TITLE:
Life is a Stevie Wonder Song
AUTHOR:
V.L. Locey
PUBLISHER:
Torquere
Press
COVER
ARTIST: Brandon Clay
LENGTH:
24,600 words
RELEASE
DATE: December 30, 2015
BLURB:
Authors know that their muse is a fickle creature. Best-selling spy novelist
Stephen Ramsey has been in a hate-hate relationship with his inspiration for
months. When Stephen's publisher lays a legal ultimatum upon him, with a
rapidly approaching deadline, he knows he must do something to kick-start his
creativity or face the unemployment line. His daughter comes up with a possible
answer: a summer camp for the creative soul. With nothing to lose, Stephen
packs up his laptop, phonograph and beloved record albums and heads from
Greenwich Village to the Catskill Mountains.
There, among a horde of college students attending for extra credits, is Declan Pomeroy, a photographer of fey creatures who is twenty-two years younger than Stephen. The woods are a magical place, and he quickly finds himself falling under the spell of the free-spirited photographer. Confusion wars with desire inside Stephen as he succumbs to the feelings welling up inside. But, sadly, summer camp always has to end. Can a man who has just found himself really leave the person that makes his heart sing?
"Look
at the hazy ring around the moon," Declan whispered. My fingers dug into
his bony hip. I opened my eyes and looked up. We were on the edge of a small
glen. He lifted up his camera and snapped several images as I stared at the
milky white fingers of magic tickling the moon. "Now look at the
ground." I did. There, in the center of the small glen, was a small,
perfectly circular ring of mushrooms perhaps ten feet wide. "That's known
as a fairy ring."
"Huh,"
I grunted, my body trying desperately to take over the show. Declan had to feel
my erection resting against his pert ass. He seemed perfectly as ease with a
hard dick between his buttocks. I, on the other hand, was slowly going mad. I
longed to lower my mouth to his neck and lick the sweat from his skin. I also
wanted to run away screaming to the world that I was not a faggot, but was I?
It certainly looked it. Declan lowered his camera and took a few shots of the
white mushrooms.
"I've
heard tales of the fey blessing those who stand in a fairy ring under a full
moon. Would you like to go stand in the ring, Steven?" he asked. I nodded.
He slid out of my grasp and reached back to find my hand. His fingers were
thinner than mine. He pulled me into the glen. I glanced up, then back.
"Are you afraid that someone will see us cuddling in the fairy ring?"
"At
the moment," I stepped carefully over several large mushrooms," I'm
afraid of everything, mostly you."
V.L. Locey loves worn
jeans, yoga, belly laughs, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology,
the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not necessarily in that order.)
She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, two dogs, two cats, a flock
of assorted domestic fowl, and three Jersey steers.
When not writing spicy
romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills
of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in hand. She can also be found online
on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and GoodReads.
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