Kal Cobalt

Read the short story “Hot Eats” in Cleis Press’s anthology Country Boys: Wild Gay Erotica. Editor Richard Labonte curated sixteen hot tales of gay men outside the urban sprawl. “Hot Eats” follows a small-town diner proprietor as he wonders whether to make the moves on an out-of-town cinematographer who could be as conservative as the town itself.

I watched him eat. I could say something, anything, to get the dialogue started, especially now that he was committed to the meal and a more or less captive audience. Especially now that he was licking the buttery mashed potatoes off his fork. Especially when he wrapped his lips around the beer bottle so perfectly.

I fetched his slice of pie instead, my cheeks hot.

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