KARL TAGGART abhors the current based-on-a-true-story trend in fiction but admits that some of his country encounter actually happened and leaves it to the reader to decide which part. Karl has been writing erotica for a number of years for both magazines and anthologies while working a day job at an insurance company. They have no idea a porn writer lurks in their midst. Karl loves his motorcycle almost as much as his men and is thrilled when he can combine the two.
DAVEM VERNE’s stories have appeared in numerous anthologies including Best Gay Erotica 2005, Frat Sex, Latin Boys, Dorm Porn, Travelrotica, and Inside Him.
XAN WEST is the pseudonym of a New York BDSM and sex educator and writer. Xan’s work can be found in Best SM Erotica 2, Got a Minute ?, Love at First Sting, Leathermen, Best Gay Erotica 2009, and Backdraft: Fireman Erotica. He has a particular love for canes, biting, public sex, and good boys. Xan wants to hear from you, and can be reached at [email protected].
ABOUT THE EDITOR
RICHARD LABONTÉ ([email protected]), when he’s not skimming dozens of anthology submissions a month, or reviewing one hundred or so books a year for Q Syndicate, or turning turgid bureaucratic prose into comprehensible English for the Inter-American Development Bank or the Reeves of Renfrew County, Ontario, or coordinating the judging of the Lambda Literary Awards, or crafting the best croutons ever at his weekend work in a Bowen Island recovery center kitchen, likes to startle deer as he walks terrier/schnauzer Zak, accompanied by husband Asa, through the island’s temperate rainforest. In season, he fills pails with salmonberries, blackberries and huckleberries. Yum. Since 1997, he has edited almost forty erotic anthologies, though “pornographer” was not an original career goal.
PAUL RUSSELL is the award-winning author of six novels, including Sea of Tranquillity, The Coming Storm and The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov, as well as a work of non-fiction, The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present. He has taught at Vassar College and the University of Exeter.
PERMISSIONS
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for granting permission to reprint copyrighted material:
“Night Visit” © 1995, 2009 by Barry Alexander, reprinted with the author’s permission from All the Right Places (Bad Boy, 1997). “Bareback Rider” © 2007 by Michael Bracken, reprinted with the author’s permission from Country Boys: Wild Gay Erotica (Cleis Press, 2007). “Hot Eats” © 2007 by Kal Cobalt, reprinted with the author’s permission from Country Boys: Wild Gay Erotica (Cleis Press, 2007). “Bigchest: Confessions of a Tit Man” © 2010 by Larry Duplechan, reprinted with the author’s permission from Muscle Men: Rock Hard Gay Erotica (Cleis Press, 2010). “Drug Colors” © 2007 by Erastes, reprinted with the author’s permission from Where the Boys Are: Urban Gay Erotica (Cleis Press, 2007). “Father and Son Tag Team (That Summer! That Camp! That Cousin!)” © 2011 by Jack Fritscher, reprinted with the author’s permission from Hot Daddies: Gay Erotic Fiction (Cleis Press, 2011). “Fight Cub” © 2010 by Geoffrey Knight, reprinted with the author’s permission from Muscle Men: Rock Hard Gay Erotica (Cleis Press, 2010). “Daddy Draden” © 2011 by Jeff Mann, reprinted with the author’s permission from Hot Daddies: Gay Erotic Fiction (Cleis Press, 2011). “Other Residences, Other Neighborhoods” © 2007 by Douglas A. Martin, reprinted with the author’s permission from Where the Boys Are: Urban Gay Erotica (Cleis Press, 2007). “A Little Night Music” © 2010 by Tom Mendicino, reprinted with the author’s permission from Beautiful Boys: Gay Erotic Stories (Cleis Press, 2010). “Game Boyz” © 2009 by F. A. Pollard, reprinted with the author’s permission from Boy Crazy: Coming Out Erotica (Cleis Press, 2009). “Red Right” © 2012 by Dominic Santi, reprinted with the author’s permission from Wild Boys: Gay Erotic Fiction (Cleis Press, 2012). “Wild Night” © 2007 by Simon Sheppard, reprinted with the author’s permission from Where the Boys Are: Urban Gay Erotica (Cleis Press, 2007). “Opening Day at the County Fair” © 2007 by J. M. Snyder, reprinted with the author’s permission from Country Boys: Wild Gay Erotica (Cleis Press, 2007). “Cruising on Cary Street” © 2011 by J. M. Snyder, excerpted with the author’s permission from the novel Tricked Out (JMS Books, 2011). “The Farmer’s Son” © 2007 by Karl Taggart, reprinted with the author’s permission from Country Boys: Wild Gay Erotica (Cleis Press, 2007). “The Pasta Closet” © 2009 by Davem Verne, reprinted with the author’s permission from Boy Crazy: Coming Out Erotica (Cleis Press, 2009). “Missing Daddy” © 2009 by Xan West, reprinted with the author’s permission from Daddies: Gay Erotic Stories (Cleis Press, 2009).
Copyright © 2012 by Richard Labonté.
Introduction copyright © 2012 by Paul Russell.
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eISBN : 978-1-573-44911-3
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