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John is a good-looking white guy in his late twenties who thoroughly enjoys his independence as a single man in Chicago, where he lives and works. He spends most of his nights doing small package deliveries in the city, which is a perfect job for someone who has an eye for attractive men. After all, in a big city, there are men to be found. John, a very outgoing person, has had great success in getting to know more than one man's share of attractive men. Cruising through a Little Village neighborhood one night, he sees a handsome, well-dressed Latino who is apparently panhandling in front ...

Justin is a Chicago street cruiser who is often cruising for Latino men. The night he finds Duke panhandling in front of a Mexican restaurant along 26th Street in Chicago’s Little Village, a mutual interest between the two men begins. In time, an unlikely friendship appears to be developing. Justin’s primary interest in Duke is his desire to date Duke exclusively while developing the friendship. Duke’s primary interest becomes his desire to profit off of Justin’s growing interest in him. “Getting Duke” is a very realistic novel about a street cruiser and a street hustler meeting...

John, a notorious gay street cruiser, suspended his cruising adventures for several years while he partnered with Jose. After their relationship ended, he eventually returned to the streets. He has found the life of a man who street cruises for adventures to be much more challenging now than he previously had. One reason cruising is more difficult is because he is obviously some years older than he was when he had previously had great success at cruising. He was a compulsive street cruiser from his early 20s until his mid-30s, which was when he partnered with Jose. Now, as he returns to the...

Jack is finding his life difficult as he begrudgingly turns 30 years old. He is not professionally or personally established to the extent of which he believes he should be for his age. To cope with the impending birthday, he is determined to ease his anxieties by gifting himself with the best gift he can possibly give himself, which is gifting himself with an irresistible man off the streets. His greatest pleasure is cruising men, getting to know them, and then having a great time with them. However, as he cruises a man who he finds irresistible on the eve of his 30th birthday, he ...

A novel of LGBTQ+ urban life, set in Chicago's Little Village, where 28-year-old Troy spends another summer cruising the streets - drawn to handsome, tattooed men who come and go without warning. After his recent year-long relationship with Humberto disappointingly vanished last winter, Troy isn't looking for love this time - just connection, maybe comfort. As he had before Humberto, he drives down the city’s traveled streets, crawls along dark side streets, examines dead-end streets, slips through tented underpasses, drifts down alleys, and walks through parks nearly every night. When he...

"On 26th Street" is a gay fiction adventure book about Daniel and his older cousin Jessie living on 26th Street in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. When Jessie arrives in Chicago with his family, he becomes a neighbor of Daniel and his family. The developing friendship between Daniel and Jessie changes Daniel’s life drastically. Intrigued by Jessie's ability to achieve financial success on the neighborhood streets, Daniel spies on Jessie in an attempt to learn his cousin's secret to success. Since Jessie is an extremely handsome and charismatic Mexican who makes himself available ...

Nacho is the most handsome drifter found in Chicago's Little Village. He has an incredibly attractive face with big brown eyes and a perfect pair of thick and perfect lips. He has bushy Mexican hair, thuggishly gangster tattoos, and a great body. When Nacho hears about Troy, a man known for cruising good-looking men and for paying them well for their time, he waits for an opportune time to discreetly introduce himself. After all, Nacho has a costly drug addiction that needs an acquaintance like Troy. When Nacho sees him sitting in his car one autumn afternoon along 26th Street, which is ...

When his partner Humberto leaves Chicago, Troy returns to the streets. He’s looking for men, ink, and encounters – with new men and past acquaintances. His nights find magnetic men who make themselves available for their own reasons. Troy's journey is one of desire, exploration, and self-discovery while he seeks the type of connection he's lost. It’s difficult for him to realize that the men he desires and meets are only passing through. Each encounter is charged with intensity, risk, and human complexity, revealing as much about Troy as it does about the men he meets. "Cruising ...

“Cruising Quiet Shadows” is a tense, deeply sensual gay urban adventure set in the after-dark streets of Chicago’s Little Village. Cole is haunted by his past and pulled forward by desire as he cruises Cermak Road, where he’s found men who flicker in and out of the city’s shadows. Raul captivates him - but only in secret. Kept hidden as a nighttime indulgence, Cole struggles to accept their relationship that Raul doesn’t allow in daylight. Night after night, Cole drifts deeper into Chicago’s hidden world of crowded streets, late-night parks, quiet alleys, and neighborhoods ...

Troy has been a notorious gay street cruiser in search of men in Chicago’s Little Village and beyond for several years. The past year has been a good time for him in that he has picked up a dozen men and has had a total of 45 adventurous dates with them. However, some of the men have presented him with challenges. In his story, “Street Cruising into the New Year,” Troy details the successes and challenges he has had when picking up the 12 men. Each man has his own story as to how he ended up selling himself to Troy and other men who cruise the street. Most of them openly tell their ...

The story is about Jarrett who loves cruising around in his car to meet, greet, and often pick up men who he finds to be attractive, interesting, and adventurous. When Raul, who is a handsome street thug, hears that Jarrett pays men for their company, he approaches him on the street. They quickly get to know one another, and Jarrett's life becomes more quite adventurous. Disturbingly, however, Jarrett eventually learns things about Raul that he shouldn’t know. More than that, he discovers information about Raul that he doesn’t want to know. Jarrett becomes extremely confused and ...

Troy, who is a Little Village-street cruiser in Chicago, had dated Nacho for a couple of months. Nacho is a very handsome drifter who can be very charming when going gay-for-pay to make money for his drug addiction. In time, Troy discovers that the man of whom he has become obsessed is an abusively dangerous and criminal gangbanger. When Troy received a series of threatening texts, he easily figured out the anonymous threats from various unknown phone numbers were either coming from Nacho or one of his criminal acquaintances. When Troy avoids Nacho due to the threats, Nacho becomes adamant ...

Cruising Chicago’s streets, men encounter panhandlers from all walks of life—homeless wanderers, gang-affiliated street men, and even a handicapped beggar. Survival, desire and secrecy collide in five gritty, psychological stories, exploring urban encounters that are thrilling, unexpected, and sometimes forbidden. In this latest edition, two new stories are included: “A Sunset to Sunrise Panhandler,” where Billy meets Santi selling bottled water along Cicero Avenue, and “Wheelchaired Panhandler,” in which a daring friendship and potential romance forms between a handicapped man ...

Cole, 28, cruises the streets of Chicago's Little Village, where desire is quick, anonymous, and never spoken aloud. When he finally meets Rico - the handsome Mexican man he's watched from afar - the connection is immediate and intoxicating. But Rico lives by rules Cole knows too well: stay hidden, stay silent, survive. What begins as late-night intimacy turns into a collision between two needs - Cole's hunger for openness, dignity, and love, and Rico's insistence on secrecy at any cost. "After Eleven on Cermak" explores the fragile spaces where men meet, connect, and risk being seen, on ...

Humberto’s extensive criminal activities catch up with him when he is caught using illegal drugs publicly by a Chicago police officer in Little Village. When his new partner, Troy, discovers he’s locked up in nearby Cook County Jail, he does all he can to help Humberto through his difficult time to demonstrate the care he has for him. The incarceration, which both of them expect to be a brief stay in jail, turns out not being what they assume due to Humberto’s extensive RAP sheet of which Troy has had no prior knowledge. The extreme challenges presented to both of them and to their ...

John became a notorious, successful, and compulsive street cruiser after having given up on the traditional ways of meeting men in the bars, the night clubs, the adult bookstores, and the local parks. After cruising the streets and having more than one man’s share of adventures with men, he eventually cruises Jose, a handsome and streetwise Mexican, in Chicago’s Little Village. John’s attraction to Jose and his desire to be partnered with him becomes his obsession. Over time, John and Jose develop a relationship. It is a relationship that both of them need. John needs a more stable ...