ABSTRACT KERRI SHARP (EDITOR) WICKED WORDS. 1999 Black Lace Books. Black Lace specialise in erotica by and for women, (Yes I am a male reviewer). This is an excellent collection of twenty short stories. Felicity Salten’s opener, Exit Stage Left features a struggling drama student overcoming her fear of heights by being sodomised on a high ladder to the lighting rigs. It plays neatly between her vertigo and passion. Frozen Violets by Leona Rhys is the strangest tale, a reworking of Hansel & Gretal with incestuous overtones where the witch seduces both brother and sister in turn as the other one watches, and the pair go off together forever changed by the utterly unconvincing experience. Maria Lloyd’s The Chrome Man is a phallic gallery statue, which the
female lead uses to pleasure herself with, knowing that her boyfriend
watches her on the security cameras throughout her activity. Lisa Dallimore’s Pussy Willow is a cocktail served in a chilled vagina, from which the lesbians of an exclusive club take their fill as the woman used as the cup wonders what the other drinks on the wine list involve. In Loaded, Miranda Stephens writes a chilling tale of a woman masturbating herself with a loaded gun. Sophia Mortensen offers a touching werewolf story, as the woman watches her male victim with adoring eyes, before seducing him and making love right up to his destruction before coupling with another wolf as the hunt picks up against them.
Office Politics, (the appropriately named) Tina Harden’s entry, deals with a young secretary’s daily passionate flings with her pensioner boss, and later with the young office clerk who joins them for threesomes. The story lacks any sense that this could all go wrong at any time. One of the
best stories here is Kristina Lloyd’s The Western Whore, in which a young lady leaves her boyfriend when he accuses her of
having no imagination. She travels East and deliberately throws herself in subjugation & white slavery, clearly enjoying every moment of it, and writing of this to her ex lover as she does so. Portia De Coasta’s The Best Of Hands features a girl at a spankers club who shocks her would be punishers for having already having been spanked before they even start, and
takes pride in the raw redness of her posterior. Rhiannon Taliesin offers The Red petticoat, a totally unconvincing story about a woman who serves as little more than a minor’s whore to keep them interested in their work underground, - You would think she would have exactly the opposite effect. She takes several men on one after another, and even breaks in a young virgin, before her true love, Lobo, seduces her roughly and takes her in marriage to a life above ground. The best story of this collection is Larissa McKenzie’s Mindless Raptures, in which a woman with the powers of suggestion and hypnosis, entrances a stranger on a train, and makes him her sex slave for several months, before releasing him, oblivious of his experience, confused by his whereabouts but more understanding towards women. The hypnotist takes another train journey to pick out a fresh victim / lucky guy. The last story, Mistress Sheila, by Kate Dominic plays against expectations in being the only one without a woman at the centre of the story. Here a female impersonator visits a man at his office and treats him to a spectacular spanking, insisting that he visits her again for more a week later. An eclectic mix, with some stories taking fantasies to the greatest extremes. Most stories here are highly readable and effective, for men as well as the female audience for which they are mainly intended.
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