• “Rescue Wounds” in Queerpunk

    Posted on March 27th, 2011, 1:50 pm by Kal Cobalt

    Queerpunk

    Read the short story “Rescue Wounds” in Circlet Press’s ebook anthology Queerpunk. Editors Cecilia Tan and Kelly Kinkaid selected five stories of queer sexualities explored against a cyberpunk backdrop. “Rescue Wounds” looks at the audacity of physical hookups in a future made mostly virtual out of necessity.

    I logged in to my whore, “mine” because I’d settled on him; like all the rest, 19178 perked up his neurons for any number of the Better Class. He was a more experienced whore, nearly three years vined–I’d been looking for one a lot fresher, but he had other points in his favor. He was a local boy, kept in the undergrove across the city. His synapses, vined as they were, stayed snappy. Somehow, after three years of rooting, his brain didn’t have that sluggish, autopilot feeling most whores develop and some Better Class secretly enjoy observing.

    Click here for a meatier free excerpt (scroll down).

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