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Leaps
The eight short stories in LEAPS are presented in format very similar to that of PIECES, Stalward's first work. The tenor of the tales, however, is quite different; the ambiance is grittier, the thrust edgier, and most of the action transpires in the city. "High Life in a High Rise" finds an imperturbable Raymond Martin, an accomplished swimmer, in a new job in a new environment but in no way out of his gay element. The second story, "Sixty-five", brings us into the sometimes difficult building of intimacy between the older man and the younger. And then "The Splendorous Throne" explores, in a strange sort of poetry, the fascination that Cap Kelly finds in spending his time seeking gratification in the public rest room. And equally gritty, "The Conductor" affords Trixie Trapper, an inner city street tart, an opportunity to offer views of his life, those views set down while conducting a gang bang in a soon to be torn down house in a trucking district. Set also in the inner city, "Mi Vida Loca" gives Danny Bainter a chance to describe, and quite without apology, the life he leads (My Crazy Life) in the more or less harsh realities of the city. "The Gay Intruders" portrays - told from Carl Cushing's somewhat snotty perspective - the aims of a couple of gay burglars, Burt and Tyrone, who, though intruders, actually have something quite different from pillage on their agenda. "The Early Years" is Clayson Clobb's narrative giving us the lowdown, at the ripe old age of eighteen, on 'the early years' in the housing project that set him off on a career as a boy whore. And finally, in "My Times as a Peeper" Pepper Kine takes time from running his fashionable, though small, hotel to tell us about his experiences as a voyeur, experiences gained while peeping into the rooms of his own establishment. Oh heavens!.
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Pieces
PIECES is a collection of eight short stories varying in length from twelve pages to sixty. Told in the first person voice of eight individual narrators, the stories are in the main set in the American countryside but do at times extend to the city and the relative sophistication found there. In the opening story, "Lyle Stacy's Roost", we meet Standall Quinn, a comely country lad with a troublesome religious inclination. But soon enough Standall, being basically lusty and level-headed, works through all that confusion with the loving help of Lyle Stacy McDermott, Clifford Evans, Uncle Potter Foster, and one Gaspar Alfonso Cortez y Bolivar del Rio de Sanchez. In reading "Luis", the second story, one is trapped in a certain sweet sadness as seduction and its caprices are played out. "Coach Moss" is the hot dream of many a young athlete, and in this case the young athlete is cocky wrestler Hal Linderman who in the end has the tables turned on him in the steamy facult! y shower room. In "My Suitor" gentleman farmer George Large and farm boy Tillson act out the hunting game with gay skill and enjoy the results in the dusky seclusion of an ancient smokehouse. "Jeremy" takes us to the city and deals with the particular velvet hell experienced by attorney Richard Johnson as he ventures into an involvement with jailbait, in this case worldly and very wise jailbait. Then in "The Jonnie Man" it's back to the country where pretty city boy Daryll Stives is caught in the grip of country love. "Tomatoes and Peppers" tells us of the college professor and a boy of the earth who together find the patient hole of their need and fill it. And in the last story, "Hobnobbing with the Rich", we get a look into the world of Mark Mayfield, a handsome, horny, and nicely hung social climber, as he acts on his ambitions..
Price: $12.95
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