Playing the Field: Out of Bounds

By J.M. Snyder

Jo Gaithers is a bright, energetic college student with a bad case of senioritis who can't wait for basketball season to begin. As the star player on the men's team, he hopes to go all the way to the NCAA final in March. But before practice starts up, he takes advantage of the downtime and goes to a party off-campus, where he hooks up with a sexy guy he knows only as Kevin.

Kevin is a graduate student at State, and a welcome distraction from Jo's studies. There's just something about Kevin that makes Jo want to know more about him. Things heat up between them at the party, creating a first impression neither will soon forget. By the time they call it a night, Jo has Kevin's number and the promise of seeing him again soon.

The next day a chance encounter at the gym makes Jo realize he and Kevin have more in common than he first thought -- and that isn't necessarily a good thing. The men's basketball team has hired a new assistant coach, someone Jo now knows a little too intimately. Is their budding relationship over before it even begins? Or is Kevin willing to go out of bounds to be with Jo off the court?

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Apr 26, 2015
• ISBN: 9781611527193

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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Playing the Field: Out of Bounds

By J.M. Snyder

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Copyright 2015 J.M. Snyder

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Playing the Field: Out of Bounds

By J.M. Snyder

It was only three weeks into the fall semester, and already school was the last thing on Joakim Gaithers’ mind. Twenty-two, with three years of college under his belt and nine months away from graduating with a bachelor’s degree in economics, he had a bad case of senioritis. Since returning to campus at the end of August, he’d yet to crack open the first textbook, and he’d already skipped a handful of classes—the ones he knew he could get away with.

The only bright spot on his schedule was basketball practice, which would be starting up at the end of the month. Then he could lose himself in the game like he did every year and coast through everything else until March Madness. From there it would be a short two months before he walked across the stage in his cap and gown, and done! College degree, check. Real world, here I come.

But first, he had to make it to practice. Baby steps, Jo kept telling himself. Some days he had to repeat that phrase half a dozen times before he could manage to get out of bed, and he’d taken to muttering it under his breath in the shower, keeping his voice down so his roommate’s girlfriend wouldn’t overhear as she primped in front of the bathroom mirror. Jo lived for basketball; it got him this far in life, and even though he didn’t have anything lined up yet after graduation, he knew whatever he chose to do after college would somehow involve b-ball. He was a good player—hell, he was better than good, he was one of the best. His coach knew it, his teammates, too. After his freshman year, he’d been one of the top NBA draft picks, but he had a full sports scholarship and his father had advised him to finish school first. Keep playing the way you do, his father told him, and they’ll keep a spot open. You’ll see.

And damned if they hadn’t. The same teams who tried to snag Jo the first year he was up for the draft came back the next, and the next. He kept up a strong defense, scored big on rebounds, and could sink a three-point shot with ease. Come May, he suspected he wouldn’t only have a degree but also another offer to play, and hopefully this time he’d have his pick of teams. His father was making noise about going on to get a master’s degree, but Jo wasn’t thinking that far ahead. He was tired of school—tired of classes, and dorm life, and tests and books and essays, everything that wasn’t a basketball in his hands, his feet