15. Sown Seed

Snow is a funny thing. It blankets cities and highways, looking beautiful and wreaking havoc. It cancels classes, delays planes, and causes car accidents. It aches backs with the recently shoveling. But after just a bit of warm weather, it recedes as though it was never there, leaving just the memories of its convenience, the…

12. Agreeable Gray

Brandon turned into the gravel drive and pulled up behind Anthony’s Jeep, just as he had dozens of times. But this time felt different. He cut the engine and stared through the windshield at the farmhouse. A pale sun washed over the front of the house, the long shadows of the porch columns slanting across…

9. Upcycling

Brandon let the garbage bag of shoes sit in the back of his SUV for three days. He wasn’t sure why he hadn’t pulled it out or looked inside. Perhaps he was still feeling strange about his last encounter with Anthony, about sliding his fingers into his shoe while he was still wearing the damned…

8. Stretching Too Far

Anthony was cleaning out. Brandon had no idea what precipitated the move, but he wasn’t terribly crestfallen to find out that they would not be seeking YouTube material that weekend when he discovered he would be helping in this venture instead. Brandon and Anthony’s relationship, it seemed, was less and less based on the mudding…

6. Iron & Suede

When Brandon was in his final year of high school, he had spent an evening a week or so before Christmas caroling with friends in a nearby neighborhoods. This was a typical pastime—while most of his peers attended dances or football games, Brandon and a small circle with similar, narrow interests, participated in drama club…

4. Cat Sitting

Brandon could remember his first erection. Probably most guys could. His came around five or six after seeing a commercial for Cascade dish detergent, oddly enough. Brandon couldn’t recall the details of the commercial—only a scene of white dishes crashing and shattering against a wall, thrown by unseen hands. It was in mentally replaying this…

3. A Tiny Kernel

Two weeks had passed. Brandon still felt a confusing mixture of shame and bliss burn in him when he replayed the details of the events. In the immediate aftermath he was mortified. Anthony, of course, was clueless to Brandon’s torment. He had chucked the destroyed Vans into the back of the Jeep with the tripod,…

2. The Plunge

Brandon had never known an orgasm this intense, which felt wrong considering the partner. As he felt the last of his wasted seed spurt onto the insole, he staggered into the side of jeep, which made a dull metallic thud. Anthony glanced over toward him questioningly, having not a clue as to what had transpired….