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Ten years ago, i wrote a short story about a pickup in a leather bar that ended with the collared and handcuffed bottom being carried off to the Top’s home in the trunk of his car. i thought it was complete and sufficient as it was, but everyone i showed it to wanted to know what happened next! Trying to tell that tale, i launched into what has become a huge novel, Carried Away: An S/M Romance, which i finally completed last year. Although a “romance” in the sense that it ends happily, it is a serious attempt to create a realistic depiction of a contemporary gay Master/slave relationship as it might actually develop. Carried Away was published in May by Daedalus as its first fiction title.

Early versions of the opening chapters appeared in Drummer #159-161 with illustrations by Burton Clarke, who has also done the cover of the completed book. Another excerpt, called “Fit to Be Tied,” appeared in the short-lived zine Servants’ Quarters and for a long time was available online at the BootJaq site. The final version of the chapter that excerpt was from is now online again at the CRAWL Magazine site. An excerpt called “Hot Wax” appeared in PowerPlay and was reprinted in the anthology Horsemen: Leathersex Short Fiction edited by Joseph W. Bean (Leyland, 1997). The final version of Chapter 1 is posted here as a PDF file. If it makes you want to read more, please buy the book! You can order it online from Daedalus or Kinky Books.com


A few years back, inspired by my friend Master David Schachter’s interest in “position training,” i wrote a short story unrelated to the novel that subsequently appeared in Mach and was also reprinted in Horsemen: Leathersex Short Fiction.
In a break from working on Carried Away, i wrote a story about a slave trainer very loosely inspired by the Marketplace novels of Laura Antoniou, and called both him and the story “Mr. Benjamin.” The members of my WordPlay2 writing group convinced me that the echo of you-know-what by you-know-who was all too obvious, so the title was changed, though not the character’s name. The story was published in issue #20 of International Leatherman (August/September 1998), and Laura subsequently did me the honor of including it in her “novelology” The Academy: Tales of the Marketplace (Mystic Rose, 2000).
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