Tune Up

by Terry O'Reilly

Kenny left the small, hick hometown where he grew up and went to trade school in the city, where a vibrant gay community allowed him to live life outside the closet. But when his father passes away, he comes home to care for his mother. When she, too, is gone, Kenny finds it difficult to move on.He has a steady job as an auto mechanic but longs to get back to the city. More than anything, he misses the sex. Here in BFE, he’s the only gay man around, and he’s getting tired of everyone telling him he needs to get married.Kenny isn’t a big believer in love. All he wants is to get laid.Then a handsome stranger rides in on his Harley, in need of a tune up. This just might be Kenny’s lucky day.

Genres: M M Romance, Contemporary, Short Stories

19 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 10, 2010

About the author

Since retiring, Terry spends his time writing, working with animal rescue groups, walking his three dogs, pumping iron while listening to Harry Potter audio books and riding/showing his champion Quarter Horse.

His interest in Native American culture stems from the fact that in tracing his heritage, he found his great grandfather was an Illini.

Reviews

[Maya · Rating 3 out of 5]

Only 20 pages long and a good 20 pages but the 'I love you' after 2 hours of meeting bothered me.

[Elisa Rolle]

A nice and unexpectedly romantic short story, I mostly liked it since it presents ordinary characters and not “romance” heroes. Kenny is a small town boy who left home soon after high school upon realizing that being gay and living in a small town was not a good combination. But to take care of his mother he came back and now, even if his mother is gone, he has not yet found the way back to city. I think he is waiting a push, some reason as important as his mother to change again his life.

Kenny has never really fallen in love; he thinks that what he needs is sex, but instead I think that what he needs, who he needs his someone he cares for. When sexy bike rider Jonas stops at Kenny’s garage to tune up his Harley, to Kenny he is like a wet dream comes to live; truth be told, from Kenny’s description, I think Jonas would be not my type, but I’m not Kenny of course; slightly older, clad in leather and with a sexy and self-confident attitude, it doesn’t take long for Jonas to drag Kenny back to Kenny’s place and have his way with him.

I will not go further, enough to say that the end is not what I was expecting, and that it saved Jonas’s imagine to my eyes. There is a very romantic, very movie style ending, that I’m sure the more romantic readers will love, and in the meantime, for who is searching a sexy break, Tune Up is that and more.

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[Andy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very short story for sure, something you'd read over a coffee break! If you don't judge it on the length then it is a really nice sweet (+ hot) story. It reads as more of an outline for a story though. And the end was kind of ruined but if you want your "HEA" even with the short length of the book, then I suppose you can't really complain. Loads of potential, wish O'Reilly would write a full length version. Still I enjoyed it.

[Leonel · Rating 1 out of 5]

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[Mandy*reads obsessively* · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think if this hookup hadn't been "love you" after nothing but sex, no conversation, no nothing, I would have liked it better.<\spoiler>

[CB · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very short but very hot with a very HEA.