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The guidance given to men seeking a lasting, caring relationship with another man often is to look for a man with a dog. If the man you are considering to do more than just hook up with briefly and casually owns a dog, he is likely to be a patient, caring, unselfish, loyal person, all good ingredients for a serious long-term relationship. He pretty much would have to be to have and care for a dog. Of course a corollary of this guidance is to look for the type of dog he has. If the man has a pit bull, you'd best be shopping for someone who is dominant and forceful; if a Pekinese, you probably should expect to find a sub-and perhaps a somewhat temperamental one.Among the stories in Eleven to the Dogs, you will find stories illustrating just such finds in establishing relationships.As the guidance is well known, though, you also will find stories here of men who don't actually own dogs pretending they do as a subterfuge for finding the man they want-one looking for men with the patience, unselfishness, and loyalty to own a dog. And gay or not, as these stories illustrate, there is no relationship as strong as that between a man and his dog.

Young theater dancer and secret playwright Sean Singleton and streetwise Gil Johnson struggle from their separate circumstances to rise from under the domination of three larger-than-life unfettered predatory Broadway legends during the staging of a major production at Washington, D.C.'s, renowned regional Arena Stage theater. In a twisting tale of lies, bravado, and sexual exploitation, told from the differing and separate misunderstandings and perceptions of Sean and Gil, the two spar in their own dance of denial and attraction in a rush to free themselves and find new love and validation in a final curtain act of defiance.This is an expanded relaunch of the eXcessica novella of the same name.Also available in paperback.

In this first volume of the Clint Folsom Mysteries Compendium, which includes a previously unpublished Clint Folsom adventure, Death in Manhattan, the initial development of the promiscuous NYPD homicide detective into a life as a satyriasis and adventure-ridden police investigator is traced chronologically. This four-book set takes Clint from his upbringing in the Hollywood home of movie stars and the influences of hedonism and sexual want and preference for men through his training for a career in law enforcement, beyond the tragic loss of his first serious lover, and to his steeling as a detective in a special NYPD homicide squad. The first segment in this compendium, Death to Innocence, a precursor to the Clint Folsom mystery series. illuminates the elements of the slow, but relentless, death of young Folsom's adolescent innocence under highly unusual circumstances in narcissistic and hedonist Hollywood. The previously unpublished Death in Manhattan traces the path of Clint's first attempt at a fully committed relationship. And memories of his relationship with Brad feature prominently in all of the following books. Death on the Rhine has Clint Folsom taking leave from his job in an investigation of an international crime syndicate and pursuing a killer to a Rhine River gay male-oriented cruise ship, the MS River God. In the fourth murder mystery, Death in Eden, Folsom finds himself summoned to a wealthy hunt country suburb of Washington, D.C., to whitewash the murder of a former Mafia sex-torture assassin. The Clint Folsom Mysteries will continue and conclude with the forthcoming second compendium volume. This volume, which will extend Folsom's adventures to Key West, Florida; the Rocky Mountains; and even back to his roots in Hollywood, also includes-and concludes with-a previously unpublished book, Death to the Past.

Reviews: "(A)n intense story about the unique sexual education of a young man. habu delivers a powerful story that delves into a level of manipulation and total control that few are able to express. Some of the most extreme stories I have ever read are from this author and I have yet to be disappointed." -Emily, Rainbow Reviews - 4/5 Stars "This story is Hot M/M erotica and not for the faint of heart. Habu has penned an intense, powerful story. It's a dark look at manipulation and submission that I enjoyed." -ulia, Erotic Book Freaks, 4.5/5 STARS Warnings: BarbarianSpy Rough Gay Erotica: Contains M/M, MMF, bondage, graphic language, sex toys, gay anal sex, group sex, rough sex.Ron might be a hunk, but he's incredibly na ve, and now that he's transferred to a university far away from home, he quickly becomes the prey of both male professors and students alike. His logic professor manages to seduce him by using-what else but logic-and when he goes to the dean of men-slash-wrestling-coach to complain, he finds he's walked from the fry-pan into the fire and is taken not just once again, but twice. When the wrestling team starts handing him around like popcorn, Ron decides the only way to escape his predicament is to recruit a replacement-and sexy, young Ben is just the sort of na ve student he's got in mind.

BarbarianSpy Extreme: BDSM, Rough gay sex, domination and control.Includes the habu BDSM classic "Dark Angel Sounding"Sounding: Ultimate Control provides, in paperback, six stories by habu of what possibly is the most intimate and dominating sex act one man can perform on another, one that is so intimate and extreme that it is only rarely written about. The wanding of another man's urethral canal is a fetish of domination, trust, and control. One slip of the wand and a man can be ruined. Few engage in the activity, but those who do know that it can provide the ultimate arousal and sexual satisfaction.The first work in this anthology is an expanded version of "Dark Angel Sounding," appearing here in paperback form for the first time ever. Probably habu's most controversial and popular previously published work-"Dark Angel Sounding" certainly has generated more discussion than has anything he has published before. The story follows in intimate and detailed description, the deepening subjugation of a young man to the ultimate control of an older man-his Dark Angel."Career Guidance" is the story of a young-looking Hollywood star who has rebelled against always playing young, boyish roles by engaging in a life of debauchery, including publicly gossiped-about encounters in a car with a transvestite. His agent, as a last-chance measure, uses the controlling mechanism of sounding to put the young actor in his place and attempt to save his career as well as fulfill the long-frustrated sexual fantasies of the agent himself.In "Searching for It" a young sailor from Vancouver, who is on the East Coast of the United States for the first time in his life, working on a private yacht, goes searching for sexual relief in the gay district of New York near the docks area at the foot of Manhattan. He finds something he's never experienced before, the tease of a sounding-like technique, in a gay club and winds up kidnapped to be given the full sounding experience himself.A high-paid male prostitute is given a "punishment" assignment by his pimp to provide unusual and taxing services to a kinky doctor in "Prepped and Sounded." And "Roswell's Frontier Motel" brings an alien variation of sounding into the supernatural world for a highly unusual take on this form of male sex act.The concluding story, "Do You Trust Me?," takes the reader to the picturesque Italian harbor town of Positano, where a young fisherman and caf singer shows that he's willing to do anything to leave Italy and break into movies-even a very specific kind of movie.

Warnings: BarbarianSpy Rough Gay Mystery/Romance: Contains M/M, BDSM, graphic language, fetish, sex toys, anal sex, group sex, and violent murder/crimes. In this second volume of the Clint Folsom Mysteries Compendium, which includes a previously unpublished Clint Folsom adventure, Death to the Past, the concluding months of Clint's life as an NPYD special homicide unit detective are chronicled. This four-book set, picking up a dozen years after the Death in Eden adventure that ended the first volume of the compendium, spins out the satyriasis influences of hedonism and sexual want and preference for rough-handling sex that developed in Clint in his early life. After several years of successful work in an NYPD unit using men's weaknesses to other men in closing criminal cases, Death in Key West takes Clint on what was supposed to be a vacation in Key West, Florida, on the yacht of the producer of many of his movie star parents' Hollywood movies. Clint isn't even in the air for very long, winging his way to the Keys, before he is both reunited with an old colleague and lover and being propelled into a murder case that dredges up his own past. This mystery solved, he is on the move beyond New York City again in his professional capacity, first, on loan to the Colorado authorities in Death in the Rockies to try to prevent a murder of a key witness at a male brothel dude ranch, and then to Hollywood, in Death in Hollywood, to come to terms with his own parents' mysterious deaths twenty-one years earlier. In a concluding, never-before-published adventure, Death to the Past, Clint races back to Manhattan to help save his new life-partner, Hank Halston, who, while under cover, has disappeared into the world of old-style gangster families. The compendium ends with Clint finding a love of his early life and beginning a new phase of his life.

The third of habu's Grab Bag short story anthologies is much like the first two, a totally unthemed gay male story collection that skips over the world in location and across time in setting and offers a variety of thoughtful themes, romance, humor, hot sex, irony, twist and/or twisted endings, and much else that has dropped out of habu's fertile mind and into his computer on almost a daily basis during the past year. Included in this fifteen-story collection are, in addition to contemporary explorations of being an "actively gay male" in the United States, stories reflective of habu's past in Bangkok and Hong Kong; a few inspired by a recent trip to England, Wales, and Scotland, and even a short trip to Portugal as well as several exploring favorite themes of his: first times, older and younger men, black on white, surprise and unexpected twists, and the worlds of art and spies. The anthology fittingly starts with a "first time" story, "The Awakening," of a young man doing just that-awakening to his sexuality and his preference as he's thrust out into the world from a protected childhood. From there, the anthology takes a wide turn to the humorous in "Best Job in the World," with a skin magazine editor receiving a surprise "thanks" visit from one of his unlikely authors. Turning to snarky, "Lance's Secret" is about the plight of a college fraternity house "reliever." "Emmet" takes us to a university community, where a very proper university don develops a fixation on a black working-class neighbor and gives up all of his academic pretensions. "Ernestine," which continues the black and white element, is one of habu's rare explorations into the world of transvestites. "Loving Wife" turns to a somber note, with a real-world look at the threat to an older-younger, same-sex marriage built on the sex drive when the older partner is dying from cancer. We zip off next for Portugal in "Chaz's Choice" for a "rubber-meets-the-road" decision that has to be made in the nasty world of spying. "The Negotiator," the first of three England-based stories in the anthology, offers a different kind of espionage, as two men work each other as they each work to come out on top in an international business transaction. "The Clothes Horse," takes us to Hong Kong for the story of a deal to exchange services for sexy men's clothes. In "The Video List," a young man in rural Virginia learns that it's more exciting and profitable to be in gay sex videos than to work in a video store. "The Celtic Sonata of Life" crosses the Atlantic to England's Cotswolds and a special service vacation cottage. "On a String in Bangkok" takes the reader back across the world for a habu reminiscence about gay life in Bangkok in the mid-seventies and the particular meaning of being "on a string." In a change-of-pace and timing piece for this anthology, "Training Asu," set in an ancient Middle Eastern city, covers the coming-of-age initiation of a beautiful young man. "So You Want to Be in Movies" is the proverbial film producer office couch audition story, but laced with a bit of mystery and menace. The anthology ends with a historical piece set in Norwich, England, covering the developing professional life of a fine young artist who was willing to do anything to receive the mentoring of an older, accomplished artist.

Grab Bag 2 follows along behind habu's Grab Bag 1 story collection as a gay male anthology that is totally unstructured other than the twenty-one stories in the collection being offered in the order written. It also follows no coordinating theme other than the stories being designed to evoke arousal and the pleasant surprise of some new gay-male twists to some classic plotlines.It exhibits the breadth and depth of habu's overarching inspiration, his desire to always be exploring some new facet of locale, theme, character, or circumstance of being unapologetically gay and attracting and seeking in the real world-while often striving to bend that world to one more accommodating to the seekers' desires.The inspiration for the locales, characters, and themes of habu's stories are complex and varied: they flow from his travels; his early careers; flashes of arousing images and circumstances emerging in that early-morning state between sleep and full awareness; his search in writing for ultimate satisfaction in male-to-male encounters; and experiences, observations, and "cautionary" tales that burble up into his memory from the past during conversations with friends and past-and current-lovers. As has become the hallmark of habu, this is a collection of tales (and tails) that are guaranteed to excite and stimulate-not just the mind. A true grab bag of surprises and pleasures that are sure to be savored more than once.In this "bag" are twenty-one stories that adhere to no uniformity of theme in time, space, locale, or message and that have never been published to the market before.Warnings: a gay erotica anthology with graphic gay sex, control, domination, bondage, and wild rough sex but also touching romance.