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Corporal in Charge of Taking Care of Captain O'Malley and Other Canonical Stories

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As a musclebear porno queen, I read lots of gayrotica in magazines and books. So when I read gay prose that reads like gay poetry really sucking me into the language of sex, I get off on telling my friends. Corporal in Charge, which I read first in a magazine, is as rhythmic as anything Vachel Lindsay wrote in "The Congo." (OK, I'm a mature Daddy Porno queen.) San Francisco erotica seems more muscular, lyrical, and sensitive than gay writing elsewhere, and this San Francisco author is one of the reasons. His brutally frank "true confessions" stories like "B Movie on Castro Street," "Hustler Bars,"and "By Blonds Obsessed" are real insights into the downside of gay life that balance the upside of wild stories like "Selfsucker" and "That Boy That Summer." I've read two books in this series, and this author's writing is, in this reader's opinion at least, a guiding literary light in "the cool erotic fog that wraps San Francisco nights." He seems to have "been there and done that" to a degree that makes me "believe" the fiction when I'm reading...which is what I want.