"Man, how did you score five days of shore leave?" Navy E-2 Tex Collins muttered, faking a hurt. "Aced the last three inspections and built up my days," E-1 Randy Harrison answered. He was standing at the mirror just a couple of steps from their upper-lower bunk on the destroyer, the USS Deringer, parked just outside of the inner harbor at Manama, Bahrain....
"You cannot put it off any longer, my friend. If you do not choose for Asu soon, the priests will take him. The choice will no longer be yours—or Asu's. He is of age for starting the life chosen for him. He cannot do other than meet his destiny." "I know that, Sargon, it is just so hard . . ." Baltasar, the wood merchant, was sitting at a table outside of...
Okay so I did a little experimenting when I was younger but I had already made up my mind that no matter what, it wouldn’t happen again. I figured it this way- Andy was my best friend and I didn’t want anything to come between our friendship. I was still living at home at the time so I figured that as long as Andy and I weren’t alone we didn’t have to talk...
The Ranchero was a bull-riding bar, complete with sawdust and peanut shells on the floor and a twangy country and western voice singing a "girl done gone up and left me" song assaulted a raucous crowd of men from the rafters. The basement club was set smack dab in the middle of Manhattan, but you'd never know it was there—unless you were a gay male, cruised,...
It was very late at night. My now ex-wife - “the bitch” - was upstairs fast asleep. I sat at the computer as I had for so many nights, for so many years, flirting, chatting and cyber-fantasizing with other men online. Men much like myself, pretending to be women in one room, the women our wives never were, or in another room, men who would never be again in...
After my convention weekend with Ken, where I was introduced to man to man sex for the first time, I started looking for more opportunities for it. I placed ads on the net and was soon meeting guys. Being in my late 20's at the time, with no long term relationship, this gave me time to check things out, I wasn't ready to settle down just yet. I saw Ken from...
Whoever Weak light was filtering into the window through the opening between the mismatched towels he'd used as curtains to try to close out the blinking neon sign of the Chinese restaurant below. They hadn't been effective; blinking red lighting had been bouncing all around the walls of the dingy little room since he and I had stumbled in here from the bar...
The week went smoothly with work slowly progressing in the labs. The whole team felt an excitement that they had found a direction which might actually prove useful. Even through the long hours the entire medical staff were putting in, there was an air of optimism. Friday afternoon found Kevin and Anne sitting at desk going over an analysis of a compound the...
PROJECT IS LAUNCHED The project team was assembled for the Minneapolis Consulting Engagement which was to last for six months. I had contracted with four subcontractors and I would serve as the engagement manager. Of course, I would use my assistant Michelle extensively throughout the engagement to prepare progress and status reports. I arranged for two sho...
Note: All sexually involved characters in this story are Eighteen years of age or older. There is a young, gay boy, 15 year old Fernando, whose father has kicked him out (which happens way too often in real life) and CPS (Child Protective Services) have placed him with foster parents, a married straight couple. There is no direct, or implied, sexual activity...