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Reviewed by Gwen Masters
(7/23/08)
Reading Open for Business: Tales of Office Sex took me back to college, when I worked in the Payroll office and had the pleasure of sharing my workdays with a guy named Tim. He was the kind of man who was sexy and really didn't know it -- he was oblivious to the fact that every move he made was dripping with sensuality, that every word out of his mouth made me want to fuck him silly. Even the way he manhandled that stapler was enough to make me weak in the knees.
I spent most of my workdays fantasizing about him. Somehow I managed to get the paperwork done, but how, I still have no idea. All I could think about was fucking him on top of the desk, sucking him off in the bathroom, and even riding him in the office kitchen while we waited for the coffee to perk.
Open for Business took me back to that heavenly longing. The book starts off with a story that makes one thing very clear -- this is not a book filled with run-of-the-mill office sex. Lisette Ashton's "That Monday Morning Feeling" transforms the decidedly unsexy commute to work into a delicious sensual romp. From that point the book takes off, and oh, my, does it give a whole new meaning to fucking around with your boss!
One of my favorite stories in the book is "Taking Care of Business" by Sommer Marsden. Who hasn't wanted to give their favorite small-minded, self-righteous and holier-than-thou person the ultimate fuck-off? Marsden pulls it off with perfect dialogue, and her character gets something a little extra for her trouble. Oh, what a thrill to get the upper hand -- or a hand to the ass, depending on your fancy.
I'm a sucker for good conversation, as in the CB Potts tale of a headhunter going the extra mile to land the hot-shot executive. In "Headhunter," the exchange of words is just as crisp and hot as the sex that follows. It's a surprisingly short story for all that you learn about the characters, and even the carefully crafted sex scene has no distracting surplus. Beautiful, it is. And hot.
There are powerhouses of erotic writing featured here. Maxim Jakubowski delivers a sexy tale with a twist, Rachel Kramer Bussel makes me long for a secretary of my own, and Donna George Storey turns a benign library into a place for sexual dares. Kristina Wright shows the "Perks of the Office" in a flurry of hard belt spanks. Marilyn Jaye Lewis offers a wild submissive ride in "After Hours." Even Editor Alison Tyler gets into the act with "Page Ten of the Employee Handbook," another of her always-guaranteed-to-please stories that makes me long for my own handbook full of rules to trounce.
Finally, my favorite story of the entire collection: "Have a Nice Day" by Mike Kimera is a standout. Kimera makes every careful word seem more like a deliciously naughty whisper in the ear, an invitation to keep going, to find hidden treasures you can't live without. In "Have a Nice Day," he pulls off half a dozen fantasies in one story and manages to make every word not only believable, but taunting -- he makes me wish that I still worked in an office, and could have a romp like that during my lunch hour.
In the hands of a lesser editor, this collection might have been a bit too dry for my taste, or filled with trite situations that would never really happen in an office setting. Alison Tyler has managed to find the best stories from the best authors, and create a book of fantasies that -- if you're lucky enough, or determined enough -- just might come true. If a book like this had landed in my mailbox when I was in college, sexy little Tim might have been in serious sexy trouble.
