One Night Only: Erotic Encounters

by Violet Blue

Some temptations are just too tantalizing to ignore- the hot guy at the Apple Genius Bar, the mysterious stranger in the train station who makes you sweat, the nameless faceless stranger at the club whose dirty dancing left you breathless. From quickies, to lost weekends, to three-ways and nights that you'll want to last forever, One Night Only is a collection of delightfully dirty bon mots edited by the one and only Violet Blue. Always surprising, sometimes sweetly romantic, and more than a little shocking, these stories of sudden sex are designed to get your juices flowing and inspire your OWN tale of one night of love, lust, and fantasy! One of the most seductive set of stories ever put to print!

Genres: Erotica, Fiction, Romance, Anthologies

209 pages, Kindle Edition

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.