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1) A Broken Cup
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Funerals are no fun, except, maybe, if cell phones get mixed up. Russell hasn't seen his now deceased, non-supportive father in years, but his older brother calls him in Hawaii, demanding his appearance at the funeral. But brother Mike warns against displaying any 'gay stuff' to his perfect wife and innocent children. Recently dumped, Russell isn't quite with it as he rushes to get ready with help from a new neighbor. So it turns out that the Mike...
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Wren is a hardworking archaeologist on his first vacation in years. While he's tempted to look for ancient artifacts, this is Maui and he needs to focus on taking it easy. So it's off to the beach to relax.There Wren dives into trouble, literally. Luckily, the backward roll and breathing techniques he learned studying Ninjutsu saves his life, because the shore break called Satan's Washing Machine grinds him up and spits him out, temporarily blinded...
3) Grosse Ile
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Who said you can't go home? When Peter promises his folks he'll come back to Grosse Ile for his tenth high school reunion, he has second thoughts. Can he face his old bullies? He's bigger and stronger now, true, but is his newfound confidence strong enough to overcome his old resentments? Then Peter's sister's boyfriend Ned turns out to be not as straight as he first seemed to be. Now Peter has a better reason to go back home -- to show off the new...
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It begins with a fading odor and darkness. Lights out, dark as night. Outside the college building, there are flames, lumps of metal and flesh, and no one moving. When Asher finds his car, he's surprised it works and he drives aimlessly, trying in vain for a radio station, any sign of life.
Recovering his wits, he parks at a truck stop and loads up with things that might be useful. In the dark, someone runs into him and urges him to flee. The thought...
5) What We Bury
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Funerals are hard, particularly if all you remember about the deceased is the abuse, the hate-filled words. Max isn't happy to have to come home when his abusive father dies. But he's surprised when Alastair, the night nurse who cared for his father, looked deep into his eyes and handed him a note. Could Alastair change Max's despair to love, old and new?
Note: This short story was originally published in the charity collection, Love Is Proud.
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When the island volcano erupts and buries neighborhoods, life gets very exciting for helicopter tour pilot, Keoni. His home is threatened by rapidly spreading lava, so he's staying with his lifelong friend Steve. Keoni has never felt any chemistry between them before, but his feelings for Steve change as things turn deadly even in supposedly safe areas. Keoni carries newsmen, cameramen, officials, politicians, and performs rescues on flight after...
7) Shane's Ride
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Two brothers, one popular with the girls and one not. One gay, and one straight. Of course, it was Wade, the older gay brother, who was chased by girls and poor straight Shane who was unlucky and alone.
Forced by their father to be dude ranch tour guides, Wade and Shane endure an unending stream of male and female tourists with no action. That is, until the latest group arrives and the barn promptly burns down, creating a mixed bag of instant heroes...
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When bookish photographer Andrew Evans gets separated from his hiking companion sin a Garnet Mountain Range blizzard, the lone cabin he finds in the woods is a lifesaver. There's only one problem -- someone else is already using it.
Art Evans -- no relation -- seems like a threatening jerk when he and Andrew first meet. But Art hunts and cooks for them both, making the small cabin homey in the midst of the winter storm.
But there's more to the cabin...
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When he turned sixteen, Nick inherited his grandfather's unidentified junk car left behind the family garage. It could end his unhappy gay life if he learns how to fix it, so over the years, self-pity and enough of his father's gin lead Nick to a plan. With the help of a gorgeous instructor named Harry, Nick becomes an apprentice automobile mechanic. When the car finally starts, a very drunk Nick puts his plan to work. But the car has other ideas,...
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Logan wonders why his relationships with women are so short and unsatisfying. Sex with women? He finds it unsettling, to say the least. More than once? No, thank you. So he decides to try The Grotto, a local gay bar. He hopes exposure to a gay crowd will lead him to a better understanding of himself.
The evening lengthens and the drinks multiply until the bar's singer, a drag queen, realizes the cute young newbie she's been eying isn't going to be...
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What does a gay son do when his parents tell him a fundamentalist Christian college bent on developing ministers is his only choice? Marty feels conflicted, scared, and miserable, but once on campus, he finds himself infatuated with someone he has to room with when he stays on campus over Thanksgiving break. At first glance, Marty thinks Troy is straight. But incidents and innuendoes develop between them, touchings and brushings, double entendres,...
12) The Troubador
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With the name of Jesse Thomas Cromwell, he definitely belongs in the world of Renaissance Faires. Playing old instruments of yore and singing ballads and bawdy tunes puts him on stage. This is Jesse's favorite pastime, and things are going well until bagpiper James opens up a competition on a neighboring stage. Jesse becomes louder and bawdier until security comes and kicks him out.
Later James finds Jesse and apologizes for the ruckus. Together...
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From hopeful bar talk to a screaming sister, Ken's evening turns to chaos with just one inopportune phone call. Labor. Well, he promised to get his sister to the hospital when her time came. But why tonight, when things at the bar look so promising?
The ride goes fairly smoothly despite a police chase, but things turn rough when a male ER nurse accuses him of being a straight pervert. Things go downhill from there, and Ken figures he'll never get...
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Pandemic. Plague. Call it what you will, but it spelled stay-at-home isolation for Leo and his neighbors. Except the new neighbor. Interesting looking but probably not gay and already hauled off to the hospital. That's how Leo ended up with his cat, and mail, and food packages. A caretaker now, and he doesn't even know the guy.
A major storm blows up, and people start piling in: the sick neighbor's grandson and some other kid. The old lady neighbor...
15) And To My Son
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Ted returns home after the death of his father to find his only inheritance is the contents of the garage. Dealing with family can sometimes be hard and unusually cruel, as his sister proves. But Ted soldiers on and runs into an old friend from his past. A sexy friend, too! Enter Duncan. Ted and Duncan were on the swim team together in their youth, and now, years later, they hit it off again. Duncan has his own business and offers to help Ted with...
16) Fade to Gray
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James Rockton is ready to die. In fact, he plans on it. Having lost his life partner to AIDS, he books the South Pacific cruise Richard didn't live to share. James will spread Richard's ashes at sea, and then slip overboard to join him forever. He's too old and too heartbroken to continue on alone. But James doesn't count on meeting a young man whose parents constantly put him down. Then there's the obviously gay young art dealer who ogles a crazy...
17) What We Remember
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If body and gender identity don't match, life is hard on people of any age. Hunter hasn't felt whole, since realizing in his teens that he isn't Holly. As a teen with no hope, Hunter lived male in his head, but turned his female body over to sex, pregnancy, miscarriage.
By the age of thirty-nine, Hunter has saved enough to have Gender Confirmation Surgery, leading to legal identity as a gay man. His voiced deepens, and male pattern baldness sets...
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It was just going to be a simple Spanish fabada bean and chorizo soup from his grandmother's favorite recipe. Jake hoped for a nice meal and a better time with his widower father. His dad didn't seem homophobic, but he just didn't get that Jake was gay. A quiet dinner might clear the air. But the trip to the supermarket was a disaster involving a bear and some sausage. Then his dad showed up accompanied by a health aide who isn't quite what she seems....
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Adam's both excited and appalled. His big moment is fast approaching -- his chance, finally, to lose the virginity that's plagued him for years. He wants this, but unfortunately, he has a bad cold. How can Adam breathe and be sexy as Seth approaches with lust in his eyes and hands?
It seems Seth, a nurse, doesn't find it to be a problem, and passion ensues, hot, heavy, and continuous. Adam is definitely ready for more. Then Seth discovers Adam's...
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Glen is coerced into helping his senile mother by his gay nephew Tristan. On probation, Mom burns things on the stove and steals cars for fun. Together they get her into an adult home, where her old lover lives.
The old man reveals he fathered a child with Glen's mother who was given up for adoption, but he no longer remembers the baby's name. All he knows is it starts with the letter D. Of course, everyone a little older than Glen with a D in his...
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