When Michael Knapp brings his lover Dan Biggs home to meet his parents, he doesn't expect things to go smoothly. His mother's been trying to marry him off for years, and sometimes he isn't even sure his father knows he exists. He has always felt like the shadow son, competing with his terminally stupid older brother and smart-mouthed little sister for his parents' attention. Coming out to them over dinner seemed like the perfect opportunity to finally get noticed.<br><br>But an unexpected phone call interrupts his announcement -- Aunt Evie, the family matriarch, is dead. With Dan in tow, Michael follows his family to Sugar Creek, where he spent his summers growing up, to prepare for the funeral.<br><br>Amid an overabundance of memories and relatives, Michael's world begins to slip. His dysfunctional family, Evie's death, and an old friend's confession all threaten to smother him. Worse, in his grief and confusion he seems determined to inadvertently push everyone away, including his lover. Can he and Dan move beyond his family and his past to a new life together, before Michael's insecurities tear them apart?

It's All Relative

By the time I got to the first window, I had one hand fisting in the front of my shorts, but whether it was to rub at my erection or hold in my orgasm, I wasn’t sure. When I sat up and squatted to see inside, my genitals seemed to hang between my legs like a savage’s, bloated, pulsating, begging for release. The front of my shorts tented obscenely, my dick rock solid and throbbing, I swore I could see it through the material, veins standing out thick with blood. Holding my breath, I moved tall weeds aside and peered into the window.


A storage room of sorts, unlit and dusty. Unable to contain myself any longer, I hiked down the front of my shorts and came right there, a thin discharge like skim milk that beaded in the grass. Relief coursed through me like a sigh. “Well?” Stephen and Ray asked when I finally got myself together again and raced out to where they waited.


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