I know I don’t give this blog a lot of love and attention lately, but I really do love it. Case in point: I’m currently working on my application for an artist fellowship, and while looking through the story files on my computer today (I was updating my resume and including my writing experience for the first time) I came across this one: Upwardly Mobile.

It was never submitted anywhere, never published, but it’s totally finished and (I realized as I read through it) not all that bad.

So it’s times like this that I’m glad to have this website as a venue for stuff that I’d otherwise have no purpose for. Like I said, it’s not a bad story – a little sexual socioeconomic fantasy (that was actually inspired by an episode of “Mad Men”) that does what it does.

And all of this helped me to put off writing my resume a little longer, which is a good thing.

Cover design by Johnny Murdoc

So here’s my little literary swindle: remember the story poll I ran a month or so back? Well, if you want to read the story about getting gang banged by a high school football team (it’s called “Athletic Supporter”) you have to pay for it – it’s included in my just-released ebook, Str8 But Curious.

I know, I’m a dick! But whatever, this is the new reality of things. If you pay the modest (but not too modest, think of it like purchasing a McDonald’s value meal that gives you an orgasm) $4.99 purchase price you will also get a second new story, and this one’s called “My Best Friend’s Boyfriend,” a title that should hopefully speak for itself, but there’s an excerpt below if you’re curious.

Str8 But Curious also includes a nonfiction introduction (which is probably the best thing in the book in my opinion) and a curated collection of my best straight-ish guy stories.

Please note that the book is currently only available on Amazon but in the next day or so I hope to have a pdf version available for those who don’t have one of those newfangled Kindle devices (people like me, in other words). I’ll let you know. In the meantime, read some of “My Best Friend’s Boyfriend” below.

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Just posted: The Doghouse, a tale of consensual fantasy incest that was originally published in Handjobs Magazine.

Thanks to all who voted in my last story poll, I look forward to writing about getting gang banged by a high school football team. Continued apologies for being so absent around here – I still don’t have internet at my apartment, but I should be getting it soon.

New story: Hard Times, originally published in some such issue of the now-defunct Men magazine.  It actually has two other installments (which I may or may not end up posting here eventually).  I wrote the whole opus on a train trip in the summer of 2009, and I remember just being so into it that I couldn’t stop until I finished the whole thing.  When I was done I had blue balls and a wet spot on my shorts so I went to the train bathroom and knocked one out.

Anyway, this story update is way overdue, my last story post was in December.  Sorry bout that.

My holiday gift:  a new story called Boyfriend/Girlfriend.

I’m fond of the way this one turned out – it’s the sort of story I’d typically refrain from posting on my site, the better to submit it somewhere and possibly get some money for it or save it for that mythical single-author anthology of my stories that’s going to be published in my dreams someday.  This story was, in fact, accepted to Men, but was never published due to said magazine’s subsequent demise.  I then submitted it to Best Gay Romance 2010 but it was rejected, so to this website (and Nifty) it goes.

For you: Stifler’d, a story that depicts Seann William Scott as the voracious, bossy bottom we all know hope he is while presenting an examination of post-9/11 American ennui.  Never say I don’t give you your money’s worth around here. (What money, you ask? That’s up to you.)

But seriously, I had a great time writing this – thanks to all who voted and hope you enjoy.

I’ve got a new story up on Butt Magazine’s blog.

I used to write a lot more about my true-life escapades (back when I was a youngster and had a lot of true-life escapades) and I’d share that stuff now if it wasn’t so embarrassing to me (both for the dumb and dangerous things I did and for the fact that my writing was pretty weak). Maybe in ten years. Anyway, this was a story I had sitting around for whatever reason and yeah, it’s all true, except I’m pretty sure the whole “sniper” thing was more boast than fact.

New story: Deep Valley.

This is technically a “straight bud” story and as such it fulfills my duty as per the result of my most recent story poll. It’s not a new story, however, it’s an old one that I discovered and re-read and decided was not so shabby. In fact I probably would have submitted this one to a magazine back when magazines existed. As it is I’m giving it away. For free. But you can give me money for it, if you want:

Here it is, folks, the end result of my experiment in reader-assisted decision making:

I hope ya like it.

That poll (and its results) was inspiring – I wrote this story before voting was even finished, figuring if a different story won I’d just write a sequel to that one, too. So chances are I’m going to do this same thing again, but I’m not sure how to add a twist to it, or just lamely go with a sequel to the second-place story. I’ll figure something out, but suggestions are welcome.