On "Autumn Rain," fiction by Michael A. Gonzales


Straight from the U.K. comes the third issue of the hot erotica magazine Bunnie. This issue features my Black punk rock nasty jam "Autumn Rain." For years, my best friend and muse Sheila has been encouraging to write about my other hometown, Baltimore. Moving there from Harlem in 1978, a few years before drugs destroyed much of the inner-city, I tried to hate the depressing metropolis like the television inspired sullen teen I'd long to be. Still, no matter how badly I wanted to go home to Manhattan, I soon feel in love with the cobbled-stoned streets and grand architecture of Baltimore's enchanting Mount Vernon section. To this day, the beautiful Peabody Conservatory, Mount Vernon Methodist Church and the Washington Monument are three of my favorite structures in the country. Whenever I'm in Baltimore visiting my mom or easy riding through the streets with my play brother Frank, I always wind-up taking time to visit the area.

From the beginning of my other career as an erotica writer, which was launched by my friend Carol Taylor who edited the successful "Brown Sugar" series (watch for her debut novel The Ex Chronicles coming in 2010: http://www.brownsugarbooks.com), all of my stories have taken place in New York. In fact, like some kind of textual Woody Allen/Sidney Lumet/Spike Lee, I never even thought of setting my stories anywhere else.

Yet, having started writing a series of short erotica stories last year about freaky Blur magazine photo editor M. (whose S&M adventures "Brooklyn Bound" and "Across the Way," were published in the pages of the newly launched Bunnie; I insist these tales are not based on yours truly), I thought for the third issue I might try something different. Yes, "Autumn Rain" is still a narrative about my main man M., but like Tyrone Davis and R. Kelly, I decided to turn back hands of time. Indeed, I this was the perfect opportunity to make M. a miserable first year college student living in the city of Poe.

The pretty punk Lisa in "Autumn Rain," who helps push the young protagonist towards new artistic heroes including artist Jamie Reid, Love & Rockets comic books and The Sex Pistols, is based a strange young poetess I feel in love in 1979, who introduced me to that section of the city. We dated for a few months and then she disappeared without a word.

Although I think "Autumn Rain" is poetic in parts, it's also nasty in other parts. So, if you're easily offended by sexuality in the "old" Prince sense of the word, than I advice you to turn away. But, if you're down with flying your freak flag, well...let the rain come down.

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