Alison's Wonderland (30 page)

The sun beat down and the sea roared. “Aren’t you too short to be a prince?”

“
Princess,
not prince. I’ve come to save you to escape my evil stepfather! Gold is the reward!”

“Save me? You can’t ‘kiss the lips no man has kissed.’ It’s too late! The huntsman kissed me before he stuck me on this rock! The dragon will be here any minute!”

The princess in trousers scrambled onto the rock and pushed aside chains, gathering silk skirts in her hands. “I didn’t say I was going to kiss the lips on your
face,
” she said.

Jacqueline Applebee
is a black British woman, who breaks down barriers with smut. Jacqueline’s stories have appeared in various anthologies and on Web sites, including, Clean-sheets,
Best Women’s Erotica 2008
and
2009, Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2008
and
2009,
and
Best Lesbian Erotica 2008.
Jacqueline’s favorite fairy tale is “Three Little Pigs” because she has a thing for adventurous bacon. Jacqueline’s Web site is http://www.writing-in-shadows.co.uk.

Janine Ashbless
started her erotica career with her single-author collection of fairy and fantasy stories,
Cruel Enchantment,
published by Black Lace in 2000. Her follow-up collection,
Dark Enchantment,
appeared in 2009. In between came three erotic novels and various short stories, including one that made it into
Best Women’s Erotica 2009.
Her favorite fairy tales are “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” (which she retold as
Bearskin
in the novella collection
Enchanted
) and the horribly creepy “Mr. Fox.” She lives in the U.K. and blogs at www.janineashbless.blogspot.com where she enthuses about mythology, Victorian art and minotaurs.

Rachel Kramer Bussel
(www.rachelkramerbussel.com) is an author, editor, blogger and reading-series host. She has edited more than twenty anthologies, including
Tasting Him, Tasting Her, Spanked, Dirty Girls
and
Best Sex Writing 2008
and
2009.
She is senior editor at
Penthouse Variations,
writes the “Dating Drama” column for the
Frisky,
and hosts
In The Flesh Reading Series.
Her writing has been published in more than a hundred anthologies, including
Best American Erotica 2004
and
2006,
as well as
Cosmopolitan, Fresh Yarn, Huffington Post, Newsday, the New York Post,
the
San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York,
the
Village Voice
and
Zink,
and she has appeared on
NY1, The Berman and Berman Show
and
The Martha Stewart Show.
Her favorite fairy tale is “Cinderella,” with whom she shares a shoe fetish (high heels especially), though she also envies Rapunzel’s long hair.

T. C. Calligari
lives in British Columbia, writing in many worlds of what-if. She grew up reading fairy tales and fables from the children’s series
My Book House.
Her favorite though is “East of the Sun and West of the Moon,” a Norwegian fairy tale based on the Eros and Psyche myth where the woman must rescue her prince. T.C.’s stories have appeared in
E Is for Exotic, B Is for Bondage,
as well as
Open for Business, Naughty or Nice
and
Guilty Pleasures.
“Stocking Stuffers” is featured in the
Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica.

Heidi Champa
is a typical last-born child. Snarky, attention-seeking and rebellious, she chooses to write dirty stories to keep out of real trouble. Her work appears in
Tasting Him
and
Frenzy.
She has also steamed up the pages of
Bust
magazine. If you prefer your erotica in electronic form, look for her at Clean-Sheets, Ravenous Romance and The Erotic Woman. Despite her latent cynicism, her favorite fairy tale will always be “Beauty and the Beast.” Find her online at heidichampa.blogspot.com.

Portia Da Costa
is a British author of romance, erotic romance and romantic fiction, specializing in intense, character-driven contemporary novels, and praised for the vivid emotional depth of her writing. Since 1990, she has had more than twenty titles published, as well as around a hundred short stories, and her work has been translated into many languages including German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian and Japanese. Always a lover of fantasy and fairy tale, she adores the stories of “Cinderella” and “Sleeping Beauty.” Portia lives in West Yorkshire with her husband and her cats and she enjoys reading and watching television.

Andrea Dale’s
stories have appeared in
Do Not Disturb: Hotel Sex Stories, Frenzy,
the
Mammoth Book of the Kama Sutra
and
Dirty Girls,
among many others. With coauthors, she has sold novels to Cheek Books (
A Little Night Music,
Sarah Dale) and Black Lace Books (
Cat Scratch Fever,
Sophie Mouette) and even more short stories. In other incarnations she writes SFF and media tie-in. A lover of fantasy, mythology and the fae folk since a young age, her favorite tale is that of Tam Lin, because the heroine rescues the hero for once. For more information, check out her Web site at www.cyvarwydd.com.

Bella Dean
is new to the business of dirty stories. She still blushes when she types, but has no plans to give it up. Her work has appeared in
Afternoon Delight.
She lives with her small family in her small house in her small town. Her favorite fairy tale growing up was “Cinderella.” Even then she had a thing for shoes and hot men.

Once upon a time, a playwright scarred by her first lover’s betrayal and an actor who lost his love in the 9/11 conflagration came together in a shabby off-Broadway theater. Though
this is not
Erica DeQuaya’s
background, it formed the backbone for her critically acclaimed first erotic romance novel,
Backstage Affair.
Five novels and many short stories later, Erica continues living her own happily-ever-after as she pens erotic and mainstream books (including her well-received hockey romance series) from her middle-class castle in Texas. Erica shares her royal surroundings with her beloved handsome prince and soul mate of more than two decades, a princeling of a son, two loyal, if somewhat neurotic, dogs and a collection of geckos in the backyard.

Benjamin Eliot
is a stay-at-home dad and a WWII freak. He has a huge collection of memorabilia and books and has been known to trap unsuspecting people for impromptu historical lectures. He loves his wife, his kids and his old-piece-of-crap car. For the record, he can fix a toilet and even install a faucet. Benjamin was never one for fairy tales, but in college he found he could really get into a good meaty greek myth. Look for more of his work in the future. He’s just getting started with his storytelling.

A. D. R. Forte’s
erotic short fiction appears in various anthologies including collections from Black Lace, Cleis Press and Circlet Press. Her favorite fairy tale, of course, is “Beauty and the Beast.” Visit her at www.adrforte.com.

Lana Fox’s
erotic stories have appeared in anthologies by Xcite, and she also publishes literary fiction under a different name. She started writing erotica when she gave a reading and members of the audience came up afterward saying, “Your work is all about sex,” when she didn’t think it was! Her favorite fairy tale is “Little Red Riding Hood,” especially when it’s turned on its head and Red has a feisty side.

Shanna Germain’s
work has appeared in places like
Best American Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica, Best Gay Romance, Frenzy
and
Luscious.
She’s obsessed with the wolf and the girl in the red cloak, and often sings a darker version of “Li’l Red Riding Hood,” by Sam the Sham. Visit her at www.shannagermain.com.

Bryn Haniver,
a nature lover and sexy B-movie aficionado, writes fiction from islands and peninsulas whenever possible, and prefers fairy tales with menacing mermaids, like “The Mermaid and the Boy.” Bryn’s work has appeared in
Red Hot Erotica
and
B Is for Bondage.

Georgia E. Jones
graduated with an MFA from Mills College. Her stories have appeared in the
Santa Barbara Review
and the literary magazine
Estero.
She lives in northern California. Her favorite fairy tale is “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” because the heroine is smart and resourceful.

Tsaurah Litzky
is an internationally known writer of erotica whose work has appeared in more than seventy-five publications, including
Best American Erotica
(eight times),
Best International Erotica
(twice),
X: the Erotic Treasury, Penthouse,
the
New York Times, Sex For America, K is For Kinky, Got A Minute, The Merry XXXmas Book of Erotica, Politically Inspired, The Urban Bizarre, Dirty Girls, Evergreen Review 12.
Simon & Schuster published her erotic novella,
The Motion of the Ocean,
as part of
Three the Hard Way,
a series of erotic novellas edited by Susie Bright. Tsaurah Litzky’s groundbreaking erotic writing class, Silk Sheets: Writing Erotica, is now in its eleventh year at the New School in Manhattan. Tsaurah believes that great sex often is inspired by a pair of shoes and that fairy tales do come true.

Kristina Lloyd
is the author of three erotic novels,
Darker Than Love, Asking for Trouble
and
Split,
all published by Black Lace. Her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines in both the U.K. and U.S., and her novels have been translated into German, Dutch and Japanese. She has a master’s degree in twentieth-century literature, and has been described as “a fresh literary talent” who “writes sex with a formidable force.” She lives in Brighton on the south coast of England and her favorite fairy tale is “Little Red Riding Hood” because it’s dark, sinister and short on princesses. For more, visit http://kristinalloyd.wordpress.com.

Nikki Magennis
is a Scottish author of erotica and erotic romance. She grew up on fairy tales and has always loved “The Red Shoes.” Lily takes her name from a song on Kate Bush’s
Red Shoes
album. In folklore, lilies are used to break spells or enchantments. Nikki’s second novel,
The New Rakes,
is published by Black Lace, and you can find her work in many anthologies. She is currently working on a collection of short stories and could use a spot of lily juice to break her procrastination habit. Read more at: http://nikkimagennis.blogspot.com.

Sommer Marsden
writes her naughty fiction from a small town near the Chesapeake Bay. Her work has appeared in dozens of print anthologies and magazines, and her stories haunt many Internet sites on a regular basis. When she was a little girl, she loved the tale of “The Princess and the Pea,” mostly because she is a complainer at heart. You can see what she’s up to at www.SmutGirl.blogspot.com.

N. T. Morley
is the author of sixteen published novels of erotic dominance and submission, including
The Visitor, The Nightclub, The Appointment
and the trilogies
The Castle, The
Library
and
The Office.
Morley has also edited two anthologies,
MASTER and slave,
and has contributed to many erotic anthologies, including the
Naughty Stories from A to Z
series, the
Sweet Life
series, the
Best New Erotica
series, and many other anthologies. Morley’s favorite fairy tale is unquestionably
Pretty Woman,
though there’s something strangely hot about
Leaving Las Vegas.
That said, there’s lots to love about “Sleeping Beauty,” the Anne Rice version. Visit www.ntmorley.com for more information.

Elspeth Potter’s
stories have appeared in
The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, Best Lesbian Romance 2009, Best Lesbian Erotica
and
Best Women’s Erotica.
Her erotic novel
The Duchess, Her Maid, the Groom, and their Lover,
by Victoria Janssen, was a 2008 release from Harlequin Spice.
The Moonlight Mistress
was released in December 2009. Her favorite fairy tale is “The Tinderbox.” Read more at www.victoriajanssen.com.

Thomas S. Roche
is the author of more than two hundred published stories that fall into the horror, fantasy, crime, paranormal and erotica genres—frequently all at once. His books include
His
and
Hers,
two short-story collections written with Alison Tyler, and
Dark Matter,
a collection of his own stories, as well as four anthologies of fantasy/horror and three books of erotic crime stories. Roche has always had a love-hate relationship with fairy tales. He hated them as a child because there were rarely any spaceships in them. As an adult, he has adapted dozens of fairy tales for various projects, starting with a rewrite of
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
he did in the mid-1990s. He’s very fond of “The Little Match Girl,” probably due to his lingering goth damage from the eighties. He blogs about such topics as ghosts, aliens, sex and politics at www.thomasroche.com.

Donna George Storey
is the author of
Amorous Woman,
a semi-autobiographical tale of an American’s steamy love affair with Japan. Her short fiction has been published in over ninety journals and anthologies, including
X: The Erotic Treasury, Naughty or Nice, Frenzy, Best Women’s Erotica,
and
The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica.
Her favorite fairy tale is “The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” not only because she played the role of Angelica in a summer-theater production in high school, but because she can really relate to the story of girls who are perfect ladies by day sneaking off to a magical land every night to dance Freudian holes in their slippers with charming princes. Read more of her work at www.DonnaGeorgeStorey.com.

SophiaValenti’s
erotica has appeared in
Afternoon Delight
and
Playing with Fire.
She believes in happily-ever-afters, but thinks that sometimes fate needs a little push in the right direction. Her favorite fairy tale is “The Ugly Duckling” because coming into your own is as important as finding your place. Visit her at www.sophiavalenti.blogspot.com.