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THOMAS FUCHS has spent much of his career writing television documentaries and some nonfiction. Over the past few years, he has discovered the joy of imagining and inventing afforded by the writing of fiction. He can be reached at fuchsfoxxx@cs.com.
JEFF JACKLIN (jeffsmusclestudio.com), a lifelong artist, started weight lifting at twenty-one, has competed in power-lifting meets, and has studied Tae Kwon Do and Kung Fu—all real-life experience he brings to his muscle art, which includes four volumes of Hearts & Iron™, about two iron-pumping gay lovers.
BASTIAN JONSSON (boytoygraphics.com), born in 1973, is a self-taught comic artist, illustrator and graphic designer, a lifelong comics addict and aspiring creator. He lives in rural west Sweden with his long-suffering veterinary boyfriend. His art appears in Stripped: Uncensored; NIGHTLIFE, written by Dale Lazarov, is his first book-length work of comics.
GEOFFREY KNIGHT (geoffreyknight.blogspot.com) is the author of the hit gay adventure series Fathom’s Five, which includes The Cross of Sins, The Riddle of the Sands and The Curse of the Dragon. Geoffrey is a lover of handsome heroes, evil villains and tall tales. He lives in Sydney.
DALE LAZAROV (dalelazarov.tumblr.com) is the writer/editor of gay erotic comics such as STICKY (drawn by Steve MacIsaac), MANLY (drawn by Amy Colburn), and NIGHTLIFE (drawn by Bastian Jonsson), all published by Bruno Gmünder Verlag. He’s currently collaborating on several new gay erotic comics projects and lives in Chicago.
JOE MAROHL (kublakong.blogspot.com) holds a doctorate in seventeenth-century British literature, teaches writing and literature at a community college in North Carolina, and publishes a wrestling kink blog, Ringside at Skull Island.
CAGE THUNDER (myspace.com/cagethunder) is a wrestler for BGEast.com, and the pseudonym of a New Orleans mystery writer. He has published stories in Rough Trade, How the West Was Done and Tented. A collection of his wrestling stories, Going Down for the Count, is forthcoming. Friend him on Facebook.
NATTY SOLTESZ (nattysoltesz.com) has recently been published in Best Gay Erotica 2010 and Best Gay Romance 2010. He cowrote the 2009 porn film Dad Takes a Fishing Trip with director Joe Gage, and is a faithful contributor to the Nifty Erotic Stories Archive. He lives in Pittsburgh with his lover.
ROB WOLFSHAM (wolfshammy.com) is nearing a quarter-life crisis and hopes you jacked off to his story because he needs validation. His work has appeared in several anthologies, including Best Gay Erotica 2010 and College Boys. He is trapped in Lubbock, Texas.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
RICHARD LABONTÉ was a gay bookseller for twenty years, has written gay book reviews for more than thirty years, and has edited about thirty (mostly erotic) gay anthologies for Cleis Press and Arsenal Pulp Press. He lives a quiet gay life on Bowen Island, a short ferry ride from Vancouver, with his gay husband, Asa Dean Liles, and their two dogs, who often act gay, though they are, respectively, neutered and spayed. Several editions of the Best Gay Erotica series, which he has edited since 1996, have been Lambda Literary Award finalists, and two have won, as has First Person Queer (Arsenal Pulp), coedited with Lawrence Schimel.
Copyright © 2010 by Richard Labonté.
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“Brute” © 2010 by Jonathan Asche. “Mr. Muscle Pump” © 2010 by Steven Bereznai. “The Gimp, the Vig and the Ring” © 2010 by Michael Bracken. “Bigchest: Confessions of a Tit Man” © 2010 by Larry Duplechan. “The Ambivalent Gardener and the State of Grace” © 2010 by Jamie Freeman. “Muscle Worship: If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body, Would You Hold It Against Me?” © 2010 by Jack Fritscher, appeared in different versions in Skin (January 1981), Inches (March 1987), Drummer (December 1988), and Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982 (© 1990, 2005), reprinted with the author’s permission. “Bobby Lo versus the Evil Sakata” © 2010 by Thomas Fuchs. “Muscle Meeting” © 2010 by Jeff Jacklin. “Fight Cub” © 2010 by Geoffrey Knight. “After Hours” © 2010 by Dale Lazarov and Bastian Jonsson. “The Lair of Carlo de la Paz” © 2009 by Joe Marohl, reprinted with the author’s permission from velvetmafia.com. “Details” © 2010 by Natty Soltesz. “Thunder and Lightning” © 2010 by Cage Thunder. “Nephilim Lover” © 2010 by Rob Wolfsham.
Richard Labonte, Muscle Men
