About Taste Test: Down Under

by Laney Cairo, Kara Larson, and Kate Roman
41 pages / 16500 words
ISBN-13: 978-1-60370-715-2
ISBN-10: 1-60370-715-8
Available file types - html, lit, pdf, prc

Ever wanted to travel to Australia or New Zealand? Now we all have a chance to go Down Under and see the wonders that part of the world has to offer! In Country Days by Kara Larson, Pai is plagued by cows in his garden. Lucky for him, his lover Hemi knows just what to do distract him, and get rid of the cows.

In At the Bach, by Kate Roman, Geoff has had it with the dating game, and when a friend invites him to a weekend at the beach, he decides that's just what he needs to get over his last attempt at love. When his last crush shows up, Geoff isn't sure if he's found heaven or hell. Finally, in Almost Paradise, by Laney Cairo, Lee has left Melbourne in search of a tiny paradise town, but what he finds might surprise him. Good thing Charlie knows how to help a guy out. Head Down Under today!

Sample

Almost Paradise
Laney Cairo

“You’re booked for the Nimbin tour too?” the girl in the bunk above Lee’s asked, tossing her wet towel over the top of his.

He nudged his towel along the bunk rail, giving her more space. “Seemed like I had to,” he said. “Couldn’t come all the way to Byron Bay and not take the trip to see Nimbin after hearing so much about it all my life.”

The girl, wearing a ubiquitous shell necklace and the sunburn of someone who had grown up somewhere without sunshine, like London or Tasmania, nodded. “All those hippies taking over an abandoned town in the Seventies, and never leaving. And the Phantom Plantum, wandering the countryside, planting dope seeds everywhere, so everyone could get wasted for free. I’ve got to see this!”

Lee, who was from Melbourne and knew better than to get sunburned, even on beaches as gorgeous as Byron Bay’s, grinned back at her. “You gonna buy some?”

“Sure. They say the cops don’t care, or don’t go into the town. You?”

Lee shrugged. “Depends, I guess,” he said. “I’d told myself that I’d grown out of that, you know. Got a job, got a clue, that sort of thing.”

The girl giggled. “C’mon. It’s Nimbin.” Her smile dropped. “I heard, down the pub, that things happen to tourists who miss their buses, you know. Bad things.”

“Then you’d better not miss the bus,” Lee said.

The girl propped herself against his bunk. “Want grab a beer with me, then watch the sunset?”

Lee considered the girl, who was definitely hitting on him. “Let me change my T-shirt,” he said.

Somewhere in his backpack, he had a T-shirt with ‘Recruiter’ written in huge rainbow-colored letters. That should sort out that particular misunderstanding, and also save him from a night of fighting off the American and Canadian backpacking girls that Byron Bay was overrun with.

A couple of idyllic late-summer weeks, roughing it on the north coast of New South Wales, had been a damned good idea, but he wasn’t finding any cute male backpackers to match the girls that were everywhere.