Shane Allison
Shane Allison has had poems, stories and interviews published
in Mississippi Review, New Delta Review,
McSweeney's, Suspect
Thoughts, Mipo, zafusy and
others. His stories have graced the naughty pages of Ultimate
Gay Erotica 2006 and Best Black Gay Erotica.
He has work forthcoming in Hustlers, Sexiest
Soles, Muscle Worshippers, Love in a
Lock Up, Truckers and Cowboys: Gay Erotic Tales.
His short book of poems, I Want to Fuck a Redneck
is forthcoming from Scintillating Publications.
Read Dirt Road
Stephen Beachy
Stephen Beachy is the author of the novellas Some
Phantom/No Time Flat, and the two novels, The
Whistling Song and Distortion. His fiction
has appeared in Best Gay American Fiction, BOMB,
The Chicago Review, Blithe House Quarterly
and elsewhere, and his nonfiction and critical essays
have appeared in such places as New York Magazine,
The New York Times Magazine, and the San
Francisco Bay Guardian. Raised by Mennonites “somewhere
in the Midwest,” he now lives in California, where
he teaches at the University of San Francisco.
Read an excerpt from No
Time Flat
Paul G. Bens, Jr.
Born in the Commonwealth of Kentucky far too many years
ago to be honest about, Paul G. Bens, Jr., has spent most
of his adult life marking time as a Casting Director in
Los Angeles, working in both film and television. His
short stories have appeared in The Egg Box, Scared
Naked, HeavyGlow, Fresh Off the Vine,
Bleeding Quill, Twisted Tongue and Outsider
Ink. Additionally, an upcoming issue of Cemetery
Dance will include one of his dirty little shorts.
Bens currently is Manager of Rights Administration for
a major Hollywood film studio. Recently domesticated,
he lives in Los Angeles' San Gabriel Valley with his boyfriend
and six goldfish, and is represented by Kristopher O'Higgins
and Jesse Vogel of Scribe Agency. He welcomes everyone
to drop by his blog at www.paulbensblog.blogspot.com.
Read Kama
Tom Cardamone
"Suitcase Sam" first appeared in Red
Scream Magazine. Tom Cardamone's erotic novel,
The Werewolves of Central Park, will be out next
spring. You can read more of his short fiction at his
website www.pumpkinteeth.net.
Read Suitcase Sam
Wayne Courtois
Wayne Courtois is author of the novels My Name
Is Rand and the forthcoming A Pardoner’s Tale, both
published by Suspect Thoughts Press. His work has appeared
in journals such as The Greensboro Review and Harrington
Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, and in the anthologies
Of the Flesh, Love Under Foot, Best Gay Erotica 2005,
Out of Control, and Hot Gay Erotica, among others. He
lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with his longtime partner.
Visit Wayne Courtois online at: www.waynecourtois.com
Read Capturing the King
Alex Gomez
I'm Alex Gomez, I was born in Guadalajara, Mexico but
was educated entirely in Canada. I returned to Puerto
Vallarta in 1995, after I grew sick of all the homophobia
and racism I experienced while attending university. I
have been writing since I learned to write in English.
Read The Boy With The Thorn In
His Side
Wayne Hoffman
Wayne Hoffman lives in New York City. Hard
is his first novel. Wayne's cultural
reporting has appeared in the Washington Post,
Village Voice, The Nation, Billboard,
The Forward and elsewhere. He has also written
for gay publications, including the Advocate,
A Bear's Life, XY, Torso and
dozens of community newspapers. To contact Wayne, email
WayneWriter@aol.com.
Read Hard
Core: A Glimpse into Wayne Hoffman's Sexy New Novel
by Jameson Currier
Read an excerpt from Hard
Matty Lee
Matty Lee received his GED from the Dade County School
Board some time in the late eighties. He went on to attend
Los Angeles Community College but lost interest after
Spanish I. He’s been employed as a tree climber,
a bartender, a medical research patient, a deckhand, a
telephone repairman, a salesman, a fabric librarian, a
night watchman, a customer service representative, and
on and on. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California
where he loves to surf, read, and play with small fury
animals.
Read an excerpt from 35
Cents
Sean Meriwether
In addition to his work on Velvet Mafia, Sean is
the editor of Outsider
Ink, the content editor of the gay links resource
TheGayMaleBody.com
and half of the Blowsquish.com
webdesign team. His work has or will be published in Best
of Best Gay Erotica 2, Law
of Desire, as well as online in Lodestar
Quarterly and 3AM
Magazine. Sean lives in New York with his partner,
photographer Jack Slomovits, and their two dogs.
"Burn the Rich" is from his forthcoming
collection, The Silent Hustler (2008).
Visit Sean Meriwether online at: www.penboy7.com
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Nathaniel O'Connell
Nathaniel O'Connell is a securities lawyer in Boston.
When he isn't making the world a safer place for hedge
funds, he is at work on his first novel. His writing has
also recently appeared in Harrington Gay Men's Fiction
Quarterly.
Read Trade
Ian Philips
Ian Philips (www.ianphilips.com)
had to sleep with a lot of people to get this story into
print and online. He regrets none of it.
Read The Red Thread
Van Scott
My publishing credits include: Modern Words,
Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, Velvet
Mafia, Friction, Volume 7: Best Gay Erotic
Fiction, OpenWideMagazine.co.uk,
3AMMagazine.com,
GonzoBeats.com,
400 Words, The
Angry Poet.com, Underground
Voices.com, Sex by the Book: Gay Men's Tales
of Lit and Lust, & a South African Anthology
put out by Laugh it off media (upcoming).
Contact Van Scott at: van_tazia@hotmail.com
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Jack Slomovits
Jack Slomovits is an erotic and lifestyles photojournalist.
His work is published internationally in various mediums,
as well as, collected and represented by dealers and galleries.
Slomovits' approach to capturing moments on film is a
combination of voyuerism and lust for his models, experiencing
the moment through his subjects and the lens. Jack Slomovits'
current work is split between erotic imagery and wedding
photojournalism.
Visit Jack Slomovits online at: jackny.com
Check Out his Photography
Raymond Taylor
Raymond Taylor is a twelve-year veteran of San Francisco.
He has danced to House, Techno, Industrial, Goth, and
Dark Wave, watched his friends cut themselves bellowing
for justice, miss their psych meds and be swallowed whole.
He has lost friends to AIDS, heroin, stripping, madness,
sex clubs, high rents, and the passage of time. He is
a survivor of sexual assault, sexual bliss, sexual confusion
and manic euphoria. His work has been published in The
James White Review, Prosodia, The Croatan
Express, and the UK based magazine The International
Journal of Erotica which recently serialized his
nineteen poem cycle "Moscow/St. Petersburg."
His first novel, Geppetto's Children, is released
by Plaza Rat Press in the spring of 2006. You can read
his sporadic blog postings here.
Feel free to write him with comments or feedback. He loves
that.
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Greg Wharton
Greg Wharton is the publisher of Suspect Thoughts
Press. He is the author of Johnny
Was & Other Tall Tales and the editor/co-editor
of numerous anthologies including the Lambda Literary
Award–winning I
Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage. He lives
in Oakland with his brilliant and sexy husband Ian.
Read Blood Oranges and Cotton
Candy
Duane Williams
Duane Williams lives in Hamilton, Canada. His short
fiction has appeared widely in literary anthologies, including
Quickies, Queer View Mirror I &
II, Blithe House, Boyfriends from
Hell, Velvet Mafia, Suspect Thoughts,
Buttmen 2 & 3, Harrington Gay
Men’s Literary Quarterly, Friction 6,
Between the Palms: A Collection of Gay Travel Erotica,
Latin Boys, Full Body Contact and Best
Gay Erotica 2006. He can be reached at duanewilliams@cogeco.ca
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