Rival Roots
The wall between my apartment and Joe's is about as thick as a wet paper towel, so at 2 a.m.
Dark and intense gay male stories
Stories in Gay Male tagged dark and intense, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 16 to 22 minutes. Writers to know: Current of North, Timber Archive and Dawn Post. Readers usually start with “Rival Roots” and “Four Days Off”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Dark and intense gay male stories, ranked by readers
01 02 Four Days Off
Hassan closed the shop for four days in March for a trade show in Vegas.
03 The Reunion Trip
I hadn't been back to Garza in eleven years.
04 The Button Jar
The divorce was three years ago this October.
05 The Night We Sank
I don't sing.
06 The Tar Beach
My life at 44 was basically the same week on repeat.
07 The Boathouse Deal
My name is Noah, I'm twenty-eight, and until last month I thought I was straight.
08 The Off-Season Favor
Roland Dawkins was forty-four years old and he could tell you exactly what any given Tuesday was going to look like.
09 Waiting on Leave
Rod woke at 5:47 because the birds outside his window had no respect for anyone, least of all a forty-two-year-old man who had drunk two…
10 The Weight of His Name
They gave me six weeks to catalog a dead house and told me it would be quiet work.
11 The Neighbor's Wreckage
I moved into the back room of that workshop on a Tuesday, and by Wednesday I was already cursing the whole engineering department while…
12 Poolwater
It was 3am and I was sitting in my kitchen holding my pool schedule in one hand and my ex's toothbrush in the other, and I remember…
13 The Downhill Challenge
Okay so, backstory.