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  1. Boy Mercury X
    Thanks, Cub! A last little bit of frivolity for October. Things will get a little darker as we near Halloween.
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    I'll bet you could have figured a way out with no evidence. But that would have been a different story.
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    Thanks, Chris. TBH I'm a deeply flawed author of a story about being caged because it's not part of my own psychology. I just couldn't resist the season and the title.
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    Thanks, @dboggs9700♥️. I have something very different for next week, not a bro in sight.
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    If only there were a way…
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    5. Ben walked into the kitchen at nine, the morning sun cut brightly through the window blinds. The girl was gone, and Cole was standing at the stove in gray sweats and a white t-shirt, pushing eggs around in a skillet. His shoulders were loose, the unmistakable, relaxed stance of a guy who’d just had his way and enjoyed it. Ben went straight to the coffee pot and poured a mug. Black. He had his surrender speech ready. It was over. He was going to ask for the key. “Morning,”
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    Tune in tomorrow to see!
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    If idle hands are the devil's workshop...
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    They just need to find the way!
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    Ben and Cole are roommates, gym bros, and competitors who don't back down. When Ben impulsively bets his roommate Cole that he can spend the entire month locked in a chastity cage—loser has to clean their apartment for a month—Cole expects him to crack by day two. But as the month drags on, the guys try to outlast each other, until a surprise side bet ups the ante.
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    1. The cage came in a padded mailer addressed to Ben Sato. Cole set it on the kitchen table next to the tub of protein powder they shared, alongside a scattered stack of seminar reading. He leaned on the sink and waited. When Ben came in from campus, his brush cut still damp from the gym shower, his glasses slightly fogged, he saw the package and let his backpack slide to hit the floor. He didn’t have to ask what it was. He could see it in Cole’s smirk. "Still in?" Cole asked.
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    Thank you Peter. Glad to hear from you.
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    Thanks @dboggs9700. My self-challenge was to write an actual paranormal story, which is not my usual thing.
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    Thank you, Chris. This is an oldie for me, sharing for the first time on GA. Glad you enjoyed it.
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    John, Hutch, and Putter are the kind of frat bros who use a girl in the middle so they don’t have to name what they’re doing together. On Halloween there's no girl, but there is a campus legend every freshman has already dared: the grave of Midnight Malcolm, the sodomite witch hanged in 1693. Call him three times and he comes back to claim what’s his.
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    1. John, Putter, and Hutch stood over the pink marble headstone. Fog rolled low over the dead leaves in the neglected corner of the cemetery. Hutch jabbed his elbow into John’s back, hard enough to earn a startled grunt. “Asshole,” John shot back, shaking his head, but they all snickered. No one wanted to show how on edge they were when bro cred was at stake. The headstone was simple. MALCOLM WOODBURY 1660 – 1693 Under that, cut into the slab: WHOSO THOU BE THAT P
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    Thanks @sandeman, glad you enjoyed it.
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    Glad you enjoyed it. It's just a bit of fluff, but kicks off a month of Halloween stories. Later this month I'll share: Midnight Malcolm, a tale of three frat bros in a cemetery, summoning a legendary ghost The Dicker Man, inspired by The Wicker Man, the story of an athlete recruited to a small all-boys rural college The Ghost of October, about a man who is sure he's haunted
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    Wearing a slutty dress to a Halloween party was supposed to be a joke, but Troy looks good. Stupid good. When his longtime straight crush shows up and doesn't recognize him, the joke turns real.
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    1. The Bit The dress had been Claire’s idea, because she was bored of watching Troy show up to things in the same dark jeans and shirt. Before it went on, it seemed like a bit. Black, simple, something she’d worn to a party and hated, hemmed high because he was taller and, annoyingly, had the legs for it. The guest list was the reason he’d said yes. First Halloween home from college, her parents at the lake, and the girls from their year in high school. The ones who never left, or who
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    Pompeii

    Boy Mercury X commented on Boy Mercury X's story chapter in Pompeii

    As a strictly monogamous person it was a bit of a challenge to put myself in the head of a person in an open relationship. I did base that part of Brick on guys I've known who are are in very long term, satisfying open relatiionships.
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    Pompeii

    Boy Mercury X posted a story in Fiction

    Brick has a husband and a man on the side, Vincent, the client across the table. On a trip in Italy for a conference, Pompeii is not on the original itinerary, but Brick needs the distraction. Somewhere between the Forum and a tree off the path, he tries to remember which fire he came here to let burn out.
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    Pompeii

    Boy Mercury X posted new chapter in Pompeii

    1. The Client Team They leave early for Pompeii, the low, uneven triangle of Vesuvius hazy in the distance. Brick is lulled into drowsiness by the motion of the train, compounded by the time change and the disorientation of travel. He lets himself bob gently between wakefulness and a dreamy state. Sunlight chops through the trees along the tracks and lays itself across his lap in bars. In the dark between them he is not quite here. The visit is not part of the original itinerary,
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    I've been really fascinated by the response, because some of the comments about Diane and about Cal really surprised me. I'm not saying anyone is wrong, but I don't see some reflected in the story itself. Most of my stories are about couples who have a connection that in retrospect seems inevitable. In this story I really was try to go for a very grounded story about two guys who plainly like each other, and have a little life experience too, and it's only been three weeks. For what it's worth, my impression is that Nate isn't planning to break things off or he wouldn't have gone to Cal's the night they got back. Thank you for reading and commenting. I appreciate both.
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