Love in Black and White: A Collection of Stories

Love in Black and White is four stories and a short novel exploring themes of interracial love. It begins with four short stories. In The Voyeur and the Busboy, a meek traveling accountant falls in love with a young African man who buses tables in a cafe and whose apartment window can be seen from the accountant’s hotel room. Mario and me tells the story of a younger man who has his first gay experience with an older man he meets in the sauna at a university gym. Master Tom imagines what would happen if Thomas Jefferson had a long affair not with his slave Sally Hemings but with her brother, James. Vignette is a fantasy about two young men who take showers at the same time, miles apart, imagining each other - and inviting the reader into their thoughts. Mistletoe Farm is a short historical novel set on a plantation in the South. A young white man has come to the plantation he now owns, and buys a set of slaves to go with it. At first he revels in his sexual conquests of men and women a