the time about those fantasies. Natalia was much older than me, and we had been playing schoolgirl and governess. When I was the governess, Natalia was my toddler who needed to be washed tenderly, powdered down, sometimes have her temperature taken — "turn over, baby" — and invariably be nuzzled gently until she orgasmed in my arms. When I was the schoolgirl, I was a stubborn adolescent who accumulated countless demerits and had to be taught how to wash behind her ears and between her thighs. After weeks of this play and lots of talk about our mutual fantasies, Natalia decided she would like to play out one of hers and see if she couldn't train her schoolgirl to enjoy having her ass used...
    "Ma'am?" I tried, unsure which game we were going to play....read more
 

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    I know remarkably few women who enjoy anal fisting. But there was a time in my life when I became quite accomplished at it. Not that I listed being fisted up the ass as a goal — I just had lots of fantasies about anal sex, and I told a woman I was seeing at the time about those fantasies. Natalia was much older than me, and we had been playing schoolgirl and governess. When I was the governess, Natalia was my toddler who needed to be washed tenderly, powdered down, sometimes have her temperature taken — "turn over, baby" — and invariably be nuzzled gently until she orgasmed in my arms. When I was the schoolgirl, I was a stubborn adolescent who accumulated countless demerits and had to be taught how to wash behind her ears and between her thighs. After weeks of this play and lots of talk about our mutual fantasies, Natalia decided she would like to play out one of hers and see if she couldn't train her schoolgirl to enjoy having her ass used...
    "Ma'am?" I tried, unsure which game we were going to play.
    "Be still," she said sternly. "Don't think, just relax. I want something from you, and tonight I'm going to get it." She poured a pool of thick, creamy lotion into her palm and began to massage my ass, he blunt fingers pushing dollops of cream up into my butt. I hiccupped, giggled, and after a moment wiggled my ass at her. She laughed, slapped my thighs, and, leaning forward, placed a small, silver, bullet shaped object in my hand.
    "Take a deep breath of that," she told me, still pushing at my ass. I did, and was rewarded with a slow spiral of pin lights that rose from the base of my nose up to my brain. The room got hot. I got dizzy, and a beehive started buzzing in my ears. I had never done poppers before, didn't know that was what I was doing. I just knew I was suddenly high and horny and desperate to push back at her pushing hands.
    "Ma'am," I wailed, and she purred back at me, "That's my girl," while her hand worked its way steadily into my butt. She hurt me, and I screamed at her. She laughed at me, and I howled at her. But she had all that practice and knew every crevice, every rudimentary panic, every movement I would make in response to every movement of hers, and nothing I did or said or cried stopped her. After a while she wasn't hurting me, she was guiding me, whispering soft words while her fingers played tickle-touch so deep inside me I wanted to burp. I was gasping and begging and coming every little while as easily as a big sponge choo-choo train would fall off a cartoon trestle. Everything was slow-motion, overwhelming and marvelous.
    "Fuck me, ma'am. Oh, fuck me," I kept begging her.
    "Oh, I am," she kept telling me. "I am. I am. I am." click to close
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From Cinnamon Kiss
by Walter Mosley
(Little, Brown)
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OVERALL RATING: 6.759
 

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   But the evening wore on and I was still there.  I had nowhere to go. Mouse popped three corks and the ladies laughed. He was a great storyteller. And I rarely heard him tell the same story twice.
   After midnight Pinky started kissing Ray in earnest. Georgette and I were on the couch with them, sitting very close. We were talking to each other, whispering really, when Georgette looked over and gave a little gasp.
   I turned and saw that Pinky had worked Ray's erection out of his pants and was pulling on it vigorously. He was leaning back with closed eyes and a big smile on his lips.
   "Let's go in the other room and give 'em some privacy," Georgette whispered in my ear.
   The bedroom was small too, only large enough to accommodate a king-size bed and a single stack of maple drawers. ..read more
 

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   But the evening wore on and I was still there.  I had nowhere to go. Mouse popped three corks and the ladies laughed. He was a great storyteller. And I rarely heard him tell the same story twice.
   After midnight Pinky started kissing Ray in earnest. Georgette and I were on the couch with them, sitting very close. We were talking to each other, whispering really, when Georgette looked over and gave a little gasp.
   I turned and saw that Pinky had worked Ray's erection out of his pants and was pulling on it vigorously. He was leaning back with closed eyes and a big smile on his lips.
   "Let's go in the other room and give 'em some privacy," Georgette whispered in my ear.
   The bedroom was small too, only large enough to accommodate a king-size bed and a single stack of maple drawers.
   I closed the door and when I turned to face Georgette she kissed me. It was as passionate an embrace as I had ever known. Our tongues were speaking to each other. Hers telling me that I had her full attention and everything within her power to give. And mine telling her that I was desperately in need of someone to give me life and hope.
   I put my hand under her coral blouse and laid the hot palm at the base of her neck. She groaned and so did Pinky in the next room.
   Georgette reached for the lamp and turned it off.
   "Turn it back on," I said.
   She did.
   I sat on the bed and stood her between my knees. Then I started on the buttons of her blouse. She stood still, breathing lightly as I drew the silky top down and dropped it to the floor. She moved then, attempting to sit next to me, but I grabbed onto her forearms, making it clear that she was to stay where she was. I moved close to get my arms around to unhook the black bra she wore.Her nipples were long, hard things. I licked them very lightly and she held my head, moving it the way she wanted my tongue to move.
   The black miniskirt was tight around her butt, and taking it off while kissing her hard nipples I pulled the pink panties down too. Her pubic hair was broad and dense. I buried my face in it to get the full scent of that field of tomatoes. If I had any notion of stopping, it evaporated then.
   Georgette was a very large woman. And even though she was slim of waist her belly protruded a bit.  Her navel was a deep hole, dark against even her dark skin. Tentatively I poked my tongue inside.
   She gasped and jumped back, holding both hands in front of her stomach.
   "Come back here, " I said.
   Georgette shook her head with a pleading look on her face.
   Pinky started yelping in the next room.
   "Come back here," I said again.
   "It's too sensitive," she said.
   I held out a hand and she allowed me to draw her near. I positioned her between my knees again and moved slowly toward the belly button.
   This time I stuck my tongue all the way in so I could feel the rough skin at the bottom. I moved the tip of my tongue around and she shuddered, holding my head for support.
   After a few seconds she cried, "Stop!"
   I moved my head back and looked into her eyes.
   "This is like food to me, Georgette," I said. "Do you understand? Food for me."
   She replied by pressing my face against her stomach. My tongue lanced out again and she screamed.
   After another minute she moved my face back.
   "Can I lay down now, baby?" she asked.
   I moved to the side and she got down on her back.
   We did things that night that I had never done with any woman. She did things to me that even now make me tremble with fervor and humiliation.
   We fell asleep in each other's arms, still kissing, still rubbing.
   But when I jolted awake, I found myself alone.
   I stumbled to the toilet and then back into the living room. Mouse was laid out naked on the couch with his hands crossed over his chest like a dead king on display for the public to mourn. Pinky was gone. click to close
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