About How Does Your Garden Grow

by K.I.L. Kenny
30 pages / 7800 words
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When Kaz joined his Pride buddies to work the new community garden, he didn't count on sharing his plot with a foul-mouthed stranger. Devin's got a history and the scars to prove it. It doesn't help that Kaz nearly ran him over in the parking lot. Factor in some expensive truck repairs and a determined raccoon, and Kaz has had enough before he's even gotten started. Gardens are nice, but some of them take an awful lot of manure…

Sample

"Dev G joined Pride," Chuck texted him that afternoon.

Kaz was midway through a shrug when that statement fully registered. "Whaaaat?"

"What what?" Tyler had been in the next cubicle for five years; he was used to Kaz.

"The kid's gay!" Kaz said with outrage.

Tyler looked over his wire rims. "You may be in a minority group, Walkowski, but even you must have realized you were not alone in the universe. Why shouldn't the kid be gay?"

"Shut up. I thought I had dumped this kid, and instead I'm going to see him every week!"

"So now you're dating juveniles?"

"Oh, ha ha. He's twenty-three, and we are not dating. He's joined my Pride group." Kaz brought up the link to the membership directory. There it was in black and white pixels, complete with photo. Who knew the kid could smile normally?

Insult to injury, Devin had joined the decorating committee that worked on the big parade float. The committee that Kaz chaired. The committee that was already as full as he could manage of wannabe designers. Damn it!

Tyler was leaning over the cubicle wall. "Not bad. Why aren't you dating him?"

"I didn't even know he was gay!"

"Well, now you do. Get on it. You're acting like a guy who needs to get laid."

That stung. Maybe Kaz had been a little bitchy lately, but... "I am not going to date this guy! He dented my truck!"

"I believe it, with shoulders like that. What did you do to piss him off?"

Kaz hunched. "Nearly ran him over."

The look on Tyler's face became very, very patient. "Kaz. I may be on the wrong side of the sexual fence, but I think some things are universal. You'll get a much better reaction if you invite him to go for a ride instead of running him over. Trust me."