Nothing Strikes Back
By Keith Hale
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What do you do when your girlfriend's younger brother is the best-looking person on the planet and has a thing for you? Parish doesn't know what he's going to do, but he's about to find out. Keith Hale, author of Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada, puts together a short story that is both charming and sexy. As usual, the narrative voice is winsome and the characters are inviting in this tale of friendship between a younger male who knows he's gay and the guy getting dumped by his sister.
Watersgreen House is an independent international book publisher with editorial staff in the UK and USA. One of our aims at Watersgreen House is to showcase same-sex affection in works by important gay and bisexual authors in ways which were not possible at the time the books were originally published. We also publish nonfiction, including textbooks, as well as contemporary fiction that is literary, unusual, and provocative.
Keith Hale
Keith Hale grew up in central Arkansas and Waco, Texas. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Following a five-year career as a journalist in Austin, Amsterdam, and Little Rock, Hale earned a Ph.D. in literature from Purdue and took a position teaching British and Philippine literature at the University of Guam. Hale writes both fiction and scholarly works including his groundbreaking novel Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (Cody), first published in the Netherlands, and Friends and Apostles, his edition of Rupert Brooke's letters published by Yale University Press, London.
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Nothing Strikes Back - Keith Hale
Nothing Strikes Back
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Keith Hale
Table of Contents
Title Page
Nothing Strikes Back
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
© 2022 by Keith Hale
All rights reserved. International copyright secured.
6 x 9
(15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
BISAC: Fiction / Coming of Age
BISAC: Fiction / Gay
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Watersgreen House is an independent international book publisher with editorial staff in the UK and USA. One of our aims at Watersgreen House is to showcase same-sex affection in works by important gay and bisexual authors in ways which were not possible at the time the books were originally published. We also publish nonfiction, including textbooks, and contemporary fiction that is literary, unusual, and provocative.
Audiobook © by Keith Hale. Narrated by James M. Johnson.
Recorded & produced by James M. Johnson & Keith Hale in Logan, Utah.
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Nothing Strikes Back
Chapter One
The young man who opened the door for me had to be the best-looking human on the planet. I was at his house to pick up a girl, most likely his sister. I had asked her out on a whim, and she had smiled and said yes, also on a whim it seemed to me, but in any case, here I was.
Hi. Hailey here?
I asked.
The boy was looking at me in the same way that I suspected I was looking at him, kind of dazzled by an unexpected pleasure. That didn’t figure. I was good-looking myself, maybe, but not that good looking. Not like him. Just average good looks like Hailey.
Yeah,
he said. She said she was going out with a new guy tonight. I guess that’s you.
I guess it is.
You sure you’re not used?
Handsome kid and clever too.
I have been.
The