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Morgan

by J. Scott Coatsworth

Morgan - J. Scott Coatsworth
Editions:Kindle - First Edition: $ 0.99
Pages: 16

It was spring in Portland, and I was studying for yet another test when Morgan showed up.

He was exotic, gorgeous, and sexy as hell, but he wouldn't tell me where he was from.

Four seasons went by, and I still knew almost nothing about him. But I was about to find out.

Morgan is a short story.

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J. Scott Coatsworth

Genres:
Contemporary, Fantasy, Fantasy - Faery & Fae, Fantasy - Urban & Magical Beings, New Adult

Tags:
author - american, format - kindle unlimited, format - short stories, what - emotion - angst, what - topic - magic, when - season - fall, when - season - spring, when - season - summer, when - season - winter, where - city - portland, where - country - usa, where - general - college, where - state - washington, who - description - dormmates, who - type - elves, who - type - fae

Pairings: M-M
Heat Level: 1
Romantic Content: 3
Ending: Click here to reveal
Character Identities: Gay
Protagonist 1 Age: 18-25
Protagonist 2 Age: 18-25
Tropes: Cheating, Cultural Differences, Hurt / Comfort, Reunited and it Feels So Good, Second Chances, True Love
Word Count: 2573
Setting: USA, Washington, Portland
Languages Available: English
Excerpt:

It was the first day of Spring. I’d taken on a heavy class load in my junior year at OSU, and I was in one of my favorite spots—the base of a little hill on campus with my back against an oak tree, studying for my physics exam the next day.

“Hey”, someone said, and I looked up to see himstanding there above me. Tall, thin, blond, I couldn’t see much more with the sun shining from behind him on the late afternoon day. The hill was crested with a ring of mushrooms and wild flowers, and their perfume only enhanced the promise of the unnaturally warm spring day.

“Hi.” I shielded my eyes and he sank down into the grass in front of me. His eyes were hazel, almost golden, and his high cheekbones gave him an exotic look. I couldn’t place it, but it was clear that he wasn’t from around here.

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“I’m Morgan.” He offered his hand, and as I took it, something electric passed between us. He had a yellow yarn bracelet tied around his wrists, the significance of which I would only come to understand much later.

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About the Author

Scott lives with his husband of more than 30 years in a leafy Sacramento, California suburb, in a little yellow house with a brick fireplace and a couple pink flamingoes out front. He has always inhabited the space between the here and now and the what could be. Indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine, he devoured her library. But as he grew up and read the golden age classics and more modern works as well, he began to wonder where all the people like him were.

After he came out at twenty three, he decided that it was time to create the kinds of stories he couldn’t find at Waldenbooks. If there weren’t many gay characters in his favorite genres, he would reimagine them himself, populating them with a diverse universe of characters. He would subvert them and remake them to his own ends. And if he was lucky enough, someone else would want to read the things he wrote.

His friends say Scott’s brain works a little differently – he sees relationships between things that others miss, and gets more done in a day than most folks manage in a week. Although he was born an introvert, he learned to reach outside himself and connect with others like him.

Scott writes stories that subvert expectations, that seek to transform traditional sci fi, fantasy, and contemporary worlds into something new and unexpected. He also runs both Queer Sci Fi and QueeRomance Ink with his husband Mark, sites that bring people like them together to promote and celebrate fiction that reflects their own reality.

His writing, whether romance or genre fiction (or a little bit of both) brings a queer energy to his stories, infusing them with love, beauty and power and making them soar. He imagines a world that could be, and in the process, maybe changes the world that is, just a little.

He was recognized as one of the top new gay authors in the 2017 Rainbow Awards, and his debut novel “Skythane” received two awards and an honorable mention.

He runs Queer Sci Fi, QueeRomance Ink, and Other Worlds Ink with Mark, and is a full member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), where he ran the Indie Author Committee for almost three years.

You can find him at Goodreads here, on Amazon here, on QueeRomance Ink here, and on Facebook here.