Skaterboy

By J.M. Snyder

CJ is a skateboarder who would rather spend his days boarding or customizing his deck and can't seem to hold onto a job now that he's officially "grown up" and graduated from high school. He lives with his lover, Richard, who wears a suit and tie to the office every day. Together they make an unlikely pair.

This story is a snapshot look at their relationship, how they come together and how they stay together despite society's negative attitude towards CJ's skating. Sort of a "day in the life" type of story, it follows CJ from a good dream through to convincing Richard to stop working long enough to meet for lunch.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Jun 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781935753254

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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Skaterboy

By J.M. Snyder

Published by JMS Books LLC

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

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Copyright 2010 J.M. Snyder

ISBN 978-1-93575-325-4

Cover Photo Credit: Rhphotos

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.

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Skaterboy

By J.M. Snyder

At 5:00 in the morning, the alarm clock goes off. In his sleep, CJ is dreaming that he’s back in high school, outside by the band room door where he and his pals used to sneak smokes and flip their skateboards up onto the curb before class. He hears the alarm and in his dream it’s the first bell, calling them in. But it’s his turn with the board and he wants to show off a new trick he’s never done before—it’s his dream, he knows he can do it. He gets on the board and skates for the curb even as the other boys start to head inside, Kace and Johnny, kids he hasn’t seen in years. They haven’t aged a bit. Wait, he calls out, pushing off the ground harder to pick up speed. Watch this, you guys. Look!

At the curb he jumps. The board comes with him like it’s stuck to his feet. A twist of his ankle spins it, just as he hoped, once, twice, three times before it hits the concrete. Yes—

One of the wheels catches the curb at a bad angle and the board skitters out from beneath him. CJ goes down hard on one knee as pain shoots up his thigh like paintballs smacking him, hard and fast. A strong band tightens around his chest, he’s getting too old for this shit, barely even twenty and he’s already lost his touch. Somewhere far away, the alarm rings and rings and he’s late, he’s going to be late for class, his knee…

He groans as he starts to wake, groggy. His knee hurts, did he fall? No, his leg’s just wedged beneath his lover’s body. A heavy arm drapes over him, tying him down. The alarm is blaring like crazy