Best Gay Stories: 2008 edited by Lambda Literary Award-finalist Steve Berman (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia) is the annual gay male-focused collection of Exactly What It Says In The Title, free courtesy of LGBT specialty publisher Lethe Press (
Wikipedia).
This has a mix of contemporary, speculative, erotic, literary, mystery, and probably other-genre fiction stories, some of which originally appeared in outlets such as the now-defunct Subterranean Press sf/fantasy magazine and the still-ongoing city-themed Akashic Noir series of mystery anthologies (highly recommended, BTW, and couponable, though pricey, @
Kobo).
Currently free (and DRM-free), probably just for the rest of the day @
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK and pretty much everywhere worldwide, since this is being done via KDP Select's exclusive-or-else program).
Description
Editor Steve Berman has selected twenty stories—some moving essays, some splendid works of fiction—from the prior year that best feature the lives, loves and losses of gay men. With tales by fresh voices and established writers, Best Gay Stories offers readers indiscretions, poignant trysts, and reminiscences that are as evocative as they are imaginative.
The authors:
M. S. Allen, Holly Black, Richard Bowes, Tom Cardamone, Jameson Currier, Peter Dube, Erastes, Greg Herren, James Klise, David Levithan, Raymond Luczak, Joseph Manera, Jeff Mann, Billy Merrell, Ethan Mordden, Paul Reidinger, Charles Rice-González, Paul Russell, Aaron Shurin, Robert Warwick