After being disappointed too many times by the hook-up sites, Broadway dancer Darrin Houghton takes down his profiles. However, when he gets a message from an intriguing hunk on a site he’d forgotten about, Darrin sets up a meeting despite his reservations.<br><br>Brad Grabosky is a deeply closeted football player in the NFL. Brad has a preference for no strings attached, anonymous, one night flings in seedy motel rooms.<br><br>However, love has a way of complicating the intentions of both men, leading them to make compromises they never thought possible. Will Darrin and Brad find a way to get to first and goal and ultimately score a touchdown? Or will their chance at happiness be fumbled away?

First and Goal

For Darrin’s part it was an epiphany as well. He had always tried to steer clear of men with baggage which kept them closeted: marriage, fame, social position, or guilt because of an overactive fear of holy retribution. Sometimes he wasn’t successful. When an encounter turned out that way, he always vowed not to be involved with men who weren’t free to be themselves. He even felt scorn for their lack of courage to stand up and say, “This is who I am. Fuck you if you can’t accept it.”


But there was one factor he hadn’t counted on—love. Now here Darrin was in the arms of one of those deeply closeted men, and finding himself willing to do anything it took to be able to have a future with him, even if it meant entering the closet with him.


Chapter 11