WINNER!
NATIONAL SMALL PRESS
BOOK AWARD

RAINBOW COUNTY
AND OTHER STORIES

Short Fiction
by
JACK FRITSCHER

Readers will thrill to Fritscher's style and imagination. He is the author, says The Bay Area Reporter, who invented the South of Market prose style and the butchest, funniest, and best of the male-male magazines (such as Drummer & MAN2MAN Magazine). Actually, his short stories have appeared in more than 25 magazines. Rainbow County crosses over from pure gay literature to the terrain of actual American literature. These highly diverse stories are blessed with wit, erotic ingenuity, poetic intelligence, and rough-and-tumble sex scenes. Fritscher does for writing what his lover Mapplethorpe did for photography: happily confuse the issues by making sex intelligent and therefore all the sexier. Geoff Mains, the author of Urban Aboriginals, wrote in The Advocate, "Jack Fritscher writes wonderful books!" He's right. Fritscher is absolutely epicentric to gay literature. His stories and his style are what you've been wishing someone would write to turn on both your dick and your brain. You'll love the stories about soldiers, young men at summer camp, fathers and sons, rough trade, cowboys, swimmers, wrestlers, muscleguys who prefer men with ordinary bodies for sex, even some very sexy X-Files type science fiction! Richard LaBonte, critic at A Different Light bookstore who chose two of Fritscher's short stories for BEST GAY EROTICA 1998, says Fritscher wins the award for best title of the year for the Rainbow County short story called "Rough Night@Sodom.Cum"!

Included in this 202-page anthology of short fiction:

The Shadow Soldiers
Pilatus
Goodbye, Saigon
Rough Trade
From Nada to Manana
The Young Turks Dream of Derek Jarman
RoughNight@Sodom.cum
Foot Loose
Wild Blue Yonder
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home!
Big Doofer at the Jockstrap Gym
Photo Op at Walt Whitman Junior College
The Assistant Freshman Football Coach
Father and Son Tag Team
Tomorrow on TV Talk: Consenting Adults
Rainbow County
The Real Cowboy
S&M Ranch
The Old Shell Game
Sleep in Heavenly Peace
Afterword: Gay American Literature by Claude Thomas

FULL TEXT REVIEWS:
Rainbow County and Other Stories

ISBN: 1-890834-28-9
$14.95