The Flesh Fables by Aaron Travis – review    Comments Off

Title: The Flesh Fables (a print collection of short fiction)
Author(s): Aaron Travis
Genre: Mainly leather or rape/non-con, but with a couple of exceptions.
URL to book: Out of print, but available used, and it’s inexpensive. Try http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ or skip down to the links listed at "No luck at Amazon?" at the author’s site.
URL to author’s site: http://www.stevensaylor.com/AaronTravis/

I first encountered Aaron Travis through one of John Preston’s anthologies, where Preston described Travis’s story "Blue Light" as a classic of gay erotica. Later, when doing research on Drummer, a gay leather magazine noted for its literary quality, I learned that Travis had done a two-year stint as fiction editor of the magazine. Not long afterwards, someone told me that, under his real name, Steven Saylor, Travis had written a popular series of novels about a detective in Ancient Rome.

I’ve never read Saylor’s mysteries, but judging from the quality of the writing in _The Flesh Fables_, I ought to.