Short Story - In Lines of Light - Gay Fiction, LGBTQ Short Read, Short Story
JMS Books
April 8, 2023
Kindle
24
Amazon
Federated Planets ambassador Tamlin Rye is headed home, having just finished a successful negotiation. Tam’s looking forward to some rest ... but the beautiful mysterious captain of his courier ship is more tempting than restful.
Captain Valentine Perrin doesn’t sleep well. He might be young, but he’s seen his share of difficult missions. His starship’s observation deck offers solitude on those nights ... until his new passenger interrupts.
And, on this starlit night, Tam and Val will both find exactly what they need.
Review by Ulysses Dietz
Member of The Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
A little jewel of a short story, set in the observation deck of a sleek spaceship. A distinguished Terran ambassador is being shuttled back to Terra after accomplishing a hugely delicate and successful interplanetary peace mission. He is reveling in both the beauty of the spacecraft, and in the exhilaration of what he has done.
Then he realizes that he’s not alone.
I was so startled by the fact that this ended—it felt like the opening salvo in a rich romantic story. It is a quiet, passionate playing out of the romantictrope, from the great musical “South Pacific:” Some enchanted evening, you will meet a stranger…
It left me yearning for more…