When three couples gather for cocktails on the evening of Elliot and Adele's anniversary, the conversation gets stuck in boring mode. To liven things up, Adele mentions a report she's seen about "rainbow parties", where the girls go down on the guys wearing different shades of lipstick. Once she’s explained the concept to her husband and their friends, the idea of swapping partners becomes much more interesting than the stock market.

This story was originally published in Best Women’s Erotica 2011.