Caught Off Base

By J.M. Snyder

In Stepping Up to the Plate we meet Angelo Echevarria, AKA "Ange." Half Hispanic, half black, Ange is a young, sexy thug on whom Stacy's always had a crush. He wants Stacy to pull himself out of the gutter and get his life on track. Even if that means he has to leave his friends -- Ange included -- behind.

In this follow-up story, Ange spots a hitchhiker trying to bum a ride in the rain who reminds him too much of Stacy, and he can't just drive away.

Ange takes an instant liking to the precocious TC, but so does his friend, Lamar, who was instrumental in driving Stacy away. Why can't Ange keep this one for himself?

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Jun 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781935753032

J.M. Snyder

An author of gay erotic romance, J.M. Snyder began self-publishing gay erotic fiction in 2002. Since then, Snyder has worked with several e-publishers, most notably Amber Allure Press and eXcessica Publishing.Snyder’s short fiction has appeared online at Ruthie’s Club, Tit-Elation, Eros Monthly, and Amazon Shorts, as well as in anthologies released by Alyson Books, Cleis Press, and others.For more book excerpts, free fiction, and purchasing information, please visit http://jmsnyder.net.

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Caught Off Base

By J.M. Snyder

Published by JMS Books LLC

This story is included in the print book So In Love by J.M. Snyder.

Visit http://www.jmsnyder.net for more information.

Copyright 2010 J.M. Snyder

ISBN 978-1-93575-303-2

Cover Photo Credit: Andrejs Pidjass

Used under a Standard Royalty-Free License.

Cover Design: J.M. Snyder

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are solely the product of the author’s imagination and/or are used fictitiously, though reference may be made to actual historical events or existing locations. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Published in the United States of America.

NOTE: Caught Off Base was originally published online through Amazon.com’s Amazon Shorts program.

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Caught Off Base

By J.M. Snyder

On his way to work, Ange saw the guy with the cardboard sign standing near the exit to the interstate. He noticed the dark jeans hanging low, a black sweatshirt whose hood was cinched tight around a pale face, and dark eyes that stared at the cars whizzing by with a hopeless wish that someone would read the sign the guy held, that someone would stop. Ange almost hit the brakes but he didn’t have any cash on him and he was already late for work. Let someone else play the hero today. It didn’t always have to be him.

Eight hours later rain pounded the pavement as Ange ran from the garage where he worked to his dry car. Slipping behind the wheel of his old Nova, he cut on the headlights to push back the growing night and glanced toward the interstate, just curious. In the fading daylight he could see someone standing by the turn-off, hunched against the weather and holding a mushy cardboard sign no longer readable. As he lit a cigarette, drawing hot smoke into his lungs to warm himself, he muttered beneath his breath, Fuck.

He should go home, forget the guy standing like an idiot in the wind and the rain. But the quick glance Ange got