The table of contents to this book features fresh ideas, old hands, burly faces, genderqueer souls, shades of skin and hair as much as it does timber of voice, both actual and authorial. Best Gay Stories 2015 starts and ends with a kiss—between pressed lips are stories about our lives, our daydreams we want to leave our lives for, our oubliettes of our own making that define some lives. And there is laughter and tears and passion and pain, and between these kisses you find pasts, presents, and futures that leave you breathless and mindful that a lot can happen after as well as before you share that kiss. Featuring essays and fiction by: "Outing" by Allan Radcliffe "Lovely Company" by Ron Schafrick "What did I know?" by Joseph R.G. DeMarco "God Knows Where" by Keith Banner "Stories I Tell to Friends" by Richard Bowes "The Case for PrEP, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love HIV-Positive Guys" by Evan J. Peterson "Needle" by Peter Dube "Skin" by Joe Okonkwo "My Adventure with Tom Sawyer" by Jameson Currier "The Balaclava" by Nathan Sims "Shep: A Dog" by Alex Jeffers "Lack" by Michael Carroll "John" by J.M. Parker "Men in White" by Stefen Styrsky "Year of the Queerling" by Joseph Dante "The Boy Next Door" by Matt Dean "Smuggler" by Philip Kennicott
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Some tidbits about me... I turned down a scholarship to Miskatonic University because I heard of the high rate of incidents against the student population. I briefly worked for Omni Consumer Products in their Marketing Department. Great benefits, nice cafeteria, sadly too prone to executive whim. Last year I stayed at the noted Mauna Pele resort in Hawaii. The accommodations were impressive but my traveling companion disappeared soon after wanting to attend a pig roast. I've slept with one minor porn star and with a guy who later became one. And I happen to have written some fanfic that inspired the memorable holodeck scene in Star Trek: Hidden Frontiers episode "Vigil"
