Love is Always Write Anthology Volume 5

would not make this decision alone. Crawling over the supplies, he knelt beside the cot. He reached for the blanket and touched on warmth. He pulled back the blanket.
    "Stopping already?" asked a low voice that could only belong to Drake.
    Sebastian jumped back. "Fuck."
    "Such language," Drake mocked gently, sitting up in the cot. "Or was that a suggestion?"
    Hope sprung up, but he stuffed it back. "What are you doing here?"
    Drake stretched, producing a series of cracks. "El Basque and I made an accord. He wanted to stay there. I wanted to come with you."
    An odd feeling of triumph tiptoed through him, but he wasn't ready to give in so easily. "Going behind my back, swapping places, and hiding for eight revolutions was the most straightforward way?"
    "Trust me," Drake said in what was almost a drawl. "I have experience with these things."
    "You're a bastard," Sebastian said, but it came out far more breathy than he'd intended. Seductive almost.
    "True enough, but you're stuck with me." Drake paused in his all-too-casual perusal of the tiny-boxed space to look Sebastian in the eye. "Right?"
    Hell, did Drake still doubt him? He must, considering Sebastian had left him.
    "I travel to no one and nowhere," Sebastian said hoarsely. It was meant as a warning. He had nothing to offer Drake, however he might want him.
    "Bring me with you, and never be alone." Drake pulled him down onto the thin cot, where he promptly forgot where he was and stopped caring where they went.
    THE END
    Author bio: Skye Warren writes unapologetic erotica, including power play or erotic pain and sometimes dubious consent. There's struggle in the sex. There's pain in the relationships. Her books are raw, sexual and perversely romantic. If you enjoyed this story, you may also enjoy Trust in Me , a dark and graphic M/F tale featuring dubious consent.
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LIFE BEING WHAT IT IS, ONE DREAMS OF REVENGE - A ROMANCE IN THREE ACTS
    by Sarah Black , with Commentary by Paul Gauguin

    He looked so calm and relaxed around the horses. No, more than just relaxed--he looked comfortable. Most people who came out to the farm to interview him were appalled by the mud, wary of the animals, and too concerned about getting their clothes dirty to interest him.
    This guy looked like he belonged. Shit, he was so screwed...
    ~ Sarah Madison

    genre: contemporary
    tags: writer; reporter; no-sex; Fiji; chocolate; poetry; humorous
    word count: 2,451
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    LIFE BEING WHAT IT IS, ONE DREAMS OF REVENGE - A ROMANCE IN THREE ACTS
    by Sarah Black, with Commentary by Paul Gauguin
    ACT 1
    In the first act, the characters are introduced and the setting is presented (from The Structure of a Three Act Play).
    " A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece." Paul Gauguin
    CHARACTERS:
    Gabriel Archuleta is a writer who has been living on the small Fijian Island of Koro for twenty years. He fled the US after the publication of his groundbreaking genre-bending erotic romantic poetry/novel hybrid called Searching for Evangeline . He has recently, and reluctantly, consented to an interview by a reporter from Rolling Stone. They made him an offer he could not refuse.
    Ben Blue is a dreamy young reporter who fell in love with love while reading Searching for Evangeline twenty years before. While his life experience is beginning to test his belief in the lessons learned at the knee of this great romance, he still clings to the belief that true, pure love does exist. He sleeps with a fellow reporter in exchange for the plum assignment of interviewing the great Gabriel Archuleta on the small island of Koro.
    SETTING :
    The island of Koro is the sixth largest in the Fiji Archipelago. It takes 2-3 days of travel by plane, boat, and ferry to get to Koro from the US. Gabriel Archuleta lives in the village of Waisali, with a population of twenty.
    Ben Blue stumbled off the ferry when it landed on Koro at 0200. It was raining like he had never seen rain before, buckets of warm, silky water flowing over his head, in his eyes, and down his back. One of the deck hands gave him a big banana leaf, and Ben put it over his head. It channeled the warm rain directly into his shoes, which caused all the men watching him to laugh. Ben had to laugh, too. Everyone on Fiji laughed, and when they weren't laughing, they were grinning. Ben felt like it was a good sign. Gabriel Archuleta was a