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Pride and Joy ✓ by swallowedhearts
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[BXB] Nate Pembroke makes an offer that Denver Hughes can't refuse. ✩✩✩ Ever since tragedy struck Denver Hughes' family two years ago, nothing has been the same. As a result, already apathetic Denver decided his best move was to push his feelings aside and avoid them completely- until he decides to seek them out again. Nate Pembroke acts without thinking and has the bruises to show for it. He's impulsive; a hurricane; a whirlwind and he's Denver's golden opportunity. When he offers to help Denver embrace all of his messy and complicated feelings, Denver knows it's an offer he can't refuse. But as their friendship begins to blossom into something more, Denver is forced to face his feelings- and his grief- in a way that he never expected. [ November. 2021. - February. 2022. ]
Falling by hipstateasee
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COMPLETED [boyxboy] Carson Hughes is a bright light. Vinny Taylor is an enigma. ** After spending his summer away as a camp counselor, Carson Hughes comes back to his home town for his senior year. Things seem to be just as he left them until he finds out his best friend's brother came out of the closet and cut everybody out of his life. Kind and caring Carson can't help but want to understand this new Vinny. Vinny Taylor is falling, constantly going down and feeling like there's no end. His summer leaves him changed forever. After coming out and alienating himself, he spends most days locked away in his room until Carson comes back to town. Vinny's a mystery yet to be figured out. And Carson is up to the task. WARNING: Some of the content in this book may be triggering for some readers. Chapters with triggering content will have trigger warnings at the top with what the triggering content is. There will not be any graphic or detailed scenes of traumatic or triggering experiences. ~180k words
Glorified high ✓ by bukowskiworld
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[ boyxboy ] When a nameless boy finds himself torn between the comfort of his childhood and adult temptation he captures the attention of an eccentric and charming clubber who is eager to introduce him to more than just the new city's attractions. This is a gritty heartbreaking story about innocence lost in the urban wild party scene. This is a story about overwhelming, intense, addictive, all-consuming love. This is a story about him. Started: July 2021 Completed: December 2021 🥈 Borderverse awards - Teen fiction 🥈 The Pillow awards - Best writing style
The Best of Us by swallowedhearts
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[BXB] Seventeen year old Tucker Bailey is spiraling. Sharing a home with his cold father and a hollow shell of an older brother, Tucker struggles to find himself in a house filled with ghosts of the past. As he battles grief, his intensifying and confusing feelings for his lifelong best friend, Bradley, and his increasing lack of purpose and direction, Tucker decides he wants to take his life back. But the road ahead is a long one and if he takes a wrong turn along the way then he doesn't just risk losing himself; he risks losing everything. [ September. 2022. - present ] #34 in movingforward #47 in comingoutofthecloset #64 friendstolovers #70 in movingon
Wherefore Art Thou Romeo? ✓ by swallowedhearts
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[BXB] Romeo, exhausted by his apathetic relationships, is desperate to prove to himself that he can find love. Rodney, reckless and exciting, is unlike anyone he has ever met. Instantly, Romeo is captivated and thinks that the love he seeks lies in Rodney. But there is an ugliness to loving Rodney that Romeo didn't expect and, as their relationship becomes more intense, he realizes that it's harder to separate love and obsession than he once thought. As the line blurs and love is contaminated by destruction, Romeo has to decide if Rodney is the answer to his prayers or the road to his downfall. [ november. 2022 - october. 2023 ]
The Search Of Cristian ✔ by Junedsilver
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|| Second Book! Can not be read as a stand-alone || Read The Secrets Of Finnley first! "Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire." After getting in a lot of trouble, Cristian tried to pick up his carefree life again. He focusses on everyday things in life, graduating high school and hanging around with a handful of trustworthy and close friends. Putting his love life on hold for a while, he decides to simply focus on school and friends for the time being; and adjusting to college life. That all changes at the first party of the school year, held to welcome all students in the city. Cristian tries not to get involved in Stan's plans to seduce his new love-interest, not to end up drunk and to overall just have a good time with his friends. But as if faith wants to play a game with him, he walks into the one person he was hoping to never see again; Finnley. One heated kiss, a weird text in the morning and the past catching up with him, and his life is back to being a mess. A meeting with an old friend and a short trip back to his hometown causes his carefree attitude to crumble down, dragging him back into the state of fear and most of all, causing him to start searching for answers to questions that have been left unanswered for months.
The Death of Antinous || bxb ✔︎ by AudreyHornesHeart
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Antinous is destined to die. Envied by the gods and despised by his rivals, the Greek youth from Bithynia is the most beautiful boy in the Roman Empire, summoned to the Eternal City where the emperor, Hadrian, makes him his lover. Just when Antinous thinks he has outrun destiny, he meets Leonides, a bold young soldier who conquers his heart. He desires the soldier but belongs to the emperor. If he gives in to temptation it may cost them their lives. His rivals are always talking and the gods always watching.
Not Who You Thought (BxB Drama-Romance) by ryaninnyc
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Lucas Vargas vehemently denies being gay, but finds he can't deny Charlie Grayson what he wants whenever he comes over. The problem with their arrangement is that it doesn't feel like two friends using one another to get off; it feels suspiciously like love. As Lucas gets to know Charlie in more intimate ways, he feels his emotions spiral out of control. There's something different about eclectic Charlie, something that Lucas is undeniably attracted to. Below the surface of their arrangement a darker secret lurks, one not visible to the naked eye and long forgotten. In an attempt to reconcile his confusing sexuality, his loneliness, and his growing love, Lucas tries to find ways to keep Charlie close by. In a small town where rumors run rampant, the boys keep their intense intimacy a secret. When the girl next door threatens to upheave everything him and Charlie have built together, his old friends's backlash against his friendship with Charlie becomes more severe, and the frequent bruises on Charlie's body begin to paint a picture too horrible and disturbing to imagine, Lucas is faced with a difficult choice. TW: contains depictions of violence and explicit/disturbing content
Detached [boyxboy] by ritest
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[LGBT+, Short Story, Teen Fiction, Romance] [Completed] "If I was a flame, he was the whole damn fire" A story of friendship, young love and tragedy. The story of Noah and Casimir Part 1 published - 1st January 2018 Completed - 15th February 2018