Big City / Urban Life - 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.

The first time Niran Shin meets him, Kaleo Rana is having a meltdown of epic proportions. Breaking glass shelves with a baseball bat after a terrible breakup. Niran Shin loves Kaleo’s vibrant personality, but their worlds seem too far apart. Niran is on a path of vengeance and has no desire to pull Kaleo into his world. Then, a villain asks Niran for a favor that places Kaleo’s life in danger, and Niran has no choice but to pull Kaleo into his world. A world haunted by an unknown, vicious villain who threatens their future together. Will Kaleo ever choose him? And what will it cost him?

It’s 2018 and Londoner Nathanial Greystone is a twenty-five-year-old waiter who works at a charity ball and he has an online blog. Nathanial starts showing signs of having schizophrenia and he is too frighted and ashamed to let anyone know. He meets rising star comedian Charlie Conray and meets someone called AJ online. As his relationship with both of them strengthens and his career working in the writing industry starts to climb, the worse his health gets to the point he questions if any of this is real or if he really deserves anything good. Can Nathaniel find the strength to help himself before it’s too late.

When a newly observant Jewish family hires an affable jock as their Shabbos goy, the rule is simple: anticipate their needs without being asked. Their wry son expects a weekly inconvenience, until someone starts paying a little too much attention.

A sex comedy of manners.

To his family, Matt is just the dorky, mustached dad. The men he meets see the body underneath, and the switch that flips behind closed doors. Three days, five encounters, one Parents Weekend.

A story to be published in whole in five parts.

Two strangers collide on a council estate at 2am. Cory is drunk, hostile, and desperate to prove he's straight. Simon is exhausted, terrified, and completely out of his depth. When Cory drags him home and demands to be "stopped," what follows is a messy, brutal collision of denial and desire. Neither of them is prepared for what comes next—or how hard it will be to walk away.

*A raw, darkly comic story about the lies we tell ourselves and the truths our bodies refuse to hide.*

Jesse King is fit, forty and frustrated. His midlife crisis and his wife's dare sparks a journey into uncharted territory. One bold night leads him into the arms of another man—and a new solution to his desires.

When a straight guy accidentally comes out as gay at work, the sudden attention is too good to lose. To keep the act going, he asks his straight-passing best bro to pose as his boyfriend for the company gala. It’s a foolproof plan that can’t go wrong—until it does.

A complete story in three parts.

Two work-from-home dads try to carve out a little time for themselves—a rare, much-anticipated sex date. But between kids, Zoom calls, and the chaos of daily life, even the best-laid plans to get laid get derailed.

This story is a stand-alone follow up to A Charmed Life, but you don’t need to have read that one to jump in. Everything you need is right here.

Zach was looking for a quiet night of cruising at a dive bar. He thinks he's found the perfect hookup with a cocky meathead—until a surprise Father's Day Strip-Off and his attention-seeking himbo father turn everything upside down. A story in three parts.