One Night Only: Erotic Encounters

by Violet Blue (Editor), Cynthia Hamilton (Contributor)

Have you ever had one chance—or one night—to have hot, reckless sex? One Night Only is a compendium of the most refined zipless f*ckfantasies imaginable. Chance encounters, secret oral sex, frenzied public sex.... The expertly crafted characters in these riveting stories gotta have it, and they need it now. In "Subway Subterfuge", by May Deva, a young woman is attracted to a hot guy on the subway; next time she spots him, they move to the back of the crowded car where we find out she's the one driving the anonymous public frisson. "MaidService", by Jan Darby, centers on a downwardly mobile young lady who's currently working as a maid when a guest, an attractive man, catches her in the room, they flirt over the chocolate rose on the pillow, and he coaxes her into some slightly kinky sex, which she very much wants. Austin Stevens' "Belle de Soir" follows a young woman who goes to work as a high-class hooker for just two days with the plan of heading for Europe on the money she'll make, not expecting to get more than the needs of her pocketbook met. Sexy fun at the trendy punk salon is what we find in "Just a Little Trim", by Kristina Wright, when a hot former marine comes in for a trim and we find ourselves surprised at what a clever, horny hairdresser can do with a minimum of time and cover at the shampoo station. "Tournament", by Abby Abbot, is the most unpredictable story in the lot; here, a college girl plays online chess and she's out for both blood and money when she agrees to an in-person match with someone she's been playing called "JazzStar". The meeting and the match feel tense, dangerous, and finish with an unusual, frenzied erotic battle. Even if you've only ever longed for a one night stand, a quickie with a hot and dominant customer at work, getting your hands and mouth on a longtime crush, or picking up a little side action while indulging in a mistaken-identity opportunity... One Night Only will feed your wildest fantasies and stoke embers in your hottest memories of one-time fantasy fulfillment. The stories here are all about women and men (and couples) who are erotic chance-takers, each and every one of them, and all of them emerge deliciously satisfied.

Genres: Erotica, Fiction, Romance, Anthologies

242 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Violet Blue has authored and edited over 40 books, including five (Bronze, Silver and Gold) IPPY award-winners, some of which are now in eight translations. Violet was a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show, when Ms. Winfrey featured Violet's book on women and pornography (11/17/09). That book is also excerpted and featured on Oprah Winfrey's website, as well as in O, The Oprah Magazine.

Violet owns and operates Digita Publications (digitapub.com), an indie digital publisher of e-books and audio books. Rather than a royalty system, Digita books share all sales with the authors fairly and transparently, featuring books in both DRM-free versions and for Kindle on Amazon.

Her online sexuality blog, Tiny Nibbles, is one of the Internet's longest-running sex blogs, and has won many accolades and awards. For her day job, Ms. Blue is a journalist on hacking, crime, cybersecurity, privacy, and at-risk populations for outlets ranging from Engadget to CNET, and occasionally outlets like CBS News, CNN and O the Oprah Magazine.

Reviews

[Pixie]

If you follow my reviews you know we make notes as we read cause we never know when/if we'll finish:

Seeing Stars – We are getting old and jaded. “This is how girls go missing” is all he says about this one.

Chasing Fate – I’m not really a car girl. I’d rather one night the guy from the first story then the guy driving a dick mobile. Sunny laughs as I tell him about my “date” in OKC recently. Friend of a friend making sure I wasn’t a third wheel. Come to find out the guy had a Tesla, tells me like I know wtf that is. When he told me it was a $100k electric car I asked if he was a rapper. Nice car, but no, was not panty dropping.

City Girl – Yawn….we are reading one more & if it doesn’t work for us we are shelving for now. On a side note while I do like fairs I sadly do not get turned on by cowboys…even ones who look like Christian Bale. Which is weird because don’t Cowboys usually drive trucks????

Subway Subterfudge – Nice, but too short. I haven’t road the metro in years BUT this makes me reconsider it. I jokingly tell Sunny if he’s willing to molest me on the metro we can meet up. He of course asks what stop….

[Max Sebastian · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection of 19 stories offers glimpses of brief encounters and one night stands, providing some really thrilling tales, all well written and reliably curated by Violet Blue, whose "Sweet Confessions" anthology I've also recently very much enjoyed.

There's a range of pieces here including some more standard fare, male and female strangers meeting, though in some nicely imaginative situations - the car thief risking use of a stolen supercar, the conversion of an erotic art exhibit into a performance piece, a maid breaking the hotel rules, the neurosurgeon mistaken for a hooker. There's also a little bisexuality here and there, a touch even of domination-submission, though for me perhaps inevitably given the main theme of this collection,

I felt there was a slightly colder undercurrent in these tales than "Sweet Confessions", with perhaps one or two tales not as fiery as the others. Still, this is sexy, classy erotica, with plenty of fantastic stories and I'd recommend it to anyone that likes steamy short stories.

[Kerry · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a cliched, boring collection of stories about women who wait around for men to act. Its inclusion of stories with characters who are judgmental about what other women do/do not do or like/do not like is strange, as is its fixation on age, particularly when the protagonist is over the age of 30. The authors are also really big on derogatory terms for women, though men hardly get the same treatment--women are "bitches" or "bitch-slapped" (as if "slapped" wasn't descriptive enough), they are sluts, and one even refers to herself as a pervert for fantasizing about something that doesn't seem like that big of a deal. Also tiresome are the women who, in the middle of a threesome or other encounter are actually innocently surprised (with lots of exclamation points!) when the encounter takes a turn that is slightly non-vanilla.

[Jowanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice collection of various stories. Some I liked, some I didn't, but overall it was a good read and the nice thing about them is if you don't like one you can skip to another to read. Me and my husband has had a blast with some of these stories and if you don't mind sharing them with your significant other it will help spice things up a bit.

[Janine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another fantastic anthology edited by Violet Blue. I am never disappointed when her name is associated with an anthology. Great collection of steamy, sexy, hot short stories with the I night only theme. Something for everyone. Would recommend.

[Lisabet Sarai · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent collection of seriously erotic stories. See my review on Erotica Revealed, on Feb. 1st

[Fangtasia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reviewed for Cleis Press. This anthology was an eye-opener for me. Will update later, as soon as it is published at Arketipo187.com.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good, some not so good.