BLUE COLLAR BUDS
Peter Schutes
2023
Peter Schutes Publishing
Four tawdry tales will delight your senses and leave you deeply satisfied.
LOGGER’S DELIGHT— A logger chooses to live away from society, out in the woods, with only a bunch of men and some halfway decent food to keep him company. Some loggers are loners, preferring to live and work away from others. These ‘timberbeasts’ always have good reasons for wishing to be alone. Some are hotheads who would get in fights if they were around others. Others are introverted types who feel drained by other people. Some of these solitary loggers have reasons no one could fathom.
Doug Hayburn was a timberbeast who preferred to stay away from the prying eyes and taunting jeers of men. His colossal member attracted too much attention. He couldn’t shower, dine, or work among the men without his colossus getting in the way. Men were envious, lustful, and cruel. The life of a timberbeast was the only way he could find peace and earn a living away from society. Can anything tame the wild timberbeast? When Logan Pettigrew, a logger with quite the opposite problem, arrives on the scene, he proves that Love always has the last laugh.
KWIKLUBE 5000 — In the 1970s Van Nuys Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles was the “cruising” street of choice for young drivers. Cruising was outlawed by the quasi-fascist LAPD, who saw fit to curtail freedoms if they were inconvenient, for along with the cruising came fights, accidents, and crime. This story also appears in the collection called "Five Erotic Tales."
Jack “Snake” Elgin is a businessman who sought to capitalize on the explosion in car culture in Van Nuys. This story tells a tale of a man battling inner demons and outer extremities. His employees help bring him out of his own personal hell into a new kind of heaven.
HOTSHOT — In the 1960s, a new kind of trucking arose. Hotshot trucking is when a man owns a pickup truck and modifies it for use on short-haul, small-payload runs. These Hotshots are nimble and quick. When something has to be there overnight, they are a fast solution to supply chain issues. They are still in demand today, especially in oil country, where parts must arrive lickety-split to keep the derricks running.
