David stared, not sure he’d really heard that right. “You do want to see me again, right?” Jerome asked, his voice sounding less than sure.
“Yes,” David said, and he smiled. Jerome’s smile lit up the room.
Yes, David wanted to see and keep seeing this amazing man. He wanted to get out his brushes and go to work on a new canvas. Not a boring landscape, but a riot of color and movement and texture, something entirely new and different.
Would it sell? Did it really matter? David knew he could always get a job waiting tables or clerking in a store to make ends meet. Ego was ego, but above all else, art should be art. It should be created from the heart, not the wallet.
Best-laid plans. He’d gone to the beach looking for inspiration. He got it, plus a whole lot more. His heart had opened up again. He’d gotten amazingly laid, and he had a pretty good idea more outstanding sex was about to become a regular thing. Not too bad for what had seemed like a spectacularly idiotic idea a few hours ago.
Not too damn bad at all.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
SHANE ALLISON is the editor of Hot Cops: Gay Erotic Tales and Backdraft: Hot Fireman Erotica. His stories have appeared in Best Black Erotica, Best Gay Bondage, Bears, Leathermen, Cowboys, Country Boys, Ultimate Gay Erotica and Best Gay Erotica. He’s never met a surfer boy he didn’t like.
DONALD AMMER has been writing for the adult industry, off and on, for more than twelve years—selling his first story to Torso magazine back in 1996. Over fifty stories, four hundred film reviews, and thirty model profiles/interviews later, “The Water-Boy” is his first submission to an anthology.
GAVIN ATLAS’s (www.GavinAtlas.com) surfing experience is limited to his crushes on Jan Michael Vincent from Big Wednesday and Moondoggie from the Gidget movies. He has been published in Hard Hats and Island Boys. He lives in Houston with his boyfriend, John.
BEARMUFFIN writes for Honcho, Torso, and Mandate. A devotee of raunchy, anonymous sex, he lives in San Diego and hangs out in adult bookstores, sex clubs, and bathhouses in a never-ending search for grist for his pornographic mill.
P. A. BROWN (www.pabrown.ca) is the author of Big City Vet from MLR Press.
MARTIN DELACROIX writes novels, novellas, and short fiction. A Florida native, he has surfed Brevard County breaks since he was a teenager. He lives on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
DANIELLE DE SANTIAGO (www.desantiago.de) is a French-Brazilian writer living in Germany. His work includes erotic fiction, essays, and columns as well as poetry, and he has been published in many European magazines and anthologies.
RYAN FIELD ([email protected]) is the author of two romantic erotic novels for ravenousromance.com: Pretty Man and An Officer and His Gentleman.
S. J. FROST ([email protected]) has published short stories in Best Gay Romance 2007, Ultimate Gay Erotica 2008, Best Gay Love Stories: Summer Flings, and Honey Flava. She’s hard at work on her first novel.
T. HITMAN is the nom-de-porn of a full-time professional writer who routinely contributes to a number of national magazines and fiction anthologies. “Hang Ten” is an abridged selection from a much larger work of the same title, presently being written, part of an intended series of sports-themed novels.
DAVID HOLLY (www.gaywriter.org) is the author of many published gay erotic stories. Readers can find a complete bibliography on his website.
BARRY LOWE (www.barrylowe.net) is the author of Atomic Blonde, a biography of 1950s bombshell Mamie Van Doren, as well as short stories in Hard Hats, Cargo, Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica, Flesh and the Word, Best Date Ever, Boy Meets Boy, Out of the Gutter, and others.
AARON MICHAELS (http://aaron-michaels.livejournal.com/) is an award-winning fiction writer whose work has appeared in numerous publications including Hard Hats and Animal Attraction , as well as online at TorquerePress.com.
KEITH PECK ([email protected]) has published fiction most recently in Cleis Press’s Boys in Heat.
CHRISTOPHER PIERCE is the author of the novel Rogue: Slave. His erotic fiction has been published in more than twenty anthologies, including Ultimate Gay Erotica 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. He coedited the Fetish Chest Trilogy of anthologies with Rachel Kramer Bussel.
ROB ROSEN (www.therobrosen.com), author of Sparkle: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love and the forthcoming Divas Las Vegas, has contributed to more than fifty anthologies to date, most notably the Cleis Press collections: Truckers, Best Gay Romance 2007, 2008, and 2009, Hard Hats, Backdraft: Fireman Erotica, and Bears: Gay Erotic Stories.
JAY STARRE ([email protected]) writes hot gay stories for men’s magazines and anthologies. You can find his work in Cleis anthologies such as Best Gay Bondage, Best Gay Romance 2008, and Rubber Sex.
JONATHAN TREADWAY ([email protected]) is a new author, based in northern Massachusetts. He spends his time avidly reading any m/m story he can find as inspiration for future stories. He is working on several new stories and wants to hear from any fans.
LOGAN ZACHARY’s ([email protected]) stories can be found in Hard Hats, Taken By Force, Boys Caught in the Act, Ride ’Em Cowboy, Service with a Smile, and Best Gay Erotica 2009.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
NEIL PLAKCY is the editor of Hard Hats, gay construction worker erotica, published by Cleis in 2008. He is also the author of the mystery novels Mahu, Mahu Surfer, Mahu Fire, and Mahu Vice, and coeditor of Paws and Reflect: A Special Bond Between Man and Dog. His erotica has been featured in many anthologies and gay magazines.
Copyright © 2009 by Neil Plakcy.
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eISBN : 978-1-573-44511-5
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