Another Piece of Another Award
It's so gratifying to be a part of an award-winning anthology. Riding the Rails, edited by Jerry L. Wheeler, has just won a 2012 Gaybie award from TLA for "Best Erotic Fiction Book" (nominations by TLA staff, voting by public; winners listed here). My story was called "One Night on the Twentieth Century", and I was quite pleased with the way it turned out.
My favorite part of the award blurb was where they said this was "another in [Jerry's] series of unusual porn collections". About the best accolade I can think of is to have my fiction described as "unusual porn", so I've decided to take it personally. (Jerry's favorite part was where they referred to "The charming Mr. Wheeler…".)
The photo below shows the famous sign on the tail end of the Twentieth Century's observation car, where the action of my story too place. As there were only two Pullman observation cars with this livery produced for the Twentieth Century, there's a good chance that this is the "Hickory Creek", the one in which I imagined my story happening.
