The Glass Bird
I'm Lawrence, twenty-eight, and I work at a bank, which is exactly as fun as it sounds.
Stories in Gay Male tagged spouses, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 14 to 20 minutes. Writers to know: Current of North, The Hazel Tale and Delta Route. Readers usually start with “The Glass Bird” and “Second First Dance”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
I'm Lawrence, twenty-eight, and I work at a bank, which is exactly as fun as it sounds.
The party had been going for four hours and I had already talked about the weather with eleven people.
My name is Nick.
*This one's for anyone who's ever felt like they had to compete with a partner's past.
I'd been a paramedic for sixteen years, and I figured by now nothing could make my pulse jump.
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…
I watched Joseph unpack the car in that way of his, the way a pharmacist counts pills.
Gabe here, twenty-eight, landscaper, married two years to a customs officer who lives three hundred miles away from me.
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…
*This one came from wanting to write a middle-aged couple who still have it, they just forgot the key in the ignition.