Volume 3, Issue 7 — July 1, 2005
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Contributors this Issue... Brian Bengtson • "Gay...Some Assembly Required" p3 Betty Conley • Clay's Way, p4 • Fingering the Family Jewels, p4 Roy Evans • The Early Journals of Will Barnett, p5 Jerry Flack • Back Where He Started, p6 • Boys in the Brownstone, p9 • "Eye Candy" four visuals, p8 • Male Desire, p7 • Physique, p7 • Queer Facts, p6 Arlene Germain • Course of Action, p10 • Hostage to Murder, p10 • Rosemary and Juliet, p10 • Turning the Tables, p10 Mekah Gordon • Partielles: Incomplete Solutions, p11 Gene Hayworth • Panels, p13 Tony Heyes • Boys in the Brownstone, p9 Jay Mandal • Short Short "Bathe" p16 William Maltese • Alice in Genderland, p15 • Interview with Alice Novic, p15   Cheri Rosenberg • All the Wrong Places, p14 • Darkness Descending, p14 • When the Dead Speak, p14  When the Dead Speak |
 From the Editor... We had one of the hottest Junes on record here in Southwestern New Mexico, and these first few days in July are in the triple digits with our usual "monsoon" season no where in sight. So I've been languishing in the heat between my job at the university and doing some freelance editing at home. As a result of feeling sticky and lazy, I decided to wait until after the 4th to bring out this issue. But it's a good one. Contributors everywhere have been hard at work to help bring you excellent reviews and articles. I don't even know where to begin...  One of our associate editors, Betty Conley, has
contributed
reviews of Clay's
Way and Fingering the Family
Jewels. Arlene Germain reviews several books, no doubt keeping
her home
office desk cleared (she won't reveal her secret of how she is able to
read and review so much). Brian Bengtson has sent a poem for us to
ponder. His book of poetry, The
First Chill was reviewed here
in the April edition. And even though Cheri Rosenberg attended a
conference in New Orleans in June (talk about hot...that would have
been muggy, as well), she sent us three reviews for this issue. We also
hear from Gene Hayworth (our literary reviewer), and we have a short
short
story from prolific writer Jay Mandal, whose Precipice
is gaining ground. We get a thought-provoking article from writer
Kathe Koja, titled "Truth or Consequences," about writing fiction for
young adults. We let Jerry Flack and Tony Heyes go head to head over
the book, The Boys in the Brownstone.
I say "head to head" because they
each have a definite take on this new novel. And then Jerry tickles our
fancy with a whole slew of books, including a review of four books
under the title of "Eye Candy"...ok here's just a peak at the covers of
the two that caught my attention:  Roy Evans has sent a review of The Early Journals of Will Barnett and takes print on demand (POD) to task. Mekah Gordon, columnist for The Normal Heart, does a book review, and the inimitable William Maltese gives us a book review and an interview on the coming of age of a crossdresser. So it looks like you will not have a shortage of summer reading to consider, just from this issue. So if you're suffering from the heat the way I have been, settling somewhere cool and reading just might be the best activity you can engage in, between dips in the pool and an occasional escape to some restaurant to beat the heat. More books...
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  Clay's Way  Fingering the Family Jewels  The Early Journals of Will Barnett  Back Where He Started  Boys in the Brownstone  All the Wrong Places  Panels |
This
Month, our social commen- tator,
Jeffrey Williams, has sent us two pieces for con- sideration.
Kathe Koja (author of 
