Steven and Conrad are cruising along now, until Steven tries to figure out where they stand. Are they a couple? A pair of misfits? Just friends? Sometimes deciding what you want and what you need is just a question of taste.

Appears in the author's collection, Holding the Reins and Other Stories.



Vincent Diamond is the pseudonym for a former Central Florida writer whose short story collection, Rough Cut, was released by Lethe Press. "An erotic wordsmith," says noted editor Richard Labonte says in the foreword to the book. "...Erotic fiction that possesses story-telling heft."



Diamond's stories have appeared in Best Gay Erotica 2009, Gay City Health Volume 2, Coming Together: Under Fire, Country Boys, Truckers, Best Gay Romance 2007, Hot Cops, Love in a Lock-Up, Best Gay Love Stories 2005 and 2006, Feathers, Chance Encounters, Under Arrest, and Play Ball, and online at Fishnet, Clean Sheets, and Ruthie's Club. Diamond works as an editor for a variety of publishers and takes on select private clients for writing coaching. Time away from the keyboard is spent in the dressage ring trying to pick up the correct diagonal at the trot.



For more information, visit vincentdiamond.com.