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From the vault . . . .  

Read Barry's first ever published short story from April 1973

Cockroach and Egg- CLICK HERE      

 

What's NEW in short stories  . . . .

Time Well Bent

Featuring Barry's new story "Sod 'Em"

We have always been here. For as long as there's been such a thing as sex, alternate sexual identities have been a fact of life. So why have we been so nearly invisible in recorded history and historical fiction? Now editor Connie Wilkins, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, has assembled fourteen stories that span the centuries from ancient times to the Renaissance to the modern era and explore alternate versions of our past. Their queer protagonists, who bend history in ways dramatic enough to change the world and subtle enough to touch hearts and minds, rescue our past from invisibility, and affirm our place and importance throughout all of history, past, present, and future. 

 

Taking the bait

in Surfer Boys; Gay Erotic Stories

This collection of erotic stories follows the sun-drenched sexual escapades of those fabulous "boys of summer". Their taut, tanned bodies glistening with water, and their hair damp from a dip in the ocean, these boys are like sex on surfboards—fast, sleek, and oh, so hot! The 19 stories follow the adventures of these beach boys from Cape Cod to Hawaii as they ride the waves of pleasure. Featuring work from noted erotic authors Shane Allison, Rob Rosen, Jay Starre, Aaron Micheals and more.

 
Right up my alley
in Cruising for Bad Boys
Mickey Erlach

StarBOOKS Press, paperback 2009

In his third STARbooks Press anthology, CRUISING FOR BAD BOYS, Mickey Erlach leaves the cozy confines of the bedroom to seek out sex in the riskiest of locales. Have you ever seen a man in a suit at a truck stop? A preppy frat boy in a public park after midnight? A nerdy man walking down the street in the wrong part of town? They aren't lost. They're looking for bad boys, and when they find them, the fun begins. The best part is when the suit and glasses come off, and the trick is no longer the wildest one in the room … or in the park.

CRUISING FOR BAD BOYS includes contributions from the hottest authors in world of erotica, including Amanda Young, Barry Lowe, Christopher Pierce, David C. Muller, David Holly, Derrick Della Giorgia, Jamie Freeman, Jay Starre, Martin Delacroix, Owen Keehnen, Rob Rosen, Ryan Field, Stephen Osborne, and Xan West.

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Paias Wynstan Jeroboam Orders a Hot Chocolate

in MAN OVERBOARD

A new collection of stories that continue the gay-ebooks tradition of fresh, powerful writing and an exciting read. Our first issue for 2008 includes new work from Ian MacNeill, Jarred Connors, Barry Lowe, James May, Trevor Ball and Nicholas Kokinidis.

Climbing up the wall
in HARD HATS

Cleis Press, paperback, 2008

Construction workers, plumbers, gardeners or any hard working man with a tool belt play a part in many gay male fantasies. In this steamy collection we take a ride to the top of a high rise under construction for a precarious steel beam encounter, go down in the belly of a dark steamy mine, hang out with some hunky sweaty landscapers and slip into the construction manager's office for a quickie. Wherever we go, you'll find sexy, men loving men who are turned on by more than their buddies' tools, in this world the hats are not the only thing that's hard.

"A man's finally getting his roof repaired on his rented apartment, by two seriously hunky Aussie contractors. Well, one thing just naturally leads to another when one roofer has a little accident. Snappy dialog, along with humorous awkward moments makes for an entertaining read, but the bittersweet tinged ending makes this an exceptional read." - Louisa Clarke, amazon.com

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Night of the Mogggy
in JUSTIFIED & ANCIENT 
Justified & Ancient is a  retrospective of Oz gay male writing from the late 1970s. Featuring work by William Yang (then known as photographer and poet Will Young), Dave Sargent, Barry Lowe, Ian MacNeill and Gary Dunne, this collection paints a portrait of a very familiar place, but at a very different time. It's a unique view of where we've come from, and a surprising reminder of just how far we've travelled in the past 30 years.

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Liquid Assets 
in QUEER HEARTS
Over sixty pages of great new fiction. Hot on the stiletto heels of My boyfriend's back and the 2006 Boy's Summer Collection, gay-ebooks.com.au brings you a new anthology of Australian gay male fiction. Queer Hearts presents a slideshow of visions of who we are and where we are now; a rich and exciting diversity of views, full of challenges and pleasures, heartaches and celebrations, love and frustration ... and then much more. Featuring: Nicholas Kokinidis, Peter Mitchell, Barry Lowe, Phil Scott, Shaun O'Dowd, Mal Path, Tim Miles, John Bartlett, James May, Trevor Ball, Ian MacNeill, Jarred Connors.

OUT OF THE GUTTER #3, feat: Skinny Dipping, By BARRY LOWE

Skinny Dipping

in OUT OF THE GUTTER #3
Managing Editor: Matt Louis
Out of the Gutter, 2007

My First Time Vol 5
Off the Peg
in MY FIRST TIME #5 
Edited by Jack Hart
Alyson, paperback, 2007
Best Date Ever
Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Love on Tofu
in BEST DATE EVER 

True Stories that celebrate Gay relationships

Edited by Lawrence Schimel
Alyson, Paperback, 2007  
Gut Reaction                            
in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF NEW GAY EROTICA

Edited by Lawrence Schimel 

Carrol & Graf, paperback, 2007 

A Head Start
in BOY MEETS BOY 

Edited by Lawrence Schimel 

Alyson, paperback, 1999

From the dates-from-hell to love-at-first-sight, Boy Meets Boy is the ultimate rumination about romance, dating, and/or sex for the modern gay man. This collection of observations, anecdotes, essays, wishful thinking, and out-and-out lies celebrates and bemoans all the experiences that collectively compose that mixed blessing called "dating."

Ranging in tone from cute and romantic to bitchy and hilarious, with contributions from Matthew Rettenmund, Barry Lowe, Michael Lassell, D. Travers Scott, David Feinberg, Kerry Bashford, and Larry Duplechan, Boy Meets Boy is touching, amusing, heartwarming, and laugh-out-loud funny as it memorializes (and viciously mocks) the absurd situations,embarrassing 

Full O’Fun

in MY FIRST TIME, Volume 2

Gay Men Describe Their First same-Sex Experience 

Edited by Jack hart 
Alyson, paperback, 1999 

Piss Elegant
in MEN SEEKING MEN 
Edited by Michael Lassell 
Painted Leaf Press, paperback, 2007 

Blowing Hot & Cold

in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF GAY EROTICA 

Lawrence Schimel

Carroll & Graf, paperback, 1998 

Since the early 1990s gay male erotic writing has gained greater acceptance in the world of mainstream publishing. Fiction and nonfiction erotic anthologies have appeared and titillated millions of men who formally found these delights only between the covers of porno magazines.

Lawrence Schimel's The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica is one of the best additions to this growing genre. Schimel has reprinted old favorites by writers such as Aaron Travis and Bill Mann, as well as excerpts from novels by notables such as Christopher Bram, Neil Bartlett, and Alan Hollinghurst.

The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica also features new stories by Paul Elliott Russell, Lars Eighner, and Andrew Holleran and rediscovered writings by Edmund White and Michael Denneny. Sexy, sweaty, sweet, and often very moving, this collection renews your faith in the sexual power and performance of the written word.

BLOWING HOT & COLD 
in Hard 
Edited by Tony Ayres

 

THE CONJUNCTION OF LIVER SPOTS  
 in The James White Review

Winter 1994

 
SOGGY BISCUIT 
in Flesh and The Word
Edited by John Preston    
Dutton/Plume      
FLESH FOR FANTASY  

in Cargo #11 (pps 21-29)

June 1991
 

SOGGY BISCUIT  

in Cargo (#5, pps 17-33)

A SLIGHT TASTE OF PINEAPPLE 

in GLP! (March-April 1975)

NO PIC AVAILABLE

I LOVE YOU, FLUFFY DATE 

in Westerly (June 1974, pps 14-15 
CLICK HERE to read Cockroach and Egg
COCKROACH AND EGG  

in Westerly (April 1973, pps 5-7

Read the short story in full HERE