Velvet
Mafia breaks out the bubbly for our 8th Anniversary Issue! Want to appear in the next one? Drop trou and show what you've got beneath your belt and we'll match you vowel for vowel. Send in your words, works and cock shots and we'll post the best online. Contact the editor with your "honorarium". Until then, slip off your shorts and enjoy what the family has posted. You won't leave empty handed...
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| 12.31.09: Velvet Mafia is squirting its jiz on the wall after 8 years online. We've got sexually confused students, runaway convicts, hit men, escaped Jehovah Witnesses, tea room action, and creatures of the night prepared to take you Str8 to Bed! Join our literary deviants as they entertain, enlighten, and stimulate your own personal economy. Get online and get off with our first balls-to-the-wall issue in 2 years! Read Issue 24. |
12.09.09: After a brief hiatus, we've got a double-header for you...
First join Tom Cardamone in a blowjob that will make more than your jaw sore. Ever want your own personal suck slave? Wrap your lips around the Emperor’s cock with "Royal Catamite", excerpted from his collection Pumpkin Teeth.
Then catch uber-rock god, Vince Vader, as he searches for his lost voice and life in the eyes of a beautiful dead boy in Sean Meriwether's "Into the Mouth (Becoming the Fly)" excerpted from his collection The Silent Hustler. |
| 10.25.09: Lowlife hitmen trafficking in lost boys? Sounds like one of our own... Read an excerpt from Stealing Ganymede by J. Warren where boys learn about the erotic danger of sharks, strangers, and bathroom stalls. |
| 10.19.09: The stories that grow out of our hookups, and certainly the anticipation of them, is typically better than the actual... and our fantasy of brutal sex is always a pale shadow of the brutality men are capable of. Two very different points on the sexual landscape from Stephen S. Mills. Read his poetry. |
| 09.11.09: Take an after hours ride with Clay as he picks up a hitchhiker and ends up chasing ghosts and puzzling out almost-forgotten mysteries. Climb onboard with "Wait!", a selection from Jameson Currier's recent collection, The Haunted Heart and Other Tales. Don't wait to read it, this story is only available until December 31st! |
| 09.04.09: Step out for a night with rocker, Toan, as he throws out his lure to reel in the next little fishie... only his laws of attraction work on the wrong boys. Read an excerpt from Paul G. Bens, Jr's new novel, Kelland. |
 08.28.09: Just like wasps and dogs we all need meat on which to feed, but be careful what dish you select. Brush up on your sexual zoology with Zhuang Yusa as he explores the paralyzing sting and leash of relationships. Read his Poetry. |
08.21.09: In 2004 Jean Roberta interviewed the editor/publisher of Drummer and gay leather former titleholder, Robert Davolt, to discuss his views on our unrealistic expectations, the leather community, and WMD (Words of Mass Delusion). Read the Interview.
Want to know more? Read her review of Davolt's nonfiction book, Painfully Obvious, nominated for a Stonewall Book Award.
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| 08.14.09:
Set in a future where an unforeseen side-effect of a cure-all treatment renders the majority of the human race desensitized to tickling, “In the Time of Solution 9" tracks one of the rare men immune to the effects. Wade encounters a couple eager to explore his ticklish territory and bring him to delirious heights of ecstasy. Read an excerpt from Wayne Courtois' novel in progress. |
| 08.07.09: "It takes a sick bastard to like pain," claims eight year-old Mark, the inquisitioner. Not something that Colin wants to hear after forking over a fortune to be riotously tortured for a week believing "he asked for it." Cross the narrow line between pain and redemption in Nathan Sim's harrowing "Imperfect Pearls". |
| 06.08.09: Ever have that feeling like you've been bound, ball-gagged and left to the gentle mercy of a hospitable bear? Goldilocks never had it so good. Join our resident poet, author and memoirist for a poetic threesome of bondage, lust and restraint. Indulge your appetites and read Jeff Mann's Poetry. |
 05.30.09: Velvet Mafia celebrates the 10th Anniversary of Emanuel Xavier's novel Christ Like, reissued by Queer Mojo. Join Mikey on his journey through a New York where Santeros, transsexuals, and voguing queens live, dance and party. Taste Christ Like with a selection, Woes of the Pharisees.
Then sit in on a conversation about growing up in 90's New York, Ballroom days and the resurrection of Christ Like with the author and Charlie Vázquez. Read the interview... |
05.25.09: Shoplifting can be an erotic sport, especially when you are apprehended by a fullback-sized cop. Our young delinquent finds out how perpetrators are manhandled in this department store. Get caught red-handed with Christopher Stone's 'A Stolen Quickie'. |
| 05.09.09: When a handsome man picks you up outside a gay club for sex in his bachelor pad off the "main house", it sets off a series of events that leads you back to your point of origin with dire consequences. Journey down the wrong alley with Ed McCarthy's 'Hope'. |
 05.02.09: Walk the New York City streets of the 90's with Jaeven Marshall, a twenty-two year old rent boy who's fiction has yet to be accepted by the literary establishment. Author, Daniel Allen Cox, serves up an excerpt from his anticipated first novel, Shuck, where you are never more than ten feet from a guy who'll pay you to shuck your pants... in New York, anyway. |
| 04.17.09: When John designs a tattoo to memorialize Frank's lover he gets more than just a new client. The tattoo joins the three men in a web of history, sex and love... remembered and freshly minted. Val Gryphin kicks off the "Elephants Dance" with the chiming of a bell. Are you salivating? |
04.10.09: Turn off the news on that latest bank failure and insurance giant bailout and click your radio over to the future of viral-terrorism. They have lists of the "clean and healthy" and are coming for you. Step into the new reality in 'Independence or Terrorism? A Dispatch from the Viral Guerrilla' by Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco |
| 04.03.09: 'member that hot straight married guy who liked to get it on with other guys while wifey is otherwise occupied? Join Shane Allison in a seedy motel with the elusive Chris and document when "We Messed Around at the El Camino Motel". |
03.27.09: Would you strip for the camera? Novice writer Jimmy Hamada bares all for a famous New York photographer, and discovers his own body in the moment. What will be captured on film? Spend "'fifteen minutes naked" and find out. |
 03.13.09: "Everyone knows there aren't any faggot Nazis" and Spencer hides with the ranks of the male-dominated group, slipping off one dogma for another like changing his t-shirt. His next phase stands in the guise of Tom, who is...different, but can he make the change? Take off your t-shirt and slip on Riley MacLeod's "In Skin".
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| 03.06.09: Carlo likes to watch men...fight. Two men go into the ring and let their testosterone roar in an brutally erotic fight to the finish. Get pugilized by Joe Marohl's "The Lair of Carlo de la Paz'. |
02.27.09: It's easier to hook up... but sometimes you have to talk. Slip into an awkward conversation with Thomas Kearnes and fill yourself with "Seed". |
| 02.20.09: Join Michael Montlack at the filling station, embraced in his new comforter, and in the groovy spare room at a party in his poetry exploring the territory close to home. Does somebody (or some boy) love us all? Find out by reading his poetry. |
 02.06.09: Vincent Diamond invites you to get a little burned with firefighter, Sandy, and his out of town visitor, Tanner. The two men create some of their own heat in the tinderbox of Sandy's bed. Get smudged and read "Fire" from Rough Cut: Vincent Diamond Collected. |
 Men
of Mystery: Erotic Tales of Intrigue and Suspense,
edited by Sean Meriwether and Greg Wharton, was a finalist
for the Lambda Literary Award for best LGTB Anthology. This
collaboration between the mafia doms fills your endless desires
with down and dirty rough-hewn men. Read
more... |
