Kal Cobalt

Read the short story “Parts” in Circlet Press’s Wired Hard 4. Editors Lauren P. Burka and Cecilia Tan collected gay erotic science fiction for this fourth volume of Circlet Press’s popular anthology series. “Parts” plays with what happens when the line between biological and technological blurs completely.

He inserted RFID tags in hands, GPS nodes in calves, ocular upgrades in eyes. They trusted him as the steadiest hands in the business without ever wondering how that was the case. They never questioned his lack of tattoos or piercings. Raz was glad. A machine inserting mechanics was immediately political; as it was, he simply served a fetish. Two fetishes, really — his and theirs.

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