SOLD!

Always up for trying new things (testimonials on file), I recently tried a story of mine - a personal favorite, actually - with an online publishing house, www.shadowfirepress.com - that I'd never submitted to before. Happily, I got word last week that they took the story, and one of my favorite tales of tail has a new home. Sadly, it won't be out until May 2010, but here's a just enough of a preview to wet your whistle, and I hope you'll read it when released:

"English as a Sexual Language" opens with 30-year-old horndog Johnny - a good-looking, athletic blond in Phoenix with a ravenous sexual appetite when it comes to Hispanic or Latin males ... especially Mexican men. Awakened one morning to the sounds of lawn mowers and edgers, Johnny discovers the monthly group of Mexican landscapers working on his lawn - only this time with a fresh-faced, hard-bodied 22-year-old new recruit, straight boy Arturo. Offering the young hombre a glass of water on the hot day, Johnny learns Arturo doesn't speak English. Having taught English as a Second Language back in the day, when he lived in Chicago, Johnny hatches a plan to give the hot little (Arturo's only 5'4" tall) mexicano private lessons for free - lessons Johnny's hoping will include not only English, but a little French and Greek, too. Their first lesson, indeed, gets hot and heavy ... but not entirely as planned, when Johnny finds his emotions getting as revved as his crotch for the baby-faced Mexican with the body of a porn star.

I hope you'll like it when you read it, and my thanks to Shadowfire Press for taking this one; "Arturo" (as well as most of this tale) happened in real life, almost verbatim as it happens in the story - so this one in particular meant a lot to me.

Kris