The Soft Spot: Four Short Stories

✍ Scribed by Goodman, Alexander

• Book ID: 109964175
• Publisher: Guild
• Year: 1964
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 69 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"I LOVE BOYS," the
writer declares and with complete sincerity and candor he explores his
own gay life and the gay world in which he lives. He offers no judgments
on this life but only tries to say, "This is how I feel, this is how it
happens, this is the way things are."

GAYLORD MERRIEWETHER III.
The narrator would like to go to bed with this very good-looking sailor.
But is the sailor gay? The narrator discovers the answer only after he
meets another navy man, a ruthless, decadent trade-queen who stops at
nothing to satisfy his rabid sexual desires.

SMILE! What is it
like to be a physique photographer? Who are his models? What are his
sexual desires? Here is a portrait, etched in acid of a man whose life
is severely bounded by bars, police, pictures and boys.

THE RUG SALESMAN. What happens when a masturbation fantasy becomes real?

THE SPANISH BOYS. A gay tourist meets:
Benjamin, who looks and acts like an aristocrat, but is he?
The Boy with the Blue Eyes, who traps his quarry with his exquisite performance in bed.
The
Chicken at the Beach. No more than fifteen, but he earns his living by
slipping into the bath-house dressing room of any man who wants him.

QUOTES:
"My
brain was thinking of ways to get still closer to him, to somehow get
him away to any private place where I could test the sweetness of those
pink, smiling lips.
"Then he comes over to me with that thing of his looking like a big hammer and says, 'Turn over.'"