Ginger in the City
A Gay Romance Short Story
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
Adrian
Stage managing the play After Romeo and Juliet is my chance for a big break. Academy Award-winning actor Peter Erickson is making his directing debut. Sexy-as-hell Cole Hamilton is starring as Paris. My problem? The actor playing Cole's love interest Benvolio is a dud whose acting evokes a dead fish. So he’s out as soon as I can line up the adorable ginger who I’ve been crushing on for years. He’ll be perfect, but convincing him to put himself out there will be a challenge. I’ve put my reputation on the line for this play. Can I persuade Joel, or will I be left without a believable leading man?
Joel
Why I chose acting as a profession is truly beyond me. I’m shy. Like, really shy. Sometimes, though, magic happens. Especially when Adrian coaches me. This new play? He seems to think I can be a leading man opposite Cole Hamilton in a gay romantic tragedy. The problem? I’ve never kissed a man. So I ask Adrian to teach me. And he does. But can I move from kissing the sweetest guy to intimidatingly sexy and famous Cole? More importantly, how will my heart handle never kissing Adrian again once the curtain comes down on the show?
Ginger in the City is a 15k short story about taking risks, being brave, and grasping for what you’ve always wanted. Starring a very potty-mouthed stage manager and the first actor he'd rather coach offstage.
Customer Reviews
Romance on & off the stage!
Adrian is stage managing a new play, one that is being performed with the intention of raising money for a charity. The director and starring role actor are both internationally famous but as down to earth as any other person working on this play. Well almost, there is a problem with one of the actors who simply believes himself to be above everyone else, especially Adrian. Fortunately for the cast Adrian fires Boris and finds an outstanding replacement in Joel, an actor he has worked with, coached before. A man he has an irrepressible crush on. But Joel is perfect for the role of Benvolio, lover of Paris played by one of those aforementioned famous actors.
Joel is 25. Has had some success with acting but his innate shyness tends to get in the way and when he learns he is going to have to kiss and have an intimate bed scene with Cole he is worried. Not about the gay part, he is fine with that (he has an equally irrepressible crush on Adrian) it his lack of experience which worries him. Fortunately, in part, Adrian offers to coach him this time too. Unfortunately Joel is worried he might reveal his feelings. Can the two of them work professionally through the coaching and the staging of the play? If they do where will that leave them, will they have to go back to their old single lives or will one of them have the courage to take that first important step and say something about their feelings...?
This is an adorable short novella featuring a strong Stage Manager, some world famous actors, generosity of every form and a love story to rival Romeo and Juliet, one, well two for this is a story in a story, that ends with happiness!