Pandemic. Plague. Call it what you will, but it spelled stay-at-home isolation for Leo and his neighbors. Except the new neighbor. Interesting looking but probably not gay and already hauled off to the hospital. That’s how Leo ended up with his cat, and mail, and food packages. A caretaker now, and he doesn’t even know the guy.<br><br>A major storm blows up, and people start piling in: the sick neighbor’s grandson and some other kid. The old lady neighbor with a tree through her roof and her long-lost flame. So much for social distancing, particularly when sex gets into the act.<br><br>Except for poor Leo. Odd man out. Until they decide to spring the sick guy from the hospital. What could possibly go wrong?

Love in Strange Times

He heard a crunching noise and saw Rose was chewing on a package of lamb chops. Well, guess the rest of those would be for dinner. There were enough for a party; maybe he should invite Mrs. Minerva?


That made him laugh out loud. Nope! No way. He didn’t really like the old lady, and she didn’t like him much either, since his last birthday when his friend Dugan had dressed up like a cop and performed a strip tease on his front porch. Leo smiled at the memory, put the chops and some other meats in his refrigerator, and thought to himself, Is it hot in here, or is it, well, is it time for a beer?


Chapter 3