Changeless

Mixed Tape #25

by Cherie Noel

Sometimes, a thing is so beautiful, so precious you can't resist returning to it over and over again... sometimes it's so wondrous you are willing to do anything to be worthy enough finally to stay in the place where it is. Until then you return, time after time to the one heart, the one pure soul that holds your heart forever, Changeless.... My name is Sean Taliaferro Allen, and for me, that one precious and perfect thing will always be Calvin Abelin.

This story is also available in Mixed Tape Series Volume #4.

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First published June 28, 2013

About the author

I’ve been in love with words since before I drew breath, and I don’t see that ever changing. I write stories. Sometimes I write music with them, sometimes they’re poems, and lately, to my great delight, M/M erotic romance.
Yum.
Smexy man to the second…or third power…now that’s the kinda math I can get behind!!
The hair curls or frizzes as it will, the eyes are green and tend to look in two different directions—no, really—and the rest is subject to change. You know the guy who didn’t know if he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man or a man dreaming he was a butterfly? Yeah, that’s me, but substitute drag queen for butterfly and wacky, wild ex-Army chick for man.

Reviews

[Susan Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Part of the reason I enjoyed Changeless by Noel Cherie is that I lived in Michigan and visited the UP several times, so I could relate to the setting. I also liked the evolution of the two protagonists’ relationship from friends to lovers. Both main characters had tragedy in their lives, but both triumphed to become strong men. Without giving away too much, I thought the HEA taking place in their hometown of Marquette was a nice change from the trope of leaving the Midwest to find acceptance. I would have liked a little more backstory from high school to eight years later, but that might not have fit the flashback style of writing well. I found myself looking forward to the play on words of verb tenses setting the time period of different scenes. I also googled most of the songs to hear them while reading. A good read with a good message.

[Mariana · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars