Nothing to Forgive

By Lee Brazil

Vic comes back from a business trip and is shocked to find a hot young thing hanging on to his lover. Sure, he and Marc had a fight, but Vic figured they'd work things out. And how could Marc's new someone special be so young, when their fight had been about their age difference...?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Breathless Press
• Release date: Aug 5, 2012

Lee Brazil

Somewhere in a small town in up-state New York are a librarian and a second grade teacher to whom I owe my life. That might be a touch dramatic, but it’s nevertheless one hundred percent true.Because they taught me the joy of reading, of escaping into worlds crafted of words.Have you ever been nine years old and sure of nothing so much as that you don’t belong? Looked at the world from behind glasses, and wondered why you don’t fit?Then turn the page and see... there you are, running from Injun Joe in a dark graveyard; there you are fencing with Athos; there you are...beneath the deep blue sea- marveling at exotic creatures with Captain Nemo.I found myself between the pages of books, and that is why I write now, it’s why I taught English and literature for so many years, and it’s why my house contains more pounds of books than furniture.If I’d had my way, I’d have been a fencer...or a starship captain, or a lawyer, or a detective solving crimes. But instead, I am a writer, and that’s the best thing in the world to be if you ask me, because as a writer, I can be all those things and more.If I hadn’t learned to value the stories between the pages, who knows what would have happened? Certainly not college...teaching...or writing.

Reviews for Nothing to Forgive

[serenayates · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Short and full of emotion, this free short story had me interested from the first page. Vic, who tells the story, is so full of righteous rage at his older lover's betrayal, that he doesn't think straight. The anger almost drips of the pages as he rants and raves about the injustice of it all, the sheer betrayal of Marc taking a lover much younger than Vic while Vic was away on business. I got so pulled into this, ready to yell at Marc right alongside with Vic, that the twist took me completely by surprise. Very well done!

If you like stories with lots of emotion, if you enjoy a twist that will make you sit up and go "Huh? How did that happen?", and if you want some very hot and loving action between the sheets on top of it all, then you will probably enjoy this short story as much as I did.

[jules0623 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

2.5 stars. A bit unfinished.