Chapter 1      Chapter 2       Chapter 3      Chapter 4      Chapter 5      Chapter 6      Chapter 7      Chapter 8     
Chapter 9      Epilogue

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Days of Silence
by Viv
A Gay Teen Love Story ♂♂  
A Gay Teen Short Story ♂♂  - It’s been four years since Justin kissed his best friend Lucas when they were both just 12. Then Justin, afraid of what it meant, afraid of how he felt, afraid of what it made him, ran and has been running from and avoiding Lucas for these four years. The thing about running is that no matter how fast you run, the past always catches up with you, and when faced with his past and all the things he’s missed, Justin finds he doesn’t want to run anymore. Now Justin wants to try to make things right with Lucas; he wants his best friend back. But maybe it's too late. Maybe Lucas has moved on. Read the story to find out if Justin is successful. This story isn't only about internalized homophobia and the hurtful things it leads gay kids to do to themselves and others. It is much more about truth, love and hurt and coming to terms with those things, forgiving yourself, and loving yourself enough to hold yourself accountable. This is a beautifully written gay teen short story by Viv.  Enjoy.  Click Here or on the icon to read the story.

This story and the images are posted here with Viv's permission. This story and the Days of Silence Image are the copyrighted © property of the author and are not to be copied or posted elsewhere without written permission of the author.
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God Made Me This Way
by Grant Bentley

A Gay Teen Short Story ♂♂
Church is so confusing for Zack.  His new pastor preaches nothing but hate and condemnation of gays and lesbians, but no matter how carefully he reads his Bible, he can’t find where it says God hates him.  Will things change when Zach's boyfriend Billy suggests that they all go to his church instead?    Click Here or on the icon to read the story.

Story Copyrighted by Grant Bentley © 2009. The story is re-hosted here with the author's permission. All Rights Reserved.
 

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A Short Novel - Pat Righteous was a pious and honorable conservative minister of God - or so he thought. He did not agree with certain things including the acceptance of homosexuals, granting gays equal rights, or the approval of non-traditional forms of marriage. Follow this tale modeled after “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens as Pat Righteous takes the part of Scrooge. The Three Spirits have many things to teach our Pat Righteous especially since it turns out to Pat's profound surprise that his own adolescent son is gay.  Click on the image or Chapter 1, to begin:

Chapter 1        Chapter 2        Chapter 3        Chapter 4        Chapter 5 

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Halim's Lament

by Paul Schroder

A Short Story - Halim, age 12, is keeping watch over his fathers flock of sheep on a very special night. A year earlier his faith in God was destroyed when he witnessed a violent rape and murder. He has grown bitter and angry and unable to understand what sort of God allows horrible things to happen to wonderful people. Can his faith be restored?

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Click for Coming Out in Middle School - by By Benoit Denizet-Lewis - New York Times Magazine

My Other Favorite Gay Teen Stories

Short Stories: (alphabetical order-All stories complete, except maybe Comicality's which may go on for eternity, ha-ha)

Name; Author of Story (Website); Ages of Main Characters; Story Is About:
8th Grade  (in 3 parts); Cole Parker (Awesome Dude); 13; Popular, athletic Brad and shy, studious & friendless Danny get together over Algebra & big problems with their teacher, Mrs. Graedon. 

At The End Of The String; Simon Jimenez (Awesome Dude); 8 to 17; "I was on my way to talk to Brody when the car hit me". . . . . . "A dark figure emerged from the shadows, half-lit by the glittering streetlight and the pale glow of the moon". . . . .  . . "huge black wings erupted out of her back like a blooming rose. She was beautiful." . . . . "I knew who this woman was. 'Are you Death?'" . . . . . “'Most people have something holding them down to this world,' she said, 'like a tether on a balloon. It could be something material, a person, or persons, an unfinished goal. There are many reasons to want to keep living. I wonder, Harbor, what is yours?'

I smiled just thinking about it. 'His name’s Brody.'

Her hand stroked my cheek so gently I wanted to cry. 'Tell me about him,' she whispered."

And Harbor does.  And you will be transfixed as Harbor's first friend comes to life in his memory in this Coming-of-Age Tale with a gay twist.  Enjoy. 

Do You Remember When You Colored The Sky Orange?; Grasshopper (iomfots); 17; Two gay boys, intolerant families and high school.

I Just Love Thanksgiving, Don't You?; Grant Bentley (Codey's World); 14; This is about how 14-year-old Jody figured out that he was gay, thought by thought, happening by happening, and what he did to go out and unsuccessfully find a boyfriend, ha-ha. It was only when he had reached a dead end, coincidently enough on Thanksgiving, that things started to look up. You'll enjoy reading this funny but thought provoking short story.  

In The Blink Of An Eye; Grasshopper (iomfats); From 7 to Old Age; 2 lonely gay boys - One rich little boy and one poor little boy meet down by the river bank and it completely changes the trajectory of their lives.

Issues, Envelopes, & Homophobes; phrineas flogg  (Fiction Press); 16; This is a series of short letters between two students who are unwilling pen pals in the same high school but different English classes. And right off the bat the initial letter writer tells the other that he's gay to discourage the reader from responding. But he does and we're off. This is a great read of 28 super short chapters which can be finished in about an hour. There is a surprise ending.

It’s What ‘Real’ Men Do, You Know; Grant Bentley (Codey's World); 18, 19; Jake, a lonely young gay freshman, bitter and hardened by the homophobic anger and hate that surrounded him growing up, meets Chance, a personable but lonely young sophomore with Cerebral Palsy isolated for no other reason than he was seen to be different. Can they offer each other the one thing they both need at college and in life?  Love.

Jenner & Brown (in 4 chapters); Daniel Self; (iomfats); 14; This is a beautiful and well-written British boarding school tale of how two 14 year old gay boys meet as new roommates and develop a romantic relationship including some very intimate sex.  My attraction to the story is the reaction of both sets of parents when they find out that their boys are queer.  Every gay boy dreams of hearing something like this from his mother:

Daddy and I spoke about you and Chris last night. We both agreed that we would talk with you today, and we both feel the same way. Your happiness and your future are the two things that matter most to us in the world. If your relationship with Chris was adversely affecting your school work then we might have been worried, but it's not, in fact, if anything the opposite seems to be true, and obviously Chris makes you very happy, happier than we have seen you. Christopher is a boy, and I suppose we always assumed that it would be a girl that would be lucky enough to have you for a boyfriend, but as I said, you're a grown up boy now. You know about yourself more than anyone else, and no one has the right to challenge you in that. We love you, and you have always made us proud and that has not and will not be any different because we know that you are gay.

Kind of takes your breath away, doesn't it, because we normally fear the worst when a gay boy comes out to his parents.  Enjoy the story.

Just Out of Reach; Comicality (Comicality - Gay Authors); 17; This story deals with the heartbreak that most every gay boy has to deal with-falling in love with a straight boy.  But it's much more complicated when the boy also happens to be your best friend.  There is a minimal amount of sexual content in this story but how it plays out very much serves the whole purpose of the story. 

The Gift; Graeme  (DeweyWriter); 15; A loving Dad willingly gives something very special to his gay son after the boy attempts to kill himself.

Valentine's Day; Cole Parker (iomfats); 15; Cory is convinced he's straight and is so attracted to Marcie, but then he meets her future step-brother Robin at their Valentine's Day threesome dinner.

What Ya Doin' In the Dumpster?; Grasshopper (iomfats); 17; How a high school bully inadvertently became a gay matchmaker.  

Whispers From The Past; Grasshopper (iomfats); 17; Brian learns to accept himself as a gay young man thanks to his father's mysterious cousin.

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

“I don’t know what to do,” I [Joey] cried. “I never know what to do.”

[Star said,] “Then let me help you.”

I nodded. It was then that I realized that I had to trust someone. My life had spiraled so far out of control that I knew that I couldn’t save it by myself. I didn’t want to die, but I didn’t want to live the life I’d been living the past five years. After Uncle Mike, I had completely closed my life to anyone and everything.  I had to trust someone.  I trusted Star.

And the question is always with anybody, gay or straight, can Joey find someone to love and be loved to share his life with? Then he meets HIV positive, brittle as a bird Allen on the bridge, a lonely, sickly and tragic figure who even encourages Joey to jump to give Allen the courage to jump himself. Is there hope in this developing friendship, even after 24 year old Allen discovers what Joey does for a living? You will be transfixed following the unwinding of this tale. Yes, there is a middling amount of sexual activity in this story, but the story would be kind of empty without it. A Bridge to Yesterday is the follow up story and it is even better.

Desert Dropping; DomLuka (DomLuka - Gay Authors); 16; Rory is gay and his Mom has just passed away and soon after the funeral his life is completely upended when he finds out that his Mom contacted the father that he never knew he had. Now, he's forced to live in the desert with a very unusual family he doesn't know, and a father he doesn't want to know. Friends will be made and the meaning of family will be found as Rory discovers that everything isn't so bad in the desert after all. There is some sex in the story but the story is not about sex; it is about Rory dealing with a whole new world of opportunities and challenges.

Oh, and on a lighter note Codey had a great sense of humor too.  You can judge for yourself as he talks about being at a party in this story:  "It didn’t really seem like much of a party. It was just some friends hanging out, eating pizza, drinking sodas, and scratching their balls. I smiled as I remembered the day Jeremy was wondering why, when a bunch of guys get together, there’s so much ball scratching. Personally, I’d never noticed, but after he mentioned it, I noticed that it was true. Now, whenever I was in a group of guys and the ball scratching starts, I have a hard time not laughing. Jeremy and I had finally come to the conclusion that it was like yawning. If someone yawns, soon the people around him begin to yawn. If some guy scratches, the guys around him start to itch too. It was contagious." 

Just Hit Send; Grasshopper (iomfats); 15 - 30; Two depressed and lonely 15 year-old boys, blond haired and green eyed Jordon and curly black haired and blue eyed Danny meet in an Internet gay teen chat room and their lives are forever changed. But this love at first contact Florida relationship is complicated by two major factors: First of all, Danny is disabled and mainly has to use a wheelchair, though he fights for all he's worth to be able to walk around on his braces. But Jordon doesn't see a disabled teen then man; he just sees the person he loves with all his heart. And secondly, Jordon's father is a religious homophobe, and his dark shadow haunts much of the tale. The story takes you through Jordan and Danny's High School Years, College Years, Interim Years and their Happy Years, from 15 to 30. Beginning in their college years, these two boys begin the building of what will eventually be a very large and unusual family, but one that is filled with tons of love. As the boys head into their college years, you will find appropriate descriptions of their sexual activities normal to that age. This emotional story is Grasshopper's Tour de Force, his crowning achievement out of all his exceptional stories. Choose this story! 

Kenny; Charlie or Charlieje (Nifty); 12 and 14 to old age; This is the story of Kenny and Charlie and their life together as gay lovers beginning when they were 12 and 14 respectively all the way up to old age, grandchildren and death. Though as the author tells his readers, he started to write just "another erotic story" in 1999 it turned into something very special and somewhat autobiographical as the memories of his own life came flooding back. The story is a mixture of fact and fantasy. I (Gary Lynn) really related to this story because it deals with growing up as a gay or bisexual teen at the same time I did, in the repressive 1950's. Though it is very difficult to come out as a gay teen now, it was virtually impossible back then due to suffocating ignorance and homophobia and because there was no Internet, meaning that there was no access to support or accurate information on what it meant to be gay or bisexual. Back in the 50's and 60's nobody knew anything about homosexuality except that it was thought to be a mental illness, and/or a choice and a disgusting depravity. This repressive atmosphere led both gay young men in this story to get themselves into straight marriages so that they could be "normal"; one marriage was a disaster while the other turned out surprisingly well because the woman had a big heart by letting her husband keep his gay partner in his life. There is a lot of explicit sex as the boys get it on really fast, ha-ha, but the greatest interest is how they both somehow survive through all the decades of their lives despite all the odds against them. This was a story that was hard to put down.  Another note of interest is the abundance of jobs in those decades seconded by my own experience, in stark contrast to the scarcity of work in the USA today (2011). 

Life From A Distance-Ben; Dewey (DeweyWriter); Birth to 13;  How does Ben, a 12-year-old boy handle the sudden death of his identical twin, Mike, in a bicycling accident that both he and his parents feel that somehow he is responsible for?  But it really wasn't his fault.  And how does this all affect the relationship with Ian who was both of the boys' best friend? The twins, who went through life almost as one person because they were so close, realized soon after their 12th birthday and their budding puberty, that they were probably gay or bisexual. But though they both thought Ian, who was a few months older, was really hot they decided together to treat him like a brother and therefore off limits for any romance for either of them. But, then the accident at the canal interrupted their lives a few months later and the heart of the story plays out.

I really loved this intense and emotional coming of age gay love story because in spite of the problems Ben has to go through in his young life, there was a happy ending - think boyfriend.  You're really going to like Ian's parents Ed and Liz, Dadtwo and Momtwo to Ben and Mike, who turn out to be the people who seem to know exactly what to say and do when the distraught Ben has thoughts of suicide and in all the other many difficult moments in the story. The stress in the tale is driven by Ben's own more distant parents who don't  handle the death well at all and are constantly fighting with each other as a result. The shouting hurts Ben deeply and drives him to run away, several times actually, and with the help of the police or other friends, sometimes winds up staying with Ian and his family for a time. Ian's family includes Ian's younger brother, Murray nicknamed Rayray, who is a good guy and plays an important supporting role in the story.  Not every younger sibling is a pain in the behind.  Now this is where the love that Ian's family have for each other and Ben come to the rescue of the twin who was left behind as Ben so many times feels.  Now read this great story as it shows how Ben is able to deal with the immense pain of having both just lost his twin, the glue which seemingly holds his life together and also the possible divorce of his parents.  There is only a minimal amount of sex, but enough to give the needed context to the story. Enjoy! 

Matthew Figures It Out; Ehman Penn (Dabeagle); 14 & 15; This story is a compelling page-turner that you won't want to put down. It took me just 3 nights to finish the 23-chapter story (OK, so I'm a slow reader, ha-ha). 14 year-old shy, friendless and lonely Matthew Jordon grew up as a city kid in Sausalito, California where his dad worked for a bank across the bridge in San Francisco. Unbeknownst to Matt, his parents move the family to the very Southern more rural area outside of Charlotte, North Carolina not because they have to for work related reasons, but so that their only child can get a chance to sort of start over and make friends in a new environment. And Matt comes through as he makes two friends in the first month at his new high school - fellow freshman, good-natured and brainy Tommy Johnson, the son of a college professor and athletic, universally-liked and good-looking sophomore Chris Briggs, son of the ill-tempered high school baseball coach. Tommy becomes the supportive younger brother and best friend that Matt had never had. And as for Chris, at this young age Matt has admitted to himself that he is attracted to him and therefore Matt figures out that he is very-likely gay. But that turns out not to be a big problem at home because of his very loving and accepting parents. But then it gets complicated; Chris has a girlfriend, an alcoholic mother and an abusive father and both parents are homophobic. And Matt does figure things out as the dark secrets in his new boyfriend's family get exposed one by one. This story centers on the developing relationship between Matt and Chris; it lets you know who these 14 and 15 year old teens are and what they have to deal with inside - their fears, insecurities, strengths and weaknesses. And yes some of those thoughts center on sex, which is normal. There are some descriptions of their limited sex that are presented, but if you're reading this story for only the sex scenes, you're going to be very, very disappointed, ha-ha. It's not that kind of a story.

Two Boys; Rocco Paperiello (CrackerWriter); 14 to 21; What are the odds that in 1959 near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania an almost 14-year old majorly undersized and late-blooming Italian-American white boy from a middle class family would meet and make friends with a poor soon to be orphaned 15-year old normal sized but physically handicapped black boy?  Slim, right?   And then they find out that they're both gay?  Even slimmer.  And what are the chances that the friendship between Rocco and Jade develops little by little into a full blown romance, engagement and even marriage back in those Neanderthal years of the 1960s when most everybody thought that homosexuality was a serious mental illness and to be found out that you were gay was like an instant social and economic death sentence?  And what are the odds that these kids could figure out on their own through books, doctors, priests and friends that homosexuality wasn't really a sin, a choice or an illness? OK, the slimmest.  And to top off everything, Rocco was a religious Roman Catholic where the goal seems to be to make everybody feel as guilty as possible and where their iron grip of a doctrine considers homosexuality the worst of the worst of sins. 

If you can put all of the above hard to believe reality aside for the duration of this story  (Hey, it is fiction after all, ha-ha) I believe that you will find that it is a story that you'll really enjoy.  It's a long running tale that takes the story of these two lonely boys all through their high school years up until the second year of university.  Then the epilogue allows the reader to get a feel of what their lives are like once they've finished grad school and into their first jobs. What I liked about the story was the deeply felt love that these two unlikely boys had for each other that turns out to be the rock that saw them through all of their many crises.  In addition, I liked the way that the author detailed the thought processes that the boys went through as they faced and overcame every obstacle.  These boys are survivors in spite of the hostile environment in Rocco's home and the death of Jade's Mom. I also liked the part where Rocco comes out to his mother and how she handles this unwelcome and unbelievable idea that her son is a homosexual as she reads through his journal.  But be prepared to deal with one brutal man on boy rape and its consequences.  It's a heavy jolt, but it does unfortunately happen in real life and I believe the author handled it well.  And yes, there is some sex as the boys get older as would be normal, but the sex is a very minor part of the story, if not in their lives, ha-ha.  This is a good one.    

We're Working On It; Richard Norway  (AwesomeDude); 15;  Cory is a 15 year old boy who was physically abused over 3 years by his father, then thrown out of his home when the father finds out that he's gay.  Cory winds up walking in the rain along a busy highway thumbing a ride to his aunt's home in Florida. Richard is a 50 year old widower who wonders what his unmotivated life is about these days.  On his way home from work at the successful business he owns one day, he spots the boy and by the way his shoulders were drooped, his head bowed, Richard sensed that the boy’s pain might just be greater than his own that night.  But Richard had a policy to never pick up hitchhikers.  But he did this night and both their lives turned out to be much better because of this spur of the moment decision.  This is a beautifully written story filled with so many heartfelt moments and expressed feelings that grab your very heart and soul.  Cory is a thoughtful and kind boy who you will find yourself identifying with.  At the end, Cory's best friend Matt is murdered at his high school because he was gay.  I think it will be a long time before you forget what Cory says at the Memorial for his friend at his packed high school auditorium.  It's only 17 chapters but it packs an emotional wallop.  
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Stories I'm Reading Now:

Perry and Jesse; underthehoodster; Gay Authors - (Jan. 2012) I've read about 75% of this story and so far I really like it.  But for the much of the first 6 months of 2012 I'm going to be working on the Spanish language side of this site and won't be able to finish it for awhile.  If you understand a little Spanish you can click Here and take a peek at what I'm working on - a Spanish translation of the featured stores on this page.

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queerschool.com - Quality Gay Fiction About Gay Teenage Boys at School and Away From School.  You'll find first rate reviews on this site.

 
tarheelwriter.com - Here are the gay themed stories and movies that Tarheel Writer really liked.  These are good reviews.  Categories; Complete Stories and On Going Stories - High School, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Young Friends; Short Stories; Fan Fiction, Movies and More

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