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Stocking Stuffers

by Feral Sephrian

Don’t let the fashionable skirt and flawless make-up fool you -- Kellan is the straightest man in his drag troupe. By contrast, his favorite co-star, Casey, is one of the most effeminate gay men Kellan has ever met. Despite their differences, Kellan feels closer to him than anyone else outside his family.

At their troupe’s “Crossmas” party, where everyone and their partners have to attend in drag, a run-in with a carful of bigots gives Kellan and Casey a reason to get even closer. With the lines of sexuality already blurred, will Kellan be the same man by the end of the night, or will he get a gift from Casey that changes everything?

Genres: Holiday, Gay

23 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 12, 2015

About the author

Biography

Feral Sephrian loves storytelling in all its forms, as well as its power to connect to its audience. Their focus tends to be non-conventional m/m romances in an attempt to bring more representation to the genre, but sometimes you gotta write fluff and sometimes you gotta write smut and sometimes you can do that with a vanilla couple as well as you can with a multi-gender demisexual throuple. The fun is in seeing where the characters take you.

Reviews

[Serena Yates]

A straight man in a drag troupe may be unusual, but then neither Kellan nor any of his fellow “Fabulettes” want to fit into a stereotype. And that is really what this story is about, blurring lines of sexuality included. It may be listed as a “gay erotic romance”, but I think that label doesn’t quite do this story justice. It’s a glimpse into Kellan and Casey’s life as friends, but it neither resolves anything regarding their friendship nor does it change Kellan’s sexuality. What it does do is show how Kellan discovers that he may not be as straight as he thought, and in that sense his world at the end of the story is a completely different place.

Kellan has always enjoyed dressing in girls’ and later women’s clothes. For him it’s about feeling sexy, and he considers it a hobby. Most of his fellow troupe members are gay men, but one is a transwoman, so Kellan is used to being around people with varying sexual orientations and gender identities, He just never assumed the same applies to him, and I loved how a “close encounter of the personal kind” with his best friend Casey changes his self-perception.

If you like stories outside the traditional boxes of gender and sexuality identity, if two men who are friends, and maybe more, discovering a new part of their relationship sounds interesting, and if you’re looking for a read that is as entertaining and hot as it is thought-provoking, then you will probably like this short story.


NOTE: This book was provided by JMS Books for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews.