Adama lives in a time long before recorded history, when the small population of human beings exist at one with nature. Intelligent, they still retain something of the wild animal. The climate is tropical summer, punctuated by a short rainy season that isn’t only a time of constant heavy rain, but also when the Grim appear. These creatures are the reason humans build burrows, to hibernate in during the rainy season. But the Grim have begun to detect these underground burrows and root out their inhabitants. When Adama meets Graf, a traveller from the north, they share a quick sexual encounter before Graf continues on his way. However, the rains have come early this year, and with the threat of the Grim, Graf turns back. They share Adama’s burrow, but even securely tucked away, there are dangers. Who, or what, is banging on the entrance to their burrow? Will Adama and Graf survive to explore their burgeoning friendship?

The Burrow

“Get away. I was nice and dry.” He kicked at Graf, who continued to shake droplets of water over him. “And warm.”


Graf, not quite finished having fun, lay on Adama, his cold body almost as much of a shock to the system as the stream water itself. But any feeling of discomfort was soon replaced by altogether more welcome sensations as Graf began kissing him, tender kisses that set Adama’s spine tingling.


From there, Graf’s lips made a slow journey to Adama’s chin and down his neck to his chest. Once there, Graf took special care to give each of Adama’s nipples a suck, flicking the stiffening nubs with the tip of his tongue, and creating a writhing, moaning creature whose fingers dug into the granite, tearing minute scratches into the flesh at the ends.


Chapter 13