BEST of the BEST
GAY EROTICA
Edited by Richard LaBonte
Cleis Press, San Francisco, 1998
2 Short Stories by
Jack Fritscher
"Sexual Harrassment in the Military:
2 Performance Pieces for 4 Actors in 3 Lovely Costumes"
Act 1: USMC Slap Captain
Act 2: Cigar Sarge
Table of Contents:
Introduction - Richard Labonte
The Yellow - Michael Lassell
First Shave - Jameson Currier
Aegis - D. Travers Scott
We Own the Night - Paul Reed
Motherfucker - Emanuel Xavier
The Adored One - Michael Rowe
Pleasingly - Matthew Rettenmund
Clothes Do Make the Man - Lawrence Schimel
Social Relations - Scott O'Hara
Griffith Park Elegy - Al Lujan
Tricktych - Pansy Brandshaw
I Wonder If My Great Great Toltec Grandmother Was Ever a National Geographic Centerfold - Jorge Ignacio Cortinas
Cocksucker's Tango - Justin Chin
Liberty - John Tunui
Body Hunger - Grigorakis Daskalogrigorakis
The Nether Eye Opens - Don Shewey
Ganged - Carol Queen
Sexual Harrassment in the Military: 2 Performance Pieces for 4 Actors in 3 Lovely Costumes - Jack Fritscher
Thomas, South Carolina - Dimitri Apessos
Steel Gray - Ken Butler
Stroke the Fire - M. Christian
Hotter Than Hell - Simon Sheppard
Heat Wave - Kevin Killian
See Dick Deconstruct - Ian Philips
The First Branding Journal - Cornelius Conboy
Yellow - Kirk Read
Opening Paragraph
Sexual Harrassment in the Military: 2 Performance Pieces
for 4 Actos in 3 Lovely Costumes
by Jack Fritscher
ACT 1. USMS SLAP CAPTAIN
QUANTICO, INTERROGATION ROOM. 3 AM. USMC Slap captain: Fleet champion kickboxer, clad in fatigue pants, miltary-issue T-shirt, heavy combat boots. Rubbing his hands, callused from extreme-fighting matrial arts: numchucks, pugil sticks, boduka. High on his left biceps, a tattoo: red cobra, fanged, coiled, ready to strike, in colorful relief against his dark hairy skin. His head shaved sort in a white-sidewall military burr. His neck: thick, powerful, cruelly muscled. Long athletic arsm: strong, hairy, muscular, threaded with veins. His shoulders: solid as a baseball slugger. His hard-palmed hands: meaty, thick, brutal as a boxer's.