I lied, in an effort to sneak myself a preview of what Frosty recommended to me, I decided to read the first chapter of You and Me by Carl DaVinci and then by the time 6AM rolled around I had finished the last chapter and I saw the sun peaking out as it started to burn off the overcast and fog from overnight. As I sit here typing, I feel groggy, yet comforted at yet another author surprises me with a super short but super powerful story.

to Frosty for recommending yet another amazing story to me. You are now the cause of many sleepless nights, and I am thankful.

Anyways, back to the story: You and Me by Carl DaVinci ~ https://www.gayauthors.org/story/carl-davinci/youandme

I was very glad that the identical twins didn't get involved with each other... especially since I just finished with Working It Out. I just felt I needed a break from sibling relationships for a while, even if they were adoptive siblings.

The story showed distinctly how a child's upbringing made it possible to take different paths in sexual orientation, even if they are biologically identical. The home situation was especially heart breaking in the beginning, while the cynicism around Jeremy was a focus for the story ~ how to refine his cynical personality to a more neutral more happy outward person by letting love in.

In some respects, I kind of wanted to see if Jack would make an attempt to not only mend ways with Nathan, but develop a deeper relationship as old times, perhaps even more. While that would cause a identical twin love triangle, it would definitely bring out an age-old question of whether to choose the twin Nathan fell in love with in the beginning or the one he settled with instead. While I agree the ending to the story brought out a hopeful wrap-up to the plot, the short story had definite wiggle room to expand to the future. And I sincerely hope that Carl will be able to take the plot further down the road.

This has been the shortest series I've read on GA, mainly because I don't read short stories too often, but this was the perfect evening reading to get myself tied up before I let myself go to sleep.

While I will regret not sleeping last night, I sincerely enjoyed this heart moving story and only hope that my story writing skills will be even 10-20% of what these authors are capable of writing. In time, I hope to develop my story writing skills to a relatively respectable level (above 5th grade adjectives I hope lol) and be able to publish more polished works in the future.