At First Belonging

Dying is simple. It is a much more complex thing to sustain oneself.

Graham Faulkner has no idea where his life is going. He was forced out of what he thought would be his lifelong career. He's almost finished with the college degree he feels much too old for, and once he has it he has no idea what to do next. And he can't bring himself to believe that any man could be sincerely interested in him, romantically, sexually, or even platonicly: at least, not without certain very specific stipulations.
Joshua Driscoll is a drifter who gets by on sex work as an excuse to find the next meal, the next roof over his head, the next chance at a shower. He's been at it long enough to know what he's doing, and to have a rule: don't get attached. He won't be answering questions about how he learned that one. And this job might be a little weird, but it's only another job.
Neither of them, for different reasons, is living what could be called a sustainable situation.
But fixing one another will not be a simple thing.

This is a prequel novella to the book "Of Late Belonging,' coming soon from Fenris Publications and Bewere Books.

Cover by Itoma.