Silver Foxes by C.B. Potts

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Silver Romance is one of my favourite genre, maybe since you don’t find it often around; and then, probably, I feel more near to the pain for love of a 45 years old or more man than a barely legal kid. But, truth be told, I prefer my silver foxes to be “unaware”, not really hunters on a prey, but more prey themselves. And so the Silver Foxes of C.B. Potts are right up to my alley, almost all of them are Daddies for play, meaning that, more or less they are preys of the pretty clutches of their boys.

In Board Meeting, a young soldier, back home from a war that probably he didn’t want to fight, seduces his father’s friend, maybe hoping to find again the innocent boy he was before leaving, the same boy who secretly admired that man so full of passion and strong beliefs.

Ring Tones is the story of a Daddy with a good boy, who sometime needs to be a boy himself. His lover can’t give it to him, and so he “hires” help. This silver fox is so “out of the world”, an artist with the head more on the clouds than on earth, that I can’t really don’t like him, even if he is actually cheating on his partner: it’s cheating since the partner doesn’t know it.

Goodnight, Daddy, sees the young lover far from home, needing the comforting and warm words of his Daddy to fall asleep. You can think that this man is not independent, that he clings to his Daddy, but instead I think that he has the other man in his little fit.

Where the Buffalo Roam is the classic college boy falls in love for dude ranch cowboy story; it’s fated to have an happily for now end, but maybe college boy will be smart enough to not losing a good thing when he finds it.

Seducing the Hunter is a game in style, it’s all the brainstorming inside the head of a old writer, who is approached by a young man on his favourite bar; when the flow of thoughts starts, the old man is the hunter, but at the end he will be the prey, and the reader sees it all happen following that flow.

R&R and Christmas Morning are about the two same men, two soldiers in Vietnam, who, despite the war, and the ever present death danger, manage to find a reason to live and love. You don’t know if they will make it out of Vietnam, but you know that, even if it seems impossible, they were at least a bit happy there.

Crackhead Soup sees a father in visit to his son at college discovering that the boy has not yet understood that college is for study and not party. But the distraction of his son’s roommate will help the man to soothe his discontent, and maybe it will give him a reason more to check his soon more frequently in the future.

Getting Person is about two men working at the same factory, who really don’t know each other; or better, the older one thinks to know his colleague and he also thinks he is good in hiding the gender of his bed’s companion’s choice, but the younger one will let him know, with no doubt, that the secret is out, and that he wants to profit of it.

Rough Road is a danger escapade of a young man who likes rough sex, and does everything to find it in the most dangerous places… I don’t know if I’m so fond of this story, above all since the young man really puts himself in danger, and more or less, he is only lucky that nothing yet happened.

Getting Ready for Christmas is a fun little tale of a college boy who want to prepare a surprise for his older lover back home: maybe since he is young, or maybe since his lover wanted to wait, they didn’t have anal intercourses, and the young man wants to “prepare” himself for that, with the help of a dildo.

Rural Rentboy is a “pretty man” themed novel, with the older, and handsome man from out of town, who rents the young whore of the town for a night. The sex is good, the rent boy is smart, but I would have not mind if there was the chance of happiness for him; true, maybe he likes his life as it’s, living good and saving money for the future, when he will be the one to choice his partner.

Flower Power is another story that was good, for the sex and the characters, but again I’m not sure to like how it ended: a man gets smitten for the florist who has to plan the flower arrangement for his marriage. I will only give you an hint: the marriage will not be annulled.

Ringside is about a young boxer and the coach who helps him out of misery. They had almost a father/son relationship, since the day both of them realized it was not enough. Now they have to learn how to live with this new development, or renounce to having the other in their life.

Mountain Music is a funny tale about an aspiring musician who ends up in bed with the man who can help him with his career, and he doesn’t even know.

Emergency Room is about a young hot cop and the doctor of the emergency room where he drags a drunk man one night: you will never know where and when you will find your Mr Right.

Shutterbug is the tale of the debauchment of a country biker boy to the hands of an apparently inoffensive photographer… only that the pictures he takes are not innocent, and biker boy will, willingly, become a star, but only for selected eyes.

Hornbrook is set in 1935; two buddy friends discover that their friendship can lead to something more, only that, one is willing to take the risk, and instead the other not.

Greasy Monkey is again about two buddy friends, working in the same machine shop, one teaching the other the job, and both of them teaching each other way more than that.

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Cover Art by Kimball Davis

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Glad you like the cover. I chose cartoons because, based on a little research, many guys who like Daddies fall into 2 camps - a bit of silver/white and a nice body, and those who like their Daddies stout like Santa. I didn't want to alienate anyone, so the cartoon cover worked better than a photograph.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the comment and the explanation :-) You are a) the author, b) the publisher, c) the cover artist? ;-) In any of the above case, thanks for stopping by.

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

Oops, that was me, hon.

[starsinshapes.livejournal.com]

I prefer drawn/painted covers than photos (or those really bad CGI/SIMs character ones) at times because I like when the artist can really capture the look of the characters.