Blake is a 19 years old hustler running away from a pimp who gives a total new meanings to the soul-sucking genre... Having seen his fellow hustler and friend dying an horrible death, Blake is trying to put as much distance as he can from the city. But his car decides to leave him near a very very small town in the middle of nowhere. Dressing as a gay pride participating, Blake doesn't blend too much with the setting (it reminds me a lot Australian Movie Priscilla, but above all its American remake, To Wong Foo...). But he is in all his splendor the wet dream of Joam, another 19 years old gay boy sticks in a town where being gay could only led him to certain death; and so our Joam is a virgin, even if he virtually loses his virginity everyday dreaming of Jasper, his hot cowboy. And Blake, in flesh and blood, is the realization of all his dreams, and Joam is more than happy to finally lose for real his virginity. But he has not taken in count that his boss, an hateful society garbage, has sold it to a city customer, and he is not at all happy that Joam has bargained it for a car repair with Blake.

All this very complex and detailed story in less than 80 pages? Yes. Jessica Freely builds an entire and original plot and develops it in a flash of action, managing to entertwined also 3 sex scene, 1 solo and 2 in couple! The story is very entertaining, and for how much she tries to make it terrifying, I always read a funny undertone, maybe since both the main characters are 19 years old guys more interesting in having sex than slaying the villains. The setting reminds me a bit of those horror movies where some city guy is trapped in a zombie town; actually the town in question, even if it is a very small town, it's strangely depopulated, and still has a drug store, a motel, a garage, two saloons...

Joam's character is a bit more developed than Blake; of Blake we have some background information, but with all he had to suffer, I think it would be interesting to know something more. And also the ending leaves space to further development... But all in all it is right since, don't forget that this is for any standard a medium lenght story, I repeat, of only 75 pages.

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