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The River City Companion

River City Shorts

by J. Scott Coatsworth

Can’t get enough of the River City? Here are five more tales to whet your appetite:

The Bear at the Bar: A gay fish out of water tale with just a pinch of Freaky Friday magic.

Between the Lines: Ben is a Republican chief of staff for a state Senator. Sam is Brad’s handsome young assistant. When Brad finds an antique medallion that lets him read minds, all hell breaks loose.

Ten: After the death of his husband, Chris faces a gay mid-life crisis—at thirty-five—as he jumps back into the dating scene for ten dates in ten days.

Flames: When a fire puts his partner Gio in a Coma, Alex has to help him find his way back, one memory at a time.

Miz Fortune’s Lonely Hearts Salon: Chester the accountant finds his voice as Miz Fortune, helping lonely clients find the love of their lives.

Enjoy these little bits of storytelling magic!

Published:
Publisher: Other Worlds Ink
Cover Artists:
Lerri Peterson

Genres:
Comedy, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fantasy - Magical Realism, Gaylit, Younger Characters

Tags:
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Pairings: M-M
Heat Level: 1
Romantic Content: 4
Ending: Click here to reveal
Tropes: Amnesia, Fated Mates / Soul Mates, Friends to Lovers, Hurt / Comfort, Unrequited Love
Word Count: 73000
Setting: Sacramento, CA
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Excerpt:

About the Author

Scott lives with his husband of more than 30 years in a leafy Sacramento, California suburb, in a little yellow house with a brick fireplace and a couple pink flamingoes out front. He has always inhabited the space between the here and now and the what could be. Indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine, he devoured her library. But as he grew up and read the golden age classics and more modern works as well, he began to wonder where all the people like him were.

After he came out at twenty three, he decided that it was time to create the kinds of stories he couldn’t find at Waldenbooks. If there weren’t many gay characters in his favorite genres, he would reimagine them himself, populating them with a diverse universe of characters. He would subvert them and remake them to his own ends. And if he was lucky enough, someone else would want to read the things he wrote.

His friends say Scott’s brain works a little differently – he sees relationships between things that others miss, and gets more done in a day than most folks manage in a week. Although he was born an introvert, he learned to reach outside himself and connect with others like him.

Scott writes stories that subvert expectations, that seek to transform traditional sci fi, fantasy, and contemporary worlds into something new and unexpected. He also runs both Queer Sci Fi and QueeRomance Ink with his husband Mark, sites that bring people like them together to promote and celebrate fiction that reflects their own reality.

His writing, whether romance or genre fiction (or a little bit of both) brings a queer energy to his stories, infusing them with love, beauty and power and making them soar. He imagines a world that could be, and in the process, maybe changes the world that is, just a little.

He was recognized as one of the top new gay authors in the 2017 Rainbow Awards, and his debut novel “Skythane” received two awards and an honorable mention.

He runs Queer Sci Fi, QueeRomance Ink, and Other Worlds Ink with Mark, and is a full member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), where he ran the Indie Author Committee for almost three years.

You can find him at Goodreads here, on Amazon here, on QueeRomance Ink here, and on Facebook here.