Fit for Consumption

In Berman's newest collection, the phrase "you are what you eat" is taken to heart; these are stories of gay men facing strange appetites as well as the many fears of growing older, getting heavier, becoming discounted meat. An infamous German artist who finds his attempted seduction of a rustic aboard a train going horribly awry; a hired muscle posing for the cover of a homoerotic series of dimestore pulps; a trans-man struggles to survive a strange apocalypse, where fierce dogs intend to enforce the law and the chances of finding a dose of testosterone unlikely; and an ailing poet finds the young man who delivers healthy meals to his apartment has less than charitable intentions. Even the ultimate societal taboo, cannibalism, is served to readers of these thirteen tales that range from the weird to the horrific.


Genre: Horror