Blokes in Love - Free anthology to celebrate OZmmMeet 2013
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On October 11-13, a small group of authors, readers and reviewers are meeting in Sydney for the first mm romance conference in the southern hemisphere: OzmmMeet2013.
To commemorate the occasion and allow others a glimpse of life down under, six of the attending authors have contributed a short story. The brief: the setting of either Australia or New Zealand must be an integral part of the story. Given such a simple scenario, it’s amazing how the stories are similar yet different. They range in location from shearing sheds in New Zealand to Goth nightclubs in provincial Queensland. From surfers on north coast beaches to sophisticated gallery owners in the heart of Sydney. A paranormal story involving werewolves is set in the Hunter Valley while a ghost makes a startling appearance in the South Island of New Zealand. The minor characters also reflect the diversity that can be found in these two countries from Asian cross dressers to Maori siblings and co-workers. |
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Redemption Reef and Second Chances - Miles' Story
Redemption Reef is an online soap opera following the
lives of a number of characters.
The only thing most of them have in common is that they are gay.
In June 2010, a group of writers started contributing stories to Remmy Duchene's free online m/m soap "Haven Falls".
This grew and grew until it got to a stage where it was better to create a spin-off for five of its writers and their characters.
Thus Redemption Reef was born.
The love child of Andrea Speed, Jessie Blackwood, J.J. Levesque, Katisha Moreish and me.
You can read each episode online here or have each new one sent to you via email.
From time to time, short synopses will be posted to allow you to jump into the story.
You'll soon catch up with what is going on.
You can download the compiled episodes from Season 1: "The Hands" and Season 2: "Second Chances" and just those featuring my character, Miles, in Miles' Story
You are welcome to download the files on this page, but remember although they're free, they are covered by copyright,
so you're welcome to lend them/pass them on but not sell them.
The only thing most of them have in common is that they are gay.
In June 2010, a group of writers started contributing stories to Remmy Duchene's free online m/m soap "Haven Falls".
This grew and grew until it got to a stage where it was better to create a spin-off for five of its writers and their characters.
Thus Redemption Reef was born.
The love child of Andrea Speed, Jessie Blackwood, J.J. Levesque, Katisha Moreish and me.
You can read each episode online here or have each new one sent to you via email.
From time to time, short synopses will be posted to allow you to jump into the story.
You'll soon catch up with what is going on.
You can download the compiled episodes from Season 1: "The Hands" and Season 2: "Second Chances" and just those featuring my character, Miles, in Miles' Story
You are welcome to download the files on this page, but remember although they're free, they are covered by copyright,
so you're welcome to lend them/pass them on but not sell them.
Dr Miles Sutherland
Age: 38
Physical Description: Red hair, turning sandy. Six foot two but stoops slightly, so he seems smaller. When he first met the other characters he was overweight and looked a bit like the wild man from Borneo thanks to his shaggy hair, beard and moustache. Now makes a conscious effort to take more care with his appearance. His eyes alternate between green and greeny-brown depending on his mood. His skin has that typical redhead fairness that burns if he's out in the sun.
Personality: As a young man Miles believed the world could be a better place if people just loved each other. Over the years in his job as a Doctor he saw so much death happening indiscriminately to the young, beautiful, old and ugly that he has lost this belief. The death of his long time lover and husband, Darren, was the final straw. Darren had been everything Miles is not. Cheerful, happy, positive, enthusiastic for life. Since his death, Miles has become even more withdrawn and abrasive although since meeting the paramedic, Carter (Gil) Gillespie, he has started to come out of his shell. He has a cynical sense of humor which makes him one of the few people who genuinely likes Flynn.
History: Miles is Australian. The only son of loving parents who accepted his sexuality as did his sister, Siobahn. At school and college he was a rugby union fanatic, eventually playing first grade, however he had to keep his sexuality hidden from his teammates. He met Darren, the love of his life when their families were staying at a resort in Fiji. The young teenagers found they had two major things in common, both wanted to become Doctors and join Medecins sans Frontieres and they were gay. Even though they lived on different continents, they kept in touch over the years eventually meeting up in the Somalia and later, Iraq and Afghanistan. Along the way, Darren contracted HIV/AIDS. Realizing he needed more care, the couple returned to Darren’s hometown Burlington, Vermont where they married in 2001. After Darren’s death, Miles tossed up returning to Australia to live but eventually decided to stay in the US as that way he felt closer to Darren. Employed as the town Doctor in Haven Falls, through a chance encounter with a small mutt who had dug up a dismembered hand, Miles became involved in Flynn Archer’s problems. He eventually adopted the dog, who he called Roofie and, with Gil, was able to keep Flynn alive after his fatal encounter with Vale.
Physical Description: Red hair, turning sandy. Six foot two but stoops slightly, so he seems smaller. When he first met the other characters he was overweight and looked a bit like the wild man from Borneo thanks to his shaggy hair, beard and moustache. Now makes a conscious effort to take more care with his appearance. His eyes alternate between green and greeny-brown depending on his mood. His skin has that typical redhead fairness that burns if he's out in the sun.
Personality: As a young man Miles believed the world could be a better place if people just loved each other. Over the years in his job as a Doctor he saw so much death happening indiscriminately to the young, beautiful, old and ugly that he has lost this belief. The death of his long time lover and husband, Darren, was the final straw. Darren had been everything Miles is not. Cheerful, happy, positive, enthusiastic for life. Since his death, Miles has become even more withdrawn and abrasive although since meeting the paramedic, Carter (Gil) Gillespie, he has started to come out of his shell. He has a cynical sense of humor which makes him one of the few people who genuinely likes Flynn.
History: Miles is Australian. The only son of loving parents who accepted his sexuality as did his sister, Siobahn. At school and college he was a rugby union fanatic, eventually playing first grade, however he had to keep his sexuality hidden from his teammates. He met Darren, the love of his life when their families were staying at a resort in Fiji. The young teenagers found they had two major things in common, both wanted to become Doctors and join Medecins sans Frontieres and they were gay. Even though they lived on different continents, they kept in touch over the years eventually meeting up in the Somalia and later, Iraq and Afghanistan. Along the way, Darren contracted HIV/AIDS. Realizing he needed more care, the couple returned to Darren’s hometown Burlington, Vermont where they married in 2001. After Darren’s death, Miles tossed up returning to Australia to live but eventually decided to stay in the US as that way he felt closer to Darren. Employed as the town Doctor in Haven Falls, through a chance encounter with a small mutt who had dug up a dismembered hand, Miles became involved in Flynn Archer’s problems. He eventually adopted the dog, who he called Roofie and, with Gil, was able to keep Flynn alive after his fatal encounter with Vale.
Miles' Story
The complete story of Miles' transformation from a man seeking refuge in Haven Falls to lick his wounds after the death of his life-long lover, Darren, until he finds happiness and a new purpose in life on Redemption Reef. |
Free Read
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Redemption Reef
See what my character, Dr Miles Sutherland, is up to. Click on the logo to be transported to another world Click on the icons below for the compiled episodes from Season Two: Second Chances
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Free Reads
The previous saga of what happened before they left Haven Falls is available as a free downloadable file in either Acrobat Reader (.pdf) Kindle/Mobipocket format (.prc) or Epub file (.pub) Click on the icons below for the compiled episodes from Season One: The Hands
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