When a spark lights between a commitment-phobic playboy and an emotionally-challenged Ph.D. student, will love or lust win out? ****** There's something happening between Jay and Elias, opposites who find themselves together often after their best friends start dating. First begins a playful push and pull, but the two can't play games for long before desire wins out. Jay just wants sex and Elias wants to date, but neither will admit they're in love. Who will win the battle between lust and love? [SAMPLE. Full story on Radish Fiction under title His Almost Boyfriend.] [Spin-off to Our Strange Love but can be read alone, before, or after]

*COMPLETED* (Y.O.L.O stands for: YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE) *** Carter Jones, the school nerd, and Killian Henderson, the reputated troublemaker, somehow end up getting detention together. "How about we make a bet?" Offered Killian, his pistachio-green eyes drilling into mine as a playful smile lingered on his lips. "A bet?" I gulped, intimidated by how close he was sitting next to me. He nodded and raised four fingers, the ones with the letters "Y.O.L.O" tattooed on them, wriggling them in front of me with his ever-so-confident grin. "Four dares, Jones, just you and me." And that's how it all started. *** Rankings: #fiction #featured #queer #gay #depression #bl #youngadult #featured #comedy #bisexual #manxman #teen fiction #boyxboy #bxb #LGBT #romance Cover designed by Holly Thurston

- in which expected feelings swallow him whole and then spit him back up in a melted puddle of love