Straight to Gay: First Time Stories

by Pete Brown

Inverted-race dystopia where whites are the underclass and slaves still outrank them in courtesy. A bright inner-city white boy's teacher lays out the Butler Doctrine, named for the economist who rebuilt the post-crash economy: three classes equal within themselves, never across, separate buses and seating included.

by Pete Brown

A liberal Northern teenager gets drunk in Florida, catches a drunk-and-disorderly charge, and wakes sentenced to lifetime slavery. Branded, chipped, entered in a sale catalogue. Brown's cruelty is bureaucratic. The spine of it is the ex-Marine studded out beside him, hired to breed women and then broken into wanting a man.

by Pete Brown

Pete Brown's processing facility runs on calibrated indignity. The cattle-prod demonstration on the first man out of the van isn't punishment — it's curriculum. The doctor, mid-rectal-exam, chats about how "proper muscle from labour" fetches higher prices than gym muscle. Bodies enter as cargo, exit as inventory.