The subject of priests or ministers as sex partners with other men is one of the more taboo subjects in the writing of erotica. Habu has tackled this theme in gay male writing before, though, so naturally, as a publisher, we urged him to gather some of the stories in a subject-specific anthology, which has resulted in Priest Play. We gleaned nearly a dozen previously published stories that included priests at sex play from habu’s various anthologies, and, in addition to these, he wrote fiv...

The journey from being fully male to being fully transformed male-to-female in gender is not an event; it’s a process. There are some who go the distance. There are many more who stop at some point along the route to this transformation and take on the lifestyle of that point. This is a collection of twenty-two stories habu has written over time as standalone works that include characters occupying one of the many points in this process. The anthology doesn’t attempt to be...

Don Nealson starts going with men during his college years in Charleston, drawn to military men for casual, a bit rough, and anonymous sex through military men Internet gay hookup sites. Four years later, as a high school history teacher in Norfolk, Virginia, he turns again to Internet hookups. He tries to be very discreet and not take his risky pleasures near home, but as he hooks up with sailors in Norfolk, this doesn’t always work. Going further afield, he dates an older architect in Ri...

When male model and escort Nick Daniels suffers damage to his face in a New Year’s Eve snowy car crash en route to Philadelphia from ringing in the New Year in New York’s Times Square, rather than be glad he is alive, Nick feels that, scarred facially, he might as well be dead. The crash was caused by Nick’s drunken Philadelphia model photo shoot boss, Steven Saylor, who had just failed to perform in a three-way sexual encounter with Nick and the photo shoot sponsor, Harve...

On Sunday, April 28, 1793, the earth split Mount Serpente on the inland island of St. Silvus down the center, flinging the guardian White Furies into the heavens and releasing the black ship of the reptilian Schlange—the Snake—and its crew of satyrs, to sail out on the lava flow into the world in search of young, perfectly formed men to overpower and defile. The cream of manhood is needed by the Schlange to keep it rejuvenated. The searching White Furies quickly responded, forcing the mons...

A sweeping story of gay loss and love—set in the Blue Ridge Mountains.Bookended by encounters at the Ravens Roost Lookout on the Blue Ridge Parkway, suave and wealthy Virginia landowner Dabney Belcastle manipulates men to do his will until tragedy strikes and he turns to using his manipulation in atonement.Having disrupted the lives of the young Italian-American landscape artist Lucio; the mixed-race workman Hank, who holds a dark secret of the Belcastle family past; and th...

Keith Evans and Tyler Sinclair are near twins in near identical situations. They both are young, handsome blond surfers finding themselves set down on the remote American-territory island of Guam and on their own. They both are fine with and good with sex with men and are keeping their lives together by being lower-price rent-boys in the Tumon area of the island for sailors coming off the naval ships on shore leave.They both are hired by a sex industry high roller for a fashion sho...

Habu’s fetish story collections explore the concept of gay male sexual fetishes and fill an underserved niche in gay male publishing with unusual and stimulating reads. A survey of readers and practitioners has revealed almost as many separate understandings of what a fetish is as there were respondents, with some opining that “anything goes” and anything beyond the missionary can be included. Others believe that only a limited number of practices can be considered unusual in this regard. ...

As a young, handsome, charismatic politically connected best-selling novelist, Gore Vidal was infamous for cruising the New York City gay bathhouses for nightly one-night-stand encounters. That is until he met Howard Austin there and took him home for what turned out to be a fifty-three-year, sometimes volatile, live-in arrangement. “Need to Be Needed” is inspired by this story, exploring the underpinnings of such a relationship in the guise of political novelist Cole Temple and Mike, the ...

Rising heartthrob movie actor Dillon Drake is told that he would have to kiss a lot of frogs if he wanted to rise in the movie business in Hollywood, which he’s also told in no uncertain terms is a very gay town under the surface. Dillon plays the game and he does rise in the business, but the questions are where is the edge of what he can take and what would the fallout be of going over the edge? How big a splash does he have to make to escape the frogs and where and how will he make the ...

Alex Holden, a forty-one-year-old body builder and gym owner, and Terry Duncan, a twenty-seven-year-old musical theater dancer, have been a committed, cohabiting couple in San Diego for eight years. They still consider themselves a committed couple and have no wish to change their arrangement or upset their partner. But, although they go through the routines of servicing each other, the spark of what once had been a bonfire relationship now seems to ignite between them only when the U.S. n...

Set in South Africa’s wine country, Poison Pen is inspired by and parallels the biblical story of Jezebel and Ahab. Winery owner Samuel de Kock covets the sweeter tasting grapes of the vineyard owned by former family retainer and Zulu native Daniel Currie farther up the hill. Ever willing to scheme for what she wants, Samuel’s wife, Melissa, begins a poison pen campaign against Currie. Unknown to her, however, Currie’s grapes aren’t all that Samuel covets.Tags: anal sex, short stor...