About Smart Alex
by AKM Miles
120 pages
/ 52500 words
ISBN: 978-1-60370-263-8, 1-60370-263-6
Available file types - html. lit, pdf, prc
Virgin and gay-wannabe Smart Fallon desperately wants to come out of the closet. When he moves to the big city and college, he figures he's found his chance. In fact, he finds even more than that when he meets Tommy and Mike, his first gay friends.
Will Smart ever find his own love, though? Maybe he will, if he can make it through everything life throws at him. Alex is everything he wants, but Smart isn't sure if he and Alex can find their way and help Tommy and Mike make it through. Can they all find happiness?
Review
Syd McGinley, author of the Dr. Fell stories, writes:
Smart Alex is a sweet and hopeful story with plenty of hot sex, but don’t let the cute name and cuter boys fool you -- there are some darker undercurrents in the story as small-town boy Smart learns to deal with college life. He’s been waiting patiently for his gay life to start – and his on his first day he meets Mike and Tommy making out in the dorm hallway and his adventures begin. Along the way, the boys find out about love, loyalty, and friendship, and find all three in surprising places and forms. Not just a coming of age or coming out story, all though it has elements of both, Smart Alex is a satisfying story about four young men finding their place in the world and moving their relationships beyond mere (!) sex to a deeper level.
Sample
Prologue
He'd known for a long time. Really... you know. He had just never acted on the knowledge. Well, not overtly anyway. He first knew early in high school. Before that he thought he just wasn't interested in girls yet. Then he realized he just wasn't interested in girls.
He found himself watching closely as his teammates played ball. The way the muscles in their legs would move and stretch; then he became obsessed with the muscles in their backs. He found himself more and more often having to hide a boner in the middle of some class or sport.
He finally admitted it to himself when he started looking at guys' lips. Their mouths, come on! Mmm. He would fantasize about them, and that was his definitive recognition that he was truly gay. He wanted to kiss Tony Elkins, guard on the basketball team, with a single-minded, dedicated need. Tony would have knocked him into next week if he had even looked at him funny. But he wanted to.
That began his lonely existence in the gay world of Small Town, USA. It was such a small, rural town that sports was the only thing to do or to watch. They didn't have cable or any of the high-tech stuff that would have let him know he wasn't so alone in his feelings. He didn't have a computer at home, not that Internet access was available there anyway.
He had one of those late birthdays, so when he started school he was a little younger than others in his class. But he was smart. Really smart. He was so intelligent that he was on both the ball teams and the academic teams, such as they were. They had contests against other small schools and due to his knowledge of lots of trivia, always won. He just tended to remember things he had either read or seen. He had a knack for figuring things out.
He was something of a novelty in his area. Not that much to speak of, but he had his niche. The smart one. The geek. He had even been called "Smart" instead of Steve since he was in about second grade. Everyone called him Smart as a matter of fact. Lots of people didn't even know his real name and some had forgotten. He had gotten used to it.
He won a scholarship to the biggest school in the state. His parents were thrilled and his friends were jealous, but he was just excited to be getting away to a bigger city so he could learn more about the world and education. But what he really wanted to know was what there was out there for people like him. Homos. Queers. Faggots. You name it and the guys had joked about it. Somehow, he never could joke about it. Higher education was truly an eye opener for him.