Double Dose

by Gene Taylor

Everyone Blayne Carter knows has lost his or her mind. He doesn't have a twin, so why do people keep swearing they’ve seen him in places he hasn’t been? Blayne finally spots the look-alike at a gay bar and becomes intrigued, but his longtime friend and former lover, Doug Adams, distracts him, and Blayne loses track of his supposed twin. Some friend Doug is. Thanks, dude.

But Doug vows to make it up to Blayne and discovers the name of this Cary Fontaine. Doug sets up a meeting for Blayne and Cary, hoping Blayne will share all the details—down to the bare facts. Seriously, Doug is as curious as Blayne to find out exactly how much these two look alike, clothes on and off.

66 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 29, 2014

About the author

GENE TAYLOR was born about fifty miles south of Dallas in Corsicana, Texas, and he actually got to see what the city looked like twenty-six years later when he visited it briefly for the first time. He grew up in a different part of the state and thus knew very little about his birthplace. He had heard that there was a bakery there that sold wonderful fruitcakes online for Christmas presents, however!

He graduated from a large university in Texas with a double major in English and history, a few years later earning a master’s degree at the same school. Since then he has lived in California, Arizona, Illinois, and Texas while teaching in high schools and selling antiques and collectibles in various shops. Currently, he has a booth in an antiques mall called As Time Goes By, but he usually spends his time writing novels and short stories. In addition, he often allots some time to playing records on his restored 1947 Rock-Ola jukebox and on his 1961 Wurlitzer 2500 jukebox!

A few years ago, he was greatly surprised to learn on a genealogy website that he is a direct descendant of Geoffrey Chaucer (his nineteenth great grandfather on his father’s side). He wishes he had known that when he was teaching The Canterbury Tales in British literature classes.

At the moment he is single, but he never gives up hope of finding someone to share his interests in reading, writing, antiquing, and playing slot machines and roulette in Las Vegas!

You can write to him at genetaylor957@yahoo.com.

Reviews

[Justin]

At some point infinite coincidences become plot manipulation and this one passed that point for me.

Abandoned at 40%. Not going to give a star rating because I did not finish it.

On a positive note, I loved the cover.

[T.M. Smith · Rating 1 out of 5]

Blayne Carter goes to pick up his morning coffee and is slightly dumbfounded with the server makes a comment about him just being there. Again, when he takes an empty seat next to another customer, she questions why he’s back so soon. All over town it keeps happening, he’s baffled. Then at the bar he quite literally runs into a man that could be his twin. It takes several days but then a phone call and an agreement to meet up at a local coffee shop, Blayne and Cary finally come face to face.
It’s like looking into a mirror for them and since they are both gay they decide to find out if the similarities are from head... to toe.
This story had a lot of potential at the start. Two men who look so much alike everyone that meets them thinks they are twins, or in fact the same person. But it was so choppy and mismanaged that the idea never quite took hold. The dialogue between Blayne and Cary was that of two teenage boys about to experience their first sexual encounter. Not that of two grown, successful and always gay men that are not virgins. It just wasn’t cohesive, believable or engaging.
I really wanted to like this book, I have an indecent fascination with twin stories, this one did not hit the mark though.
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