Dirty Old Men [And Other Stories] (Zane Presents)
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Authors: Omar Tyree
ZANE PRESENTS
(AND OTHER STORIES)
Anthology
Dear Reader:
“Why are older men called ‘dirty’ simply because they still have sex drives, and are attracted to the bountiful energy, unburdened spirits, and sexual aptitudes of younger women?” That is one of the many questions that will spark conversation in this latest offering by
New York Times
Bestselling Author Omar Tyree. Tyree’s thought-provoking delivery of this short story collection goes much deeper than strictly sex. He examines the psyches and motivation behind people of all “legal” ages hooking up in various types of relationships.
Internationally, there are millions of people—both men and women—who prefer to date outside of their age brackets. It is only considered an issue in America, one of the most sexually oppressed countries in the world. While older women who prefer younger men are affectionately referred to as “Bobcats” or “Cougars,” older men who prefer younger women are considered “Dirty Old Men.” This is a reality and Tyree has tackled the subject matter with a desire to advance the opinions and conversations about the situations presented that only a truly prolific writer could master.
I hope that you enjoy this collection of short stories. They are more than hot; they are intriguing and entertaining, but with a purpose. As always, thank you for supporting the Strebor Books imprint. From powerful memoirs like
Scared Silent: When The One You Love Becomes the One You Fear
by Mildred Muhammad and
The Day I Stopped Being Pretty
by Rodney Lofton to exciting novels like
Street Judge
by Judge Greg Mathis and
Pure Paradise
by Allison Hobbs, we strive to bring you cutting-edge, diverse, and extremely well-written books.
I am confident that you will enjoy
Dirty Old Men
by the legendary Omar Tyree. Please let me know your thoughts. You can locate me on the web at
www.eroticanoir.com
or
www.planetzane.net
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Peace and Many Blessings,
Zane
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Strebor Books International
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Pecking Order
The Last Street Novel
What They Want
Boss Lady
Diary of a Groupie
Leslie
Just Say No!
For The Love of Money
Sweet St. Louis
Single Mom
A Do Right Man
Flyy Girl
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Cold Blooded
One Crazy Night
Capital City
College Boy
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Dark Thirst
The Game
Proverbs of the People
Tough Love; The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur
Testimony
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USINESS
The Equation; The 4 Indisputable Components Of Business Success
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
© 2009 by Omar Tyree
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I
DEDICATE THIS BOOK
to the folks who ask for the truth
and can then take the real answers.
To be honest here, I haven’t acknowledged folks in a book in lonnnnnng time. With 19 of them written and published now, it got to the point where I had basically run out of new folks to acknowledge. Then people began to take it far too personally. “You didn’t give me a shoutout in your book?” So it became much less stressful for me
not
to do it at all. But if you check at the back of my first six novels alone, I must have thanked a thousand people. So it’s not as if I’m not thankful for the love, help and support. I just wanted to write books without thinking about every person in the world who I forgot to give a shoutout to.
With that being said, I could create another long list of folks to thank with this one. But I won’t. Due to the subjective nature of this particular book, I don’t think most people would jump up and down to be included this time around anyway (smile). Talking about the fetish that older men have for young women, at my age, can be very dangerous. But if you can’t talk about the truth in your art, then what good is having a voice? You think all that Viagra out there is being sold to older guys who are only thinking about their wives, who they’ve been married to for thirty-five years, like they suggest in those beautiful television commercials, where they dance into the bedroom? Now I dig the romantic spirit of the commercials. I really do. I just don’t trust how valid they are. Do older women really want that dude up all night long, like the younger women do? Let’s tell the truth here.
Anyway, I want to thank, first of all, Zane, for agreeing to publish this book of very frank short stories. The initial idea was to write real stories about men for men’s magazines. But I got real tired of constantly trying to pitch to magazine editors, especially when the first words out of most of the editors’ mouths were, “We don’t have much of a budget.” Then you get the
editors who constantly want you to write “for the publicity,” even though I’m a professional writer, like the people they still
pay
to write. So Zane came to the rescue. And now we can all read this thing and have something real to talk about.
I also want to thank Mary B. Morrison, Miasha, J.L. King, and J. Tremble for agreeing to read one of the stories and sliding me a book jacket review, along with Zane’s. Then I’d like to thank my agent, Jacqueline Hackette, for continuing to negotiate publishing deals for me with cool, calm experience.
I want to thank the readership for continuing to buy African-American titles, even though we’ve honestly created an overload of similar material out there to choose from. And I’m not hating on the redundance. I’m merely telling the truth, like a pure Philadelphian. Straight up! We need some new and improved product.
Speaking of my home of Philadelphia, I’d like to thank my long-time editor, Pamela Artis-Hawkins, for continuing to work with me, and for giving me good, sound advice that I never seem to listen to (smile). Had I listened to you a long time ago on what the people want to read and simply given it to them, instead of always having a mission statement in my books, I could have made a whole lot more money. But like Popeye kicked it, “I am what I am,” and that’s an old school writer with a purpose for everything I put my name on. And I can go to the graveyard proud of knowing that I wrote and published exactly what I wanted. Hopefully, I won’t be flat broke for it!
I wanna thank my young, Florida-based assistant, Jared Holloway, who missed having his first published story in this book by a weekend. Hell, I was already running late with this thing, dude. But when I finally kick down the door in this movie game, I got you. So hold tight.
I wanna thank the hustle and bustle of Carol Mendez, who found out how incredibly hard it is to call up the managers and staff of celebrities to try and set up meetings for business. It ain’t easy, is it? But you wait until we start making these movies, how fast they’ll call you back then.
On the West Coast, I wanna thank Jonathan DeVeaux, Mr. Club Owner, for all of the hospitality you’ve shown me over the years through your love of reading. I haven’t forgetten about you. So tell your DJ to shout me out at the club,even when I’m not out there in L.A. (smile)!