The soot-covered yellow work train winded through the station after blowing its deafening horn twice. Black exhaust clouds billowed into the air. The train was comprised of about eight cars, most of which were flatbeds that carried dozens of dumpsters. The containers were full of trash that had been collected from all of the other stations along the J line. The poignant smell of rot was overwhelming.
I asked where my man was headed, and he said he was going to Brooklyn on the #2 train. “Me too,” I said with a feeling of serendipity. He facetiously asked if it was because I was coming back to his place. The answer would always be yes.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
SHANE ALLISON, when not giving blow jobs to college boys through university bathroom glory holes, is writing stories about the college boys he has given blow jobs to through the bathroom glory holes of universities in Florida and beyond. His stories have graced the pages of Best Black Gay Erotica, Dorm Porn 2, Ultimate Gay Erotica 2006 and 2007, Truckers, Cowboys, Hustlers, Sexiest Soles and Best Gay Erotica 2007. He is the editor of Hot Cops: Gay Erotic Stories. Thugs, punks, nerds, married men and scarred-up, skinny white boys can drop him emails and nudey pics at [email protected].
TOM CARDAMONE is the author of the erotic fantasy novel The Werewolves of Central Park. He has several projects, fiction and nonfiction, on the horizon. Read some of his short, sharp, speculative stories at his website, www.pumpkinteeth.net.
WAYNE COURTOIS is author of the novel My Name Is Rand, part of which appeared in Best Gay Erotica 2005. Two new books—a second erotic novel and a memoir—are forthcoming. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and can be found at www.waynecourtois.com.
ARDEN HILL is an all-around queer with an MFA in creative writing from Hollins University. His primary partner and genre is poetry, though he enjoys encounters with erotica, creative nonfiction, and the critical essay. Arden is currently a poetry editor for Breath and Shadow, an online journal of disability culture and literature. His first book of poetry is forthcoming from Side Show Press.
LEE HOUCK was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and now lives in Queens, New York. His work includes original pieces for theater seen in Vermont, Tennessee and New York City, an essay in From Boys to Men, and poetry in the Magnetic Poetry Calendar. Additionally, he has created art installations for the Musee de Monoian, and has worked with Jennifer Miller’s Circus Amok for ten seasons. He is at work on his second novel. The first one, Yield, is looking for a home. For more, go to www.leehouck.com.
RHIDIAN BRENIG JONES lives in Wales, getting overexcited by ideas for stories and by the men who inspire them.
JEFF MANN’s work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies. He has published two collections of poetry, Bones Washed with Wine and On the Tongue; a book of personal essays, Edge; a collection of poetry and memoir, Loving Mountains, Loving Men; and a volume of short fiction, A History of Barbed Wire. He teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
ANDREW MCCARTHY is a multidisciplinary artist originating from New York City. He cofounded, designed, and has written for a few defunct gay publications over the last ten years, and has published a collection of poetry, Living Beyond Deadline: Hysteria In Verse. Forthcoming is a second volume, Outlaw Subverses. Visit alterarts.net for a taste of his art, including photos of Andrew in drag as Jennifuh Leathuh.
SAM J. MILLER is a community organizer. He lives in the Bronx with his partner of six years. When he’s not writing or organizing poor people to fight for social justice, he’s binging on silent movies and punk rock. Drop him a line at samjmiller79@yahoo. com.
TIM MILLER’s solo performance work, hailed for its humor and passion, has delighted and emboldened audiences all over the world. He is the author of the books Shirts & Skins, Body Blows, and 1001 Beds, an anthology of his performances and essays that won the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for best book in Drama. Miller is the cofounder of Performance Space 122 in NYC and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA. He can be reached at his website: http://hometown.aol.com/millertale
ANDY QUAN, author of the full-length collection of erotica, Six Positions, and of Calendar Boy (short fiction), Slant (poetry), and the forthcoming Bowling Pin Fire (also poetry), is happy to return to the BGE family after a few years away, during which he’s added Australian on top of his North American nationalities. He’s obsessed with succulents, is reviving the art of the mix tape in CD form, practices Reiki, sings songs, and occasionally updates his website, www.andyquanmusic.com.
SIMON SHEPPARD is the editor of Homosex: Sixty Years of Gay Erotica, and the author of In Deep: Erotic Stories; Kinkorama: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Perversion; Sex Parties 101 and the award-winning Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories. His work has appeared in about two hundred fifty anthologies, including many editions of The Best American Erotica and many, many of Best Gay Erotica. He writes the syndicated column “Sex Talk,” the online serial “Dirty Boys Club,” and hangs out at www.simonsheppard.com.
JASON SHULTS’ work has appeared online in Blithe House Quarterly and Velvet Mafia, and in several print publications, including the anthology Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction . He owns a bookstore in Tucson, Arizona, and is at work on a novel.
TAYLOR SILUWÉ studied creative writing at NYU and is assistant editor for Out IN Jersey magazine. His short stories “A Taste for Cherries” and “When Romeo Awakes” appeared in the anthologies Tough Guys and Law of Desire respectively. He can be found sounding off on his website www.TaylorSiluwe. com or in his column for FlavaLIFE magazine.
HOREHOUND STILLPOINT is a San Francisco waiter/writer who’s been around forever. He’s a story in Justin Chin’s Burden of Ashes and he was the muse, supposedly, for Ian Philips’ Satyriasis. His work has been widely published in anthologies such as Poetry Slam; Poetry Nation; Out in the Castro; Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache; From Boys to Men; Porn! and I Do, I Don’t. Seven recent poems are collected in Bullets & Butterflies. He was part of the award-winning Daytrippers theater group, and had plays in the S. F. Fringe Festival in 2000 and 2001. Reincarnation Woes, with illustrations by KRK Ryden, is a mini-book out on Kapow! Press, but it is probably not in a bookstore anywhere near you.
CHARLIE VAZQUEZ is the slippery author of novels, novellas, screenplays, queer art essays and erotica. He is a bossy clown, a retired sex-toy clerk, and the personal assistant to divachanteuse Diamanda Galás, in New York City. He is actively seeking a literary agent. More info: www.firekingpress.com.
ALANA NOËL VOTH is a single mom who lives in Oregon with her ten-year-old son, one dog, two cats, and several freshwater fish. Her fiction has appeared in Best Gay Erotica 2007 and 2004, Best American Erotica 2005, The Big Stupid Review, and Literary Mama.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
EMANUEL XAVIER is author of the poetry collections Pier Queen and Americano, and the acclaimed novel Christ-Like. He is also editor of the anthology Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry. He has performed throughout the country as a spoken word poet and received cultural awards for his contributions as a gay Latino artist.
RICHARD LABONTÉ has edited the Best Gay Erotica series since 1997. He writes the occasional newsletter, Books To Watch Out For, and the fortnightly book review column, “Book Marks,” distributed by Q Syndicate. With Lawrence Schimel, he is coeditor of The Future is Queer and First Person Queer, for Arsenal Pulp Press. He has edited Hot Erotica, Country Boys, Best Gay Romance 2008 and Where the Boys Are for Cleis Press, where he is also an editor at large. He lives on Bowen Island, British Columbia, with the Pacific Ocean for a backyard, and on a farm in rural eastern Ontario, surrounded by two-hundred acres of hay fields.
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“Confession Angel” © 2007 by Shane Allison. “Funeral Clothes” © 2007 by Tom Cardamone. “Capturing the King” © 2006 by Wayne Courtois, first appeared online in Velvet Mafia, Issue 20. “My Boy Tuesday” © 2007 by Arden Hill. “Orange” © 2007 by Lee Houck. “Come to Light” © 2007 by Rhidian Brenig Jones. “Snowed in with Sam” © 2006 by Jeff Mann, reprinted with permission from A History of Barbed Wire (Suspect Thoughts Press). “Underground Operator” © 2007 by Andrew McCarthy. “Short Sad Sordid Sexual Encounters” © 2007 by Sam J. Miller, first appeared online in Velvet Mafia, Issue 21. “Sex Head” © 2007 by Tim Miller. “The Best Sex between Them” © 2006 by Andy Quan, reprinted with permission from Inside Him, edited by Joël B. Tan (Carroll & Graf). “Frank Fudgepacker, Teenage Whore” © 2007 by Simon Sheppard, reprinted with permission from Dorm Porn 2, edited by Sean Fisher (Alyson Books). “Minimum Damage, Minimum Pain” © 2007 by Jason Shults. “Breeding Season” © 2006 by Taylor Siluwé, first appeared online in Velvet Mafia, Issue 19. “Donuts to Demons” © 2007 by horehound stillpoint. “Rushing Tide of Sanity” © 2007 by Charlie Vazquez. “Release” © 2007 by Alana Noël Voth.
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