controlone
I make my living writing mainstream fiction and my publisher
would drop me like a hot rock if they found out about
my favorite hobby (writing gay porn). So for the time
being I have to write as controlone.. and I hate it.
I love being gay. I love writing this material. The
minute my novel hits the Best Seller list I plan to
hire a sky-writer and tell the world about my "favorite
kind of fiction."
I've had a very busy life. I got my first fellowship
to do cancer research at twelve and I've been working
ever since. After doing cancer research I got a job as
a medical technologist; later I taught school, high school
and college (everything from chemistry to communications
to courses on death and dying). After a prolonged life
and death struggle with osteomyelitis (four years on
the terminal ward) I became a counselor and hypnotherapist;
then I moved into couples' therapy, sex research and
sex therapy. Once I got bored with that I became a standup
comic for several years and eventually began teaching "Writing
and Performing Stand Up Comedy," for which I wrote
the text. I've been writing all my life, but in the last
ten years it has consumed more and more of my time. While
waiting for my novel to come out I had some free time
so I decided to write some erotica.. off the top of my
head.. with little or no thought... to just have fun..
screw the rules.. This was one of the stories that flowed
out my fingertips and onto my keyboard. I absolutely
loved writing it! If I could make a living writing about
gay life and gay sex I'd drop everything else and devote
myself to the effort. Unfortunately, the money isn't
there, so I must continue to write in other areas. As
with every other "project" in my life I will
write till it gets boring and then move on to another
career. My favorite line of all time is from Auntie Mame, "Life's
a banquet and most poor bastards are starving to death." I
intend to sample everything life has to offer.
Read How I Got Under
Your Skin
Wayne Courtois
Wayne Courtois lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where
queer life is thriving. He holds an M.F.A. from the Writing
Program of the University of North Carolina—Greensboro.
Most recently his work has appeared online in suspect
thoughts: a journal of subversive writing and Velvet
Mafia, and the anthologies Love
Under Foot: An Erotic Celebration of Feet and Of
the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction.
His story "Taurus" from Of
the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction earned him
the 2002 Best New Voice award from the Erotic Authors
Association. My Name Is Rand debuts in February, 2004.
Read an excerpt from My
Name Is Rand
Read an Interview
with Wayne Courtois by Sean Meriwether
Lou Dellaguzzo
Lou Dellaguzzo is a freelance writer who lives in Washington,
D.C. His fiction has appeared in Lodestar
Quarterly,
Blithe House Quarterly, and Harrington Gay
Men's Fiction Quarterly. Lou has just completed
a collection of twelve short stories. Entitled "All
of a Suddenly," the
collection focuses mostly on nascent relationships between
gay men and the various pleasures--and problems--the
characters experience.
Read All Of A Suddenly
M. Christian
M. Christian is the author of the critically acclaimed
and best selling
collections Dirty Words, Speaking Parts, The Bachelor
Machine and
(upcoming from STARbooks) Filthy. He is the editor of
The Burning Pen,
Guilty Pleasures, the Best S/M Erotica series, The
Mammoth Book of Future
Cops and The Mammoth Book of Tales of the Road (with
Maxim Jakubowski)
and over 14 other anthologies. His short fiction has
appeared in over 150
books including Best American Erotica, Best
Gay Erotica,
Best Lesbian
Erotica, Best Transgendered Erotica, Best
Fetish Erotica,
Best Bondage
Erotica and ... well, you get the idea. He lives in San
Francisco and is
only some of what that implies.
Read Moby
Aaron Parrett
Aaron Parrett is a writer and musician in Montana. he
has published in Open Spaces, New Delta
Review, and academic
journals.
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Van Scott
I have a Masters degree in Philosophy from NYU.
I've had short stories published in Modern Words
7; SpoonFedAmerika.com (Fall ‘02); Harrington
Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, (issue--3) & VelvetMafia.com.
I have pieces forthcoming in Friction 7 (Feb. ‘04;
re-print), & in the U.K. based website, OpenWideMagazine.co.uk
(Jan/Feb ‘04).
A native of New York, I’m of Irish/Italian extraction.
Email Van Scott:
van_tazia@hotmail.com.
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Ian Sherman
Ian Sherman is a Seattle resident, Nevada native, currently
working at the University of Washington. His work has
previously appeared in the Winter 2000 issue of Blithe
House Quarterly,
and he has a piece upcoming in 3am
Magazine.
He wishes he had a website detailing these, but does
not, yet still hopes that you will maybe go take a peek
in those two fine publications and track down his work. "Speak
With New Mouths" is part of collection-in-progress
of linked short stories. You can reach Ian at iansage@yahoo.com with comments.
Read Speak With
New Mouths
Ian Rafael Titus
Ian Rafael Titus enjoys all things weird and twisted.
He lives in New York City with so many books that he
could open his own second-hand bookstore. He loves art,
folklore and fairy tales, music, Buddhism, and mask-making.
He can be contacted at ITitus@msn.com.
Read A Work of Art
Jack Slomovits
Jack Slomovits is a commercial and portrait photographer
as well as a graphic and web designer. Maturing sexually
during the 80's, in an age of AIDS, Jack's lust for adventure
was tempered by his fear and awareness of the disease.
He refocused his sexual energy into his art and his camera
became his wand of control. Jack's work has been collected
by galleries in New York and Los Angeles, and have been
published in two photographic anthologies.
Visit Jack Slomovits online at: http://JackNY.com
Check Out his Photography
Klaus Westen
K.W. is a native of Milwaukee and is a retired professor
of German. He is broadly traveled and lived many years
in Salzburg. He resides now in west
Massachusetts. He has a fair number of pre-internet
print stories he would like to see published.
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