“And fivesomes and sixsomes,” I added. “Is that what it’s going to take? I mean, it sounds like you’re saying we have to have at least one other guy before we can have sex.”
“Oh, no,” he said quickly, squeezing my hand. “At least, I hope not. That’ll happen spontaneously—but not every night, or even every week….”
“Well,” I said, “I guess this means we’ll be getting a lot of our old customers back—once word gets around we’re available. As a team, right?”
“Right…” He snuggled against me. “We’ve got a whole new adventure ahead of us. Like Ash said, it’s every gay guy’s hottest fantasy to make out with brothers or twins.”
“So… let’s get out there and fulfill some fantasies.”
“All those fantasies… so little time.”
We laughed and he moved closer, resting his head on my shoulder. “We’re so used to thinking that love and sex are the same thing,” he said, “we can’t separate the two things in our mind. Our bodies know the difference, but our heads are still back in those Sunday school lessons about never fucking anyone you don’t love. That’s strictly a church-control heterosexual trip, and doesn’t apply. But, still, it’s an automatic response—like we’re programmed. When I came home tonight and heard voices from the bedroom, the first thing I thought was, He doesn’t love me anymore.
“I know. I thought the same thing when that nellie bartender thought I was you.”
“It’s an automatic response—and it’s stupid. Love and sex are two completely separate things. It’s great when the two go together, but it’s not the end of the world if they don’t. I love you, whether we have sex or not.”
“And I love you too,” I said, putting my arm around him. “Actually… we’re not really lovers.”
He turned his head slightly on my shoulder, looking quizzical. “Oh?”
“From the beginning,” I said, “we were much more like brothers than lovers.”
“Long-lost twin brothers,” he said dreamily. “Separated at birth…”
“Gay brothers… getting to know each other,” I finished. “In every way possible.”
He chuckled.
“What?”
“Feel…” He took my hand and put it on his cock. It was hard again.
“Mine too,” I whispered, as I kissed him.
And it turned out I needn’t have worried at all.
TOUCHED
Dale Lazarov
Kardyman
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ERIC K. ANDERSON is author of the novel Enough, and has published fiction in Chroma, Blithe House Quarterly, Ganymede , Velvet Mafia, and the anthologies From Boys to Men, Between Men 2, Brief Encounters and Best Gay Erotica 2011.
JACE BARTON is a twenty-five-year-old wannabe punk living in upstate New York. He has written a couple of plays (even had one performed!) and is always scribbling something down.
JAMIE FREEMAN (jamiefreeman.net) lives and writes in a small town in North Florida. More of his erotic fiction can be found in Daddies, College Boys, Muscle Men, Beautiful Boys, Black Fire, Video Boys and Homo Thugs. He has published a variety of genre fiction including romance, science fiction and horror.
DAVID HOLLY lives in Portland, Oregon. His books include Delicious Darkness, a darkly erotic collection of over-the-top gay fantasy stories. His stories have appeared in Best Gay Romance, Best Gay Erotica, Boy Crazy and many other publications. Find David Holly at facebook.com/david.holly2.
ROSCOE HUDSON is a creative writer and academic. When he is not hard at work revising his first novel or lifting weights at the gym, he’s usually watching porn—or writing it. He lives in Chicago.
KARDYMAN (drop--it.blogspot.com) is a fine arts graduate drawn to the tingle of creating comics. A prizewinner in his home country, Spain, his work has appeared in Gutter; he produces a sitcom/soap opera-ish gay online story, “Drop It.” “Touched” is his first worldwide publication, about which he is proud and loud.
DALE LAZAROV (dalelazarov.com) is the Chicago-based writer/editor of STICKY (drawn by Steve MacIsaac), MANLY (Amy Colburn) and NIGHTLIFE (Bastian Jonsson), gay erotic comics published by Bruno Gmünder Verlag. He is working on new gay erotic comic projects with Laura “Zel” Carboni, Chas Hunter, Alessio Slonimski, Foxy Andy, Diego Gomez and Mioki.
SHAUN LEVIN is a South African writer based in London. He is author, most recently, of Trees at a Sanatorium and Snapshots of The Boy, and of Seven Sweet Things and A Year of Two Summers. He edits the queer literary/arts journal, Chroma.
DAVID MAY (bydavidmay@comcast.net) lives in Seattle with his husband and two cats. He is author of two fiction collections, Madrugada and Butch Bottom & the Absent Daddy; a collection of nonfiction, A Nice Boy from a Good Family; and an advice column, “Cum What May,” for M4Mkink.com.
ANTHONY MCDONALD lives in England. He is the author of four novels: Adam, Blue Sky Adam, (both now available on Kindle), Orange Bitter, Orange Sweet and, this year, Getting Orlando. He has contributed stories to numerous anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic.
TONY PIKE’s erotic fiction has previously appeared in Vulcan and Zipper magazines in the United Kingdom, and in the anthologies Dorm Porn II, Boy Crazy and Best Gay Erotica 2011.
SIMON SHEPPARD is the Lammy Award–winning editor of Homosex, and the author of Sodomy!, Hotter Than Hell, In Deep and several other sex-drenched books. His work has also appeared in more than three hundred anthologies; astonishingly, this is his eighteenth appearance in the BGE series. He hangs out smuttily at simonsheppard.com.
RAFAELITO V. SY (rafsy.com) was born in Manila. He earned his BA from Tufts University and his MFA in creative writing from Cornell University. His 2005 novel, Potato Queen, is about the segregationist relationship between Asians and Caucasians in the San Francisco gay community.