When Mike Merisi announced a Valentine’s Day story contest, the first tale in hand became chapter one of this book. The contest never came off, but Merisi said, “When we published Blow Otter, it was the odds on favorite to win, and nobody else beat it.” Hannon writes with authenticy and experience of a schoolteacher whose job and life are stolen by an ignorant monolithic society, and of the boy who saves him. We follow their odyssey south to a Mexico peopled by good and bad adults and boys, where Kent and his ‘blow otter boy-friend’ Marcus create a life of love and happiness. Mike Merisi continued, “I welcome Kurt Hannon to the ranks of the few, like Kevin Esser, Luis Miguel Fuentes, and Walt Kauffmann, who write for and about the most maligned corner of the spirit of Stonewall.”
