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Rough Cut
Chris Hodak, a former college football defensive lineman, never came out. He didn't think big, burly football players were ever really gay, but he also never got over his crush on Rohan Moore, a hunky teammate with whom he had a fumbling make out session one night after a game.
Twenty years after that fateful night, Chris, who is now in his 40s, again meets Rohan, an out and proud big, gay hairy bear who owns a barber shop catering to bears. Rohan is still beautiful but isn't interested in Chris because he hates closet cases. For Chris that spark is still there, and it gets even stronger when he sits in Rohan’s chair for a shave and a haircut. But in order to get Rohan back, Chris must be braver and tougher than he ever was on any football field.
Twenty years after that fateful night, Chris, who is now in his 40s, again meets Rohan, an out and proud big, gay hairy bear who owns a barber shop catering to bears. Rohan is still beautiful but isn't interested in Chris because he hates closet cases. For Chris that spark is still there, and it gets even stronger when he sits in Rohan’s chair for a shave and a haircut. But in order to get Rohan back, Chris must be braver and tougher than he ever was on any football field.
- GenresM M Romance
ebook
First published August 1, 2014
About the author
Kendall Morgan
14 books9 followersI started writing gay male erotic romance stories in the early '90s, but only gay male porn magazines would publish them. I'm so glad things have gotten more respectable and the readership more broad. I am a lesbian in an interracial same-sex marriage, and I love writing interracial romance stories. I love flipping stereotypes and challenging myself to write characters that are ever further from who I am. I hope you enjoy my stories. I certainly love writing them.
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December 18, 2021
I’ve read this author before. This is a mm story. Main characters are Chris and Rohan. Told from Chris’s POV. Older man who meet again after many years. They knew each other in college. Good story but abrupt end.
September 5, 2014
A Joyfully Jay review.
4.25 stars
We first get the impression that Chris and Rohan are passing acquaintances, but it turns out they had more going on, at least for one night in high school. They have memories of the night when they fooled around in Chris’ truck, but being a gay high school football player in the 70s was dangerous, which made their decision to pretend nothing happened the only viable option at the time.
Chris’ lunch with his mother on the day Chris is to have a haircut with Rohan was super funny, and definitely one of the highlights of the story, especially when she tells Chris “I said you’re vibrating…” “Not the blasted phone. You. You are vibrating!” It’s a sure sign that the reunion means more to Chris than he is letting on and that his mother is not as oblivious as he thinks.
This was a cute story. The characters were cute, the premise was also cute, and there was virtually no conflict. Rough Cut gives a different slant on bears, since both Chris and Rohan behaved in a sweet, snuggly teddy bear kind of way. In fact, I was shocked when I found out that Chris was 6′ 7″ tall and 275 lb since his behavior is described as bouncy and twitchy, and sounded (sorry for the stereotype) short and wiry.
I will most likely re-read Rough Cut in the future when I am tired after a busy day and in the mood for something light and fluffy.
Read Jason’s review in its entirety here.
4.25 stars
We first get the impression that Chris and Rohan are passing acquaintances, but it turns out they had more going on, at least for one night in high school. They have memories of the night when they fooled around in Chris’ truck, but being a gay high school football player in the 70s was dangerous, which made their decision to pretend nothing happened the only viable option at the time.
Chris’ lunch with his mother on the day Chris is to have a haircut with Rohan was super funny, and definitely one of the highlights of the story, especially when she tells Chris “I said you’re vibrating…” “Not the blasted phone. You. You are vibrating!” It’s a sure sign that the reunion means more to Chris than he is letting on and that his mother is not as oblivious as he thinks.
This was a cute story. The characters were cute, the premise was also cute, and there was virtually no conflict. Rough Cut gives a different slant on bears, since both Chris and Rohan behaved in a sweet, snuggly teddy bear kind of way. In fact, I was shocked when I found out that Chris was 6′ 7″ tall and 275 lb since his behavior is described as bouncy and twitchy, and sounded (sorry for the stereotype) short and wiry.
I will most likely re-read Rough Cut in the future when I am tired after a busy day and in the mood for something light and fluffy.
Read Jason’s review in its entirety here.
October 12, 2014
3.25 stars
April 12, 2021
A great book about bears!!. Finally!!!.
November 15, 2020
Not quite 3 stars, but rounded up.
This is the first in the Bearland Tales series but the last that I read. I was not my favorite. I just can not get used to the author’s writing style; very overly descriptive and repetative. One thing that draws me to this author is that she so often features mature main characters instead of twinks and twenty-somethings. But then it falls apart when the characters behave and speak like anything but mature men. Chris was so afraid of coming out, even though everybody knew, that he only engaged in anonymous encounters. His constant “this is what it’s like” moments when he finally go together with Rohan really zapped the scene any heat or romance. I can’t even say this ends on a HFN ending because there was such a lack of heat or chemistry that I wouldn’t think the relationship would last.
This is the first in the Bearland Tales series but the last that I read. I was not my favorite. I just can not get used to the author’s writing style; very overly descriptive and repetative. One thing that draws me to this author is that she so often features mature main characters instead of twinks and twenty-somethings. But then it falls apart when the characters behave and speak like anything but mature men. Chris was so afraid of coming out, even though everybody knew, that he only engaged in anonymous encounters. His constant “this is what it’s like” moments when he finally go together with Rohan really zapped the scene any heat or romance. I can’t even say this ends on a HFN ending because there was such a lack of heat or chemistry that I wouldn’t think the relationship would last.
July 13, 2020
Very cute!
As far as I’m concerned, you can’t go wrong with two hunky bears! Yum! This us a cute meeting of two people who knew each other back in school and find each other again some years later.
As far as I’m concerned, you can’t go wrong with two hunky bears! Yum! This us a cute meeting of two people who knew each other back in school and find each other again some years later.
July 4, 2021
I love hunky bears and this short story had two big gorgeous ones. Chris and Rohan meet again many years after their school and football years, sparks fly. A cute short, one man out and proud and the other many years in the closet, or so he thought.
April 9, 2021
Hairy bears
I liked this story it’s just I wish there was more,like did he open a insurance office did they stay together
I liked this story it’s just I wish there was more,like did he open a insurance office did they stay together
November 28, 2021
Second chance lovers
Sadly too short, lovely story of the people reconnecting after a couple of decades, and realising then was a bad time but now is ideal.
Sadly too short, lovely story of the people reconnecting after a couple of decades, and realising then was a bad time but now is ideal.
April 30, 2025
Rating: ⭐️1/2
Enjoyment: ❤️❤️
Enjoyment: ❤️❤️
November 26, 2016
As short stories goes I really enjoyed this one. I rate this this story with 3.5 stars
Chris finally got the courage and goes to see Rohan a former football payer as himself. Rohan is a hair dresser.
They are both muscle bears, with some gray hairs on the chest, they collapse finally and seems that Chris finds he's HFN…
****I would like to thank the author for the privilege and opportunity of reading this ARC. My review is an honest opinion of the book****
Chris finally got the courage and goes to see Rohan a former football payer as himself. Rohan is a hair dresser.
They are both muscle bears, with some gray hairs on the chest, they collapse finally and seems that Chris finds he's HFN…
****I would like to thank the author for the privilege and opportunity of reading this ARC. My review is an honest opinion of the book****
May 16, 2016
Some pleasure are meant to be short, this one was like à ice cream, you really think it was too short. And you go to the freezer to have another one. It is what i will do. Thanks alot Kendall.
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