10th within the sequence of eclectic homosexual male brief tale collections by means of habu, the fifteen tales of seize Bag 10 supply various homosexual male tales when it comes to topic, sexual curiosity and fetish, atmosphere, and period of time. specified by the order within which they have been written, those are tales composed throughout the past due fall and iciness of 2015–16.

As ordinary, numerous of them mirror the present global swirling round habu on the time they have been conceived, so that they contain tales on the topic of his travels in this interval, similar to “Men of Mykonos,” “Becoming Key West,” and “Director’s selection” additionally they comprise seasonal vacations, comparable to “Swinger Christmas,” and activities occasions he attended, corresponding to the male determine skating tale, “Beware the Coach.” This used to be a interval during which habu used to be writing to little-served sexual fetishes, which helped floor tales of specific unique fetishes his brain used to be toying with, comparable to “Searching for the Exotic,” “Becoming Key West,” “I, Mannequin,” “Tea with the Prince,” “Fist of Gold,” and “Misdelivered Mail Male intercourse Training.”

Two tales evoke well-known males of the prior, the political novelist Gore Vidal in “Need to Be Needed,” and the celeb Rock Hudson in “The Lighthouse Keeper.” One, “Slave to 2 Hung Masters,” dredges up habu’s personal stories of his Bangkok “beginnings.” The tales conceal the area in setting—from California to long island to Virginia and Florida, within the usa, and, the world over, to London, the Mediterranean, Thailand, East Asia, and Africa.
Habu loves to write of the pre-AIDS days of freer, extra intimate intercourse, and hence a number of of the tales are set long ago. those contain “24 Exeter Place,” set in a overdue nineteenth-century London male brothel; “Tea with the Prince” set in early global struggle II Japan and China within the Nineteen Thirties; “Fist of Gold,” and “The Lighthouse Keeper” set within the Nineteen Fifties; and “Becoming Key West” and “Slave to 2 Hung Masters” set within the 1970s.

As with earlier seize Bag collections, habu has striven to make his tales clean and intricate and the gay couplings picture, creative, and sizzling. As ordinary, there may be anything right here for each style and whatever new to probe for every person looking stimulation.