Fast Girls by Rachel Kramer Bussel

Fast Girls Reviews

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  Rosalía

  This collection of short stories inspired me to do some writing of my own. The writers wrote excellently and the writing was hot. Superhot. The writing itself was clean grammatically and the authors wrote for an educated but fiery hot reader. My favorites were: 5-MINUTE PORN STAR by Jaqueline Appleby, COMMUNAL by Saskia Walker, CONFESSIONS of a KINKY SHOPAHOLIC by Jennifer Peters, LET'S DANCE by D. L. King, and CHASING DANGER by Kristina Wright
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  Lisabet Sarai

  When I was in high school, “fast girl” was a barely polite term for a slut―a girl who'd do anything with anyone, at any time. Unlike “slut”, however, the term carried a hint of admiration. Fast girls didn't worry about their reputations, at least not when that conflicted with their pleasure. Fast girls were brave and bold. They went places and did things that the more timid good girls might only dream about.
  
  Rachel Kramer Bussel's collection FAST GIRLS pays tribute to this image of the girl (or woman) who is not afraid to defy convention in the quest for her own satisfaction. The theme is evocative without being too constraining. The stories that Ms. Bussel has assembled take a variety of perspectives on the concept of “fast”. Some authors, like Jennifer Peters in “Confessions of a Kinky Shopaholic” or Kayla Perrin in “Temptation”, give us women who are willing to act on attraction to a stranger. Others―Jacqueline Applebee in “Five-Minute Porn Star”, Tenille Brown in “Speed Bumps”, Charlotte Stein in “Married Life”―show that it's possible to be “fast” in the context of a committed relationship or even a marriage. Angela Caperton's “Playing the Market” and Rachel Kramer Bussel's “Whore Complex” explore the forbidden allure of playing the prostitute. Kristina Wright, on the other hand, creates a heroine who gets her kicks playing on the right side of the law in “Chasing Danger”.
  
  The Table of Contents includes many familiar names, and practically every story is worth reading. I thought I'd mention my personal favorites.
  
  Tristan Taormino's “Winter, Summer”, the only lesbian tale in the anthology, is an exquisite tale of a bar pick-up that turns out to be much more. The unnamed femme narrator tells us at the start that her motto is “Get close enough to get off. No closer”. Yet the dominant butch who claims her manages to break through her frosty shell.
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  It was as if she had diligently studied my body and knew all its curves and tender spots by heart, like she knew the pool table: hands gliding, stroking, pressing until my soft flesh relaxed into warmth and wetness underneath her, ready to go into whatever deep pocket she was pushing me. She pulled back from me and stood studying my body with her acute, extreme eyes. Her concentration and the quietness that surrounded us were terrifying. Electric.
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  Stunningly beautiful and lewdly intense, this is the story that will stay with me the longest.
  
  Another exceptional contribution is D.L. King's femdom fantasy “Let's Dance”. I have to admit that one reason I loved this tale was the fact that I know D.L. King personally―and this is a very personal story. The narrator, an author of erotica, notices a cute guy dancing, discovers (through some first-hand exploration) that the boy's genitalia are shaved, and decides (with his enthusiastic agreement) to take him home, tie him up and flog him. The scene in Eve's loft is explicit and arousing, but what sets this story apart is the humorous, natural dialogue and the way it shows off Eve's fast girl attitude.
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  Once in the cab, I said, “Hey, Cute Boy, who shaved your boy parts?”
  
  A blush began at the top of his ears and traveled to his cheeks. “Uh, I did,” he said.
  
  “What made you decide to do something like that?” The blush spread to his forehead and neck simultaneously, and he looked at the floor of the cab. “Aw, c'mon, you can tell me.” I rested my hand on the inside of his thigh and gave him a good-natured squeeze.
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  “Well, see, I was reading this book...and the guy in it―I guess it was a dirty book...” He looked out the window at the Manhattan Bridge. “Where do you live?”
  
  “Brooklyn. Go on.”
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  “Brooklyn?”
  
  “Don't worry about it. It's not a foreign country,” I said.
  
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  A third tale that touched me is the breathtaking D/s saga “Lessons, Slow and Painful” by Tess Danesi. The terrifying sincerity of the heroine's submissiveness struck a deep chord. Ms. Danesi takes the “fast” in the anthology title literally. Her master punishes her for taking shortcuts, doing things too quickly.
  
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  “Beg me to cut you, Tess,” he whispers darkly. “Beg me, bitch.”
  
  I don't hesitate. I can't pretend I don't want this. “Do it, Dar. Do it. Go on and just do it,” I reply.
  
  “And you expect me to do it hurriedly, Tess? I don't think so,” he says, accompanied by a cruel little laugh that chills me.
  
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  And lest readers wonder why all my favorite stories appear to involve BDSM, let me also mention Donna George Storey's lively and intelligent “Waxing Eloquent”. The narrator, house sitting at her brother's Manhattan Beach condo and trying to break up for good with her married professor lover, ends up falling into bed with the television actor who lives next door. She decides to get her pussy waxed in order to have the full L.A. experience (“I guess in L.A. a woman is supposed to look like Barbie with her clothes off, too.”) and discovers that the reported heightened sensitivity of a bare pubis is only the beginning.
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  As I ride him, slowly, then faster, I realize I am much more sensitive down there. It's as if my time on the salon table was a kind of rough foreplay, priming me for his cock. Cody's wiry curls chafe my tender lips, and I feel as if I'm straddling not just him, but a knife's edge―one side is pleasure, the other sweet pain.
  
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  Okay, there's that familiar pleasure/pain dichotomy, but I swear this story does not involve any bondage or discipline!
  
  Cherry Bomb's brief but eloquent contribution “That Girl” seems to sum up the entire collection.
  
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  I am a promiscuous girl... only not the way you think. Oh, I know what they say about me. I hear them back home, clamoring in judgment, their whispers. They don't even wait until my back is turned anymore. I know what they think of me, which is why the second that you show any interest in me, any desire to get to know me, they will come to you with the same words on their lips:
  
  “Watch out for her. She's dangerous.”
  
  And I guess I am. What else would you call someone like me? Someone so emotionally reckless, a dangerous fuck. I am the girl that wants everyone and everything, the girl with the uncontrollable lust and insatiable hunger.
  
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  This is what it means, to be a fast girl. But it's not as simple as it sounds, as the authors in this collection demonstrate.
  
  Rachel Kramer Bussel has what is likely to be another success on her hands with FAST GIRLS. For its variety, intensity and quality of writing, I have to give the collection two thumbs up.
  
  [A version of this review was originally published on Erotica Revealed -
  http://www.eroticarevealed.com]
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  Emerald Emerald

  I found working my way through Fast Girls a delectable experience for more reasons than one. Sure, I had my personal favorite stories. It is not unusual for a story by Donna George Storey to be one of my favorites in any given anthology, and "Waxing Eloquent," with its nuanced subtlety intertwined with an almost surreal-seeming fantasy—pulled off, to me, with unquestionable aplomb—was no exception. I found "Winter, Summer," by Tristan Taormino truly mesmerizing. Since I have historically felt no sexual interest in women, a story with F/F sex in it that I find the slightest bit hot (certainly I can and have appreciated such stories in a literary sense, just not usually felt turned on by them) is one I find extraordinarily impressive--and "Winter, Summer" was one. I laughed out loud several times as I read "Married Life," experiencing it as shining with what I've found to be author Charlotte Stein's trademark charm and subtle humor. "Playing the Market," "Flash!," "Communal," and "Princess" all had me panting.
  
  But it wasn't just the heat of the stories, which I did experience consistently, that I appreciated about this book. It seems to me that regardless of how one personally experiences each story in this anthology, the genuine encompassing of heart, body, and mind is evident in all of them. This is erotica exemplary of what it has the potential to be: conveying sex as transcendence, sex as understanding, sex as connection, sex as art. Even if a story doesn't happen to reflect one's particular erotic sensibilities, arousal is just one of the ingredients these works have to offer. Some of the stories that didn't so much press my erotic buttons, if you will, stayed with me in other ways, impressing upon me something else or something bigger the way writing has the potential to do. If I didn't find it arousing, I still found it extraordinary.
  
  I highly recommend Fast Girls as an anthology that showcases the quality and creativity that may currently be found in erotica.
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  Thereadingbell

  This was a book full of hot sexy erotica short stories. I was taken a back by the story with the strap on this type of story is usually not in anthologies. All of them where delicious and hot. The fast girls are willing to do anything with anyone. I like the hotness of some of the scenes. Some of the scenes had a touch of BDSM. All kinds of guilty pleasures where addressed in this book.
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  Dawn-Lorraine

  I always enjoy getting a RKB anthology for review. She has such a talent for picking engaging, well-conceived stories. In Fast Girls, there wasn't one story that didn't have some degree of 'turn on', even when it was a little surprising. I'm pretty open-minded, but the eroticism of "Panther" was a shock considering the focus of the story has never been part of my fantasy life. And I have to say the "Married Life" was a nice switch (hehehe) from the typical dom male story line that's so prevalent in a lot of erotica these days. Even still, Rachel's own "Whore Complex" is one of faves in this collection; a brilliant little vignette on the joys of being owned. Fast Girls is packed with tales... 20 in less than 200 pages. But whether a story is barely four pages or goes beyond 10, that action is fast, sometimes furious and always hot. These are great stories to read aloud in bed, too. ;)
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  Roxanna Cross

  Another amazing anthology by RKB. I mean who wouldn't lust after the young hard-bodied gardener or want to have sex with their favorite TV star or get it on in a hot steamy shower with company... or even become someone's private whore or get an unorthodox, yet, very very sexy birthday present?
  
  I think one of my favorites would be to meet a hot sexy stranger on a bus willing to help me try out my new toys. However, I have to admit that getting massively turned-on by a sexy photograph taking dirty pictures of me sounds pretty hot too.
  
  All in all, I'm pretty sure each reader can find their own guilty pleasure within this selection.
  
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  _booknerd.4ever_

  This was a really interesting read. I loved most of the stories included and will be reading most of the authors again. It really goes to show that open and honest communication is important and imperative in relationships. Not everyone practices that in real life which is a shame. These stories are sexy and hot. All left me wanting more.
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  Shannon

  I really wanted to get more out of these stories than I did 'cause erotica. However they didn't do it for me. Most likely it was the topic (what felt like degradation to me, one such story is called Whore Complex) of most of the stories meant I couldn't identify with the main characters. That's not to say that it wouldn't be someone else's kink, it just isn't mine, hence the two stars.
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  Janine

  Another great anthology edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. A varied collection of sexy, kinky, erotic, short stories. You will not be disappointed. Definitely recommend.
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  Dee

  1st story - short and hot, cougar story, albeit with no mention of contraception. It's one thing to be liberal and another to be irresponsible! Shame on you, lol.
  
  Fireworks by
  Lolita Lopez Husband and wife hot sex! Phew-wee fireworks alright!***fans-self to cool off!
  
  Jennifer teased me with her story, Shopaholic and talk of her newly purchased strap-on. Then the story went in another direction, damn her :)
  
  
  D.L. King delivered the goods with a well written femdom story! Rope bondage to boot!!
  
  Chasing Danger - well written story but again no condoms. I don't need pages of dialogue, a simple he slipped a condom works for me. "No glove, no love" baby, lol.
  
  Rachel Rachel Rachel, nothing like saving the best to last. What a naughty naughty story. A touch of FF, BDSM, cougar loving, voyeurism. HOT HOT HOT!!
  
  It's hard to rate an anthology, I have made comments about a few but couldn't mention them all.
  
  80% of the stories were a 4-5 star read for me. A few only 3 stars. Overall rating 4.5 stars.
  
  
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  Angela Caperton

  Contains my story "Playing the Market".
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  Jenny

  I thought maybe...look I don't know what I thought. This was supposed to be for women. I must be a weird woman, because these stories did nothing for me. Like at all. The end.