Catalog Listing

of stories, satire, essays and poems by Steve Rider


Satire

Item Description
Amen, Brother

While surfing TV channels I heard a TV preacher.

Tobacco

Former Presidential candidate Bob Dole comments on tobacco.

Vicious Creatures

News reports indicate the San Francisco Bay Area has been over-run by...

Pat Buchanan

Conservative Hate Monger Pat Buchanan speaks out.

Goofy

Famous Disney cartoon character comments on bigotry.

Genesis

In the beginning, there was...

Seven Eleven

Celebrate national Seven Eleven day every July 11th!

Sodium Chloride

Famous American super-duper-ultra patriot Chuck Grimsword is interviewed on TV news at the site of the infamous Free Canucks standoff.

Action News

Chuck Grimsword on TV again!

National Assault Rifle Association

A letter from Chuck Grimsword asking for your support.

Dear Customer

A business makes a shipping error and writes to apologize.

Pat Buchanan

Columnist, frequently defeated politician, homophobe, and bigot speaks out.

Tinky Winky Famous children's TV character Tinky Winky makes a sad confession.

The Story of Jaheezus

Original ancient manuscript, found in a Coca Cola brand cola beverage bottle floating in the Dead Sea, describing a Saviour who could beat up your Saviour with three hands tied behind his back. Created using Genuine Crayola brand crayons.
The Story of Jaheezus Part 2

In this exciting sequel to the original "Story of Jaheezus", our blue-eyed, blonde haired Saviour makes an awful discovery while surfing the web.


Short Stories

Item Description
A Day in the Life of a High Tech Queer True story which I wrote in an attempt to get in touch with my own feelings after a breakup. Written 9/22/92 I expected it to be a horrible read and not of any merit whatsoever. No erotic content.
Andrew Based on a trip to B Street in San Mateo this quasi-autobiographical piece is an effort to write something moderately erotic but not pornographic. November 1993.
Andy Autobiographical account of my first sexual experiences. Rather erotic I suppose. True.
Another Day, Another Shirt Autobiographical tale of a trip to Sunnyvale Town Center with my friend Donald and how we struck up a friendship with a young lady. Not erotic at all, but perhaps gay positive.
Bacon Autobiographical erotica from my first gay affair in California. This is definitely erotic.
More Bacon Please More autobiography about Bacon and myself. June 1992, weekend of the gay pride parade in SF. Definitely erotic. Also read The Closet Door for continuity in time.
Honeymoon Beach Written May through July 1994 this is an autobiographical account of my first trip to a nude gay beach. Some erotic content.
Billy Fictional story written from the perspective of a straight teenager about his gay classmate. Young man is expelled from home when he comes out to his parents, moves to New York. This one seems especially popular with gay teens who seem to identify with it. Written in August or September of 1992. Not even slightly erotic.
Bobby Fictional erotica in which I purposely set out to test my ability to write a story that Pat Robertson would hate. Not a single word is factual, but it may be a good read. Circa September 1992. Highly erotic.
Brett Fictional story of a gay man whose lover has just died of AIDS. This story was inspired by the suffering of a personal friend who was going through just such an experience, though he has never seen it to my knowledge. Writing this story was a very depressing experience. I never read it. Not erotic.
China Boy Autobiographical account of a blind date arranged through a gay BBS. See also The Fair for more about our brief relationship.
The Closet Door Story of a day that was a major turning point in my life, the Annual Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco and my participation in it with my life friend Donald Roth. Published on the front page of the San Jose gay paper "Our Paper, Your Paper" on 7/15/92 after Donald insisted I submit it, - with my name - it made me realize that I was out of the closet and I might have some slight potential as a writer. Two months later I converted my four year old straight BBS to a gay BBS named "The Closet Door". Then in March 1993 I learned that four of us involved with operating the Closet Door in the parade had won a Cable Car Award from the parade committee. The award was presented to High Tech Gays on 3/20/93. NOT erotic.
Coming Out in Love Autobiographical account of my relationship with a young man in Massachusetts just prior to moving to California, this is essentially the same story as Heaven On Earth but without the erotic content. Written in California after the fact in order to allow posting on BBSes and message bases that do not permit erotica. This story describes my relationship with Brian from Massachusetts, not to be confused with Sweet Sweet Brian from California and Bawmer.
David Autobiographical account of a one night stand setup through a gay BBS. Highly erotic, at the time, my longest short story.
Dream Date Autobiographical account of my extreme crush on my (now) very good friend Brian from Bawmer, not to be confused with Brian from Massachusetts. Brian did not feel the same way about me as I did about him, so today he is my friend. I really like this piece, I think it is very emotional and romantic. As with many of my little ditties I tried to show gay love as being very much human, which of course it is. Not erotic, but very romantic.
Heaven on Earth My first ever gay love story, true in every single detail, it describes my relationship with Brian from Massachusetts. Highly erotic and gay positive, it is the only story in my little collection written while I was still living in Massachusetts. Originally written only for Brian, he gave me permission to share it with the world, and I certainly have done so.
Jamie on The Beach Highly erotic, and sadly only slightly true account of a trip to Florida with my best friend Joe's brother Jamie. Jamie is real, Joe is real, the trip took place, but sadly I never did get into Jamie's pants. Writing this story gave me a tremendous release of sexual frustration that had stayed with me for many years.
Jessica Hot encounter with a male homosexual transvestite. A subset of humor and old fashioned gaiety pervades my first short story for 1994. Explicit gay sex, love it, did it, got the Tshirt. Read PRAYER.TXT, read "Jessica", maybe there is a God? Nahhhh....
Joey - Barbara Extremely accurate account of an encounter at the 241 Club in Worcester Massachusetts with a drag queen. Very erotic. What this story fails to mention is the fact that Joey and I were lovers after this first night.
Jose Written on New Years Eve 1992 this story was an attempt to fight the loneliness and frustration I felt at spending another New Years Eve alone. Erotic and (I hope) very gay positive, it describes an imaginary one night stand. Thanks to Anheuser Busch and 7-11 for the inspiration for this story. The owls really do sing to me in the morning.
The K-Mart Written on a dare from my good friend and lovely former roommate Donald Roth 9/93 this was going to be an attempt at comedy-porn. As I was writing it, the story decided to become comedy-horror-porn. It's not really very good IMHO.
Mark, Part One The fictional Seth series continues as I meet Seth's best friend Mark. Poor Seth! I started this one just after finishing Seth part 7, around April 1993. It sat idle for a long time as I developed my ill fated relationship with someone in real life.
Mark, Part Two This episode begins as I lay Mark down on his bed in his hotel room. Then, well, imagine what happens next. Then you can read it and see how well you did. Definitely homoerotic! Rather hot I suppose. I liked writing it.
Michael Written in August 1992 as a response to Pat Buchanan's notoriously evil speech at the Republican National Convention this is my most important, favorite, best, most inspired piece to date. This is the second revision, done in September 1992. It is a FICTIONAL story in which I describe my meeting a guy named Michael and our subsequent love affair. It does not have a happy ending. Published December 1992 in Wilde Oaks, the literary magazine of the Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay Community Center in San Jose.
The Meeting Written in October and November 1992, this is a story about my first P-FLAG meeting. Published in January 1993 in the first edition of OUT!Now (a now-defunct San Jose gay newspaper) and later published in March 1993 in the South Bay P-FLAG newsletter. This is one of my best and favorite items. P-FLAG is Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
Phoenix July 28th, 1993. Less than a week after my ex-lover, ex-fiancee, who was never going to leave me left; I have a blind date arranged through a BBS. But I get a service call in Phoenix Arizona. True story.
The Pizzaboy Written not long after the suicide of my lover in February 1996, erotica, fiction.
Rainbows, Places, People and Things A very morbid story in which death is used as a metaphor for the feeling of disassociation. Written during a time of extreme depression, like a woman suffering pain just before a child is born, I was living my grief just before getting over it. October 1993.
Raoul(Gary) An autobiographical account of my first time giving a blowjob. Written in March 1992, about 24 years after the event took place. Highly erotic I suppose. A minor item in my opinion.
Birth of a Rebel Purely autobiographical short story, describes how a crazy nun made me a radical - interwoven with my struggle with the government during the Vietnam war. 1996.
Seth Part One Over the Christmas holidays (1992) my very good friend Sweet Sweet Brian and I went to visit my ex- Bacon at his new home in The City (that's San Francisco for out-of-towners). The two of them, having read many of my stories, cooked up this idea of my writing a series of seemingly autobiographical stories about myself and a fictional lover. As part of this conspiracy I was to pretend on the bulletin boards which I frequent that Seth was really my lover. Sweet Sweet Brian helped me to develop the character of Seth over dinner that night at Shouts (awful gat bar in Redwood City CA). In this first episode I meet Seth, we go on our first date, and we kiss in a public parking lot. Written after the fashion of an old fashioned serial, this first episode was released on January 5th 1993.
Seth Part Two Seth and I go on a second date, end up making out on his couch, and he suddenly thrusts his hand... Well, read it. January 1993.
Seth Part Three Picks up with his hand, well, anyway before it is over he is, well, I had a whole lot of fun writing this one. January 1993.
Seth Part Four By this time I was bouncing from trying to develop the relationship to writing hot sex scenes. I also was developing an ill fated relationship in my real life. January 1993.
Seth Part Five It was starting to feel more like work than fun. February 1993.
Seth Part Six How long can I keep cranking these out ? By this point Sweet Sweet Brian was having trouble motivating himself to even read the stories about the character he had invented, and everybody on the bulletin boards knew that Seth had been a hoax. February 1993.
Seth Part Seven The last of the stories in which Seth is my lover, but the series continues in Mark, Part One Mark is Seth's best friend. At the end of part seven I meet Mark, and, well, read it. Whew. I've had fantasies about the Seth/Mark series eventually becoming a novel. Fantasies can be very nice at times. March 10th, 1993.
Steve Meets Steve Erotic and autobiographical account of my relationship with a guy named Steve in Worcester Massachusetts. The first guy I ever wanted to have inside my tight little butt. Well it was tight then, honest. Written in August 1992.
Thanksgiving Anger and sadness at the time of Thanksgiving 1992. An account of my visit to Sacramento and my sister, her husband (to whom I came out), my nieces and some other folks whose company I did NOT enjoy. An indictment of the hunger and thirst for power, wealth and the vicious preservation of the status quo that is all too common in the medical industry. Through my own personal anguish I try to show the reasons for "Gay Anger". Not at all erotic or happy, but completely autobiographical and true. November 1992.
The Fair An account of a trip to the Castro Street Fair with my then boyfriend China Boy in which I weave the details of our relationship with the events of the day. Gay Tee Shirts!!! Autobiographical, October 1993.
Threeway on the Freeway A conscious and deliberate attempt to write gay erotica with absolutely no redeeming social value whatsover. I guess that makes it porno. Not a single word is true, nothing like this ever happened, except for the fact that I do have a sister who lives in Sacramento.
The Vacation of Coming Out Militant fag who is now Out of The Closet returns to Massachusetts to attend the high school graduation of his oldest son. Yes, I said son. I'm one of those Queers who got married thinking it would go away. Oh well. I really pissed off my ex-wife bigtime. Maybe I was a little bit militant ? Autobiographical.
A Gay Weekend From December 1992, intended to be my classic short story, friendship with Donald Roth, my crush on Sweet Sweet Brian, my addiction to coffee, my intolerance of Bible Thumpers and an ACT UP! demonstration are all interwoven in this autobiographical piece. Release of this story was delayed while it was edited, shortened and modified to the satisfaction of real people in the story. Eventually released February 1993.
Christmas Eve Desperation, loneliness, the holiday blues. Three thousand miles away from the children I love and my first Christmas away from them, this item is basically a pity party for myself. Read it if you are feeling a need to be depressed. Written on December 24th, 1992. About being gay, lonely, and for the very first time three thousand miles away from everyone I love at Christmas. I'm tempted to make this file go away forever because Christmas ended up being a very nice experience for me, much to my joy and surprise. If nothing else, this piece is autobiographical.


Essays

Item Description
The Church An essay blasting the Holy Roman Bingo Church for an assault on the dignity of gay people. A lot of anger shows through on this one. Good reading for militant fags like myself, I suppose.
Being Gay, What is It ? An essay which largely ended up as being a defense of bisexuals. I tried to challenge a lot of preconceived notions. Really very poor I suppose, but a bisexual friend of mine loves it.
My Lover Written in the summer of 1992 this is an essay I suppose. I really do not know how to classify it.
Old and New Not something which I wrote, but rather a merger of a portion of the famous Book of Leviticus with a pamphlet on condom usage from LifeStyles condoms. I thought it might be an interesting contrast. By God and Ansell Incorporated.
Don't let THIS happen to YOU An essay written in 1996 not long after my lover committed suicide. I was evicted from my own home by a homophobic county coroner on the evening I discovered the body of my lover. Read about my troubles in an article in the San Jose alternative newspaper Metro.
Religion Essay written in October 1992 discussing my attitude toward religion. No big deal.
Wounded An essay I suppose. After I wrote Thanksgiving I found that not all of my anger had yet been released. So this little ditty is an attack on prejudice against gays and an attempt to show how it has impacted my life. True, but not at all happy. The most militant of my items from 1992.


Poems

Item Description
A Bar Really poor poem about a great lesbian bar. November 1993.
BBS Flirtations I was really pissed off on Wed 3/9/94 when I drove all the way up to The City to meet a flake in a bar and the jerk did not show up. Writing this poem helped to relieve the tension. Title courtesy dawn E. roth.
Bikeride My first attempt at a poem. Published in the third edition of Wilde Oaks (the magazine of the Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay Community Center). Not erotic but perhaps slightly romantic. Written on a Saturday afternoon in 1992 when I should have been doing my laundry.
Bunny You see, it's like this, I was having a whole lot of difficulty dealing with one of my breakups. So I got myself a lesbian psychologist, Luna the Lesbian. One of the many very good things that came from that experience was her suggestion I get a stuffed animal to hug at night. I was not sleeping well. This short poem is obviously about my bunny rabbit. He is yellow.
Cigarette My second poem, written on the same date as "Bikeride". I really should have been doing my laundry. Vaguely semi-erotic. A straight friend described it as Soft Porn, but I really do not see that it is erotic at all. Please note that I long ago gave up tobacco!
Coffee High A very brief poem, for a brief love. 2/25/94.
Daybreak A short poem written on a cocktail napkin at my favorite lesbian bar - The Daybreak- in Mountain View CA.
The Fag A short poem written in August 93. Militant. Published in the (late) magazine of the Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay Community Center, Wilde Oaks Volume 4, December 1993 and in "All Your Dreams Fulfilled ..." volume 2, December 1993. Undoubtedly my best poem.
Failure to Learn Short poem written about Santa Clara County Coroner Norman Sanders, the homophobe who evicted me from my own home on February 9th, 1996.
He Is A short poem written for and about a man I've seen a few times. March 1994.
Life Cycles Quaint little ditty written during a brief euphoric moment. I like this one. 1996.
Love Songs Short poem written on a napkin at The Daybreak 2/27/94.
Memorial Day Poetic commentary on a holy holiday for the glorious... Well, read it.
Mississippi Poem written 3/1/94 when I was fed up with being gaybashed on bulletin boards. Fiction, I'm pleased to say. Title courtesy dawn E. roth.
Morning Man A poem inspired by a mysterious man whose name will not be mentioned. A real man, in fact a REAL MAN! Woof! We were dating each other as of 9/6/93, the date of this item. As always, things end.
Naked About a guy I was dating. I think this is a good one.
Power A look at power and the nature of those who seek it. 1996.
A Prayer Written in a lesbian bar in November 1993 this poem is intended to offend the easily offended and amuse the easily amused. It can be very important to know what it is that we want. Prayer can focus our mental energy in a productive and future oriented way. It matters not if prayers are heard, since we must make them come true.
Sugar A short poem, about a transvestite lover.
Touch Inspired by my tremendous crush on Sweet Sweet Brian from California (now back in Bawmer) I still do not know how to classify this short piece. I suppose it resembles poetry, it is certainly not a short story, I guess it might be called prose. Written in November 1992. Sensuous without being pornographic - I guess.
Like a Virgin Poem writtem 3/9/94. Donald liked it, which is usually a good sign.


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