Stories

In a 1990s cruising park, a young AIDS outreach volunteer approaches a middle-aged man who looks like someone’s dad. What starts as a simple condom hand-off escalates into something more risky as one decision leads to another in a public restroom.

Content Warning: This story contains explicit M/M sexual content, power imbalances, and themes related to the AIDS crisis including cruising, condoms, and unprotected sex. Characters navigate complex realities, including sexual risk.

When Horus and his family leave the city of the Gods to travel up the Nile, Anubis resigns himself to being bored without the company of his oldest friend. He does not however plan on being awoken in the pitch black to discover that the sun has been accidentally sealed into a temple, and that he is the only one qualified to retrieve it. If only such quests were simple.

Kerry becomes angry when he is being stalked daily as soon as he leaves work. He asks Brad; an ex lover, to help him track down the offender. Brad reports something suspicious and where he saw it. Angry and vengful, Kerry confronts the person. He is shocked when he finds out who that is and why he is being stalked. It ends well.

Debbie and Cathy have been in the closet for more than four years, and have less than one more to go to be free of their fundamentalist parents, but a year is still a very long time. (January, 2009)

This is the 17th story in the Naptown Tales series, which can also be found at Awesome Dude and Nifty. Please see the Introduction for important background on the series.

2007 Fairy Tale Anthology

Miah's stake has to be a success; he has something to prove--to himself, to his family, and to all the people who thought he'd fail. But can he find the will to keep going when everything sees to be going wrong around him?

A 36-year-old consultant finds both routine and unexpected connection when he joins a new Arlington gym and becomes drawn to Steph, a clumsy, flirtatious younger lifter whose relationship with his girlfriend is quietly unraveling.

Hunter and Ty escape to Vagas to connect away from their kids.

It's like the gates of hell have been opened when poor Yuki and Kaede's kiss in the broken bathroom is interrupted by the Seven Sisters of Doom. This means war.

In which Ben and William find that home is where you wear your hat.