This month's Signature Author Background and the feature for this week's Signature Week is "Second Shot" by Andrew_Q_Gordon. I always start out Signature Week with a review of the story being featured and this week is no different. Comicfan was kind enough to offer to do the review on "Second Shot". If you haven't already done so, don't forget to go and download your Signature Author Background.

Reviewer: Comicfan
Status: Complete
Word Count: 79,380

When I first joined GA Second Shot was still being written. If you hadn’t heard about it a trip into the chat room would have had you meeting TrevorTime who would tell you to do one thing – Go read Second Shot. So that just leaves you wondering one thing what the heck is Second Shot.

Welcome to the world of Second Shot. Here we find two college students starting out in life and trying to figure out what they want. For Peter the world is work, school, and martial arts. He is out and not about to go back into the closet. He is sort of self reliant and trying hard to just survive. For Jason it is a world of soccer and trying to hide who is from himself and the world. However when these two meet for the first time fate takes over.

Peter has to deal with Jason who just can’t deny the attraction between them. Besides the coming out issue, you have a strict college coach trying to keep all his people in line, and the world itself showing the couple the good and bad. College classes and friends add a rich background as well as keeping both men grounded. Add in mothers, sisters, and other problems that both Peter and Jason need to deal with as they navigate their way through life. Just as it seems these two might make a go of it there is a vicious attack on Peter that leaves the whole relationship up in the air. Will these two get a second chance at a life together? Can a tender love grow or will family and hatred tear them apart?

Andy or Q as he is known to so many of us delivers a story that far outstrips the basic college love story. This story alone shows the talent that he uses so well in his stories and catapulted him from writer to Promising to Hosted. If you haven’t read this incredible story I’d suggest you take a little time, curl up, and read it. When you do, don’t forget to comment.