This collection of Trav’s intellectually rigorous but accessible short fiction, culled from a variety of different publications over the past 20 years, is quite welcome, especially for those like me who have strayed far away from gay fiction over the last decade or so, due to the fact that so much of it sucks so bad (which is true of 90% of everything - no Duh). The stories in Love Hard seem primarily concerned with chronicling the lives of modern gay boys suspended in the liminal state that se More...

Perhaps I live under a rock, but I wasn’t familiar with Scott’s short stories before picking up this collection. I choose it due to the publisher, Queer Mojo/Rebel Satori, which always publishes thought provoking, evocative, and usually hard hitting work. This particular collection of stories is no different. The stories range from sweet, almost tender to brutal and mind bending. The concept of love is intermingled with desire, anger, fear, passion, and sensuality all woven together with a maste More...

Back when I lived in Seattle, I was in an anthology with Trav, or maybe it was two anthologies, two of the first I was published in, no wait now I’m looking at Queer View Mirror and Trav isn’t in it at all, and he’s not in Flesh and the Word 4, edited by Michael Lowenthal, who I thought was the person who introduced us, I mean he said you both live in Seattle so you should meet, and it turned out we lived right across the street from each other so I went over to a party at Trav’s house and the r More...