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Times Two

By Rachel Kramer Bussel • Nov 9th, 2004 • Category: Blog

The first time with Peter and Nadia, there’s no room for niceties. No lush bottles of wine, long talks about anything and everything, the slow build of arousal as your blood starts to boil until it practically spills over. I’d already done enough of that since I’d met them at a bar two weeks before, [...]



Gloss

By Rachel Kramer Bussel • Aug 9th, 2004 • Category: Pure Gold: Erotica from the Archives

Standing in front of the mirror, I apply the gooey liquid over my lips until they shine like glass, not gooey but slick and hard, almost icy. I’m keeping in mind my friend Alice’s advice that “lip gloss should look like you’ve just given someone a blowjob.” Whether or not they approximate this maxim, I [...]



The Waiting Game

By Rachel Kramer Bussel • Mar 9th, 2001 • Category: Pure Gold: Erotica from the Archives

I don’t know when I started to look at Louie differently. One day he was plain old Louie, my pal and music buddy, and the next I wanted to jump his bones. Louie was this record store guy, the kind who looks like he was born in and will die in a record store, right [...]