โ Scribed by Drew Nellins Smith
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
An unnamed man, in the wake of a breakup, begins frequenting a peepshow arcade where closeted men meet for anonymous sex. The arcade is a strange world, one where questions of power, race, and class collide with unhinged sexual desire, with fetishes, fantasies, and even occasionally love.
The protagonist explores this curious new place, where many of society's rules are thrown out and replaced with a very specific code of conduct. After being driven to the arcade by a break-up and subsequent obsession with a cop who left him due to his fear of coming out, he compulsively returns, neurotically cataloguing the sights and sounds of the arcade, its overwhelming sleaziness, its safety and dangers.
As his adventures both within the arcade and beyond continue to escalate, he must eventually confront whether his time at the arcade is just the passing phase that his small town Texas family insists it is, or perhaps, the gateway to a new way of life.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Dave only ever wanted to make video games. He learned to code. He got the degree. He ended up programming webpages for local realtors and dentists. Then the Great Pandemic hit, and his lousy boss fired him. What's a guy to do? When a girl walks through his front door wearing nothing but a towel