Dustin has a decent life, all things considered. He’s an overnight manager for his hometown grocery store, knows several languages, and doesn’t have much drama to deal with. Then one summer night there’s a new delivery guy who happens to be a blast from Dustin’s past.
Zach is an old high school crush of Dustin’s who has gotten better with age. Now all Dustin can see about himself is how he still lives with his parents and couldn’t get a man like Zach in his wildest dreams. He silently laments to his co-manager Moira through American Sign Language, but she won’t let him give up just yet. Even though Dustin has trouble believing her, will this opportunity wind up as a failed delivery?
Part of the JMS Books "Men at Work" series, all of which share the same cover.
Feral Sephrian loves storytelling in all its forms, as well as its power to connect to its audience. Their focus tends to be non-conventional m/m romances in an attempt to bring more representation to the genre, but sometimes you gotta write fluff and sometimes you gotta write smut and sometimes you can do that with a vanilla couple as well as you can with a multi-gender demisexual throuple. The fun is in seeing where the characters take you.
A Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words Review An Alisa Review:
Rating: 3 stars out of 5
Ferial Sephrian is a new author for me and I really enjoyed this short story. Dustin is content with his life, if not completely happy. When his high school crush is the new delivery guy at work he isn’t sure if he should take a chance or not.
We didn’t see much about Dustin’s past, but I could feel how little self confidence he had in his personal life. He is hesitant to open himself up and has to fight within himself to get the courage. There is a nice HFN ending which lets the reader to wonder about the future.
The cover art is nice and consistent with the series.
A short, sweet story about two people getting to know each other.
My only complaint is that the cover is misleading. It should show a guy in an apron or some other uniform appropriate to a grocery store or delivery driver, since those are the jobs held by the characters, not one in a hard hat, holding a drill.