Man Seeking

Personal is a story written by shukyou. It ran in Issue 69 at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/.

Summary

A young man answers a very unusual personal ad in a gay newspaper.

Author's Notes

This is based on a real ad. I heavily modified the language (mostly so that any respectable human searching for the full text one day doesn't find this), but you can read about it here, here, here, and here.

The original vision for the story was to end it in a much more sinister place, but then I got attached to the characters, and dangit, I liked them all. So I went in a different sort of direction.

If you're up on your Mesoamerican mythology enough to recognize the Tlazolteotl influence on my monster design here, I'm impressed.

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