Those Summer Nights

Brandon is a fast food worker who just landed a lead role in Victoria, BC’s local Pride production of “Hello, Dolly!” Xander is a failed baseball prospect turned Duncan high school history teacher and under-18 baseball coach who gets his breakfast every morning from Brandon’s drive-thru window.

Once they meet outside of Brandon’s work, they hit the chemistry out of the park and the whole summer awaits them… after they finish their obligations. But Xander also has plans to move to Duncan before the next school year and cut the long, annoying commute out of his day. How soon is too soon to tell his new lover? And is a little summer lovin’ going to be enough for Xander to become hopelessly devoted?

Content Warnings:

• Recreational drinking (responsibly)
• Privacy invasion (accidental but consequential)
• Explicit on-page sexual conduct

A Little Bit of Blooming Luck

Gale Doolittle’s days as a bathhouse body worker are numbered. His side work on the shadowy streets of Edwardian London don’t pay as well, and are more risky. When a Colonel comes in for a rub-down and tells him a local phonetics expert is being unduly mean to a female student, Gale rushes in to take her place. It doesn’t only rescue her, but might also rescue his employment prospects.

Oxford graduate Henry Higgins is confident, so much so that he’s wagered he can pass off common gutter folk as nobility at an embassy ball. He’s also brusque, and wrong about a lot of things. As Gale’s speech training progresses the two frequently spat, and when Gale outs himself to Henry he discovers he’s not the only one who finds their sparring more than just mentally invigorating.

The more Gale gets to know Henry underneath the brash exterior, the more he learns is on the line for his new lover: career, companionship, contentment, freedom to be his true self. And Gale must decide if his project—Henry—is worth the payoff.

Content Warnings:

• Gale is a sex worker
• Explicit sexual content (a LOT)
• Higgins-typical misogyny/classism (challenged)
• Passing thought of framing someone for “gross indecency” (not acted upon)
• Secondary character cheating on spouse
• 2 instances of slurs for sex workers
• Cockney accent approximated in text – may not work well with screen readers