Blackout by Michelle Houston

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Michelle Houston has the gift to write a full story in few pages, something I noticed other time reading one of her short stories. Blackout is a classic office romance, of the Boss/Secretary subgenre; the plot was pretty classic in the serial romance of the ’80, but here the main characters are two men. Alec is young and in love with his boss, but he is also pretty shy and has never had the courage to speak aloud his feelings not until the day he decides to give up on his unrequited love and quit the job. But Nicholas, his boss, has a surprise for him.

There is really nothing more, and the strength of this story lies in his simplicity, and also a bit on the unexpected turn Nicholas has; in the Boss/Secretary theme there is always the contraposition between the brooding and aloof boss and the young and pretty secretary; sometime, truth be told, the secretary is not exactly top of her class on the mind department, but she is always a nice next door good girl. Nicholas here is indeed a bit detached, but he is also kind, and caring, and he has no fear to speak his heart. And when they arrive to “consume” their love, even if older and higher in the career level, it’s not Nicholas who takes the reins.

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