Artic Roots - Stories

After two years of writing to his prison pen-pal, Danny finally meets Moose face-to-face.

Betrayed by his husband and his best friend, Mason finds himself alone, living back at home with his mom. When his husband's friend Alex stops by to take him to lunch to talk, Mason finds he can't resist getting to know the other man.

Born to ultra-conservative religious parents, Walt Rockdale is forced to hide who he truly is.

When a young black man named Jackson Carter comes to their church to perform community service, Walt finally meets someone who likes him for who he is, not who he pretends to be.

Nerdy Mike falls for his mechanic, a muscle bear named Mac.

Cole is fascinated by a boy who won't talk to him and has no idea how to be gay in a world in which a man's worth is measured by his skill in working the land and riding quad bikes. Jared thinks he's happy with his secret lover but when a boy who can't communicate with him puts in the effort to try realises that secret sex-friends might not be enough and even good boys get love too.

Palouse is a coming-to-maturity story of a half-Navajo boy who is a virtuoso at violin. The story traces his rise, fall, and reemergence in the context of a domineering mother. It is a story also of a developing love between the boy and a gay friend.

Hoyt Ford likes clean cut skinny boys with good hair. so when his senses tell him he's falling for a big butch lumberjack he tries to run from the feeling, and straight into the furry arms of Mato, an actual bear he meets in the woods.

Zak is a shy quiet 15 year old whose mother gets him a summer job at a local ranch. Zak's sure it's going to be the summer from Hell until he meets 16 year-old ranch hand, Dusty.

An unhappy soldier becomes friends with a young cowboy, but it grows to much more for both of them.

A gay couple just out of grad school moves to a new town, new ranch, new jobs, and become surrogate parents to an abused gay teen.