MAIN STREET LEATHER: stories of leathermen from small towns and suburbs, from the 1940s to the 21st century ¶ By Dusk Peterson

Leather is a world of rich pleasure palaces and endless sensual delights, where dreams can be pursued without limit, provided that a man has the strength to stand the test. . . . But in the rural town of Mayhill, population 32,000, leather life is a little different.

Main Street Leather is a cycle of contemporary series with love stories and satire on transgressive sexuality in past decades and the present.

The cycle: Loren's Lashes | Leathermen, Fan Fiction Writers, and Other Rebels | Leather in Lawnville.

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CYCLE CONTENTS

LOREN'S LASHES.

Edgeplay in Mayhill: Negotiations | Preparations | Scene | Aftercare | Brotherhood.
Side stories: Plus Love | Water in a Drought | First Lesson.

LEATHERMEN, FAN FICTION WRITERS, AND OTHER REBELS.

What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets.
The Slavefic Plot Creator.
If Dante Had a Beta Reader.
A Sexual Minority Speaks Out.

LEATHER IN LAWNVILLE

Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers: Clothesline | Spontaneous | Bad Habit | Leatherdar | Pinned.
Short Sharp Shock.

Main Street Leather resources.

Award and reviews.

Loren's Lashes

A retro series about a Midwestern community of closeted leathermen. Leather life in a rural town is explored in this series, which looks back on an earlier era. In a time and place where being gay is reason enough to be arrested, the leathermen of Mayhill struggle to keep their small community alive.

The series is part of the Main Street Leather cycle. ¶ Loren's Lashes genre/theme tags (with minor spoilers).

Edgeplay in Mayhill (Volume 1 of Loren's Lashes)

In 1965, Loren was initiated into the mysteries of leather by a motorcyclist passing through his isolated Midwestern town. Twenty years later, he is owner of the town's gay bar, which serves as a leather bar after hours. He is a master, trained to control and discipline men.

If only he could convince other leathermen of this fact. Having given up hope of ever finding someone who will submit to him, Loren is forced to content himself with secret fantasies. Then he meets the perfect man for his fantasies: handsome, uniformed, full of confidence and strength. But Loren doesn't realize that Ken holds secrets which will initiate them both into a new mystery. . . .

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Side stories

Plus Love. Everyone calls her a fag hag. But Gay Pride Day has arrived, and her best friend is about to give her a new name.

A 2011 holiday gift story for Dusk Peterson's readers.

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¶ Data: 8,000 words.

Water in a Drought. When a young cowboy leaves his ranch during World War II, this turns out to be the start of a forty-year search for tough men that will lead him from the Texas Panhandle to Folsom Street to a small town in the Midwest . . . with danger always lurking close behind.

Co-written with Parhelion, author of an acclaimed series of Southwestern stories.

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First Lesson. "He couldn't remember later why he began talking about bondage." When a security guard walks into the wrong bar in town, he learns about the dark side of erotic desire, and also about the hope that lies beyond it.

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     ¶ Data: 4,000 words | Published in September 2008.
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Leathermen, Fan Fiction Writers, and Other Rebels

Humor and satire about transgressive sexuality in the twenty-first century. There's only one thing worse than leather-clad, kinky gay bikers demanding their rights: mild-mannered vanilla heterosexuals demanding their rights.

The series is part of the Main Street Leather cycle. ¶ Leathermen, Fan Fiction Writers, and Other Rebels genre/theme tags (with minor spoilers).

What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets: A Tale of Web Accessibility in the Cybersex Era. "What I want from you is quite simple. I want you to design a Website that's compatible with Section 508— Stop sobbing, damn it!" What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets is the first e-book in the world that presents Web accessibility information for the disabled in the form of leather erotica.

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     ¶ Data: 1,000 words | Published in October 2008.
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The Slavefic Plot Creator. When fan fiction writers have had way too much caffeine.

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¶ Data: 800 words.

If Dante Had a Beta Reader. Who needs the Muses for inspiration when you have a beta reader to tell you what to do?

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A Sexual Minority Speaks Out. "I am an adult male belonging to a rare minority group that is called, in layman's language, Plain Vanilla Straight. I have had these sexual desires for as long as I can remember . . ."

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Leather in Lawnville

The adventures of a suburban leatherman.

The series is part of the Main Street Leather cycle. ¶ Leather in Lawnville genre/theme tags (with minor spoilers).

Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers (Volume 1 of Leather in Lawnville)

Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers takes leathersex out of its usual bars and back alleys, setting it in unexpected locations: A 5&10. A potluck. A hamburger joint. A waltz party. Even when the leatherman who narrates these stories returns to the Eagle bar, things don't go quite the way he expected. . . .

For adults only.

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     ¶ Data: 22,000 words | Published in May 2008.
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COLLECTION CONTENTS

Clothesline. An encounter with clothesline at the Lawnville 5&10 leads the narrator to discover his neighbor's secret fantasy.

Spontaneous. Can an Old Guard top survive in a world with safe words? (This story was runner-up for the 2006 Rauxa Prize for erotic fiction.)

¶ Read the story online: | Also available in Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers.
¶ Data: 4,000 words.

Bad Habit. The narrator shows off his leatherboy to a skeptic.

Leatherdar. The narrator goes on the hunt at a college ballroom dance.

Pinned. A rude top and an interfering family member prove to be an explosive combination at the Eagle bar.

Short Sharp Shock (Volume 2 of Leather in Lawnville)

His life seems secure enough: an endless round of leathersex and fun. The trouble with gay leather, though, is that you never know when it will take a turn for the unexpected. Now a top finds himself questioning who he is, and just what it is that he wants.

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Main Street Leather resources

Leather resources and cycle bibliography.

Leather portal. Links to all of the leather-related websites at this domain.

Award and reviews

Loren's Lashes reviews.

Leather in Lawnville award and reviews.

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