Tops, Bottoms, and Everything in Between

Lepelo Moroka is a writer with an appetite for men and very little patience for the things they call love. In his world, bodies are honest in ways people rarely are. Desire is a language he speaks fluently. Intimacy is gibberish.

Between fleeting encounters, whispered confessions, and the complications of wanting, Lepelo finds himself returning to the same conversation with B, the one person who refuses to let him mistake being desired for being known.

B believes in love and in the dangerous possibility that two people might feel something real for each other.

Lepelo believes in none of it. Or so he says. He calls it « bulldust! » And somewhere between the men who pass through his bed and the memories that refuse to leave him alone, the distinction begins to blur.

But what happens when a man who has made a religion of desire begins to suspect that his devotion is all about survival? What then becomes of the persona we build to protect the person we cannot bear to be?

Tops, Bottoms, and Everything in Between is a collection of intimate encounters, erotic curiosities, and uncomfortable truths about the men we touch, the people we become, and the parts of ourselves we leave behind in other people’s beds.

For the questioning man who has loved in secret. For the man who has mistaken attention for affection. For the man who knows how to make another body tremble but has never quite learned what to do with a tender heart… I wrote these pages for you. Read them in the open. Hide them beneath your sheets. Highlight the passages that feel a little too familiar.

Because somewhere between the top, the bottom, and everything in between, a man is waiting to be found.

LM