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Best Gay Asian Erotica edited by Joël B. Tan
Buy "Best Gay Asian Erotica" on Amazon.com Go beyond the locker room in this playful, imaginative, and lushly written collection of gay Asian erotica, with settings as diverse as a bamboo grove in China and a sleepy crank caller's Los Angeles apartment. Best Gay Asian Erotica brings together stories of lust and adventure—each with a queer Asian man as the focus of desire. In Virgil Vang's "Mimesis," a newly deaf man discovers ritualistic sexual theater under the tutelage of a charismatic teacher. S.S. Bider's "The Chair" describes a Malay tribe whose beautiful boys have a second, hidden tongue awaiting the explorer. And "True Love," according to author Nino Alvarez, involves ordering-in from seven Chinese restaurants and feeding your lover with your hands. For die-hard traditionalists, there is even a locker room story. Chile-hot literary porn from writers like Noël Alumit, Jason Guillermo Luz, R. Zamora Linmark, Andy Quan, Allan deSouza, Sandip Roy, and more.

Best American Gay Fiction 3 edited by Brian Bouldrey
Buy This Book "Is there something that is inherently 'queered' about the books gay men bring into the English language?" asks Brian Bouldrey. "Yes, and in an exquisitely subtle way, a way that can teach anybody, gay or straight, how to speak that language." He's selected stories for the third volume of the Best American Gay Fiction series with that principle in mind, looking for fiction that offers insight into the unique facets of gay life while offering new perspectives on the things we all take for granted.

The Best of the Best Meat Erotica edited by Greg Wharton
Buy This BookIt is not coincidence that the phrase "sexual appetite" exists in the English language—the passion of sex and the sensuality of food have often been combined in literature and the bedroom. In what has to be the most original concept for an erotic anthology, The Best of the Best Meat Erotica, advances this appetite into a wholly unexplored arena. Each story brings you meat-laced erotica the likes of which you've never even fantasized about, and will add some new ideas to your bedroom role-playing.

The erotic play of faux-meat in Ian Philips "Love in the Time of Cold Cuts"; the power of barbecue in M. Christian's "Suddenly Last Thursday"; and the meat of the living-dead in Steve Berman's "A Rotten Obligation"; all get your taste buds zinging.

The perfect melding of meat and sex comes with Marshall Moore's, "The Glue Factory", where a young man is kept as the sex-slave to a master who wears a coat or raw beef, and Stephen Albrow's "The Housemaid's Tale", where a woman couples with her farmer-lover dressed in the flesh of his favorite sow. Pork, it's what's for dinner and dessert.

There's a twisted tale here for everyone, no matter which appetite you want to indulge, so lube up with bacon grease and dig in. - SM

Best Fetish Erotica edited by Cara Bruce
Buy this BookWhether the fetish is leather or lingerie, shoes or shaving accessories, 20 authors explore the whole spectrum of compulsive desire. Contributors include Susie Bright, J. T. Leroy, and Carol Queen. Editor Cara Bruce has been called “San Francisco’s hippest young erotica writer” by the San Francisco Examiner. Praise for Bruce's Best Bisexual Women's Erotica: "You'll find yourself at once deeply involved with the passionate characters and turned on by their delicious sex lives." - Good Vibrations

Best of Friction: The First Five Years edited by Jesse Grant
Buy This BookFor five years, Friction has been providing readers with the best gay erotic fiction published each year. Now they have the best of those five years available in one handy volume. Sure to keep you up late with inspiration...

 

Best of the Best Gay Erotica 2 edited by Richard Labonte
Best of the Best Gay Erotica 2Beautiful bodies, searing male-male action, and wickedly inventive writing: all the things that make you read and reread your gay erotica books until the covers curl and the pages drop open to your favorite scenes. Chances are a few volumes of Best Gay Erotica are among the books you can't part with. Since it began in 1996, this groundbreaking series-hailed as "consistently outstanding" (Lambda Book Report) and "literally orgasmic" (HX magazine)-has delivered the hottest gay male sex writing anywhere.

Best Gay Erotica 2005 edited by Richard Labonte
Best Gay Erotica 2005 edited by RIchard Labonte Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Best Gay Erotica 2005 returns with a bang! This is the most provocative, authentic and edgy gay erotica published anywhere. Brains, muscle, tenderness and kink. Like the perfect lover, Best Gay Erotica 2005 has it all. From the blushing explorations of Jonathan Asche's "Doll Boy" to the dark journey of Alpha Martial's "My Place" to the sexual confession of a homophobic 'straight' boy in Alex Rowlson's "Pink Triangle-Shaped Pubes", these 21 stories explore a heart-pounding range of male-on-male desire. Featuring some of the most talented authors in this genre, this book sets the standard for gay literary porn. It is not merely a continuation of this bestselling series, rather it pushes it forward to new sexual frontiers.

Best Gay Erotica 2004 edited by Kirk Read and Richard Labonté
Buy Best Gay Erotica 2004Best Gay Erotica 2004 captures the hottest, freshest stories of man-on-man desire by the most cutting-edge writers of gay erotica today. The 2004 edition features stories selected by Kirk Read, author of the wildly popular memoir How I Learned to Snap, one of the most engaging gay coming-of-age stories published in recent years.

Best Gay Erotica 2003 edited by Michael Rowe and Richard Labonté
Buy This BookEntertainment for your mind and you cock, The Best Gay Erotica series brings you another installment of men on men erotica culled from other publications. It is the sound of men's voices, the way they move, the way they smell and taste... it is the distillation of our lusts, public and private, into written form. - SM

Best Gay Erotica 2002 edited by Richard Labonté and Neal Drinnan
Buy This Book The latest installment of BGE is steamier than ever, with work from VM contributors, Marshall Moore, Ian Philips, Mel Smith and Sean Meriwether, as well as perennial favorites, J.T. LeRoy and Andy Quan. This year's collection is geared up to skewer the twist of cosmic fate that has gay men continuously searching for sex.

Best Gay Erotica 2001 edited by Richard Labonté
Buy This Book Presenting the year's steamiest, most provocative gay sex writing---the best-selling gay erotica series in America! "Best Gay Erotica 2001" is selected and introduced by guest judge Randy Boyd, author of "Uprising" and "Bridge Across the Ocean." This edition is bound to leave you wanting more, hungry for more, panting for more, screaming for more!!!

Best Gay Love Stories 2006 edited by Nick Street
Best Gay Love Stories 2006 editec by Nick Street A longing so deep it sends shivers through the very core of your soul. That is the power of love between men. And in this year’s volume of the bestselling series, leading gay writers explore the passion and romance of man-on-man attraction. R.D. Cochrane’s “Never Judge a Book” is the tale of a young college teacher who thinks he’s just helping out a poor drifter when he takes a man in for the night…but then doesn’t want him to leave. In “I Do…I Don’t” by Richard S. Ferri, a man planning to marry and divorce a friend just to do research for a book learns something about himself when he meets a colorful drag queen in Provincetown. Curtis C. Comer tells a moving story of the later years of long term love between two men in their cozy Connecticut home in “Winter.” And Sean Meriwether captures the deep yearning for contact you get when you catch a glimpse of that stranger in public with whom you madly want to fall in love.

Best Transgender Erotica edited by Hanne Blank and Raven Kaldera
Buy This Book The first book to celebrate exclusively gender-bending, -crossing, and -breaking sexuality through erotic fiction, Best Transgender Erotica includes representations of many forms of 'trans' identity. Whether blurring the line between masculine and feminine, or making the transition from female to male, or vice versa, these characters (and authors) had to put on their sexiest, most alluring, heart-racing show in order to make the cut.

Boyfriends From Hell edited by Kevin Bentley
Buy "Boyfriends From Hell" at Amazon.comWhether you've dated, mated, or just plain slept around, if you're a gay man looking to hook up, you've probably had your share of boy trouble. Was he passive aggressive, a withholder, stalker, or snippy vegan? The one-night stand you thought you'd never escape, the date you couldn't flee fast enough? The sexually hot but emotionally unbalanced thug you crawled for—and then ran from? Maybe he was that quiet trick who really wanted to shave your erogenous zones? More Heathcliff than Mr. Darcy, more Cape Fear than Sleepless in Seattle—we've all suffered the tortures of an unfaithful, unavailable, too controlling, or too demanding date, boyfriend, or lover. They may be Hell to live through, but they do make for riveting post mortems. Now twenty gay writers have the last word in Boyfriends from Hell, a collection of sexy, funny, scary, heartbreaking and delightfully vengeful accounts of adventures at the deep end of the dating pool, where sometimes you just can't see the bottom.

Buttmen 3: Erotic Stories and True Confessions by Gay Men Who Love Booty edited by Alan Bell
Buy "Buttmen 3" at Amazon.com
Gay men worldwide have eaten up the original Buttmen and Buttmen 2. Butt true fans of gluteus maximus can never have too much bootylicious fun. Whether you love big round mounds, tight lean bubble butts, smoothies, hairy hunks, muscle butts, bear butts, jock butts, blue-collar butts or just plain butt, the book series made just for you is back. Featuring stories from buttmen all over the world. Open wide and dive in!

Buttmen: Erotic Stories and True Confessions by Gay Men Who Love Booty edited by Alan Bell
Buy This Book An international collection of diverse gay writers and butt lovers celebrate the beauty of the male buttocks—by probing deep into our passion for gluteus maximus, by exploring what it is about butt that sets fire to our sexual desire, by bearing their souls in daring stories, bootilicious poems and shocking true confessions. This collection of thirty-two tales is a book you'll want to own and bury your face in.

Death Comes Easy; The Gay Times Book of Short Stories 4 edited by Peter Burton
Death Comes Easy edited by Peter Burton This anthology of tales focuses on murder in all of its gory guises. From heated crimes of passion to cold-blooded coshings, it should be enjoyed by fans of contemporary hard-boiled crime fiction. From the Roman Empire to the Far East and from a dangerously repressed priest to strangers on a plane, these stories know no boundaries in their pursuit of violent killers and bloody endings. This vividly imagined collection includes authors known for their stories of murder and mayhem and others who are new to the tradition. It opens with a lively introduction by Lambda-nominated editor Peter Burton. Contributors include: Perry Brass, Hugh Fleetwood, Patrick Gale, Drew Gummerson, Francis King, Josh Lanyon, Felice Picano, Steven Saylor and Michael Wilcox.

Everything I Have Is Blue edited by Wendell Ricketts
Everything I Have Is Blue edited by Wendell Rickets In this age of Will & Grace and gentrification, the "dream market" and gay investment advisors, you don't hear much about working-class queers. In fact, some would even consider the idea a contradiction in terms. But the contributors to Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men About More-or-Less Gay Life would beg to differ. The first collection of short stories by working-class queer, gay, and bisexual men, Everything I Have Is Blue is a rich and long-overdue contribution both to the burgeoning field of working-class studies and to LGBTIQ fiction. In Everything I Have Is Blue are love stories and stories of lives gone wrong; narratives of hope and songs of despair; tales of revenge and chronicles of redemption. In short, Everything I Have Is Blue showcases a literature of depth and complexity that brings much-needed color to the palate of queer cultural and literary identity.
Read "Skins" by Rick Laurent Feely from Everything I Have is Blue

Fratsex: Stories of Sex in College Fraternities edited by Greg Herren
Fratsex: Stories of Sex in College Fraternities Horny college studs tear off their togas and expose it all in deliciously raunchy stories of frat-boy sex. Whether they're drunkenly groping each other at wild keg parties, soaping each other up--and down!--in the showers, or getting from each other what their girlfriends won't give up, these well-hung hunks deliver page after page of juicy, no-holds-barred gay-sex action! So put away your textbooks and pick up the one book that's guaranteed to teach you a thing or two—about hot and hunky sexed-up frat boys, that is!

Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction edited by Edmund White & Donald Weise
Certain to become a literary touchstone, Fresh Men collects the best new writing by emerging gay authors from around the nation. The critically acclaimed author Edmund White, chair of the Creative Writing program at Princeton and the author of more than 17 gay works, selects 20 original stories from the new crop of extraordinary writers. With equal parts sensitivity and irreverence, Fresh Men speaks to the broad range of gay experiences. From stories of coming out, coming of age, self-representation and family to sex and love in the time of AIDS, from living in the closet to loving in a post-gay world, this book highlights the complexities of gay life. This groundbreaking collection also embodies a wide spectrum of literary tastes, from works rich in experimental, transgressive elements to more conventional, traditionally crafted stories.

Friction 6: Best Gay Erotic Fiction edited by by Jesse Grant and Austin Foxxe
Buy "Friction 6" at Amazon.comThe Friction series of gay erotica presents the sexiest work of the top writers from the country’s most popular gay erotic magazines. It contains the best of the thousands of stories published in the past year. The stories in this collection are, simply put, the hottest in print.

Friction 5: Best Gay Erotic Fiction edited by by Jesse Grant and Austin Foxxe
Buy This Book "This is a hefty, fun, exciting-even at times bordering on experimental--volume of stories, which attests yet again to both the viability and vitality of erotica as a literary genre," says Gay Community News. The Friction series of gay erotica presents the sexiest work of the top writers from the country's most popular gay erotic magazines. It contains the best of the thousands of stories published in the past year. The stories in this collection are, simply put, the hottest in print.

His 3: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Writers edited by Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton
Buy This BookThe latest offering in the His series lives up to its predecessors in presenting the sweaty and steamy beside the thoughtful and heartfelt. Rick Sandford's "Manifest White," Gary Bowen's "Barrel Racer," and Micheal Skeef's "Blood Brothers" are graphic accounts of pickups, though both Skeef's and Bowen's stories gradually unfold other possibilities. Lawrence Reilly's "1984" recounts a high school boy's sexual conquest of a country club tennis pro. In Reginald M. Harris Jr.'s "Haram," a young Arab immigrant maintains a wary interest in a "BlackAmerican" who rides his train each day.

Inside Him edited by Joël B. Tan
Inside Him edited by Joel Tan Inside Him collects the best in new gay erotica. Moving past formulaic stroke fiction, editor and award-winning author Joël B. Tan presents hot and literary stories from established and emerging voices from around the world. This book takes you along on a fantasy joy ride: a hot muggy heartbreak in Pune, a dizzying drugged out carnival in West Hollywood, a priest’s study in the bowels of an old Anglican church, the bored Pasadena humdrums of a burned-out overworked leather master, and more. Inside Him presents today’s finest and edgiest sexual storytellers that includes Darieck Scott, Eric Rofes, Tony Valenzuela, Joe Babcock, R. Zamora Linmark, Philip Huang, Louis Anthes, and others.

Latin Boys edited by David Laurentis
Buy "Latin Boys" at Amazon.com David Laurents has produced a sweaty assemblage of male sexual fantasies with a deft, erotic brushstroke as lusty as the 'Latin Boys' so graphically depicted within its pages! With inclusions by such well-known authors as Dominic Santi, Latino porn-meister, Jesse Monteagudo, Lawrence Schimel, Mark Wildyr, Rick Jackson, and exciting new voices (British author Stephen Albrow’s inclusion, "Turning the Tables" being a standout), this slick, fast moving page turner will have you moaning "Oooo, Si..." !

Law of Desire: Tales of Gay Male Lust and Obsession edited by Greg Wharton & Ian Philips
Buy 'Law of Desire' at Amazon.comAt what point does desire jump the rails, force you to make ill-fated-fated decisions based on insatiable lust? Obsession that can cost you your relationship, your sanity or even your life – all to gratify the monstrous need that originated in your cock and took over your whole body? Law of Desire: Tales of Gay Male Lust and Obsession collects 18 stories that dare to cross the line and let it get out of hand.

Does your obsession drive the one you love further away, as in Rick Reed’s “The Test”, or to pursue relationships that will never be, like Kevin Killian’s “Wanted: Bad Boys 4 Adult Video”? Does it steer you uncontrollably towards violent entanglements, like the brutality of Travis Mader’s “bruiser”, or Jerry Wheeler’s “Love, Sex and Death on the Daily Commute”? Or are you the victim of another’s obsession, doggedly pursued as in Marshall Moore’s “The Pornographer’s Apprentice”. Wherever your obsession might take you, these tales are sure to disturb you as much as they’ll turn you on.

There’s a bevy of hot psychoses here, enough to burn up any shrink’s sofa, so skip your next psychoanalysis and dig into the searing possibilities of lust gone awry. - SM
Read an Interview with editors Greg Wharton and Ian Philips

Lovers Who Stay With You edited by Dave MacMillan & Paul Willis
Lovers Who Stay With You edited by Dave MacMillan & Paul Willis With the release of Lovers Who Stay With You, edited by David MacMillan, STARbooks Press continues its groundbreaking restructuring of gay erotica. Undead hunks join with their mortal lovers to breathe life into the moribund romance genre. They shag shamelessly in paeans to their romance. This multi- genre approach alone will command the attention of reviewers and readers alike; the strength of the stories will make this collection an immediate sales leader and awards contestant. There's love, strong characters, and meaning on each page (as well as hot sex to whet the libido). Lovers Who Stay With You boasts contributions from such luminaries of gay erotica as Philip Markham, Simon Sheppard, Jay Starr, Barry Alexander, Grant Foster, Jordan Baker, and Bill Crimmin and such writers of great promise as S. D. Yorston, Richard Bellingham, Davy Jones, Michael Gouda, and Daniel Ritter. 27 first-class stories and Mr. MacMillan's vampire novel bring readers to this new genre-blend and hold them there.

Love Under Foot: An Erotic Celebration of Feet edited by Greg Wharton and M. Christian
Buy 'Love Under Foot' at Amazon.com Satisfy your curiosities with Love Under Foot: An Erotic Celebration of Feet. Twenty writers and editors of gay, lesbian, and transgender erotica unite in adoration of men’s feet. Whether bare, booted, or wrapped in sweaty socks, feet have been a turn-on since man first started walking upright. These stories examine every aspect of this erotic appendage from playing footsy to hardcore S&M. Compiled by M. Christian and Greg Wharton—two of the most infamous editors of gay erotica, this volume examines every imaginable aspect of feet and their role in sex. Love Under Foot is the first anthology of fiction focusing specifically on foot fetishes. This volume does more than worship men’s feet; it gives homage to the whole male body. Whether you’re into feet, sex, or your fellow man, you’ll find this collection stimulating from head to toe!

Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica edited by Lawrence Schimel
Buy This Book Schimel has reprinted old favorites by writers such as Aaron Travis and Bill Mann, as well as excerpts from novels by notables such as Christopher Bram, Neil Bartlett, and Alan Hollinghurst. The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica also features new stories by Paul Elliott Russell, Lars Eighner, and Andrew Holleran and rediscovered writings by Edmund White and Michael Denneny. Sexy, sweaty, sweet, and often very moving, this collection renews your faith in the sexual power and performance of the written word.

M2M: New Literary Fiction edited by Karl Woelz
M2M: New Literary Fiction edited by Karl Woelz Karl Woelz is the Lambda Literary Award-winning co-editor of the Men on Men series begun by the late George Stambolian. Woelz's Introduction and searing Afterword to this volume has already begun some heated debate about the state of literature in the gay and lesbian community. Woelz pulls no punches in taking the publishing industry to task for giving the country mediocre options when it comes to GLBT books. Includes literary legends Edmund White, Andrew Holleran and Felice Picano as well as new writers Tom House, Paul Lisicky, Mitch Cullin, W.C. Harris, Robin Lippincott, Michael Carroll, Dan Jaffe and nine others. This is the first in a new series highlighting the best of contemporary gay male voices practicing the art of literary fiction.

Of the Flesh edited by Greg Wharton
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Is sex dangerous? These 20 tales answer this question in many ways: from the use of sex as a weapon to the use of weapons in sex; the human body can be dangerous; thinking about sex can be dangerous; love and the ways of the heart can be dangerous. Following your own desire can be dangerous... including work by Sean Meriwether.

Out of Control: Hot, Trashy, Man-on-man Erotica edited by Greg Wharton
Out of Control edited by Greg Wharton Out of Control: Hot, Trashy, Man-on-Man Erotica is about love gone wrong: love with the wrong man at the wrong time and the wrong place that takes you places you never dreamed you’d go--not even in your hottest, wrongest wet dream. All you wanted was a drink, some conversation and a little attention, perhaps the warmth of another body pressed to yours. Preferably a sane one. But the weight of his hand on your cock silenced the alarm buzzing loudly in your brain. Perhaps you dismissed the fact he had a gun. Or maybe you knew the car was stolen, but he was so handsome. You wanted him more than you have ever wanted anyone, or anything, before. And you couldn’t pass up the chance to have him, no matter what it took, where it took you, or what the consequences might be. Out of Control: Hot, Trashy, Man-on-Man Erotica is that heavy hand, that loaded gun, that long ride over the edge of a cliff. It features over-the-top tales of the wild evening that turned into several wild days, the date that turned psychosexual, the perfect lover that turned obsessive, crazed, and vengeful. It’s about road trips full of fast cars and bumpy rides, and lots of beautiful man-on-man, out-of-control, hard-core sex. The stories in this anthology are wild, original, imaginative, crazy, sexy, graphic, kinky, and surprising--the stuff of some sweet dreams and also a few nightmares.

Pills, Chills, Thrills and Heartache edited by Michelle Tea and Clint Catalyst
Pills, Chills, Thrills and Heartache Thirty-seven writers. One rule. Each story must be told in the first person. Clint Catalyst (Cottonmouth Kisses) and Michelle Tea (The Chelsea Whistle) bring together what can only be described as a dream cast of literature’s new avant-garde, sandwiched with a few writers appearing in print for the first time. Catalyst calls the end product "a wonderful sampling of oddities, like a dangerous box of chocolates or an unmarked prescription bottle." Oddities? Oh, yeah. These stories offer scary, funny, chaotic, moving, poignant, intimate glimpses into lives on the fringe, and they will get you up close and personal with speed freaks, scat freaks, gender benders, shoplifters, sober virgins, cybersexualists, Tourette’s syndrome fetishists, and even a naked Butoh dancer. What can we say? We’re not sure if we’re proud or if we should apologize!

Queer Fear edited by Michael Rowe
Buy This Book Queer Fear is a striking and groundbreaking collection of gay horror fiction by some of today's hottest authors and talented newcomers, covering a wide spectrum of creatures of the night and all manners of urban terrors. These dark, often disturbing tales expand the boundaries of the horror genre; the sexuality of the protagonists is a point of reference for the "horror" of otherness that defines and, at times, divides us.

Queer Papi Porn: Gay Asian Erotica edited by Joel Tan
Buy 'Queer Papi Porn' at Amazon.com Joel Tan's Queer PAPI Porn is a groundbreaking anthology of contemporary porn written by men of Philippine, Asian, and Pacific Island decent (PAPI) that stimulates our libido, invigorates our sense of art, and challenges our notions of what porn and literature might be. Tan has collected stories by 19 of the most noted gay PAPI writers--including Lawrence Chua, Justin Chin, R. Zamora Linmark, and Allen de Souza--to produce an anthology shockingly good and always sexually stimulating. Not one piece here trades on cliché or formula, with originality showing throughout. Jason Guillermo Luz's "Scherzo for Cunanan" is a meditation on cross-country killer Andrew Cunanan that explores a fantasy sexual and national connection between the author and the killer. "Bite," by Justin Chin, is a surrealistic sex-speed rap that shocks with its explicit coprophiliac images as it examines how gender and race are constructed in sex and desire. Nino Alvarez's "True Love" is a lovely, troubling, and hypnotic story of a Chinese American gay man who dotes on his 300-pound African American lover as they both work to increase his weight to 600 pounds. Surprising and masterfully written, Queer PAPI Porn is one of the best literary and erotic books in years.

Quickies 3 edited by James C. Johnstone
Buy  Quickies 3 at Amazon.comThe third installment of the bestselling international gay men’s erotica series, consisting of stories of one thousand words or fewer that articulate desire between men. Previous books in the series have made bestseller lists, and feature many award-winning writers and anthologists among their contributors, including Doug Ferguson, Shaun Levin, George Isley, Sean Meriwether, Marhsall Moore, James Currier, Shaun Proulx, John Watson, Michael Wilde, Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Bob Vickery, Simon Shepard, Sandip Roy, Clayton Delery, Andy Quan, and Daniel Curzon.

Quickies 2 edited by James C. Johnstone
Buy This Book Just what the doctor ordered: another dose of Quickies. The first collection of short short stories on desire between men found its way onto numerous bestseller lists. This second volume, which includes sixty-nine-plus writers from numerous countries, delivers some of the hottest tales yet, from furtive glances to anonymous encounters. At times raw and uninhibited, at others sweet and wistful, these new Quickies will take you on a wild ride.

Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power edited by M. Christian & Simon Sheppard
Buy This Book Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex and Power is a collection of erotic short fiction exploring the exchange, use, and misuse of power. Going beyond the world of traditional leathersex fiction, the hot, edgy stories in Rough Stuff explore the darker side of desire. Well-known writers and talented newcomers spin boundary-pushing tales of lust, adventure, and love. Well-written, intelligent, and sexy, the stories in Rough Stuff are destined to expand readers horizons and stretch their limits. Assembled by acclaimed erotic writers M. Christian and Simon Sheppard, with a forward by Pat Califia, Rough Stuff is arousing, challenging and surprising, celebrating the varieties of male/male erotic experience, taking sex to the outer limits.

Shadows of the Night edited by Greg Herren
Shadows of the Night Showcasing a collection of authors that read like the Who's Who of gay and lesbian fiction, these bone-chilling stories invoke queer fear that breaks through to the other side. A groundbreaking anthology of gay and lesbian psychodrama, this book brings readers face to face with the best from the dark side of queer writing. An acclaimed collection of authors gathers between these covers to swap stories of murder and mayhem, savouring every lurid detail. Shadows of the Night presents tales of the doomed and the damned, including a gay travel writer with a one-way ticket to horror, a murdered lesbian who plots bloody revenge from the grave, a young man terrified of Jewish vampires, and much, much more!

Skin & Ink edited by Jim Gladstone
Skin & Ink edited by Jim Gladstone Tattooed love-boys. Ink-licking leathermen. Technicolored studs. Get ready for a gripping blend of flesh and fantasy in these 22 vibrantly original tales of hot men and tempting tattoos. If you've ever felt the heat of an inky sun rising over the waistband of a shirtless hunk's jeans, if you've ever stared at a cobra coiled around an irresistible biceps, or if you've ever found yourself wishing for a man who was truly a work of art, Skin & Ink will lure you into the depths of your wildest dreams. Award-winning author Jim Gladstone has assembled a stunning gallery of short fiction that will turn you on, touch you, and open your eyes to an endless canvas of seduction. In the tattooed world of Skin & Ink, every picture tells a dirty story.
Read "Scenes of the Flesh" by John Fink, from Skin & Ink
Read an Interview with editor Jim Gladstone

 

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