“Desert Heat” art from The Cosmic Collected
Gayle F 1976
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“In keeping with the intensely personal nature of the holiday, I intend to take the phone off the hook and disconnect the doorbell. Then I will pour myself a glass of Midori (green melon) liqueur and a dish of strawberry sorbet. Then I will reread [Gayle F’s] “The Cosmic Collected” from cover to cover. “Desert Heat”, which begins this collection, is the first K/S story I ever read and is still a damn good place to start
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