Best Gay Erotica 2001, page 22
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About the Authors
MARC ALMOND is an internationally acclaimed singer/ songwriter/performer. He burst into prominence in the early 1980s with Dave Ball with the first successful British electro-duo, Soft Cell. They mixed disco and northern soul with lyrics of melancholy stories of low-life characters, bedsit life, and city survival, and thus set the blueprint for groups such as The Pet Shop Boys, Blur, Pulp, and Suede. Marc has continued to produce groundbreaking and successful albums, the most recent of which, Velvet Nights, was released in March 1999. The pieces making up “The Show Palaces” are selections from beautiful twisted night…, a collection of twenty years of his poetry, prose, and song lyrics.
D-L ALVAREZ is an American-born artist/writer who lives in Berlin. His visual work is held in various collections, including those of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Most recently his writing appeared in the anthologies Virgins, Guerrillas, and Locas and Tricks and Treats. His contribution here, “Knot of Roads,” is drawn from a collection of short stories set in a fictionalized version of the author’s hometown of Stockton, California.
DIMITRI APESSOS is bicoastal, if you count the Mississippi as a coast. At the time of publication he was trying to move permanently from New York to New Orleans and was working on his first novel. God only knows where he will be and what he will be doing by the time you read this. He lives vicariously through his new e-mail address, AmtrakLife@yahoo.com, which says a lot about him. Look for his first novel at a bookstore near you as soon as he finishes writing is, sells it, and gets it published
JAIME CORTEZ is a visual artist, writer, and comic performer based in San Francisco’s Mission District. He is the editor of Virgins, Guerrillas, and Locas: Gay Latinos Writing about Love (Cleis Press). His work appears in Queer PAPI Porn (Cleis Press), 2sexE (North Atlantic Press), and Besame Mucho (Painted Leaf Press), as well as in his own ’zine, A la Brava.
JESSE GRANT is a publishing executive living in Los Angeles. He is the editor of Friction, volumes 2, 3, and 4; and Men for All Seasons. He writes using a variety of pseudonyms, and his short fiction, essays, commentary, and reviews have appeared in numerous anthologies, periodicals, and online publications.
DOUG HARRISON has written book reviews, essays, and short stories for Black Sheets and Body Play. His short stories appear in the anthologies Men Seeking Men, Best Bisexual Erotica 2000, and Still Doing It. He is currently working on two books, Erotic Whipping and The Jockstrap Book. In addition, Doug is a Ph.D. engineer who does unusual things on weekends. He has been active for many years in the Modern Primitives movement and the San Francisco leather scene, was Mr. June for the AIDS Emergency Fund’s 1999 South of Market Bare Chest Calendar, and appears in straight and gay videos as Brad Chapman. He lives in San Francisco and identifies as a bisexual top/bottom. He can be reached at puma@dnai.com.
SEAN MERIWETHER is working on several projects, including a novel about a young gay man growing up in rural Pennsylvania, and a collection of unflinching short stories entitled Invisible Children. He is also the editor of Outsider Ink, an online e-zine for niche fiction and poetry (www.outsi-dermedia.com). His short fiction can be found on and around the Internet and in some small-press magazines (if you look really hard). “For Hire: A Date with John” was taken from a multimedia exhibit that ran at A Different Light Gallery in New York City in fall 1999. Sean lives in New York with his partner, photographer Jack Slomovits, and their two dogs, Sasha and Nik Nak. To the dogs, he adds, “Don’t eat this book.”
MARSHALL MOORE, a North Carolina native, lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work has also appeared in Space and Time, Rebel, and The Ghost of Carmen Miranda. He may be reached at marshallmoore@aol.com
EDDIE MORENO left the red deserts of rural New Mexico for the big city after high school to pursue a career in sex. He’s danced on bars from Key West to Bangkok, and shaken his money-maker in Sydney, Amsterdam, and London. His professional wanderings eventually led him to San Francisco, where he currently resides. He dreams someday of owning a dude ranch in the mountains of New Mexico where he can strum his guitar beside a roaring fire and suck big dick till the cows come home. In the meantime he’s scouting the globe in search of big-hung cowboys to man his ranch. For more info, visit Eddie’s Web site at www.eddiemorenousa.com.
IAN PHILIPS is a merry ol’ troll. He’s been skulking around the pages of Best Gay Erotica since 1999. He also haunts sites of deliciously transgressive writing in cyberspace as well—like www.suspectthoughts.com. He’s just gathered “Foucault’s Pendulous…” and a dozen other fine specimens of literary filth into a book-sized bestiary called See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent (Attagirl Press). He welcomes e-mail at iphilips@aol.com.
FELICE PICANO is a best-selling author of fiction and poetry, as well as memoirs and other nonfiction. Considered a founder of modern gay literature along with six other members of the Violet Quill Club, he also founded and ran the SeaHorse Press and Hay Presses of New York. He writes regularly for The San Francisco Examiner, The Lesbian/Gay Review, Lambda Book Report, and Barnes&Noble.com. Felice is best known for coauthoring The New Joy of Gay Sex and for writing the award-winning novels Like People in History and The Book of Lies. His 1981–1983 stories have been reissued by Alyson as The New York Years, and his novel Onyx will be published in 2001.
ANDREW RAMER is the author of Two Flutes Playing: A Spiritual Journeybook for Gay Men (Alamo Square Press) and of Revelations for a New Millennium (Harper San Francisco), as well as coauthor of the books Ask Your Angels and Angel Answers: A Joyful Guide to Creating Heaven on Earth.
THOMAS S. ROCHE’S short stories have appeared in mainstream horror and crime markets as well as the Best American Erotica series, the Best Gay Erotica series, and the Mammoth Book of Erotica series. His books include three volumes in the Noirotica series of erotic crime-noir anthologies: Sons of Darkness, Brothers of the Night, and the short story collection Dark Matter. Visit www.thomasroche.com or send e-mail to thomasroche-announce-subscribe@egroups.com to subscribe to his monthly newsletter, Razorblade Valentines.
SANDIP ROY grew up in India and now lives in San Francisco where he works in the software industry when bills are due. When not writing code, he has written for various anthologies like Men on Men 6, My First Time, Quickies, Quickies 2, Male Lust, Contours of the Heart, Q & A, and Chick for a Day. He won the Katha Prize for Indian American Fiction and an award from the South Asian Journalists Association for an Outstanding Story on South Asians in North America (print media). He also edits Trikone, a magazine on GLBT South Asian issues.
SIMON SHEPPARD is the author of Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories, due from Alyson Books in late 2001, and is, with M. Christian, coeditor of Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power, also from Alyson. His work appears in some fifty anthologies, including The Best American Erotica 2000 and all but one of the Best Gay Erotica series. His column “Sex Talk” appears on the Web and in queer newspapers nationwide, and he’s currently hard at work on a nonfiction book about kink; cute masochists who wish to help him with his research may contact him at smutsmith@aol.com.
MICHAEL V. SMITH writes stories intended to make you fuck more freely. He is a novelist, film-maker, grant-given poet, and celebrated hottie. His fiction can be found in the Arsenal Pulp Press anthologies Carnal Nation, Contradiction, and Quickies I and II. To receive a copy of his raunchy ’zine Cruising, write cruisingzine@hotmail.com.
MICHAEL STAMP can’t remember a time when he didn’t want to be a writer. His earliest influences were the novels of Gordon Merrick and John Preston, so it’s not surprising that all of Michael’s erotica, even his S/M tales, has a decidedly romantic bent. His stories appear in the anthologies Casting Couch Confessions, Sex Toy Tales, and Strange Bedfellows, as well as Inches and In Touch magazines and the electronic book Y2KINKY: Erotica for the New Millennium. He lives in a small New Jersey suburb with an overweight tomcat named Sam Beckett. Romantic that he is, Michael hopes one day to find his soul mate, who will have to like cats and love sex.
MATT BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE is the editor of Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Best American Erotica 2001, Best American Gay Fiction 3, and Best Gay Erotica 2000. He is currently editing Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving Abuse. He recently finished a novel, Pulling Taffy, and can be contacted at tricksandtreats@hotmail.com.
LARRY TOWNSEND is best known for his Leatherman’s Handbooks. His stories have been published since the late 1960s. At present he has thirty-some novels in print, plus several collections of short stories and articles. He has done a monthly advice column for more than twenty years, first for Drummer and currently for Honcho. He is also a regular contributor to Bound & Gagged magazine. His titles include Run, Little Leather Boy; CZAR! A Novel of Ivan the Terrible; A Contagious Evil: The Mind of a Serial Killer; Stalked: An Anatomy of Sexual Obsession. Complete information is available on the author’s prize-winning Web site: www.larrytownsend.com.
BOB VICKERY is a regular contributor to various magazines, and his stories can be found in his two anthologies, Cock Tales and Skin Deep. He also has stories in numerous other anthologies, including Best Gay Erotica 1999; Best American Erotica 1997 and 2000; Friction, Friction 2, and Friction 3; and Queer Dharma. Two of his short stories, “Southern Boys” and “A New Man,” are being made into a motion picture, titled Love, Lust, and Repetition, by independent filmmaker Edgar Bravo. Contact Bob at www.bobvickery.com.
KARL VON UHL resides gratefully in the American Midwest. His fiction has appeared in Bear and Powerplay magazines, Best Gay Erotica 2000, and Rough Stuff. He is occasionally on the cable-access show The Life We Lead, bringing ska and order to the new millennium. Having completed a collection of short stories, he is currently working on a novel. He may be contacted at leathernk@hotmail.com.
BARRY WEBSTER is a classical pianist and writer of both fiction and nonfiction. He has published in Quickies, Quickies 2, and The Washington Post, as well as in The Globe and Mail, Dandelion, The Dalhousie Review, The Newest Review, Pottersfield Portfolio, and numerous other Canadian publications. He has received awards from the Toronto Arts Council and the Canadian Authors Association. He is presently finishing Bicycle Dreams, his first collection of short stories. He recently moved to Montreal where he’s completing his master’s degree and learning how to speak French. Contact him at fodxyz@hotmail.com.
About the Editors
RANDY BOYD has been a professional writer his entire adult life. His short stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Frontiers, Washington Blade, Gay & Lesbian Review, Flesh and the Word 2, Flashpoint, Certain Voices, and Friends and Lovers: Gay Men Write About the Families They Create. His first novel, Uprising, was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards: Best Men’s Mystery and Best Small Press Title. His second novel, Bridge Across the Ocean, tells the story of what happens when a suburban white family meets a black gay man with HIV during their summer vacation in Cancun, Mexico. Bridge Across the Ocean was inspired by a true story. An avid sportsman and longtime fan of his hometown Indiana Pacers, Randy divides his time between California and Indiana and lives with his dog, Boomer, named after the Pacers mascot. Randy started his own publishing company, West Beach Books, to publish his own work as well as that of others. For more information, visit www.westbeachbooks.com.
RICHARD LABONTÉ is a former bookseller who helped found A Different Light Bookstore in Los Angeles in 1979; he stepped down in July 2000 as general manager of its stores in San Francisco, New York City, and West Hollywood. Before book-selling, he worked for more than a decade for a daily newspaper in Ottawa. After book-selling, he is spending a year or two of low-key life in rural Ontario on a 200-acre farm he has owned communally since 1976 with a group of friends who met in college in the late 1960s. He reads a lot but luckily lives with Asa, a man who reads hardly at all (and Percy, a dog that never does), so the word-count karma in his home is well balanced. Richard continues to dabble in the book trade, mostly writing book news and reviews for PlanetOut (www.planetout.com) as well as columns and book-selling commentary for Q San Francisco and Lambda Book Report. Reach out and touch him at tattyhill@hotmail.com
Copyright © 2000 by Richard Labonté.
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“The Show Palaces,” reprinted from beautiful twisted night by Marc Almond, © 1999 by ellipses press. “Knot of Roads” © 2000 by D-L Alvarez. “Just Another Night at the World’s Greatest Gay Diner” © 2000 by Dimitri Apessos. “On to the Sex!” © 2000 by Randy Boyd. “Five a Day” © 2000 by Jaime Cortez. “Gymnasty” © 2000 by Jesse Grant. “‘You Need a Boy’” © 2000 by Doug Harrison. “Foreword” © 2000 by Richard Labonté. “For Hire: A Date with John” © 1999 by Sean Meriwether, first appeared as the text accompaniment to a multimedia art exhibit at A Different Light Gallery in New York. “The Future of the Future” © 2000 by Marshall Moore. “Woof. Yea. Uhuh. Yea, That’s It. Uhuh. Yeaaa.” © 2000 by Eddie Moreno. “Foucault’s Pendulous…” © 2000 by Ian Philips. “Onyx” © 2000 by Felice Picano, excerpted from the forthcoming novel Onyx, appeared in slightly different form in Genre magazine, June 2000. “When We Are Very Old” © 2000 by Andrew Ramer. “Bear Basher” © 2000 by Thomas S. Roche. “Prolonged Exposure May Cause Dizziness” © 1999 by Sandip Roy, first appeared in a shorter version in Quickies 2 (Arsenal Pulp Press). “Heart” © 2000 by Simon Sheppard. “Gucci” © 2000 by Michael V. Smith, first appeared in Carnal Nation (Arsenal Pulp Press). “Never Trust a Pretty Face” © 2000 by Michael Stamp. “Warm-Up” © 2000 by Matt Bernstein Sycamore. “The Hittite Slave” © 2000 by Larry Townsend, first appeared in The Hounds of Hell (L. T. Publications). “Knowing Johnny” © 2000 by Bob Vickery. “AIDS Is Over” © 2000 by Karl von Uhl. “Body Symphony” © 1999 by Barry Webster, first appeared in Quickies 2 (Arsenal Pulp Press).
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