Night’s Kiss
Lesbian Erotica
Catherine Lundoff
Published by Lethe Press at Smashwords
Copyright © 2009 Catherine Lundoff.
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An earlier version of this book was released in ebook format by Torquere Press, 2005.
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A trade paperback original, February 1, 2009
Book design: Toby Johnson
ISBN 1-59021-034-4 / 978-1-59021-034-5
Credits
“Viva Las Vegas” reprinted from Stirring Up a Storm (Marilyn Jaye Lewis, ed., Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2005); “A Room with a View” reprinted from Erotic Travel Tales 2 (Mitzi Szereto, ed., Cleis Press, 2003); “She Who Waits” reprinted from Best Lesbian Erotica 2001 (Tristan Taormino and Patrick Califia, eds., Cleis Press, 2001; “On the Spanish Main” reprinted from Electric 2: Best Lesbian Erotic Fiction (Nicole Foster, ed., Alyson Books, 2003); “Left Bank” reprinted from CleanSheets.com 2004; “The Goddess Within” reprinted from The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica (Barbary Cardy, ed., Robinson, 2007); “D is for Denial” reprinted from Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z (Rachel K. Bussel, ed., Pretty Things Press, 2004); “El Tigre” reprinted from Best Lesbian Erotica 1999 (Tristan Taormino and Chrystos, eds., Cleis Press, 1999); “The Model” reprinted from Zaftig (Hanne Blank, ed., Cleis Press, 2001); “Burn” reprinted from CleanSheets.com 2001; “Cowgirls and Science” reprinted from Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2006 (Nicole Foster, ed., Alyson Books, 2005); “An Incident in Whitechapel” reprinted from Best Lesbian Erotica 2005 (Tristan Taormino and Felice Newman, eds., Cleis Press, 2004); “Phone, Sex, Chocolate” from Sex and Candy (Rachel Kramer Bussel, ed. Pretty Things Press, 2008); “Planet 10” from Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 (Tristan Taormino and Eileen Myles, eds., Cleis Press, 2005).
Also By
Catherine Lundoff
Crave:
Tales of Lust, Love and Longing
Winner of a Golden Crown (“Goldie”) Literary Award, 2008
editor of
Haunted Hearths & Sapphic Shades:
Lesbian Ghost Stories
The stories are Jana’s fault this time around too.
It’s not every night that you see Elvis, not even here in Vegas. But there he was, up on stage at the Starburst Lounge belting his heart out. For a few minutes, the King himself was here with us, hanging out in a gay bar that he wouldn’t have been caught dead in when he was alive. I couldn’t take my eyes off the singer: all slicked back D.A., glittery jacket and long-nosed, darkly romantic face that was Elvis and Dean and every rebel America ever got wet or hard for.
Then he really let his hips go, giving them a twirl that said that said that this drag king watched the movies too. I whooped and got a dirty look from a short woman in a Sixties-style frock. “Ooh, you got competition, baby,” Julio muttered over his beer.
I grinned back at him. “So what do you think?”
“Well she’s not exactly my type, sugar. Nice action on them hips though. Maybe I’ll reconsider. Heh. Just wanted to see the look. What the hell, sweetie, you’re only in Vegas the first time once. Don’t you wanna tell the folks back home that you did a dyke Elvis at the Starburst Lounge?”
“Maybe, but a lady never kisses and tells. And I can always make it up whether anything happens or not.” I decided to change topics. “How come you knew about this place?”
“My ex likes to hang out here. Says it’s the essence of true camp.” Julio gave me a savage grin in the bar’s dim light.
I was momentarily sober and alert; nothing good ever happens with Julio’s exes. Time to go. “Oh look, she’s done. Well, I’ve had enough Elvis for one night. Let’s go see if the pirate show has started up.” I looked at him hopefully, hoping he wouldn’t remember that I almost never had enough Elvis. But this was my post break-up with Sue trip after all, and he’d talked me into it because he wanted to cheer me up. At least that’s why I hoped we were here.
Julio tried melting me with the grin that drove us all wild back in college, even some of the girls who said that they’d never sleep with a guy. But I was pretty much immune. He reached across the table and grabbed my hand, making me jump. “Don’t look now, but Elvis is heading this way and I don’t think I’m the attraction.” He patted my hand then sat back with a flip of the wrist that told the world he was my bestest boyfriend.
“You have got to stop playing me like this, bro. See, she’s all over the Jackie Kennedy wannabe now. I’m just not a pillbox hat kind of gal. Now come on, I wanna see cannons and pirates and shit.” I stood up and he joined me reluctantly, his eyes still fixed on every new guy who sauntered in.
“I can’t see you in a pill box either but I can’t help but wonder what you’d look like in blue suede shoes.” The speaker’s soft drawl hit my ears and tickled them like Sue’s tongue…oh never mind. Telling myself that my ex was history, I turned around to find Elvis herself standing behind me. Her eyes roamed over me like I was Ann Margaret. I squirmed at the unfamiliar attention and the wave of heat that came with it.
“Thought you already had a friend.” I nodded at the woman giving me a bitter glance over one shoulder as she walked out.
“Looks like you have one, too,” she nodded at Julio, who fluttered his eyelashes at her. “But so what? You visiting?” I nodded, not having anything really clever to say. “You know, you’ve got the Look, like a shadow of the King hisself. How about you try on one of my costumes and we hit the Strip together? I can show you the town and it’ll be good for my show. I’m Chloe, by the way. Come on, whadda you say?”
Julio bent over giggling until I kicked his shin. “Ow! Oh come on, Pam. You gotta cut loose sometime, girl.”
I didn’t think I was that dull but seeing the way he was looking at me, I had to wonder. “I still wanna see the pirates.” I said sulkily by way of agreement. It was the beer talking—I knew I should’ve skipped that last shot as well, but it was too late now.
“Done!” She had me dragged backstage before I could say anything else. Up close, I decided that I’d like to hear her croon some dippy love songs to me while we went water-skiing, just like in the movie. Except I was through with love. Fine, then, she could still sing them. Just as long as she didn’t mean a word of it.
A few moments with Chloe and Priscilla herself would’ve given me a second look. It helped that I was about her size and I’d already had the mullet chopped off after Sue said she’d puke if she had to look at it one more day. What was left of my hair was slicked back and darkened with something out of a bottle. She touched up my brown lashes and worked her magic on my would-be smoldering gaze until the blue suede shoes looked just right. One blue glittery blazer and some tight black pants later and I was ready for anything. Just so long as no one wanted to hear me sing.
Julio smirked like an extra from the “Boys in the Band” when we came out to get him. The regulars all whooped and hollered until I took a bow and swiveled my hips a bit. Then they laughed. I laughed with them. Why not? We went out arm in arm, still giggling.
Once outside we hopped on the trolley bus and headed toward the distant lights and glowing fountains of the big places at the tourist end. I practiced my sneer until we climbed off the bus at Treasure Island to the great delight of the tourists. Chloe made me pose with her while a couple of obliging drag queens heading off to do their show at some other club shrieked. It was all good.
Mid-pout, I took a good look at Chloe. She gave me the full impact of the Look and blew me an air kiss. My stomach did a little flip just then so I didn’t notice Julio taking off until it was too late. “I see something yummy, kids. I’ll catch up with you later.” He sashayed off with a focused look that reminded me of a cat stalking a bird. The sweet little college boy he was after wouldn’t know what hit him. Oh well.
Chloe dragged me across the street and onto the walkway in front of Treasure Island. I waved to a couple of people who yelled, “I see Elvis!” Probably thought there was a convention in town or something. The crowds were already getting thick when Chloe parked me in front of her by the rail. “I’ve seen it before. Watch your wallet. Things are gonna get kind of crazy.”
The crowd filled in, packing the wooden sidewalk until I couldn’t have gone anywhere if I’d wanted to. Chloe’s lips were at my ear. “The Elvis look really suites you, Pam. You a fan of the King?” I nodded my head and tried not to shiver as she leaned a lot closer. Her thighs burned me through my jeans and she slipped an arm around me as if to hold onto the railing. The pirate show started up and as the ships maneuvered, her fingers found my nipple and pinched it hard. I bit my lip to keep from yelling and tried not to arch my back against her.
That was when I realized that she was packing. I could feel the solid flexible weight of the dildo pressed against my butt and got a lot wetter while I warmed up to the idea of sex with the King. Or as close as I wanted to get anyway. The crowd crushed us together until I thought I was going to melt all over her in a big molten pool. I could barely breath, especially when the cannons started firing and her hands got busy exploring. They roamed under my jacket and shirt, caressing my skin. Her breath was hot on my neck and I could see her lips curl in a sexy smile from the corner of my eye. I bit my own lips hard, smothering the moan that wanted to explode from them.
She maneuvered one denim-clad leg between my thighs and I spread them apart and tilted gingerly forward so I could grind myself against her. “Having fun?” Chloe murmured in my ear, her hand sliding down to the front of my jeans. I sent furtive, frantic glances to either side, watching the jubilant pirate-watching faces of happy tourists and wondered how long it would take them to notice two Elvises doing it in front of them.
I was worried for nothing. Between the difficulty in breathing and the noise of the battle, everyone’s attention was pretty well occupied. Chloe’s fingers found the front seam of my jeans and rubbed firmly. My clit sang its own version of any of the King’s songs you’d care to name and my legs trembled with the effort of standing and grinding against her at the same time.
It felt liked I soaked my jeans all the way through but I still couldn’t relax enough to come. I closed my eyes and gnawed on my lip, then forced my eyes open again so as not to look too obvious. That part was a mistake. Once I started looking around again, I got distracted. She could see it too and pulled back both her hand and her leg, settling instead for leaning against me in the crowd. I caught my breath and coughed in the clouds of smoke.
“I can think of a better place. It’s nice and quiet and I won’t have to compete with pirates. Whaddaya say?” The drawl purred in my ear until she had my full attention again, from my quickened breath to my wet jeans. I didn’t trust myself to speak, just nodded my head and hoped that she meant her apartment or wherever Elvis wannabes go to rest their weary heads. Maybe that the place was called Graceland; after tonight, something told me I’d always think of it that way.
The show finally ground to a halt amid a final blaze of glory. I think the good guys won but by then I didn’t care. The crowds broke up so slowly that I thought I’d be screaming or crying from frustration by the time we got out. Chloe just watched me, standing so close I could feel every breath, every movement. I was drunk on her, on the smoke filled air and knowing that I was about to do something with a stranger I’d never have done with Sue.
I turned my head and kissed her, my mouth fumbling against hers like it was the first time I’d ever kissed anyone. Her lips were warm and moist on mine and their touch sent a shock through me until I thought I’d fall over. “Oooh, baby,” Chloe murmured. “Very nice.” She caught my arm and starting towing me upstream against the crowd’s flow and some puzzled glances.
“Do ‘Jailhouse Rock’!” One wit yelled and Chloe turned to grin at some two hundred pounds of hostile Midwestern beef. The kind who probably tortured school band members like me in high school. Some of his buddies took up the chant and soon we had a lot of not terribly friendly attention focused right on us. My skin crawled. Somehow, call me crazy, I’d never once dreamed of being gay bashed on the Strip while wearing Elvis drag.
“You know the Vegas anthem, right?”
“Ummm…sure,” I volunteered, trying to sound like I had some idea of what she was talking about.
“Well, I’ve been saving this til later on tonight but since you boys are so enthusiastic, we’ll just do it now.” Chloe grinned at our audience while I tried not to pray out loud to anyone who would listen. “Just do what I do,” she said and broke into “Viva Las Vegas” at the top of her lungs.
I picked up the tune at the first chorus and we sang our hearts out. I tried to remember how she moved her hips on stage and did my best imitation, always a few beats off. For a couple of glorious moments, we had a small crowd swaying along and even singing the chorus. Just a pair of dyke Elvises doing the King on the Strip in a city that never sleeps.
We got to the last verse and took our bows. A few people even tossed coins at us and the herd of bad news wandered off in search of other entertainment. Chloe grinned at me, “Sure you don’t want to move here and do this every weekend?”
“Yep.” I collapsed on the ropes and ran my shaking fingers through my slicked back hair. They were brown when I looked down at them. “Damn.”
She laughed. “Come on, I told you we’d go somewhere better.” She dragged me to my feet and towed me along behind her. “You haven’t really lived until you’ve done it on the monorail. And the roller coaster.” Her grin was wicked in the bright lights.
“Why stop there? Why not the fountains at Bellagio?” I was trying my best to look like I did this all the time. Like she wasn’t scaring the crap out of me.
“Spoken like the King hisself! Where have you been all my life?” She struck a pose for someone’s video camera, then handed a business card to a passing group of women. One of them even batted her eyelashes while I tried not to roll my eyes.
“So what happened to going some place quieter?” Great, now I was whining at my Vegas fling. No wonder Sue dumped me.
“Oh we’ll get there, hon. Don’t you worry. I just like to make sure my friends are ready for a good time when we get there.” She gave me the Look again, so much Elvis that the breath caught in my throat. The fountains were starting to look better by the second and that realization made me uncomfortable. Would I want Chloe as much if she wasn’t Elvis tonight? Then again, did it matter? It’s not like we were getting married.
We kept walking, fighting our way through the crowds. She kept managing to bump into me, the touch of her body sending ripples through me until I hardly felt anything else. Except tired of being uptight, depressed Pam who just got dumped by her girlfriend. I was the King tonight, dammit, just like my clothes said I was. My doubts evaporated like the mist spray over the casino doors. I reached out to grab her arm and pulled her close. Then in a voice that was more Elvis than mine, I whispered “I’m ready now, friend,” so close to her ear that my lips brushed her skin.
Chloe’s eyelids dropped so that those big blue eyes looked half-asleep and I could see her lips part in what looked like a pant. My turn. I tugged her down a path and into some bushes in front of a casino I didn’t recognize. A quick look around told me we were alone for the time being and probably out of sight. I fumbled with the zipper on her tight pants while I kissed her, my tongue sliding into her mouth like I did this all the time. The soft plastic of her dildo flopped into my hand and she gave a little moan.
That was all the invitation I needed. I dropped to my knees in the damp grass and closed my lips around the latex. I rocked my head back and forth for a moment, for all the world like it was a real dick and I could smell her, hot and moist with every motion I made. Her eyes were closed and she rolled her head back, loose and limp, but her fingers gripped my shoulders so tightly I knew she couldn’t let go here anymore than I could in the crowd.
I wasn’t so uptight after all and I grinned to myself as I pulled her hips forward and took the entire length of her dick into my mouth. Then I stuck my fingers inside her pants, hunting for a gap in the harness under her pants. I explored her wetness until she gave a little, choked moan that let me know that I was on the right track. Her fingers were in my hair, probably getting covered with brown dye. “Baby,” she whispered between gasps, “let’s go back to my place. C’mon, hon.” She tried to pull back with the words and I grinned up at her.
“Your place? I thought we were going to do it in the fountains and the tram and everywhere else on the Strip. C’mon, Chloe, it’s my first trip to Vegas. How can I leave before I’ve had Elvis all over this town?” I gave her my own version of the Look. It was good enough that she dragged me to my feet and kissed me hard.
“Hey, you two, break it up!” Casino security had finally showed up. Chloe had the dildo tucked in faster than I could have believed and was sprinting awkwardly away from the voice. I took off after her and we bolted down the path to throw ourselves into the river of Saturday night crowds. We got some very curious looks, especially since she was still trying to zip up and run at the same time. I started laughing and a few breaths later, she joined in. We fetched up on some benches outside one of the big places and howled until our ribs hurt.
It felt great. I hadn’t laughed this hard since, well, I couldn’t remember when. Julio was right. This trip was just what I needed. I wondered if he was having as much fun as I was, then decided that he could take care of himself. Chloe grabbed my hand. “Let’s go check out that tram.” Her eyes were glinting in the glow of the casinos and I was in love. Well, lust, anyway, at least for tonight. I wanted her so bad that everything below the waist was aching, wet and empty. To hell with the tram ride, I was making my move now.
I caught Chloe’s arm to turn her around. Her makeup was smeared and her lips were full, pouting and begging to be kissed. Time to find out if tonight’s electricity was more than good makeup. I gave her my sternest look and placed a hand on either side of her padded shoulders. “I’ve changed my mind about trams and fountains. I want you naked and I want you now.” I managed not to let the grin inside make it to my lips. Sue always said I needed to be more assertive. If I couldn’t do that as the King, it was never happening.
Chloe’s kissable lips curved up in a sweet smile. “Oooh. We’ll have to do something about that. Next block and we can catch the bus. Unless you want to volunteer your room. But I’m guessing that’s being used.” We shared amused smiles. After that, it was all a blur of stolen touches and kisses til we got to her apartment.
If her place was Graceland, I didn’t ever want to see the real thing. Clothes all over the place, old pizza boxes and burned out lightbulbs completed the décor. She locked the door behind us and pressed me up against the wall. This time, we kissed without fear of interruption, her tongue hot and burning in my mouth. My fingers found her nipple through her shirt under what felt like an Ace bandage. She moaned, momentarily drowning the sound of her neighbor’s stereo through the paper-thin walls.
I tugged the glittery jacket off while she fumbled at my belt. I had her shirt unbuttoned by the time she had it all the way out of the loops and I was sucking on her tit through the elastic before she could get any further. By the time I found the end of the bandage and started working it free, she was gasping for air. Out of drag, she was lean and muscled like a greyhound. I wondered what she did besides impersonate the King but this wasn’t the time to ask.
I yanked her pants down, almost taking the homemade harness with them. She scrambled to hang onto it like it was a security blanket or something. “I’ve got a better one inside,” she jerked her head at what had to be the bedroom and grabbed my arm. I followed her, dropping the jacket and shirt off over a chair as we went.
The bedroom looked better, like this was where she entertained. There was a life-size poster of Ann Margaret on one wall, Elvis on the other. No need to ask what she was putting in the CD player. The King’s velvet voice filled the room and I got even wetter. Across the room, Chloe was lighting a candle and yanking a bundle of leather out of a drawer. I held out my hand. “I bet that’s just my size.” My voice didn’t even quiver. She looked at me and I looked back, seeing the King in her eyes just like she could see him in mine.
“I bet it fits us both,” she said at last, lips curling into a half smile. She pulled out a dildo and some condoms and laid them all on the bed. I reached for her across the bed and pulled her down next to me. We kissed, tongues wrestling for control until I let her win. I had my hand on her zipper by then anyway and down her pants a minute later. She moaned into my mouth as I slid my fingers into her wet slit and shivered when I found her clit.
I pulled away from her mouth and pushed her down on the bed, running my tongue down between her breasts while I tugged off the harness she was still wearing. Her underpants went with it and I ran my tongue lightly over her bush, then down the damp skin of her thigh. She was gasping now, biting back little moans while I licked my way all up and down her legs, my tongue everywhere but where she wanted it most. I smiled as her hips bucked and wiggled to get closer to my mouth.
I ripped my jeans off and stuck my thigh between hers, thrusting against her. When I decided she’d had enough of that, I drove my fingers into her, feeling her body go rigid then shake with release. Feeling her fingers in my hair, her skin warm and sweaty against mine. I could almost come just from that. Almost. My free hand nudged the dildo and the harness and I gave a final thrust before I stood up to buckle myself in.