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Elevator Shaft: MM Romance
Every love affair has its ups and downs but this one also has a stop button.
Romance: Micky is a young guy trying to improve his life while living on a run-down high-rise public housing estate but it’s difficult when he has no qualifications and is studying part time to get his high school diploma. After he is stabbed during a homophobic: attack he wants out even though he finds himself attracted to Trig, the leader of the gang that attacked him. Blond-haired Adonis, Trig, is an enigma until the day he traps Micky in the elevator of their building. Expecting the worst, Micky is surprised by the favour Trig asks.
For a few seconds there I thought I was safe. Then a hand thrust into the narrow space between the closing elevator doors, cutting the beam, and they sprang apart like startled children. I took a deep breath, and tensed my muscles, ready to flee.
I never understood: he both terrified me and turned my cock hard, hard as life on this council housing estate — hard as it was for me to forget the taunts, the hard-assed graffiti scrawled across the brick wall outside my flat, hard as the steel blade that sliced me open when my tormentors got tired of my passive resistance. The passive resistance wasn’t a Gandhi-like conscious decision, it’s just I’m not very brave, not very strong. Especially when there’s a gang of them.
I’d been released from hospital ten days before after two weeks flat on my back while my council flat lay at the mercy of my torturers. I knew I’d be lucky if there was anything left of it. My scrapheap furniture would be stolen or else broken up, there would be disgusting accusations scrawled across the walls, and shit smeared on the curtains and windows. Oh, yeah, they’d done it before. While I was at work as a lowly paid shelf stacker. It’s all I can get. I’m not the brightest spark in the lighter, though I’m trying to do something about it. I’m going to community college at night to try to graduate high school. That’s a major scholastic achievement on this estate.
Get me: scholastic. That’s what comes of education.
Normally I walk up the nine floors, but that day I had no energy. My side still hurt, the bandages tight, making walking a slow and awkward shuffle, so stairs were totally out of the question. However, I was feeling good. I’d totally nailed the exam which meant I’d caught up with all the work I’d missed while I recovered from the attack. The physical wound had just about healed but I was still a nervous wreck around the estate.
The police and the counselors and the others in authority had clucked their concern like chooks in a wired enclosure, especially to the local press, but they disappeared pretty quickly once the spotlight focused on something more compelling and I slipped into the computer as just another statistic.
If the condition of my flat after I’d been confined to a hospital bed had been an exam question, I would have got a High Distinction. I managed to salvage the mattress, but it stank of piss and contempt. It was all I had to sleep on until I begged, borrowed, and cajoled a few items from charitable organizations. The clean-up I did myself, determined I would never allow the bastards to drive me out of my home. Not that I had a choice in the matter. It was my home come hell or high water because there was simply not enough public housing to go around. The waiting list was years and there were unlikely to be any vacancies in the near future just to move one pathetic faggot because he was constantly harassed. I had to make the most of it – or live on the streets.
Then I made the mistake of getting in the elevator again.
Romance: Micky is a young guy trying to improve his life while living on a run-down high-rise public housing estate but it’s difficult when he has no qualifications and is studying part time to get his high school diploma. After he is stabbed during a homophobic: attack he wants out even though he finds himself attracted to Trig, the leader of the gang that attacked him. Blond-haired Adonis, Trig, is an enigma until the day he traps Micky in the elevator of their building. Expecting the worst, Micky is surprised by the favour Trig asks.
For a few seconds there I thought I was safe. Then a hand thrust into the narrow space between the closing elevator doors, cutting the beam, and they sprang apart like startled children. I took a deep breath, and tensed my muscles, ready to flee.
I never understood: he both terrified me and turned my cock hard, hard as life on this council housing estate — hard as it was for me to forget the taunts, the hard-assed graffiti scrawled across the brick wall outside my flat, hard as the steel blade that sliced me open when my tormentors got tired of my passive resistance. The passive resistance wasn’t a Gandhi-like conscious decision, it’s just I’m not very brave, not very strong. Especially when there’s a gang of them.
I’d been released from hospital ten days before after two weeks flat on my back while my council flat lay at the mercy of my torturers. I knew I’d be lucky if there was anything left of it. My scrapheap furniture would be stolen or else broken up, there would be disgusting accusations scrawled across the walls, and shit smeared on the curtains and windows. Oh, yeah, they’d done it before. While I was at work as a lowly paid shelf stacker. It’s all I can get. I’m not the brightest spark in the lighter, though I’m trying to do something about it. I’m going to community college at night to try to graduate high school. That’s a major scholastic achievement on this estate.
Get me: scholastic. That’s what comes of education.
Normally I walk up the nine floors, but that day I had no energy. My side still hurt, the bandages tight, making walking a slow and awkward shuffle, so stairs were totally out of the question. However, I was feeling good. I’d totally nailed the exam which meant I’d caught up with all the work I’d missed while I recovered from the attack. The physical wound had just about healed but I was still a nervous wreck around the estate.
The police and the counselors and the others in authority had clucked their concern like chooks in a wired enclosure, especially to the local press, but they disappeared pretty quickly once the spotlight focused on something more compelling and I slipped into the computer as just another statistic.
If the condition of my flat after I’d been confined to a hospital bed had been an exam question, I would have got a High Distinction. I managed to salvage the mattress, but it stank of piss and contempt. It was all I had to sleep on until I begged, borrowed, and cajoled a few items from charitable organizations. The clean-up I did myself, determined I would never allow the bastards to drive me out of my home. Not that I had a choice in the matter. It was my home come hell or high water because there was simply not enough public housing to go around. The waiting list was years and there were unlikely to be any vacancies in the near future just to move one pathetic faggot because he was constantly harassed. I had to make the most of it – or live on the streets.
Then I made the mistake of getting in the elevator again.
47 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 22, 2019
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Barry Lowe
190 books55 followersNaughty or nice? Sugar or Spice? Whatever way you like it, Barry Lowe writes M/M Romance and Erotica that’s as addictive and satisfying as your morning cup of coffee. If you like it short and sweet with a happy ending then saucy romance is for you. But if you like a stronger brew with fetish, cuckold relationships, taboo, and all things steamy then try the Erotica – but watch out for the heat!
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March 22, 2019
“Then you better give up the cigarettes.”
I really, really enjoyed this story. The details and inner thoughts were on point.
Poor Michael (Micky) just wants to finish his high school diploma, get a better job than stacking shelves, and move out of the slums. After recovering from a beating by one of the local gangs, the head leader, Trig, decides to corner Micky in the elevator.
I was really hoping Micky wouldn’t get beat anymore and that Trig would let him go home. I felt bad that Micky always had to hide himself from others so he wouldn’t get beaten up or made fun of. Though a few nasty words were nothing compared to what they had done to him and his flat.
To my surprise the story starts off right away with the two and just gets better as the weeks pass.
“I put every skerrick of my longing for him into that moment and, in return, I felt his loneliness. I understood.”
This is a little deep and makes for a wonderful, heart wrenching and sorrow filled story.
I really, really enjoyed this story. The details and inner thoughts were on point.
Poor Michael (Micky) just wants to finish his high school diploma, get a better job than stacking shelves, and move out of the slums. After recovering from a beating by one of the local gangs, the head leader, Trig, decides to corner Micky in the elevator.
I was really hoping Micky wouldn’t get beat anymore and that Trig would let him go home. I felt bad that Micky always had to hide himself from others so he wouldn’t get beaten up or made fun of. Though a few nasty words were nothing compared to what they had done to him and his flat.
To my surprise the story starts off right away with the two and just gets better as the weeks pass.
“I put every skerrick of my longing for him into that moment and, in return, I felt his loneliness. I understood.”
This is a little deep and makes for a wonderful, heart wrenching and sorrow filled story.
March 21, 2019
Loved it.💖 Micky and Trig are gorgeous
This was a great story for a little gay curiosity. Told as a 1st person which really isn't my thing but I loved it anyway. The ending was brilliantly done that made me grin hugely.
Includes a curious gang member, a bad bad neighbourhood and intentions to better themselves. Smokin hot scenes too.
After being attacked by the estate thugs landing him in hospital, Micky expected to visit again when he was trapped in elevator. Trig was one of the gang members which scared Micky. But a hot kiss shared...and we'll this needs to be read..
*I received an advanced readers copy and I'm volunteering my honest review.
This was a great story for a little gay curiosity. Told as a 1st person which really isn't my thing but I loved it anyway. The ending was brilliantly done that made me grin hugely.
Includes a curious gang member, a bad bad neighbourhood and intentions to better themselves. Smokin hot scenes too.
After being attacked by the estate thugs landing him in hospital, Micky expected to visit again when he was trapped in elevator. Trig was one of the gang members which scared Micky. But a hot kiss shared...and we'll this needs to be read..
*I received an advanced readers copy and I'm volunteering my honest review.
March 25, 2019
good story.. it made me happy to read.. i really enjoyed the storyline and the characters were interesting.. it was all around a good story and enjoyable
March 18, 2019
Elevator Shaft by Barry Lowe is the story of Micky and Trig. Two guys stuck in a depressing state of living, dreaming of getting out, while others try to hold them down. It is the story of Trig discovering his true self and the two of them finding something special when surrounded by the gritty, rotting reality of where they live. The story kept my attention, kept me wondering where it would all end up for these two. It is not your mushy and starry eyed kind of love story, it is messy and has ups and downs.. And in the end, I was satisfied with every moment I read.
I received an advanced reader's copy of the book and I am voluntarily leaving my honest review and recommendation.
I received an advanced reader's copy of the book and I am voluntarily leaving my honest review and recommendation.
March 31, 2019
I loved the premise and that you didn't know where the story was headed until right to the very end. A very satisfying read :)
April 6, 2019
A good short story, with an entertaining stoyline and well developed characters. I really enjoyed it.
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