I stumbled onto the perfect image of Dair. I'd been thinking of using Kyle Krieger for that but it didn't feel completely right. Too old and well-built.

I considered a few other guys, including a Spanish doctor, and no one fit. I was about to settle on Ben Cohen when I happened onto Derrick Henry.

He's got the right face. He's a few years older than Dair, but that doesn't matter. This picture just stopped me cold...because it's a Dair expression. And attitude. Open and happy, almost like a golden retriever. Doesn't hurt he's got a nice body, too.

Now I'm letting the story expand as it wants, through this draft. The next draft may be to fill in some plot holes and add clarity. Adam's story progresses nicely, if a bit lumpy. I have what I think is a blunt, almost brutal confrontation between Adam and Sarah, Dair's homophobic sister in law.

I need to be careful about one thing -- teen boys being used for sex. Adam is thrown out of his home when he's 15, and winds up placed in a foster home where the man running it sells the boys there for sexual favors. The age of consent in Canada, then, was 14...so long as their partner wasn't in a position of authority over them. 

In Washington state, it's 16, with the same provision. Also included? Adam stumbles onto a group of kids who're selling themselves for drugs and cash, run by a homophobe named Bobby, and helps one get out of that lifestyle. 

Just to be clear, I'm not into guys under the age of 23. I can't even begin to understand the attraction to teenage boys...or girls. But it seems some assholes, like Felon47, are really into that...right down to 12-14 year olds..and that's a real turnoff, to me.