Quest for Sex, Truth & Reality

#xE2;#xAC;SThe three stories in this chapbook are among my favorites of my stuff,#xE2;#xAC; Lee says. The stories are the intellectualized b-movie-like #xE2;#xAC;SThe Seeker#xE2;#xAC; and the Lieberesque #xE2;#xAC;SThe Goddess of the New Dark Age,#xE2;#xAC; plus the potent existential porn piece, #xE2;#xAC;SSex, Truth, & Reality#xE2;#xAC; aka #xE2;#xAC;SPay Me.#xE2;#xAC; The latter has never been reprinted, and was originally accepted in the early #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;80s by HUSTLER magazine, even to the point that Lee#xE2;#xAC;"s manuscript was copy-edited and sent to the typesetter. #xE2;#xAC;SJut my luck,#xE2;#xAC; Lee recalls. #xE2;#xAC;SRight before they were going to pay me something like 800 bucks,#xE2;#xAC; the fiction editor left the company and the story was rejected by his successor, said HUSTLER was no place for philosophical fiction. It#xE2;#xAC;"s the only time I#xE2;#xAC;"m ever gotten a manuscript returned with copy-edit marks.#xE2;#xAC;