Punchline: An Erotic M/M Romance

by talls doe

TWO MEN WALK INTO A BAR—stop me if you’ve heard this one before.Antonio, billionaire, playboy, occasional philanthropist, has a habit of never sleeping alone. One that often leads him to seedy bars and seedier spaces. Tonight, he finds himself in London, drinking himself into a stupor until he’s just hammered enough to wander into a decrepit bar on the wrong side of town. Frequented by the local dirt poor, borderline sleazy alcoholic, Johnny.

A man who, for all intents, captures Antonio’s mercurial attentions. Dragging them together to become the butt of another bad joke.

Answering once and for all, what happens when two men just-so-happen to walk into the same bar.

***This story contains explicit sexual content***

***This story contains LGBTQIA+ characters and sexual content between two men. It you’re offended by that, we recommend not reading this title***

53 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 6, 2025

About the author

I WRITE SINS & TRAGEDIES

talls doe is a queer science fiction & fantasy author living in the Bay Area and writing stories about love, loss, and the human condition while exploring fantasy, urban fantrasy, and SciFi settings.

She currently has 3 published novels. Bloom: A Monster Love Novella, a teratophilia novella that follows a trans woman falling in love with an otherworldly nymph. Marjorie Diaz's Unfortunate Introduction to Magical High Society, the first book in the Marjorie Diaz Series that follows her introduction to the magical realm by way of falling in love with a vampire prince. And finally, Marjorie Diaz's Unfortunate Introduction to Ancestral Politics & Foul Play, the second book in the Marjorie Diaz series that follows her impending demise at the hand of the man she thought she loved.

Sometimes she writes under the pseudonym Valentina Voom

Reviews

[talls]

This story is quick, funny, and charming. If you like reading spicy scenes with lots of chatter, banter, teasing, and denial, you'll love this short story.