[MileApo, from the beginning to the present | BOOK ONE] Apo licks the rim of the glass and tips it to Mile's lips. Mile drinks, never taking his eyes off Apo. Apo takes a sip from the glass next. Mile is transfixed by the seductive bob of his Adam's apple, and his sensual neck. It's suddenly hard to breath. There's no air in the room. They stare at each other. You're so pretty it hurts to breathe, Mile thinks. He is realizing he may never have the courage to say it out loud. If Mile tells Apo how he feels, will Apo still feel safe and comfortable getting naked around him? Will it jeopardize their work? If their relationship is sabotaged, so too are their careers. It would be selfish of Mile to risk it all for his personal happiness. They should remain friends. It's the all-round best option. "Let's rehearse the pool scene." Mile says, completely incongruous with what he just determined. Mile sometimes says stupid things when he's nervous. #3 - mxm | May 12, 2023 #9 - boyxboy | May 12, 2023 #9 - bxb | May 13, 2023 #5 - kinnporsche | May 25, 2023

I'm obsessed with my best friend's dad. One day I looked a bit longer into his eyes and he just knew he could do anything to me and I would love it. #5 - bxblove | October 1, 2022 #4 - boyxboyromance | November 30, 2022 #10 - gaylove | December 19, 2022 #3 - gay | February 24, 2023 #4 - bl | August 20, 2023 #3 - bxm | August 25, 2023 #1 - bromance | September 19, 2023

Charlie Holloway has great friends, good grades, a steady part-time job he actually likes, and athletic ability that makes him a star in two sports, but recently it's all felt rather hollow. However, when childhood friend Theo Broussard comes back into his life, Charlie is shaken out of a years-long daze that has left him coasting through his teenage years. Theo just happening to be the star player for his school's biggest rival and his first crush only complicates matters further. When things get difficult, Charlie finds himself forced to choose between his current life following the path of least resistance or a harder but possibly more fulfilling one. "Only to feel this fully, this entire, the way snow touched bare skin & is suddenly, no longer snow" -Ocean Vuong, "Devotion" from Night Sky with Exit Wounds [Re-edited 4/18/20]

A deaf boy, named Nigel, settles in the image of what everyone sees him as: a once hearing-to-deaf and pitiful teen. With that, he's able to hide the his true and dark nature that allows him to take revenge out on those who hurt someone he cared for the most. Until one of those people he intends to punish, Evan, happens to be someone he didn't expect to care for. Someone he can't decide to hurt, or protect from his own nature he can't help. *** "Why are you looking at my lips?" Evan questions him, and he saw Nigel look back at them again. "Are you into dudes or something? Listen, I'm straight, but I don't have a problem with gay dudes. Just don't try to force your sexuality onto me, that's pretty shitty." The more he spoke, the more Nigel would look at his lips. Evan began to cover his mouth now and saw Nigel almost look offended by him doing so. Now he was confused and raised his eyebrow. Only to see Nigel sigh, stepping back as he looked down at Evan in contempt. "I am deaf, but I can read lips perfectly. You really have no filter, saying whatever you want without the consideration of how others might feel." Nigel spoke up, shocking Evan as he heard his voice for the first time. "I'm bisexual, not gay; but you don't need to worry. I wouldn't dream of forcing anything upon anyone. Besides, I'd never like somebody like you." Evan watched as Nigel began to reach behind the counter, pulling up a camera out of nowhere. That's when his picture was taken on the spot and he flinched. Except Nigel just connected the camera to the computer as Evan's picture was extracted. Set on a template for a library card, he saw Nigel working on it. He didn't care about that though as it was the words that he said. 'Besides, I'd never like somebody like you.' That was ringing in his mind more than anything else because... "Wait, I think I heard you wrong."

"I love you." "Oh?" "In a non-bro sort of way, y'know? Full homo." ~~~ Kai and Roan are a lot of things. Best friends, football players, straight A students, future roommates, and so on. Read what happens when a kiss adds something new to the list. ~~~ [This is a FREE book with paid exclusive chapters.] [bxb] [Marked mature for sexual content.]

Simon Love is maybe a bit of a dick. He's smart, but he's lazy, and he doesn't know how to live without his mom's meatloaf and at least 4 different investment accounts. After graduating from college, he can't bring himself to leave the comfort of his hometown, so when the newest tech giant, TechNet, plants its HQ roots in his very own Baker, Ohio, Simon knows this must be fate. And when TechNet brings in a local architect to draw up plans to spruce up the building, Simon can't help but notice his construction crew. More specifically, the tall twenty-something wearing a canvas tool belt, a beat-up Sox hat, and a small, heart-stopping smile that has the entire office talking. And it seems like Simon is the only one who doesn't know why.

A much needed night of stress relief turns into a series of unwanted circumstances for William Davidson when he finds himself as the target of a false accusation. To free himself from the misunderstanding, William is roped into taking his accuser on a date. Falling in love with him however, was not part of the bargain.

BOYS' LOVE When Jasper Matthews' childhood friend, Hayden Walker breaks up with his girlfriend, Jasper doesn't feel bad. That's because to him, Hayden is his first love. It's too bad he knows it will never work out. They're both guys. But when a friend of Hayden's starts noticing Jasper more and more, Jasper begins to find it hard to leave the guy alone himself. Xander Peyton, an upperclassman with unique light green eyes, becomes the comfort Jasper needs to get over his painful first love. And Jasper never imagined he would find comfort in someone so obviously different from himself. Of course, he never imagined powerful feelings to arise for the "rude bastard" either. ~•~•~ Do all first loves end in pain, or will Jasper finally get his feelings across for his childhood friend, Hayden?

BOYS' LOVE- second book to Strangely Comforting Jasper and Xander have finally made their relationship official. ...Only to each other. Jasper's best friend, Hayden, remains in the dark about the truth behind it and finds himself developing feelings faster than he had expected. Even more drama erupts and Jasper finds himself caught in the crossfire. What will he do about his relationship with Xander and how will he deal with Hayden?

Being given the lesser of two hands never feels right. It can make you feel like dirt. Princeton Harrell and Knox Foster both come from rough situations. Princeton takes full care of his alcoholic dad, leaving time mostly for two jobs. He's lucky to have a gang of best friends who would help him at every need, but his ego and drive to keep his family together have him trapping himself in a corner. Try all that while experiencing uncontrollable emotions that warp his already wrung life. Knox comes from a pair of unfortunate DNA. A dad locked up for murder, Knox grew up idolizing his mother before she's charged time for drugs and grand theft auto, he and his little sister have to move to a bowbunk town with their estranged grandparents and even sharing a room with his own uncle. Knox's life has been folding in for years, and now that he again has opportunities to grow he finds himself shackled to his past. How can you think to bloom if you're the dirt? Dirt. It's messy.