Comet Light Over Us
My name is Jared, I'm sixty-two years old, and last August I did something completely out of character.
Stories in Gay Male tagged food play, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 17 to 20 minutes. Writers to know: Birch Logic, Delta Route and Scarlet Tempo. Readers usually start with “Comet Light Over Us” and “Map and Measure”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
My name is Jared, I'm sixty-two years old, and last August I did something completely out of character.
I've been going to storage auctions for six years now.
I hadn't been back to Garza in eleven years.
I sat through forty minutes of a panel on sustainable event design before I started checking my phone under the table.
My name is Sergio Dunbar, I'm 24, and I've been a plumber for six years.
I never planned on staying in Skrindavik.
Rudy Gerrard had nobody to blame but himself.
I'd been a paramedic for sixteen years, and I figured by now nothing could make my pulse jump.
I watched Joseph unpack the car in that way of his, the way a pharmacist counts pills.
The whole thing was ridiculous and I knew it before we crossed the Manitoba line.
*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.