First Times

Desert World #1.9

by Lyn Gala

This is a Halloween Howl Free Story from Dreamspinner Press. Click on the gargoyle to get the story!

This was a limited edition that is no longer available at Dreamspinner Press.

Genres: M M Romance, Short Stories, Science Fiction, Romance

8 pages, ebook

First published October 1, 2011

About the author

Lynsey "Lyn" Gala started writing in the back of her science notebook in third grade and hasn’t stopped since. Westerns starring men with shady pasts gave way to science fiction with questionable protagonists which eventually gave in to any story with a morally ambiguous character. Even the purest heroes have pain and loss and darkness in their hearts, and that’s where she likes to find her stories. Her characters seek to better themselves and find the happy ending (or happier anyway), but it’s writing the struggle that inspires her muse. When she isn’t writing, Lyn Gala teaches in New Mexico.

She first cut her teeth on fanfic: gen, slash, het, and femslash. She prefers to focus on plot: mysteries and monsters and disasters, oh my, but sex can and does happen. Some of her stories focus on power exchange, bondage or bdsm. In her worlds, tops and bottoms are all mature, consenting adults. In fact, stories where they aren't squick her badly, so don't expect to find abuse stories in her journal.

Reviews

[Tünde Kasza tóth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maybe this was created because there was no sex scene in the first book? Though I really don't think this scene happened between the first and the second book. I got the impression that they were living together and at the beginning of the second book that wasn't the case.

Also, I admit that it was hot, but I still think there is absolutely no chemistry between the characters.

[melek · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well that was short and hot and this was part of an series now i must read that hope its as good as what i just read.

[Pia]

It's bad enough that most of the Halloween Howl stories weren't really stories, but this one didn't even pretend to be. It starts with "From Book Two of the Desert World series - Coming Soon".

So DSP bills this promotion of free short stories, and then allows an author to use an excerpt as her contribution?? I searched the DSP website for all of the little symbols for downloading Halloween freebies, and I get a promo-excerpt that was probably used online in multiple places without the effort of searching through pages and pages of DSP's website.

Ok, enough bitching. When it comes down to it, I read the "story" and even accepting it was an excerpt, I wasn't impressed. It was just sex between two guys with weird names and with a weird lube. It takes more than that to be sci-fi. There may be more to it, but I'll never know because this "story" was just an excerpt!

If DSP does this again, I won't be participating.

[L-D · Rating 2 out of 5]

This short story is basically a sex scene with no other development (plot or character). After researching the author, I discovered that these characters are part of one of her full length novels. I think if you read the novel, you may be able to appreciate this scene more but I had no connection to the characters whatsoever. The sex was hot though.

[Adara · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an excerpt (sex scene) from the book following Desert World Allegiances, not yet released at the time I read this. No real intro to chars or world, FYI.

[Ro]

Very short sex scene that seems an excerpt from a longer book.

[Rachel Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

OK for me...just a sexy excerpt from a longer story it looks like.

[Mardi · Rating 5 out of 5]

As always, Lyn delivers hot and steamy. Even if this is part of a bigger whole, it just makes me want more.

[Mandy*reads obsessively* · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short steamy sex scene.