A Double Booking to Remember
Nick had spent the whole week counting paper clips, more or less.
Playful and teasing gay male stories
Stories in Gay Male tagged playful and teasing, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 17 to 19 minutes. Writers to know: Pine Epilogue, Delta Route and Onyx Crossing. Readers usually start with “A Double Booking to Remember” and “The Bookshop Wager”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Playful and teasing gay male stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Bookshop Wager
So here's how I ended up working weekends at a used bookstore at thirty-four years old.
03 The Foreman's Son
The bus let Monty off at the end of a gravel drive that ran so far into the trees he couldn't see the house from the road.
04 Prescription Hold
The drawer was two hundred and fourteen dollars short of where it should have been when the front door buzzed, and I remember that number…
05 The Lookout Point
Felix Armstrong was forty-four years old and had just become an expert at packing a car.
06 The Best Man Gambit
I'm forty-four years old and I'm hiding behind a buffet tent holding a two-year-old.
07 The Rancher's Stranger
I'd never done anything like this before, so when I pulled my rental truck down that long gravel drive into the heart of the Texas Hill…
08 Pride and Petty Games
My name is Hector.
09 Brief Interruption
I woke up alone in a bed that smelled like somebody else's shampoo, and for about four seconds I lay there feeling pretty good about myself.
10 The Nanny's Neighbor
Ethan dumped me three months ago, and I'm still not over it.
11 Loan Sharks
My name is Jason Hopkins, I'm 34 years old, and on the first Friday of October I was sitting in my third quarterly review prep of the…
12 Drummer's Downbeat
I'm coiling cables again.
13 Flirting With the Flinch
I got back to Fenton on a Thursday, two years almost to the month since I'd last slept in my own bed at my mom's place, and by Friday…