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Next year sometime, check out the new anthology from Lethe Press entitled Black Fire. Editor Shane Allison, for this collection, has assembled a group of stories featuring African-American men loving and lusting after each other ... and I'm proud to be a part of it, thanks to his acceptance of my story.

"Someone Else's Man" opens with 29-year-old Malik, a toy store manager in Chicago, who might desire a better job ... but whose personal life couldn't be going better, thanks to a nearly five-year relationship with a Latin hunk named Juan. The two are tight, monogamous and in love -

But try telling that to 18-year-old, baby-faced college student Corey - the innocent-seeming little hick boy from Kansas, recently moved to the big city, who looks like the love-child of Usher and Chris Brown ... and who is jonesing REAL bad for Malik. Claiming friendship but wanting infinitely more, Malik finally hammers it home to Corey, in a confrontation at work, that he is "someone else's man" - but it's Malik who's in for the wake up call, as everything he's thought, about love and relationships and getting over the past hurt he suffered at the hands of a "brother" (the reason Malik won't date other Black men to this day), is put to the test.

And he comes to question what Corey is all about - and what he may want in him.

Check back here for cover art and a release date. And thanks, as always, for reading!

Kris