Eric Trujillo

Revenge is a dish best served... STEAMING HOT After being beaten, clubbed, and stomped almost to death by two fag-bashing, jack-booted brothers on the darkened streets of Atchafalaya City, Louisiana, gourmet chef, Kenneth James Cunningham, wants revenge. But being dead, there's nothing he can do about catching his killers so, two weeks after his death, he revives whole, solid, very human, and sexy as hell, in a most unusual vehicle, to solicit help in capturing the murderers. Kenny, as he prefers to be called, has many restrictions: he cannot leave the floor on which he died, he cannot read people's minds, fly about, or walk through walls like ghosts do in movies, TV, or books; and he is invisible to everyone but his would-be rescuer, Jeremy Mallory, but he can provide crucial information that can lead to the capture of the dastardly brothers. He gets huffy if he's called a ghost and downright pissed if he's called a "friendly ghost," preferring the term, "disembodied spirit." To occupy his time and "show his appreciation," Kenny whips up gourmet fare for Jeremy on a nightly basis and, true to the old axiom, "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach," they fall in love despite knowing that their affair is doomed to be short-lived. When Miz Xochipap lotl ("Xochi" for short) Zamorawitz, Atchafalaya City's only homicide detective, doesn't appear to be doing anything to catch the killers, Jeremy steps in to do the job, which is greatly facilitated when the killers come hunting for him

Before you can force yourself to put SKIN DEEP down, you will meet: -a preacher's wife and tele-evangelist's daughter who can cuss like a sailor and punch like Ali, -The Blue Lady, the Jelly Man, and the Atchafalaya Swamp Monster and her kid, -A junior psychopath who kills cats and collects their eyes, -A self-centered Jewish boy who grows up to be an anti-Semitic asshole, eschewing his heritage, his religion, and his people. A white singer/television personality, dubbed "America's Sweetheart" by the Press, who gives birth to a black baby in 1950's Hollywood. - Princess Margaret, a gorgeous silver Persian cat who must run for her life, -America's wealthiest black family whose billions put Oprah's billions and Trump's "millions" to shame. -A mule named Caliste who saw Satan once and never wants to see him again And: -Two teenaged boys, one black and one white, who meet, fall in love, lose touch, and reconnect years later to solve a cop's murder. You will also take a trip on an unpiloted wooden sailing ship on a rough sea and witness the stench, the rats, and the degradation of the Middle Passage from Africa. SKIN DEEP introduces the reader to a coterie of characters: Pirates andPilgrims, satyrs and centaurs, handack trees, space colonists, and much, much more. SKIN DEEP is a novel you will want to go on and on forever.

Mississippi native Alex Ashby is a drop-dead gorgeous 22-year-old male prostitute. He has been a victim all his life, having suffered both physical and sexual abuse at the hands of his father and uncle. Now, he sits in Chicago's Cook County Jail accused of killing two very important people and a pizza delivery boy and is believed only by a black newspaper reporter and Alex's friend, a cocky blond hustler named Tom Pappas. The reporter and Tom scour Chicago's seedy Uptown neighborhood, where many white Southerners have settled, to find "The Night Crawler"--whom they believe to be the real killer--and a 12-year-old hustler believed to be the only survivor of the massacre, who can exonerate Alex. Their odyssey takes the reporter on a harrowing ride through Blood Alley--Chicago's deadliest and most dreaded street--where even angels fear to tread.

Mississippi native Alex Ashby is a drop-dead gorgeous 22-year-old male prostitute. He has been a victim all his life, having suffered both physical and sexual abuse at the hands of his father and uncle. Now, he sits in Chicago's Cook County Jail accused of killing two very important people and a pizza delivery boy and is believed only by a black newspaper reporter and Alex's friend, a cocky blond hustler named Tom Pappas. The reporter and Tom scour Chicago's seedy Uptown neighborhood, where many white Southerners have settled, to find "The Night Crawler"--whom they believe to be the real killer--and a 12-year-old hustler believed to be the only survivor of the massacre, who can exonerate Alex. Their odyssey takes the reporter on a harrowing ride through Blood Alley--Chicago's deadliest and most dreaded street--where even angels fear to tread.