Size Stories

Male-perspective bisexual: A mixed group of University of Georgia friends whose families have homes at Spirit Lake near Atlanta close out their summer in being haunted by the gang's deceased former leader and in a getting-in-touch with their sexual identity struggle at summer's end, 1956, with a struggle with race relations as well-and especially with one sexy black stud in particular who is both arousing and provoking to the young women and men of the group alike.

To keep his mother, Tala, and himself going, fourteen-year-old Filipino-American boy Angelo takes up with American sailors near the 1973 Subic Bay, Philippines, naval complex when his B-girl mother is too ill to turn tricks. They have had a hardscrabble existence in the Olongapo City slums since Angelo's sailor father shipped out thirteen years earlier. Angelo is ready to service sailors, but being handed around proves to be a rough, loveless life.

Young men and boys, like the fourteen-year-olds Skip, the hitchhiker, and Donnie, the bored nowhere town junior high schooler, gather from all over the badlands region on the Cheyenne-to-Sioux Falls big rig truck run to enjoy and scheme and network to be in the right place at the right time to petition to get the servicing of their lives from Ralph, the semitrailer truck driving Road Romeo.

Things go wrong when friends cancel and replacements are not what they expected.

Communication is the KEY, unless you're using CUFFS...