Behind the Tunnel
The brasserie on Rue des Trois Rois had maybe nine tables and a ceiling fan that spun like it resented its job.
Dry and wry gay male stories
Stories in Gay Male tagged dry and wry, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 15 to 21 minutes. Writers to know: Scarlet Tempo, Odyssey of Pine and Current of North. Readers usually start with “Behind the Tunnel” and “Residual Heat”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Dry and wry gay male stories, ranked by readers
01 02 Residual Heat
The fake wedding cake had gotten everywhere.
03 The Archive Sessions
Callum Buckley was twenty-nine years old, and he was wet.
04 The Off-Season
My birthday is in three days, which is a thing I keep forgetting to mention to people, because nobody asks anymore.
05 The Day Pass
I've managed the Grand Meridian hotel for six years now.
06 Gallery Hours After Dark
The gallery at night is the quietest place I have ever worked, and I used to work in a library, so that is saying something.
07 Shoot the Set
I'd known Elliot for about four months, and only in the way you know somebody through friends of friends, meaning we'd nodded at each…
08 Dust and Headlights
The motel room smelled like cheap air freshener and somebody's cigarettes, and I stood in the doorway of the bathroom for a full minute…
09 The Fake Date That Got Real
The whole thing was ridiculous and I knew it before we crossed the Manitoba line.
10 Thermos of Soup
Gabe here, twenty-eight, landscaper, married two years to a customs officer who lives three hundred miles away from me.
11 The Birthday Dare
I woke up at six thirty the way I always do, before the alarm, and lay there for a minute staring at the ceiling before it hit me that it…
12 The Foreman's Gauge
My name's James.
13 Fitting Revenge
*This one's a little meaner than my usual fare, but sometimes you need a story where the revenge is petty and the romance is sweaty.
14 Pit Crew
*This one came from wanting to write a middle-aged couple who still have it, they just forgot the key in the ignition.