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

“Raven will you get my pants? Raven? Where’d he go?”


Leo pointed toward the bathroom. Both boys were missing. “I’ll get them. I’ll even help you get them on.” He leaned down and whispered, “And maybe later I can help you take them off.”


“And do tell us how you ended up in here! And it was so sweet of you to get a puppy for Raven. We have that at Leo’s condo too. His is the one between yours and mine. Mine has a tree through the bedroom window, but Raven said yours was all right. Still, you probably shouldn’t be alone.” That was Em, sensible for a change.


“The boys might want to be alone,” said Ed. “I mean, it’s not like the back seat of a car, or a bathroom, but still, it might be okay.” Everyone laughed. Em banged on the bathroom door. “We’re leaving, if you’re quite done in there. Should I open the door?”


Em just laughed.  13: Six in the Car and the Little One Said


Chapter 10