Excerpt:
Did other people spend their first years of retirement second-guessing every part of their lives? Jo realized they were second-guessing the normality of their second-guessing. With a short laugh, they started rocking again, slowly. Rosa’s feet joined in.
They snuck a glance at her. The sugar was still there. Should they point it out? What they really wanted was to brush it away, but maybe she didn’t feel like being touched.
Their joint rocking found a rhythm. Several minutes passed—Jo didn’t check their watch, didn’t overthink that badly.
Even now, neither of them could sit still. Good thing they’d swapped out the kids’ swings for this bench last year when Luis left for college. Keep the feet pushing, rolling, spines and shoulders shifting as they adjusted weight. They’d been in motion their entire lives. Working. Raising the kids. Maintaining and improving this house.
So little of that motion brought them toward each other.
About the Anthology:
Gender Ever After is a sapphic romance anthology that revels in the full spectrum of gender expression, identity, and desire. Within these pages, love stories bloom between sapphic people of every kind—cis, trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, genderfluid, two-spirit, agender, demigender, and more—offering a kaleidoscope of possibility, passion, and joy.
From sweet slow burns to fiery erotic encounters, these stories celebrate romance that is gender-affirming, sex-positive, and deeply sapphic. Characters find first love and rekindled sparks, navigate open relationships and lifelong commitments, overcome challenges, and write their own happily ever afters.
Brimming with heat, heart, and hope, Gender Ever After is about being brave enough to love and be loved, exactly as you are.
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