One More Try

By J.M. Snyder

Six years ago, Evan Alexander played first base for Richmond's minor league baseball team, the Rebels. His best friend on the team was pitcher Charlie Madison, a sexy man Evan couldn't help falling in love with. When he finally admitted his feelings, Charlie seemed to feel the same.

But the season ended and Charlie left, breaking Evan's heart. Now the divorced father of a little girl, Evan has just started putting his life back together again.

Then Charlie shows up, looking for a second chance.

Can Evan give their relationship one more try? Or will his broken heart keep him from letting Charlie back into his life?

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Feb 26, 2012
• ISBN: 9781611522686

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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One More Try

By J.M. Snyder

Published by JMS Books LLC

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Copyright 2012 J.M. Snyder

ISBN 9781611522686

Cover Credits: Erik Looije

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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.

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One More Try

By J.M. Snyder

From the kitchen, Evan Alexander could hear girlish laughter over the noise of the television in the living room. Daddy, look! his daughter cried, laughing again.

Daddy’s in here, sweetheart, Evan called out.

He looked up from the pot of spaghetti he was stirring on the stove as she ran into the kitchen, a large piece of the morning newspaper in her hands. Her thick blonde hair was pulled into twin ponytails on either side of her face, and her eyes sparkled like champagne when she laughed.

Evan smiled down at her—five years old and she’d already stolen his heart. He didn’t want to remember much of his life before she came along. What do you have there, Kasey?

I drew you a picture.

The newspaper was twice her size—it wrapped around her small body as Kasey tried to hold it out for him to see. Daddy, she whined, then sighed dramatically. "This paper."

Evan grinned and set down the spoon he was using to stir the sauce. Let me help you, he said, taking the ends of the newspaper where they scraped along the ground. He held out the paper and smiled at the colored circles doodled onto it. Oooh, pretty. A priceless work of art like this should be hanging in the Louvre. How much do you think we can get for it on eBay?

Kasey giggled. Daddy, stop it. That’s the wrong side. Turn it over.

This is just practice, eh? he asked, winking at her. That set her giggling again. She had the prettiest little laugh he’d ever heard.

Squatting on the floor, he helped his daughter turn the newspaper over. On the other side was a full-page ad for handbags. Kasey had drawn little stick figures in the white spaces around the pictures, childish people with big balloon heads and spindly arms and legs, little triangle skirts for the women and shaky cowboy hats for the men that looked like McDonald’s golden arches on their heads. There were four people—a woman had a little girl by the hand and together they stood between two men. Who’s this? Evan asked, pointing at the little girl. Is this you?

Yep. Kasey pointed at the woman. And this is Mommy, and this is you.

She indicated the man standing on the other side of the little girl. Evan could see she had used a lavender crayon to color in the eyes, the same color she’d used on her own picture. Though she looked like her mother, she had his eyes.

And this? Evan asked, pointing at the other man.

Kasey laughed. That’s Paulie.

Paulie. Paul Martin, her mother’s new boyfriend. Not seven months after their divorce was final and Meredith already had someone else in her life. Evan wondered how serious it could be in that short a time. Serious