Play it Again, Sam by Jenna Byrnes

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Sam has just lost his job as IT engineering, but sincerely he is not so much worried. He takes those days at home as an unexpected leave and decides to enjoy his time; he starts gping every matinee to the near theater where they air old Hollywood movie, like Casablanca... actually they air "only" Casablanca, and after few days Sam is more interested in Marc, the dogsbody of the theater, and finally one day he asks him out.

Sam is a nice guy, maybe a bit too carefree, at 33 years old he is still living like there is no today, but all in all he is also a romantic guy (he likes old movies) and he can be easily convinced to set down if he finds the right guy. Marc on the other hand is an enigma; he is not so young, 44 years old, but he is still living like in the past. He is at comfort inside the theater but he seems quite reluctant to leave those walls. At one moment I almost thought that there was some paranormal element that bonded Marc to the theater, but it was only a feeling due to the fact that Marc is really skittish and almost scared outside the theater, and instead inside he is a total different man, dominant and confident.

I believe that the main interest in the story is that the two main characters are not so young, but they seem "suspended" in time: Sam due to his momentarily job break and Marc with his working for a "dying" place like that old fashioned theater. For their relationship to work, they probably have to break that binding spell, to start to live in the real world. The story is short, less than 40 pages, and also quite daring on the erotic side (two sex scenes and an almost solo under a shower), but I like the feeling of it, in particular Marc was a really romantic hero.

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