May Day by Bryl R. Tyne

[reviews_and_ramblings]

Sometime you find an expected little pearl packaged inside a novella that people can easily overlook.

Ed is a pushing 50 years old handyman; a single gay man, he is not really in the mood to be in the market fishing for a partner and a long-term relationship, not since he wouldn’t like to go home to someone, but probably since he believes to not being desirable enough. And so, when his birthday is coming, he simply decides to go to his usual pub in a different night, to party alone or maybe to find a one night stand to help him closing the day in a better way.

Only that he didn’t realize it was college night, and the pub is full of twenty something (and sometime not even twenty) twinks, all of them way to much out of his league. He is just thinking to go home when he is approached first by Ryan, a shy 19 years old, and then by Ryan’s friend, mouthy Kyle. Kyle seems to speak for Ryan, and he asks Ed if he would like to take them home; for Ed it’s not the offer of the year, on the contrary, he doubts he would be able to meet the boys’ expectations, but in the end he brings them home.

It’s a strange relationship the one between Kyle and Ryan; Kyle is like a big brother, he is Ryan’s protector, and he would do everything to help him, even finding him an older man to chase away Ryan’s nightmares. Ryan has had a very bad experience with two older men when he was still very young, and now he is scared, above all by the wrong idea that no one will love him. No matter that he has Kyle by his side, Kyle unfortunately cannot be the scarecrow Ryan’s need.

It’s strange since Ed thinks to not being the right man for Ryan, since he is too old, and instead it’s basically his age that makes him the perfect man; it helps also that Ed is a good man, that he has a coscience and that he is not boarding on this adventure with a light heart and with only the idea to scracht an hitch.

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Comments

Good work!

[(Anonymous)]

Good work, Bryl! Just today I'm reading your story 'Exposed' the "Nerdvana." Man, have you written a lot!

Mick

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Lambda Literary Awards Winner 2010/Bisexual Fiction for Holy Communion