This collection explores the tangled inner lives of contemporary gay men. Fiction, memoir, and biographical sketches intermingle in these stories, creating portraits of men longing to connect. Casillo's people?whether hustlers, writers, models, cruisers, or despondent lovers?are complicated, smart, cool, witty, lusty and romantic. But under their glossy veneers the characters are vulnerable men dealing with deteriorating relationships, promiscuity, and betrayals. Casillo's stories, which could easily be used in a Gay Studies course because of its real-to-life portrayals, does not fail to entertain and keep the reader turning each page to discover yet another provocative character.