Category: Genre: Romance
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Hungry

Romance short. A journalist observes a hunter skinning a deer. 1.5k. Just a bit of romance and slice-of-life between a hunter and a journalist observing his work. It’s a fine day, temperate, and the air is a pleasant weight on his shoulders, a light breeze coming under his hat and playing at the edges of his…
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The Angel
Category: M/M, Character: Bui Ng, Character: Jean-Pierre Delacroix, Rating: M, Setting: 1800s | 19th Century, Setting: Vietnam, Theme: Angels, Theme: Buddhists & Buddhism, Theme: Catholics & Catholicism, Theme: Hunting & Butchery, Theme: Imperialism & Colonialism, Theme: Professors & Teachers, Theme: Resistance & Revolution, World: Magic Beholden
Fiction short. A young man lays eyes on an angel. The angel is a smug prick. 2.4k, rated M. 1870s Annam (Vietnam). Bui, a school teacher, falls into bed with an angel — Jean-Pierre Delacroix. For the setting and period, although it’s not explicitly depicted, note references to the colonial violence of the French during the 19th…
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Smoke Break

Romantic short. A child psychologist is seduced by a receptionist from a neighbouring office space. 4k, rated M, M/M. Set in the mid-noughties. Oblique references to child abuse, smoking throughout, age difference. Adapted from a TweetFic. Lionel took a breath of fresh air sometimes between difficult appointments, and so long as it wasn’t raining, he’d take…
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Two Plates
Category: M/M, Kink: Age Gap / Age Difference, Kink: Kissing, Rating: M, Theme: Banter & Flirtation, Theme: Books & Literature, Theme: Bookshops & Antique Stores, Theme: Cats, Theme: Food & Cooking, Theme: Isolation & Loneliness, Theme: Men Who Love Men | Homosexuality, Theme: Neighbours, Theme: Queer Community, Theme: Sex Shops & Porn Stores, World: Magic Beholden
Romance short. A crotchety bookshop owner receives regular visits from the sex shop-owner across the way. 3k, rated M. Just something short and sweet, with a grumpy old man reluctantly letting his neighbour in. Age gap, kissing, lots of banter and sharp back and forth. Note some mentions of past sexual abuse. Ezra’s back aches, his…
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Shivers

Erotic short. A young man kisses an older bear. 500w. Rated M. Some touch starvation and shivers, kissing in a man’s lap. “Come here, lad,” says Ruadhrí, and Anton has to brace himself, takes in a slow and sucking breath that rattles his rib cage not because it’s painfully cold or because it’s that laborious, but…
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Close Shave

Romance short. A barber and his lover alone in the shop after closing. 1.3k, rated M. Lenny has been travelling a while, and now home, Aban welcomes him back with his straight razor. Lots of intimacy and warmth and love and affection, expressed through shaving kink! It’s late in the evening when Aban pushes Lenny back…
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Temple Service

Romance short. A servant at the temple to Hephaestus lusts after an olive-tender. Rated M, 2.2k, cis M/M, some ancient Greeks! A temple servant and a grove-worker, lots of teasing and banter and flirting. Adapted from a Tweetfic. Periscus had served at Hephaestus’ shrine for a few months now — he’d lived some ways out from the…
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Touch-Starved
Category: M/M, Kink: Anal Sex, Kink: Coming Untouched, Kink: Dom/sub, Kink: Frottage, Kink: Hotdogging / Intergluteal Sex, Kink: Massage Kink, Kink: Praise, Kink: Rough Sex, Length: 10k+, Rating: E, Setting: London, Setting: Modern Day | 2020s, Theme: Ableism, Theme: Disability, Theme: Homophobia, Theme: Isolation & Loneliness, Theme: Men Who Love Men | Homosexuality, Theme: Mobility Aids & Assistive Devices, Theme: Power Dynamics & Imbalances, Theme: Touch Aversion & Sensitivity, World: Magic Beholden
Erotic short. When a man finds out about his disabled coworker’s active sex life, he’s very jealous, and maybe… something else, too. Rated E, cis M/M, 15k! Arden Rice has been friends with Sebastian April for years, and it’s never occurred to him before now that April might have an active sex life — let alone a sex…