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    By Quarry Lake
    By Quarry Lake
    By Quarry Lake
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    By Quarry Lake

    By Josephine Myles

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    Still waters run deep...

    Tommy’s been away from his home in rural Somerset for three years. Long enough to sort out who he is, and to get over the feelings of confusion and shame that blighted his lifelong friendship with farmer’s boy Rob. He’s out and proud, now—and he’s coming home to claim back what he lost.

    Rob’s the one who stayed behind, working on the farm with little time for a social life. With Tommy coming back into his world, he could have a lot to gain—and everything to lose.

    He’s going to have to take a leap of faith. Straight into the ice cold waters of Quarry Lake.

    This story was originally published in 2013 as part of the Summer Lovin’ anthology.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJosephine Myles
    Release dateJul 26, 2016
    ISBN9781311390707
    By Quarry Lake
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    Josephine Myles

    English through and through, Josephine Myles is addicted to tea and busy cultivating a reputation for eccentricity. She writes gay erotica and romance, but finds the erotica keeps cuddling up to the romance, and the romance keeps corrupting the erotica. Jo blames her rebellious muse but he never listens to her anyway, no matter how much she threatens him with a big stick. She’s beginning to suspect he enjoys it. Jo now has over a dozen novels and novellas under her belt. Her novel Stuff won the 2014 Rainbow Award for Best Bisexual Romance, and her novella Merry Gentlemen won the 2014 Rainbow Award for Best Gay Romantic Comedy. She loves to be busy, and is currently having fun trying to work out how she is going to fit in her love of writing, dressmaking and attending cabaret shows in fabulous clothing around the demands of a preteen with special needs and an insatiably curious toddler. Website and blog: http://josephinemyles.com/  Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hrQ4s  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/josephine.myles.author  Twitter: @JosephineMyles 

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      By Quarry Lake - Josephine Myles

      By Quarry Lake

      by Josephine Myles

      Still waters run deep…

      Tommy’s been away from his home in rural Somerset for three years. Long enough to sort out who he is, and to get over the feelings of confusion and shame that blighted his lifelong friendship with farmer’s boy Rob. He’s out and proud, now—and he’s coming home to claim back what he lost.

      Rob’s the one who stayed behind, working on the farm with little time for a social life. With Tommy coming back into his world, he could have a lot to gain—and everything to lose.

      He’s going to have to take a leap of faith. Straight into the ice cold waters of Quarry Lake.

      This story was originally published in 2013 as part of the Summer Lovin’ anthology.

      By Quarry Lake

      by Josephine Myles

      Copyright 2016 by Josephine Myles

      Cover Art by Lou Harper

      Smashwords Edition

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      For all you wild swimmers out there.

      By Quarry Lake

      by Josephine Myles

      The river wasn’t the same as when he’d left it.

      Tommy had thought that here at least he’d be safe. Be able to pick up the threads of his old life, pre-university. Pre running-away-to-London. Because nothing ever changed in sleepy rural Somerset, did it?

      But what he remembered as a joyful, gurgling river now was little better than a stagnant ditch, the rocks in its path barely causing a ripple on the glassy surface of the water. The moss line on the far bank revealed just how much lower the water was running than usual. All these weeks without rain, the sun beating down mercilessly. It had been bad enough back in the city, but he’d expected relief from the stifling heat out in the countryside.

      Yeah, like that was the only reason he’d wanted to get back here.

      Did Rob even know he was back?

      And if he did, would he care?

      Tommy sighed and trudged down the pathway. The year-round mud of his youth was now a hard, cracked surface, the only remnants of the boggiest places a shrinking area of sticky, clay-like mud. It was meant to be cooler here in the woods. He’d planned to paddle in the shallows, reconnecting with old haunts before taking those steps down the pathway to the Carvers’ farm. Prepare himself to meet with Rob again.

      But maybe there was no way to prepare for their meeting. Should he appear with an apology on his lips, or just try to pick up where things left off? Before the kiss, that was. The kiss that changed everything.

      Fuck it. He’d clear his head with a swim instead.

      It took him a few moments to recognise the turning. A tree had fallen, confusing him. But with every step he took up the narrow pathway the memories returned, crowding him.

      Bumping shoulders with Rob, laughing about something they’d both watched on telly.

      Carrying fishing rods and bait buckets, telling themselves they definitely weren’t turning into their dads.

      Dashing after each other in their swimming trunks, yelling about finding pirate treasure.

      Swimming trunks. He hadn’t even thought to bring them with him. But it didn’t matter, did it? Not at Quarry Lake. Not if it was still his and Rob’s

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