Paul Webster has come out the army after a twenty-two year stretch with a trick hip and no idea what to do with his life. He takes a few weeks walking along the Welsh coast to get his head on straight.<br><br>Kevin Davies is a veterinary nurse and an artist. He's getting lonelier and lonelier in his cottage on the edge of the sea, kept company by his cats and a friendly flock of crows.<br><br>What happens when the two men hunker down together to wait out a wild March gale?

As the Crows Fly

Being gay had been illegal when he’d gone in, straight after school. Hell, he hadn’t really even knownhe was gay, just that he wasn’t much interested in girls. As time had gone on though, he’d worked it out—a few fumbles here and there to start with, a cautious not-quite-relationship in his late twenties for a few years. And lately, Steve.


He hadn’t made a big deal of it, he hadn’t been in the closet exactly. But he hadn’t been out of it either. There was a difference between not illegaland universally accepted


He’d thought that getting out and being settled somewhere in civvy street might be a chance to be a bit more relaxed about it all. He’d expected Steven to be happy about it, but it turned out that a part-time boyfriend was all Steve had wanted. Full-time was too limiting, apparently.


Chapter 3