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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
— John Wooden

Have you voted in the 2011 Time 100 Poll? Dan Savage & Terry Miller, founders of the It Gets Better Project are listed at this link if you'd care to vote!

Dan Savage and Terry Miller - The 2011 TIME 100 Poll - TIME

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Dan Savage and Terry Miller's message: While it may be difficult to imagine a brighter future from the depths of adolescence, things do, eventually, get better

Interesting News Items...

Here are links to a couple fascinating news articles I'd like to share:

In the Science & Tech section of the UK's Daily Mail Online:
The Gay Caveman: 5,000-year-old is 'outed' by the way he was buried

In Advocate:
From Here to Eternity E-Book Restores Gay Sex

Awesome headlines, eh?

I've Got Nothing to Report, so...

I've got nothing new to report, writing-wise, but I don't want to completely neglect my blogs, etc. I've been posting daily-ish quotes to my Twitter and Facebook accounts in recent weeks. Here are a few of my favorites:

Quote by John Lennon

'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'

Quote by Judy Garland

'Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.'

Quote by Mae West

'You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.'

Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

'People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.'

Quote by Mark Twain

'The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.'

Quote by Dr. Seuss

'Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.'

One-Year Anniversary - CULTIVATING LOVE

Today is the one-year anniversary of my novella, Cultivating Love, published by Loose ID on June 9, 2009. Following is a little information about that story and a brief excerpt. Excerpts and a summary of reviews for all my stories are available on my website.

When two gay men move to a farm in small-town America, their relationship warms up, but can they take the heat of the bigotry they face?

A Novella 120 pages / 33,800 words ISBN 978-1-59632-971-3 Cost: $4.99 Cover Artist: Croco Designs

Cultivating Love by Addison Albright - Now available in ebook formats at: Loose ID - Available File Types: PDF, HTML, LIT, PRC Also available at the following distributor sites… Fictionwise - Available File Types: PDB, EPUB, RB, PDF, PDB, LIT, FUB, KML, LRF, PDB, PRC, MOBI, IMP Filament Books - Available File Types: PDB, EPUB, RB, PDF, PDB, LIT, FUB, KML, LRF, PDB, PRC, MOBI, IMP All Romance eBooks - Available File Types: PDF, LIT, HTML, PRC, EPUB OmniLit - Available File Types: PDF, LIT, HTML, PRC, EPUB Amazon Kindle - Kindle Format The eBook Store at Sony - Sony eReader Format

A man of few words, Joe is a hard-working farmhand who likes his simple, uncomplicated life. Ed is satisfied with his existence as an auto mechanic, but thrilled when an unexpected development in his life allows him to help Joe realize a dream.

It forces them, however, to reevaluate the casual, undefined nature of their relationship. They're too macho to speak of love, and neither would ever dream of acknowledging he doesn't really mind when it's his turn to bottom. When life throws them a curve ball, and the rules of their game get old, Ed makes an effort to take every aspect of their relationship up a notch. Will Joe be able to adapt to the open sentimentality Ed's injecting into their relationship, let alone the new spice in their bedroom activities?

Click to watch the YouTube video trailer

An Excerpt…

“Ed?” Joe’s voice wasn’t much more than a whisper, close to his ear.

Ed groaned. “What”

“Hey, I’m leaving. Sorry, I didn’t want to go without saying good-bye.”

Ed’s eyes flashed open. “Shit.” He sat up. “What time is it?”

“Uh, three o’clock. Sorry, I want to get there pretty early. Got a lot to do.”

Ed stood up. Jesus. No wonder it was so pitch dark. “Okay.” His brain was still foggy. He couldn’t think of the right words he knew he wanted to say. Damn, it would be days before he’d see Joe again. Shit, maybe a week. Or more.

He felt Joe’s hands on his shoulders, then Joe’s lips on his own. The kiss was tender and full of longing. Not wanting to let him go, Ed put his arms around Joe’s waist. The kiss broke way too soon. “Don’t go,” Ed whispered before his sluggish brain could catch up with his mouth. Shit.

Joe didn’t laugh, though, or even grin. Instead, he brought one hand up to cup Ed’s face before giving him a soft kiss. “I have to. Follow soon, Ed.”

“I will.”

“Promise?” Joe’s voice was husky.

Ed nodded. With his heart heavy, he knew he’d choke on any words he tried to speak.

Joe pulled back, and Ed let him go. Ed walked with him to the door. “Call me.”

Joe stared into his eyes before giving him one last quick kiss. “Every day.”

Ed worked up a little smile. Joe winked and turned to walk out to Ed’s little Escort. That was classic Joe -- practical and hardworking, with barely a hint of sentiment. And Ed missed him already. In less than a minute, Joe was out of sight. Ed slowly shut the door and leaned his forehead against the smooth wood. He felt empty. Cold and empty, and suddenly overwhelmed with emotion. He shuddered, fighting a tear that threatened to break free.

To hell with it. There were no witnesses, so he gave in and let go. Wet trails streamed down his face. Wondering how or when it had come to this, he bit his lip, salty with tears, and snuffled. What were they getting themselves into? This was way past the level where either of them could just walk away at the drop of a hat if they had a big argument. But that was good, wasn’t it? Joe had agreed they were partners and had been over-the-moon happy looking over the farm. If nothing else, he had Joe hooked with the farm.

His head ached, and he didn’t want to think about it anymore. He scrubbed his face with the palm of his hands and padded back to his lonely bed.

* * * * *

All was quiet and peaceful on the farm when Joe pulled to a stop behind the house. He wanted to think about anything but Ed and the look on Ed’s face when he’d left home. Worse yet, he didn’t want to confront his own feelings as he’d pulled out of the driveway and fully grasped the knowledge that it would be days before he’d see Ed again.

He missed Ed acutely. Hell, he’d rather bottom for Ed every day for a week than live apart for a week. Joe smiled ruefully to himself. That was a thought he’d take to the grave with him. That and the fact he’d actually had to fight back tears as each minute had taken him farther away from Ed.

He tossed his bags in the house, grabbed a sandwich and some Gatorade, and headed out to the barn. He needed to take care of the horses and let them out to exercise in the pen. The dogs greeted him as he approached. He put out some food and fresh water for them before turning to the horses. He let them loose in the pen, filled their water trough, and gave them their morning ration of hay and oats. In the machine shed, he hooked the swather up behind the large tractor and headed out to the alfalfa field.

Thank you! - Addison Albright


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Also available by Addison Albright…


Coming 11/26/2010


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Available @ Smashwords, Amazon Kindle, 1 Romance eBooks


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Available @ Smashwords, Amazon Kindle, 1 Romance eBooks


Available @ Smashwords, Amazon Kindle, 1 Romance eBooks


Available @ Smashwords, Amazon Kindle, 1 Romance eBooks


Available @ Smashwords, Amazon Kindle, 1 Romance eBooks


Available @ Smashwords, Amazon Kindle, 1 Romance eBooks


Available @ Smashwords, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble, 1 Romance eBooks,
All Romance eBooks, OmniLit, & Fictionwise


Available @ Torquere Books, All Romance eBooks, Fictionwise, Amazon Kindle, OmniLit


Available @ Torquere Books, Fictionwise, All Romance eBooks, Amazon Kindle, & OmniLit

KEY - AVAILABLE FILE TYPES:

PDB (eReader)		EPUB (ePub, Open eBook)
RB (Rocket)		PDF (Portable Document Format - Adobe Acrobat Reader)
LIT (Microsoft Reader)		FUB (Franklin eBookMan)
KML (hiebook)		LRF (Sony Reader)
PDB (iSilo, eReader, Palm Doc)		PRC (Mobipocket)
MOBI (Kindle Compatible)		PRC (Mobipocket)
IMP (OBEFF Full or Half VGA)		RTF (Rich Text Format)
TXT (Plain Text)		HTML

The Dream Series...

There have been a number of distributor uploads of my various books lately, so here's an update on where you can currently purchase the books in my "Dream" series (click the book covers for links to the story information pages on my website):

		A Dream Come True is now available at: Amazon Kindle, in addition to: Torquere Books, All Romance eBooks, Fictionwise, OmniLit, Barnes & Noble, etc.!
		Another Dream is now available at: All Romance eBooks & OmniLit, in addition to: Torquere Books! I also expect this book to become available on Amazon Kindle within 5 days, and Fictionwise within a couple weeks.
		Dreaming of You is now available at: Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble, 1 Romance eBooks, & Scribd, in addition to: Smashwords & Lulu!

GLBT Bookshelf Wiki

So, if you are an m/m author, and you haven't yet signed up at the new GLBT Bookshelf, then this is me, highly recommending that you do so. I would also recommend, if you've signed up, but done little to nothing with it, that you get busy and update your author page and hopefully some book pages, too. Here's why:

They've started their advertising campaign and the traffic there is picking up. They are also taking steps to show up more prominently in search engines. Is it working? A comparison of yesterday's stats of my regular website and my GLBT Bookshelf Author Page show the number of hits to be neck and neck for the first time. Previously my regular website has been hands down the winner, but yesterday it was a virtual tie. In fact, if you add in the hits to my individual book pages, the GLBT Bookshelf page won. So yeah, if you haven't taken the plunge yet, it's time.

GLBT Bookshelf Wiki

I've been working on my pages at the new GLBT Bookshelf Wiki. It's pretty nifty. If you haven't checked it out yet, you should. It's pretty easy to navigate around, but obviously since it's new, it's very much still under construction. For my pages I think I've got my author page about how I want it. The individual book pages have the basics up for each story, and they're listed in the directories, but I'm still adding info. I'm in the process of putting up brief excerpts from some of the reviews (with linkage to the actual reviews, of course), and plan to either post, or link to, story excerpts. Maybe by the end of this week I'll pretty much have it how I want it. Knowing me, though, it'll forever be getting tweaked--just like my website.

Awesome Cover & Banner - Cultivating Love

I've got the final version of my Cultivating Love book cover. I've got five different sizes of it, in fact, as well as a banner! Aren't they lovely? The cover artist is Croco Designs.

Cultivating Love - Preliminary Book Trailer

Making trailers is just too much fun, so I've done another one. Like the trailer for Another Dream, this one is also 'preliminary.' I've had a sneak peak at the cover for this one, and it ROCKS, but it's not the final, so I can't insert it into the video yet. So, the trailer is preliminary until I replace the opening frame with the actual book cover. I might do some further tweaking, too, but I'm pretty happy with it overall. So, I present to you my early version of the Cultivating Love book trailer!:

New Releases - Where to Buy

My two latest releases are each now available at several distributors:



KING KONG VS. THE SKINNY PIRATE IN EXCESSICA'S LIKE MAGNETS, WE ATTRACT ANTHOLOGY
Buy Like Magnets, We Attract @ eXcessica Here
Buy Like Magnets, We Attract @ All Romance eBooks Here
Buy Like Magnets, We Attract @ Fictionwise Here
But Like Magnets, We Attract @ Smashwords Here
Buy Like Magnets, We Attract @ Amazon Kindle Here

~ ~ ~



A DREAM COME TRUE - A TORQUERE TOP SHELF NOVEL
Buy A Dream Come True @ Torquere Books Here
Buy A Dream Come True @ All Romance eBooks Here
Buy A Dream Come True @ Fictionwise Here

Another Useless Meme...

LISTS OF FOUR -- Lists are in no particular order :-D

FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER & OVER:

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
3. Amadeus
4. Pulp Fiction


FOUR CITIES YOU’VE LIVED IN:

1. Syracuse, NY
2. Kansas City, MO
3. Mansfield, PA
4. Keller, TX


FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH:

1. Cash Cab
2. Dexter
3. Supernatural
4. Dirty Jobs


FOUR PLACES YOU’VE BEEN ON VACATION:

1. Cozumel, Mexico
2. Niagara Falls, NY
3. Memphis, TN
4. Orlando, FL


FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY:

1. http://addisonalbright.livejournal.com/friends/
2. http://reviewsbyjessewave.blogspot.com/
3. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/torquere_social/
4. http://www.fictionwise.com/


FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS:

1. Homemade French fries (It's a miracle I'm not 100 lbs overweight)
2. Popcorn
3. Chicken (fried, baked, grilled, whatever)
4. Steak


FOUR PLACES YOU’D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:

1. On a boat on a lake
2. Someplace tropical
3. On a sandy beach
4. Hiking through the woods

It's Useless Meme Time! :-D

I found a "Sweetheart Pet Name Generator" and figured I'd put in the names of the protagonists from my recent novel release, A Dream Come True. This is what it came up with:

Wes is my sensual paramour Get your sweetheart's pet name @ Quiz Me

Mike is my erotic sugar Get your sweetheart's pet name @ Quiz Me

Hehe--Even *I'm* not smushy enough to have my guys calling each other *that*!

Random Observations...

Random Observations:

I don't imagine I'm the only one who looks at their website stats now and then to see where the hits are coming from and where the visitors go when they exit. But, yeah, I do, 'cause it's a good way to see what does or doesn't do any good, promo-wise. With sales info only coming to me quarterly, and no way to tell when those sales were made with any more accuracy than 'sometime within those three months,' website stats are my only clue. I can't help but imagine there's some level of correlation between website hits and sales.

So anyway, I've made a few observations about website hits & exits outside of specific promotional efforts:

(1) Link exchanges work. I get a number of hits from the links lists on other writers' websites that proceed to browse through a number of pages and sometimes even exit to buy-links. Whether or not these result in a purchase, I don't know, but maybe sometimes?

Also, often enough, regardless of how a person got to my website, they often exit to a number of the author sites I have listed on my website's 'other links' page. Currently I put up a link (with a banner or book cover, if available) for every writer on my LJ friends list (I'm nice like that). I'm thinking of revising that rather generous practice in favor of the more standard I'll-put-up-a-link-for-you-if-you-put-up-a-link-for-me philosophy that most seem to follow, 'cause, damn, right now only a handful link back to me (although I imagine most don't even know I'm linking to them). Personally I don't care if it's only from somebody's LJ sidebar links list, if they don't have a website, but I think I'm going to clean that list up in about a month to include only those who reciprocate by linking back to my website.

Point is, if you're an author on my f-list, my website currently has a link either to your website or your LJ, but it'll be gone at the end of April unless I find a link to my website on either your website link page, if you have one, or your LJ side bar list, if you don't. Also, for the sake of streamlining, I'd prefer to keep it to banners and text links. The book cover links I use take up a lot of vertical space, so if you've got a banner available, please let me know.

I don't know. Maybe I'm just feeling bitchy today. If so, I'll get over it. :)

(2) It surprises me how often folks have bothered to google my name, then perused my site. It surprises me even more how often they've gotten there by googling a combination of my name and the name of a particular one of my stories. It took me a little bit of thinking to figure why this particular story was so often the reason someone was looking me up.

The story I'm referring to is my Sip, Born to be Wild. It was released at Torquere on 8/16/08. It's not my best seller at TQ, though. In fact it's third among the 'regular' Sips, behind Cow Pie Bingo (released 4/10/08) and Photo Shoot (released 11/29/08). If you factor in the Sips that were part of package sales then it's also behind my wedding Sip, Now and Forever (released 9/13/08, and my Halloween Sip, Moving On (released 10/31/08).

The reason it, over the stories that (if TQ sales are a reasonable barometer) would otherwise likely be more popular, is the story people are googling me for is that it (along with the two Taste Tests I'm in) are the only ones of my 10 publications that are up on Fictionwise. I don't have any actual sales figures yet. I don't remember when it went up on the distributor site, and if there's a way on their site to find out I haven't figured it out yet. I'm sure there's some kind of correlation between sales vs. those who bother to give a rating, but since I haven't seen any royalties from distributor sales yet I don't know if there's a typical percentage that could be used at a reasonable guideline or not.

At any rate, it seems to be doing well (for a short story from an otherwise unknown author), with 45 reader ratings (compared to 25 for the A Day at the Beach Taste Test, and 7 for the Shades of Autumn Taste Test). It's been out long enough that if it ever was on a 'best seller' list it's since dropped off. So I imagine this exposure to readers beyond those who stumble on the publisher's website must be the reason for the googling of this particular story in conjunction with my name that occurs 3-4 times per week.

Those three stories, along with Dropping Quarters (released 9/6/08, and incidentally my worst seller at TQ so far), are the only four of my 10 releases on All Romance EBooks. Fictionwise apparently does better overall, 'cause the numbers of ratings are overall much lower on ARe (although I'm happy to report they average out to 5 stars on each). BtbW has 5 ratings, DQ has 3, TT:ADatB has 1, and TT:SoA has 2.

I expect that the royalty check I get sometime in April for first quarter will have some distributor info on it so I'll finally get to see the correlation between number of ratings given and number of sales. At any rate, though, the sheer number of google hits I get from the one little story I have on Fictionwise tells me that I really, really wish the rest would get uploaded. Hell, Cow Pie Bingo was my best seller at TQ, the contract expires on 4/10/09, and it never saw any distributor exposure at all. That's a real shame.

End of rambling. Those are the random things I've noticed.

Promo-wise, if anyone cares, being one of a kazillion writers posting to a YaHoo board on an excerpt day or big blitz day has little to no effect on my website hits. Posting direct promo/excerpts anywhere doesn't do too much, either. But, posting free ficlets that are complete little stories unto themselves to LJ communities that run those kinds of things, produces lots and lots of hits, for a long time after the postings were made. Hits that even lead to buy-link exits.

Just for fun...

To maintain a healthy level of insanity:

1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
4. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
5. In the memo field of all your checks, write, 'For Sex.'
6. Skip down the hall rather than walk and see how many looks you get.
7. Order a diet water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.
8. Specify that your drive-through order is 'to go.'
9. Sing along with the soloist at church.
10. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party--because you have a headache.
11. When the money comes out of the ATM, scream 'I won! I won!'
12. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling, 'Run for your lives! They're loose!'
13. Tell your children over dinner, 'Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go.'
14. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 300%, extra dark, 126 copies.
15. Leave your turn signal on for twenty miles.
16. Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with disinfectant.
17. Invent nonsense technical jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid looking ignorant.
18. Select the same song on the jukebox fifty three times.

And the final way to keep a healthy level of insanity:

19. Pick up a box of condoms at the pharmacy, go to the counter and ask where the fitting room is.

Ficlet - "The Nooner" - Rated NC-17

Here's a ficlet I wrote yesterday for Torquere's Livejournal Social Community. These are the prompt words I was given (they were all used): nooner, blindfold, camera, intense, numb, ice cream, tomatoes, keychain, spiral staircase, flagpole, WaterPik shower massager. The prompt words led me beyond PG-13 this time, clearly into the realm of NC-17. Not work safe…definitely not.

The Nooner

You've got to come home right now. For Spooner. It's an emergency. Jerry's voicemail hadn't been very specific. Ben was numb with worry as he trotted from the car to the front entrance of their new house. Poor little kitty.

He fumbled and dropped his keychain, then knocked his head on the poorly placed flagpole.

"Dammit." He stood up and stumbled up to the door, rubbing his head.

"Jerry?" Ben hollered through the house. "Where are you? Where's Spooner? Is she going to be okay?"

Ben's jaw dropped as Jerry sauntered out of the kitchen, buck naked, eating a bowl of ice cream as if he didn't have a care in the world.

"What do you mean?" Jerry asked.

Ben sputtered. "Your voicemail. You said 'For Spooner.' You said it was an emergency."

Jerry grinned. "For Spooner? No, she's fine. I said for a nooner." He glanced down at his half-hard cock and shrugged. "It's kind of an emergency."

"You're kidding."

"You're not mad, are you? Sorry, you look upset."

Ben scratched at the sore spot on his head. "No, not at you. I hit my head and I would have sworn you said Spooner, so I was worried."

"Sorry hon. Didn't mean to worry you." Jerry leaned over to give him a light kiss.

"Mmm, nice." Ben wrapped his arms around Jerry's neck and pressed in. Jerry's arms came around his waist, then Ben shuddered as he felt the cold ice cream sliding down his back.

Ben jumped back. "Shit, Jerry. You're tipping your bowl."

Jerry grimaced. "Sorry. Damn. I keep having to apologize to you today."

Ben looked into the dripping, half empty bowl Jerry still held in his hands. "What the hell is that? Please tell me you don't have tomatoes mixed in with your pistachio."

"What's wrong with that?"

Ben sighed. "Nothing I guess. Just don't ever give it to me that way, okay?"

"Check. No tomato with pistachio for you." Jerry wiggled his eyebrows. "Hey, this mess works out, anyway. My surprise for you is in the shower."

"There's a surprise?" Things were looking up. He rather liked Jerry's surprises.

Jerry got an intense look in his eyes. "You're really gonna like this one."

Sweet.

Jerry put his bowl down on the coffee table and led Ben to the spiral staircase leading up to their loft that had been the deciding selling point for the house.

Upstairs Jerry opened his top dresser drawer and pulled out a purple blindfold. Uh oh. "When did you get that?"

"Last weekend. I want you blindfolded for the surprise."

"O—kay." He could go with that. He closed his eyes as Jerry wrapped the thing twice around his head.

Then Jerry stepped away. It was disorienting standing there in the dark. Ben put his hands up, reaching for Jerry.

He heard a click and barely detected a flash through the edges of the blindfold. "What was that? A camera? Tell me you didn't just take a picture of me standing here like a doofus."

"Um, sorry, that'd be a lie."

"That better not end up on the Internet."

Jerry laughed. "Quit worrying. Just relax now. You need to get undressed now for our shower."

"Fine." Ben pulled off his tie and unbuttoned his shirt as Jerry went straight for his pants. Ben kicked out of his shoes so Jerry could get them off. His socks and boxers were peeled off last.

"There," said Jerry. "Much better." Ben could hear the smile in Jerry's voice.

A hand at his elbow led Ben into the bathroom. Jerry started the water in the shower.

"Okay, it's hot enough, come on in," Jerry instructed him.

Ben stepped into the shower stall. But where was the water? He reached up to adjust the shower head, but it wasn't there. Instead there was a hose running out. He followed the hose down to the sprayer in Jerry's hands."

"When did we get a hand held shower thingy?"

"I got it this weekend. You're going to loved it, Ben. It's not just any old sprayer, it's a WaterPic shower massager."



[Technically I've used all the prompt words now and could just end it here. But what the heck, they're already nekkid…]



"Huh. Well, that sounds good."

"Just wait." Jerry's voice changed to his bossy tone. "Turn around now. Put your hands on the wall."

Sweet. Orders. Ben did as he was told.

Jerry started on his forearm, and worked his way up to his shoulder. It wasn't too intense, but it was nice. Relaxing. Jerry switched to the other arm. When Jerry reached his other shoulder he adjusted the nozzle and the water powered out, pulsing as Jerry drew circles on his back with the powerful stream.

Ben moaned and dropped his head down. Damn, Jerry'd been right. He was really loving it. So relaxing. Jerry's free hand landed on his ass, kneading his cheeks before trailing around to the front to pump his stiffening prick.

"Like the surprise?" Jerry's voice was low in his ear.

Ben's reply was more of a groan. "Love it. Don't stop."

"Do I ever?"

Nope, he sure didn't. Jerry never stopped until after Ben expected him to. Of course, that was one of the many things he loved about the man.

Jerry's arm snaked around to his front and the water jet pulsed across his chest. Ben pushed back as Jerry pressed against his back, grinding himself along the crack of his ass.

The water massage moved down to circle around his abs as Jerry's other hand maintained a firm, steady, slippery slide along his rock hard cock. Ben groaned as teeth nipped along his shoulder, and the grind against his ass turned frenzied.

"No." Ben protested when Jerry's hand dropped his prick. Damn, he was that close to coming. "Don't fucking stop."

"Just ramping it up a bit, love." Jerry turned the nozzle on the shower head again…actually to a less intense pulse, before grabbing his cock again. Ben appreciated the water adjustment when the jet hit his balls.

Ben's reaction was immediate. A groan tore through him as Jerry's firm grip milked the come from his prick.

The WaterPik dropped to the floor of the shower stall as Jerry pressed Ben up against the wall. Ben's head fell back on Jerry's shoulders and Jerry made his final frenzied thrusts along Ben's crack. Jerry's arms came around him, holding him tightly, then Jerry moaned into his shoulder as warm spunk spilled into the crush between them.

Long moments later Jerry released him. Feeling disoriented in the dark, Ben kept his hands on the wall as Jerry retrieved the sprayer and rinsed them off.

The water turned off and Jerry's hands carefully unwound the blindfold. Ben turned to see Jerry's smiling face.

"Am I forgiven for my minor subterfuge to get you home?"

Subterfuge? "I knew you'd said 'for Spooner.'"

Jerry grimaced. "Sorry. Forgive me?"

Ben sighed. "Of course." Then he smiled back at Jerry. "It was worth it."

"Love you." Jerry's grin was wide.

"Love you, too."

The End


"That better not end up on the Internet."
Oops. I hope Jerry doesn't get in trouble for this.

Disclaimer: For those who care, this is a 'royalty free' photo from dreamstime.com. ;-D

Thank you! - Addison Albright


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