Kyle Fenton's nickname around his fraternity house may as well be "Shameless Flirt." Out and proud to his frat, he's more than happy to live up to that reputation, especially when new frat brother Daisuke "Dice" Keto moves in. However, Dice's reaction to Kyle's antics is cryptic at best, leaving Kyle frustrated in more ways than one. Will a lost bet--and a sexy rendezvous with a "Secret Admirer"--clarify the situation?
Author's Note: Royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to the Human Rights Campaign, a civil rights organization focusing on LGBTQ equality.
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Dear Author, I am taking part of a punishment… scratch that, I’m being forced in this punishment. We, the seniors, placed a bet with the juniors of our fraternity to see who could raise the most money. Guess who lost? Now, each senior is placed in a separate room where our supposed punishment will happen. Walking into my assigned room, I notice two unusual things: a blindfold and a note that says “Sit down and put the blindfold on. —Secret Admirer”
Photo Description: A black-and-white close-up of an attractive young man wearing a dark blindfold. His expression is stoic— not fearful, but also not excited. He isn’t wearing a shirt, and, based on the upper chest area that is visible, he’s muscular and fit.
This story was written as a part of the M/M Romance Group's "Love is an Open Road" event. Group members were asked to write a story prompt inspired by a photo of their choice. Authors of the group selected a photo and prompt that spoke to them and wrote a short story.
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Nico Jaye is a fan of all things HEA and has dragged her romance collection along for her moves from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Chicago to New York and back. She thinks reading is awesome and loves that she can hang out night after night with crinoline-wearing debutantes, brawny firemen in suspenders, and werewolf shifters with Scottish brogues. An overall feline enthusiast, Nico secretly (or not so secretly?) adores Hello Kitty, cat GIFs, spontaneous traveling, pretending to be crafty, emoticons, hot menfolk, and parenthetical statements (not necessarily in that order). Her favorite stories are those that marry smut and fluff (a.k.a. smuff) into a gooey ball of HEA and fuzzies.
You can find Nico chit chatting about cats, popcorn for dinner, impulse trips to Iceland, and crocheting four scarves in one night at any of the following:
Reading this story prompted this convo with my college age son: He went on to say that it's really a different generation. Besides making me feel old as rocks, it made me really happy. And it made me enjoy this 'crushing on you' story all the more. It was playful, sexy and reminded me that fraternities don't have to be all about horrible homophobic hazing.
This story puts the smu- into smuff. (Smuff = smut + fluff, for the uninitiated). If you are looking for something short and hot and absolutely gorgeous to read, then look no further.
We have college boys, a bet, semi-naked car washing, blindfolds...did I mention college boys? This is seriously a most delightful read. One of those that you'll read again and again, in between angst filled novels to set your heart back straight.
Kyle and Dice will win you over and turn you into a big ol' gooey mess on the floor by the time they've finished. You'll probably need a cold shower after reading - and then find yourself going back to the beginning and starting over.
Again, I was lucky enough to beta read this and have been waiting to tell everyone to go and read it. It's so much fun. Seriously, I'm squeeing as I write this review, this story - it's just YUM!
Well, it's unpopular opinion time, again. All of my friends loved this, but it just left me cold. Something about Kyle grated on my nerves. I didn't really care how much he was sleeping around, but his feelings for Dice seemed a bit shallow and silly. I liked Dice even less, and his jealously seemed a bit much, and the gfy angle left me cold. So in short I didn't like the characters, didn't buy into their bond, and didn't even find it all that sexy at all.
I'm starting to think Nico Jaye is actually a gay man....who's had LOTS OF HOT GAY SEX. ;) I've said it before and I'm going to say it again, NICO WRITES THE HOTTEST, MOST ACCURATE, GAY SEX SCENES!!!!!
This was fun, sweet and OMFF, HOT!
Great prompt, S.N. Kat. Thank you Nico and ALL of the volunteers of the MM Romance Group for all of your hard work and dedication to this event.
So much love for this story. Kyle and Dice are amazing together and the banter and chemistry between them was so fun to read. Another smufftastic Nico tale!
UPDATE (2018)! So...uhh...I guess ARe is no longer around, so time to kick that link to the curb. In the meanwhile, I figured I'd include a link to the freebie shortie that I wrote for GRL in 2015. Well, shorter-shortie since I suppose The Frat Brat is itself a short story. :) But anyway, it's a free wee ficlet follow up to Dice and Kyle's story, and you can find it here: The Good Ones - Free Ficlet. =)
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Don't Read in the Closet 2015 Event! Available here for free. :D
Nico’s stories are always smuffy and delightful, but there was something extra sassy about Kyle that made this one so much FUN to read! I agree with my girl, Dani, that the GFY or gay-and-in-the-closet thing felt as little rushed and unresolved, but it didn't bother me much. I just sat back and enjoyed their sexy times (and their adorable cuddling post-sexy times).
This short 37-page read was just pretty average for me.
Some fraternity stuff happened, talk about school, near daily off-page random hookups for MC#1, Kyle, while at times eyeing one of his fraternity brothers.
For Kyle to be described as a shameless flirt, I didn't quite get that. We get a one liner from him, then he's out the door to look for his next off-page hookup. Not sure I call that flirting.
Then when completely standoffish MC#2, Dice, finally does return Kyle's attentions, it's out of the blue and I wanted to feel the connection, but they rarely exchanged more than 10 words at a time before that, so the sudden 'brojobs' and one night of cuddles didn't add up to an HFN for me.
When they finally do get together, the hookup scene was again just okay, so this one rated around 2.5 *meh-tacular* stars.
I liked Kyle because he is a total tease. I liked Dice because, he's dice and stoic and anyone who does the raised eyebrow as a response and/or question is good in my book.
The whole foreplay and build up to the "punishment" had me a bit confused at times with the story. I mean, let me get this out... If we were going to get a daily play of Kyle's life and his desire to fuck anything that moved or didn't move, I would have liked to see a bit more interaction or intention from Dice with Kyle's flirting with him during this time. We get small bits of him but nothing to suggest interest other than him being the crush of our narrator so it was a given Dice would deal out Kyle's punishment. I thought Dice would have been closeted gay or maybe bisexual, but the whole gay for you deal didn't work for me this time around. The story went from crushing, to gay for you to insta-love-ish, forever and ever really fast. The things that Dice did, having never been with a guy before, I guess for me with gay for you I need a bit more of the mind set and not just you make my dick hard, for a seemingly straight boy to go for the cock. But that's just me.
At the end this was fun and gave the prompt request what it asked for. Ooh and that cover was a pleasant delivery from the optic nerves to my grey matter.
Only the last 30% is worth it. The rest is bordering on boring.
I know, the book is not even 50 pages long.
I asked my American teacher once what a fraternity is really about apart from those 'challenges' and 'crazy parties' we see in the movies and why would people want to belong to one.
He said he wasn't sure himself.
Well, this author is honest and blunt enough to say they serve the purpose of forming 'business connections in the future'.
Anyway, the sex scene at the end is hot, and I ended up liking the MCs then. But I couldn't push myself to care for everything written before that moment.
Finally had time to read between classes today and very happy I chose this one. Getting to The Frat Brat after quite a list of stories I haven't enjoyed lately was very nice. Really my only complaints are that it wasn't longer and there is no penetration. But all the stars for this story involving a GFY top character versus a bottom. I know there are many more out there but I just don't see them often so this was quite refreshing, even if I was very much looking forward to seeing Daisuke (Dice) actually top Kyle.
I just wish that Kyle wasn't still going out and fucking other boys and we actually got some time with him and Dice.
Other than that I was entertained.
Thanks to all the Group members who provided awesome prompts with lovely pictures, the authors for writing free stories based on those prompts for all of us to read for free and the M/M Romance Group for all their hard work in putting this years Don’t Read in the Closet event, Love is an Open Road, together.
Cheeky Kyle is easy to like, even while he flirts shamelessly with the straight new boy in his frat.
I liked that he was out and open, although I don't think we needed the heavy-handed aspirations of this particular frat house preached to us like that (a couple of times).
The story is great when it's being fun, and light-hearted. The seduction, when it finally happens, brings reader satisfaction, because the story acts as foreplay, dragging out the anticipation for a quite a while.
Anyways, this is a cute and brainy pair. They deserve each other.
Oh My...Wowza! Kyle and his flirting *fans self* was awesome! Dice was great. :) This was a fun sexy college little number. Thanks to the author for taking the time to write for this event!!
STORY INFO: Genre: contemporary Tags: college, fraternity, gay for you, first time, secret crush, Asian, teasing, blindfold, porntastic, fluff Word Count: 10,974 http://www.mmromancegroup.com/the-fra...