Best Gay Erotica 2010 (December 1, 2009 release), Richard Labonte, ed; Selected and Introduced by Blair Mastbaum

Clay's Way: A Novel (2004) -- Winner 2004 Lambda Literary Gay Men's Debut Fiction Awards
Set against the dazzling backdrop of Hawaii's Oahu and Kauai islands, Clay's Way seethes with energy and hormonally charged nihilism. For 15-year-old Sam, a wanna-be punk rocker who writes bad haiku poetry, his middle-class suburban life feels like a prison. Mistaking lust for fate, Sam becomes obsessed with Clay, a 17-year-old surfer, outwardly cool but equally adrift. The violence and tumult of Clay's search for identity propels him, with desperately confused Sam in his wake, through the hardest decisions and obstacles of their young lives.