Ninestar Press
Category:
Gay/Lesbian/Bi
Type: Fiction
Copyright: April 4, 2016
Price: $4.99 (eBook)
Gay lovers find temporary respite from adversity in this collection of stories by Scott D. Pomfret. Ranging from a cocaine-fueled rampage to the blind eye of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to the submission of a dick-dock orgy, these stories depict the bonds gay men forge when political unrest, drugs, HIV/AIDS, the Church or a demanding T-ball schedule put their commitments to the test.
*In "You Are the One," a flaming gardener on the military-base fights his impulse to persuade his warrior boyfriend to out himself to his commanding officer to avoid a second tour in Iraq, even though he knows his lover would be a different person if he took the easy way out.
*In “The Casualty Assistant,” a soldier bringing the news of a husband’s death in battle to a young wife finds himself with a disloyal and dishonorable hard-on when the wife confesses to an affair while her husband was stationed abroad.
*In "Kali," a couple of gay married teachers get over their heads when they set up as amateur coke dealers.
*In "Dry Things," a gay visitor to Egypt during its uprising finds companionship and a good meal away from his traveling companion and walks untouched through Cairo's riotous streets.
*In "FOB Loyalty," a stateside civilian welcomes back his boyfriend who was wounded in action, but soon finds that there are other stateside threats against his boyfriend against which he must defend.
*In "Devils," a frustrated boyfriend sets out to complete Herculean deeds in an effort to get God to release his lover from a strange new disease.
* In "Transport," a seasoned hard-ass Marine develops a crush on one of the soldiers under his command.
* In "All You Need," a professional dog-walker known as the Dogfather endures in the midst of an ever-changing urban neighborhood.
* In "Hit and Run," a gay father reluctantly abandons the gay ghetto to move to the suburbs and coach his daughter's little league team with unexpected conflicts and subtle joys.
*In "Magi," a gay couple struggling to sustain their relationship at Christmas time despite outward appearances.
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