Full of yearning and equivocal male eros, Never Easy is seven stories of men adrift and longing for reprieve from erotica masters Johnny Murdoc, Natty Soltesz, and Rob Wolfsham. In Murdoc's "Local Legends" a timid student falls for Sam Longhorn, the mysterious alpha male of Blackwood, and is compelled to unearth the woodland myth of the Blackwood Beast. A cold lawyer laments his path in life after he's marooned on an island with an ambivalent, hard-bodied fighter in Rob Wolfsham's "Penguin." A tiring family homecoming trip with a malcontent boyfriend turns perilous and steamy in Natty Soltesz's "My Boyfriend's Horny Brothers." These three writers have joined to chronicle vivid, sexually-charged encounters between men with kaleidoscopic introspection and sometimes prodigious self-discovery.