Straight Acting

Thirteen friends on a mountain trail. One wrong turn, one waterfall, and one man who stayed behind on purpose.
Sandro has always been the warm patch of sun Bruno could never stop standing in. Broad shoulders, an easy laugh, and a half-second too long holding his hand on the stepping stones. When the group vanishes up the trail and the only sound left is falling water, Sandro walks out of the pool with nothing on but a smile — and nothing about their friendship survives the afternoon.
But that is only the first story.

In seven unflinchingly explicit encounters, this collection follows men who live one life in daylight and another after dark. A homeowner who answers the door in a red dress and discovers exactly what his painter has been dying to say. Two married lifeguards with one last week of summer and no intention of wasting it. A bartender's quiet beer that ends in a locked stall. A shy eighteen-year-old from a chat room who has never touched a man — and a twenty-one-year-old who finally stops pretending. A doorman with a wedding ring who learns what his body wants on Thursday nights, when nobody is counting the comings and goings.

These are not polished coming-out stories. They are the honest ones: the sweaty palms, the muttered "if you say stop, we stop," the laugh in the middle of it, the drive home replaying every second. Straight-acting men, curious men, men on the down low — each taking what he actually wants, in secret, for the first time or the last time before summer ends.
High heat. No shaming. No apologies. Every encounter is between consenting adults who chose to be exactly where they are.
Some of these men will see each other again next summer. Some will never speak of it again. All of them will remember.
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