As a twenty-eight-year-old single father with a fourteen-year-old son, Connor, he knows his appeal to the average gay man is limited, and when you factor in his low self-esteem and tendencies towards rudeness and sarcasm, it might as well be nonexistent. But that’s okay. A man is the last thing Spencer needs or wants.Tim Ellis’s life is falling apart around him. After four years of hard work at college, he finds himself blacklisted from the career of his dreams by the professor he refused to sleep with and abandoned by the boyfriend he thought he was going to marry. Even though he was lucky enough to land a job at a bakery, he still feels like a failure.Tim and Spencer’s first meeting is filled with turbulent misunderstanding, but Tim makes a connection with Connor through a Big Brother/Big Sister program, and both men put aside their mutual dislike for his sake. By letting go, they may help each other find their way into a life they never could have imagined.Warning: References to attempted sexual coercion by a male professor towards a male college student, references to a female high school teacher having sexual relations with unnamed underage male students.Word Count: 108800.

    Garrett’s uncle Travis died, leaving him a resort-town house with a coffee shop. Garrett wraps up his massage business and heads to Berkley Springs, WV. From a homeless teen to a college-educated, self-made man, he did well for himself. Despite all that, it’s hard to walk proud to where so many old memories lay in ambush. Jay is grieving old Travis, who helped him get traction in life by giving him a job and a place to stay. Coffee Spring is his home as well as his profession – but the new owner will surely sell out to an unsavory local. The nephew’s good looks are matched by his strong ethics: he refuses to break established boundaries and date his tenant/employee/massage client. Their attraction is hotter than the geothermal spring that brings them together, but their options are... complicated. And the whole gossipy town is watching.

    "Structures of Rime" affirms his belief in the universal integrity of the poem itself in the living process of language. Thus in "The Structure of Rime I" he declares: "O Lasting Sentence, / sentence after sentence I make in your image. In the feet that measure the dance of my pages I hear cosmic intoxications of the man I will be."