=== The first time I felt like I might be developing feelings for another man was the night when we'd gone out for a meal, and Marcus – my son's friend from university – made a joke that it was like I was Guy's boyfriend. We'd all laughed at the absurdity of the suggestion – after all, Guy and I are both divorced men, both outwardly straight for all intent...
[This is a completed three-chapter story and will finish posting by the end of June.] Avery and Dominick Avery moved faster than he normally would have from the jewelry store toward the men's department of Dillards, in Richmond's Regency Square mall. It had taken longer to buy the Gucci watch Dominick had been bugging him for months. Not just any watch wou...
Some say that rain is a sign of peace when a loved one passes on, but on this day it simply steeped the sadness that comes with an untimely death. The dark clouds loomed above like a spiritual ceiling and occasional claps of thunder jostled the mourning family. Because it was late summer, many people were on vacation. Many close friends and even a fair amoun...
He came back to the familiar place occasionally, wondering "what would it have been like?" Now a man of 40, he was standing in a little park above Kits beach near the small yacht club on point grey road. He moved to the little park bench and sat, his eyes distant, lost in thought... It was a dark moonless night 20 years earlier and the young man had just re...
Jeff sat waiting patiently in the waiting room of Bruce's office, his boyfriend was dealing with a client at the moment. He smiled and waved as Ginny, Bruce's secretary, went off to lunch, telling her that he just had something to drop off and he'd probably be gone by the time she came back. Of course, he probably wouldn't be, but he didn't want her to know...
We arranged to meet during a late afternoon in the same Premier Inn. Strangely Kath looked more confident. It was Paul who looked nervous, his head bowed slightly with eyes cast downward. I wasn't sure if that was a good sign or not. I explained that they were travelling into unknown territory. I aimed my next comments to Paul, explaining that Kath had asked...
The lad grinned across at me, pleased for the lift. I wasn't going exactly where he wanted, but I could take him to a motorway junction twenty miles short without too much of a detour. He'd have to sort himself out from there: either stand in the cold with his thumb sticking out, like he had before I pulled up, or otherwise pay for a bus. He didn't look lik...
Editor's note: this story contains scenes of non-consentual or reluctant sex. * Colby Peters looked up as Jack Prescott owner of the firm Westcom passed through the office on his way to the emergency board meeting. Although he gave Colby a smile Colby could clearly see that he was worried, orders had been drying up recently. Colby, the youngest of the tele...
Peter Hoang stared out at the winter blizzard driving hard at the large picture window. He was momentarily thankful that he had made the trip prior to the snow closing the roads-especially the long unpaved road into the cottage. The fire licking at the logs in the fireplace reflected off the glass. He looked at his faint reflection. From the tip of his dark...
The winter had been the worst in sixteen years, snow was deep all over the south of England and I had to choose this time to visit my Uncle and Aunt in Dorchester. The train was having a hard time coping with some of the snowdrifts that had been building up across the tracks, so we were already an hour late. I was just thinking things could get no worse, whe...