CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - SPECIAL FORCES: GAY MILITARY EROTICA, a newly scheduled anthology for Cleis Press.

Wherever a man slides into his BDU's and shoulders an M16, there's another man looking to take both off him, and I want to hear about it. I'm looking for short, (under 6,000 words) scorching, sexually charged stories of military men getting down. But let's notch it up a little. Let's sidestep old stories of drill sergeant and grunt, or old army buddies on the base, and mine the tension of conflict. Get some bombs falling. Show me some release from the agony of a firefight. Raise the stakes, and explore the rough dynamics of opposing forces. Imagine past Americentrism, to unearth the stories exploding around the globe. Give me the nitty gritty of sand, and blood, and fatigue. Give me the moment when the sweaty grimy uniforms come off, and men lost in the extremes of the human condition find a moment of relief and freedom with one another, even if they will be enemies one hour later.. Give me the why, and the why not, as well as the how. Yeah, I definitely want good smokin' mansex, but I also want longing, conflict, tension, release. You know, the conventions of good writing. Okay. That is all. Dismissed.

Deadline: Oct. 1, 2008. Email submissions to Dan Cullinane at dan_cullinane@ yahoo.com.

Please put "SPECIAL FORCES" in the subject line. Original stories
only.

Payment: Honorarium plus two copies of published book.

*PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT A QBLISS PROJECT OR AN ENDORSEMENT OF THE PROJECT, THIS IS SIMPLY A COMMUNITY ALERT FROM A QBLISS READER OF A PROJECT BEING DONE, QBLISS IS ONLY PUBLISHING THIS FOR THOSE WHO MAYBE INTRESTED IN THE PROJECT.