Separated once again from Cray, Brandon finds himself in a new world, when he trades the home-free life of a street punk for that cinderblock walls of a Chicago jail. Now, he has to learn to navigate between different gangs, and the barely contained needs that simmer just under he surface of the tattoos and scars of his fellow inmates. But it's not the inmates that scare him: it's the guard who looks like a fratboy, a familiar face that haunts his nightmare. Brandon may learn to survive in this world of rough and cruel men, even to thrive, but at what ultimate cost? This 20,000 word gay erotic story contains scenes of consensual sex between men.
Thomas Carver lives the dream, with one foot in the midwest and one on the west coast. He's been seen at the opera and at the biker bar, a cocktail party and the alley behind the dumpsters. He's worked in the hot sun and the air-conditioned office, and knows all the gradations of pleasure between caviar on his tongue and sand between his teeth.