Review: Lovely short story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2012
Short but oh-so-sweet tale of Joe Deacon, bar owner, and Shelby "Thursday" Bainbridge, attorney. Deacon has watched Thursday come into his bar every Thursday for months now. At the start of the story the town is battening down its hatches as a Hurricane is on its way up the Gulf coast. On this particular Thursday Deacon doesn't think Thursday will show up (he calls him Thursday because he doesn't know his name). There are few people out and about, understandably, but Thursday still shows up at his usual time. Stupidly, he didn't realize that taxis wouldn't be running when a hurricane is approaching so he's stuck at the bar and Deacon offers him a place to stay.It turns out that Thursday, or Shelby, has been falling for Deacon for a while and, when Deacon propositions Shelby (during an indoor basketball game in his indoor 4th floor basketball man cave) he is easily carried off into a night of hot man sex. He feigns denial but, deep down, he knows he wants to be with Deacon. Deacon and Shelby have some fun then go to eat dinner downstairs. Deacon informs him, after playing it cool so as not to frighten Shelby off, that he WILL have sex with him before the night is over. By the time they do they have spent several hours talking and opening up their hearts and souls and Shelby asks Deacon for a good old shagging. Which he enjoys. A lot.Then he runs off and doesn't return for weeks.Wish the story had been longer. I loved the ending. Loved the guys. Loved their relationship. Hated Shelby's tyrant of a father. Loved their back stories. Wish it had been a 500 page book because I could have read about these two for days instead of an hour and change.