The Artist's Mechanic

By J.D. Walker

Logan Winston makes a deal with his younger brother Marco to pose in the buff for an art class. Why? Because Marco is threatening to quit high school, and Logan doesn't want his sibling to go through difficulties in life because of bad choices. Still, all Logan sees in the mirror is an average guy with dreadlocks and grease under his fingernails pretending to be a model. Then he meets Wayne Rodriguez, the hunky art teacher who causes Logan to want like he's never wanted before.

Wayne Rodriguez is getting over a bad relationship and desires nothing more than friendship. Logan is raising his little brother and feels inadequate in Wayne’s presence. Angry words and fear make things worse, and sneaky brothers try to get them back on track.

They have to find a solution, if only to stop their siblings from meddling.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Mar 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9781634869324

J.D. Walker

J.D. Walker likes to keep her stories short and sweet. A multi-published author, she is also a musician, artist, and lover of all things knit and crochet. For more information, visit lifebyjo.com/jdwalker.

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The Artist’s Mechanic

By J.D. Walker

Published by JMS Books LLC

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Copyright 2019 J.D. Walker

ISBN 9781634869324

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Published in the United States of America.

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Never be afraid to do something outside your comfort zone. You might find your way to love.

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The Artist’s Mechanic

By J.D. Walker

What am I doing here?

I sat in a small classroom, sun still shining bright through the windows at seven o’clock in the evening, since it was early summer. There were eleven women and men who all looked to be over the age of sixty milling around in front me, adjusting their easels and checking their paintbrushes and such. Everyone seemed excited to be there, while I felt like someone had just put diesel fuel in my gasoline tank, and now the engine wouldn’t start. How the hell did I end up in this predicament?

Oh, yeah. My baby brother Marco had tricked me.

Okay, so it wasn’t quite a trick, but he’d somehow shifted the blame for his lack of enthusiasm to attend school to me, saying, Oh, well you never graduated, ergo, why should I? after which I reminded him that I had gotten my diploma last year, ceremony or no. And then, he’d said, Well why can’t I do the same thing?

My response was, Because you can do better than that. You get A’s without even trying, and I want you to have a chance at something good in life, not settle because you made bad choices. Or because life had knocked you on the ass with responsibilities you never asked for.

After that, Marco had crossed his arms, narrowed his too-sharp brown eyes, and told me I’d have to do something really big and outside my comfort zone for him to agree, something I’d never do in a million years, just to prove that I was serious about him becoming a senior and graduating next year, for his own good. Naturally, it hadn’t taken him long to come up with the most embarrassing thing possible—being a nude model for his best friend’s brother’s drawing class