Tim Mead

Professor Everett Sloane is totally captivated with William Bond, one of his English students. The young man, with his fair skin, baby face, blue eyes, and curly blond hair, reminds Ev of Melville's eponymous character, Billy Budd. Student-teacher relations goes against college policy and could ruin the reputations of both men. Try as he might, Ev can't give Billy up. With an unpleasant undercurrent of blackmail and deceit, is all as it seems? But...

You are cordially invited to view another of a triptych of stories involving the lives and loves of gay men who work or volunteer at the Sunrise Arts Center in Stafford, North Carolina. Dr. Jonathan Baker volunteers to man the reception desk because, like he says, he enjoys meeting people. He also boasts he folds a mean program. Everyone tells him he's wasting his talents at doing such menial tasks. But Jonathan is lonely and needs to keep busy. After...

The retired Rich sits in his rocking chair on the porch of his cabin and reminisces. W.B. Yates' poem "The Isle of Innisfree" seems to fit his mood and his life. Rich remembers his college days and his boyfriend, Lee. But that was back in the mid-1950s and Rich and Lee had to be extremely careful, even to the point of dating, then ultimately marrying, women. After college, Rich was drafted into the army. He was happy but lost contact with Lee. Will...

It's a Saturday night in Colby. The camera eye looks in on what ten couples from the popular series are doing to finish off the evening. So fans can settle back and briefly drop in on some old favorites: Ben and Toby from A Writer's Romance, as well as Jim Grant, Jake Handley, and Ray Stonesifer from Cop Out to name but a few are enjoying the evening, each in their own ways. Is everyone still together, or has the passage of time dimmed their respective...

When university administrator Baxter "Bax" Crouse is invited to a dinner party given by matchmaking friends, he instantly falls for the other guest, financial advisor Russ Smith. Bax enlists Russ's help to manage his accounts but the man's skill with a balance sheet is only one of Russ's many talents, ones that Bax feels far outshine his own modest abilities. Amazingly, Russ returns Bax's affections and things move quickly and they soon move in together....

Ben Moss has a good day job with the Public Information Office of Colby County. However, at night he's a successful -- if secret -- writer of straight romance novels. Ben has also written a "serious" novel about a man who is, like himself, gay. Unlike his other books, no one will publish it. Ben's cheating ex is sorry and wants to get back together. Ben's new boss at work is sexy and Ben is very attracted to the man. Then there's his neighbor, Toby...

You are cordially invited to view another of a triptych of stories involving the lives and loves of gay men who work or volunteer at the Sunrise Arts Center in Stafford, North Carolina. High school senior Louis LeFevre feels he doesn't fit in. He's Haitian by birth and doesn't resemble the African-American students. His French-sounding name doesn't help him fit in either. Although he does phys ed -- he's gay and wants to look good -- he prefers arts,...

Joe Hill thinks of himself as an ordinary guy with an appropriately ordinary sort of name. He discovers that some other Colby residents think he's extraordinarily good looking, many likening him to Clark Kent. Joe's newfound popularity goes to his head and he has a number of brief flings with various men around town. Joe eventually begins to wonder if settling down with one special man would give him a greater sense of contentment. He sees the happiness...

After an affair with a male student was exposed, fifty-something English professor Doug Curtis left his teaching job and moved to a small conservative town in central Florida. Keeping the closet door firmly closed, Doug rebuilds his life, makes friends, becomes active in his church, and volunteers for various local organizations. He's settled, safe... and alone. There's some excitement around town when middle-aged hot shot administrator Stan Mason...

Brian Morehouse Hunter is a newly promoted professor of English with a particular fondness for the novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. In his spare time, Brian writes erotic gay romance novels. Knowing his university colleagues wouldn't understand, and would likely be shocked, Brian keeps his two lives strictly separate. That is, until he accidentally emails a draft chapter of his latest story to Ken Tremont, a fellow professor, rather than one of his beta...