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Bryce Can Play #4
Throw Hips
When Mat’s away, Bryce can play.
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Sometimes you need it quick and cheap. That’s why Bryce keeps Skye around.
On the fourth day his husband’s out of town, Bryce gets in touch with a tattooed dirtbag for a session in a low-down motel room. There’s not a lot of affection between Skye and him, but there is a long-standing game of cat-and-mouse, in which each guy tries to get what he can without giving too much away.
Join them for an afternoon of rough-and-tumble power struggles, mind games, and the kind of physical exertion that only comes when you’re willing to really get wild.
“Throw Hips” is the fourth story in a series, but can be enjoyed as a standalone. It’s perfect for lovers of unhealthy attachments, pierced-and-tattooed bad boys, public sex, bad decisions, calculated risks, and working out grudges. 7000 words.
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BRYCE CAN PLAY is a series of gay erotic shorts. Each story chronicles the adventures of Bryce, a sexy submissive slut in a non-monogamous marriage. Bryce has permission to play around while his husband’s out of town, so he’s cramming his week as full of sexual adventures as he can. With a little luck and a lot of can-do spirit, he’s going to make his husband proud while also earning a rigorous punishment.
These stories are for ADULTS who enjoy explicit depictions of gay sexual encounters. Some episodes are kinkier than others, but each explores the idea of power exchange and giving and taking control.
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Sometimes you need it quick and cheap. That’s why Bryce keeps Skye around.
On the fourth day his husband’s out of town, Bryce gets in touch with a tattooed dirtbag for a session in a low-down motel room. There’s not a lot of affection between Skye and him, but there is a long-standing game of cat-and-mouse, in which each guy tries to get what he can without giving too much away.
Join them for an afternoon of rough-and-tumble power struggles, mind games, and the kind of physical exertion that only comes when you’re willing to really get wild.
“Throw Hips” is the fourth story in a series, but can be enjoyed as a standalone. It’s perfect for lovers of unhealthy attachments, pierced-and-tattooed bad boys, public sex, bad decisions, calculated risks, and working out grudges. 7000 words.
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BRYCE CAN PLAY is a series of gay erotic shorts. Each story chronicles the adventures of Bryce, a sexy submissive slut in a non-monogamous marriage. Bryce has permission to play around while his husband’s out of town, so he’s cramming his week as full of sexual adventures as he can. With a little luck and a lot of can-do spirit, he’s going to make his husband proud while also earning a rigorous punishment.
These stories are for ADULTS who enjoy explicit depictions of gay sexual encounters. Some episodes are kinkier than others, but each explores the idea of power exchange and giving and taking control.
- GenresM M RomanceErotica
25 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 25, 2020
About the author
Travis Beaudoin
11 books137 followersHaving lived in Miami, Chicago, and NYC, Travis eventually ended up twenty minutes from where he was born, in Nowhere, Virginia, where the days are quiet and the stars are bright. He shares a big old farmhouse with his unbelievably supportive husband, a terrorist cat, and the world’s most neurotic dog.
He's nerdy about lots of things, including but not limited to classical rhetoric, the lives of the saints, Egyptian mythology, Shakespeare, contemporary fantasy, and the Muppets. Nevertheless, he is fun at parties.
He likes rainy days, long drives, and cuddling. He drinks more coffee than he ought.
Though it sometimes contains more plot and character development than is strictly necessary, he gets off on writing filthy gay erotica, usually with a light-to-moderate D/s edge.
He's active on Twitter (@beaudoin_travis) and checks Goodreads when he remembers to. Say hi if you're so inclined.
He's nerdy about lots of things, including but not limited to classical rhetoric, the lives of the saints, Egyptian mythology, Shakespeare, contemporary fantasy, and the Muppets. Nevertheless, he is fun at parties.
He likes rainy days, long drives, and cuddling. He drinks more coffee than he ought.
Though it sometimes contains more plot and character development than is strictly necessary, he gets off on writing filthy gay erotica, usually with a light-to-moderate D/s edge.
He's active on Twitter (@beaudoin_travis) and checks Goodreads when he remembers to. Say hi if you're so inclined.
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April 12, 2022Skye - the grungy tattooed rocker
“He laughed like sandpaper and spoke like ashes, soft and smoky, usually too quiet for me to make out the words from far away.”
“He laughed like sandpaper and spoke like ashes, soft and smoky, usually too quiet for me to make out the words from far away.”
June 26, 2022
I am loving how different each of these interactions are. Everything about them is so specific to the person Bryce is with. He needed something from each of them, a particular itch that needed scratching. And Skye was what he needed on Friday.
Skye was in a local band that played bad music at a dive bar a couple times a month. He was kind of...unkempt? He claimed he was "clean", which was both laughable and offensive. He probably considered himself straight, if he considered himself at all. Bryce knew almost nothing about him and liked it that way. Where Carey's closely held secrets made me curious, Skye's made me feel kind of gross. I also felt bad for him. There was something about how little he cared, how inconsequential his demands were, that made me worry about him. I got the impression that happiness was an idea that he'd never entertained for himself. He was a rebel and a survivor, but just barely and only when properly motivated. He was definitely my least favorite of the men Bryce has been with so far, but the story was just as good as the rest.
Skye was in a local band that played bad music at a dive bar a couple times a month. He was kind of...unkempt? He claimed he was "clean", which was both laughable and offensive. He probably considered himself straight, if he considered himself at all. Bryce knew almost nothing about him and liked it that way. Where Carey's closely held secrets made me curious, Skye's made me feel kind of gross. I also felt bad for him. There was something about how little he cared, how inconsequential his demands were, that made me worry about him. I got the impression that happiness was an idea that he'd never entertained for himself. He was a rebel and a survivor, but just barely and only when properly motivated. He was definitely my least favorite of the men Bryce has been with so far, but the story was just as good as the rest.
June 20, 2022
Hmmmmmm
After the anonymous sex with Carey from part 3, Skye was a bit worse.
This wasn’t exactly hate sex but more like despondent sex. Bryce gets what he wants though which I guess is the most important thing.
I think I am ready for his husband, Mateo to be home already… on to the next installment.
After the anonymous sex with Carey from part 3, Skye was a bit worse.
This wasn’t exactly hate sex but more like despondent sex. Bryce gets what he wants though which I guess is the most important thing.
I think I am ready for his husband, Mateo to be home already… on to the next installment.
June 28, 2020
Skye isn’t good enough for Bryce. That’s what makes it so delicious.
In the fourth installment of Travis Beaudoin’s excellent Bryce Can Play erotica series, our hero continues to step out, with permission, on his husband. While the mysterious Mateo is away on business, Bryce is free to do what lonely boys will do.
In “Throw Hips,” his target is the lead singer of a lousy local band. Skye is the long and lean, tattooed, shaggy, weed-enthusiast type. In flashback, we learn he caught Bryce’s eye playing shows in a dive bar, not long before he met Mateo. Luckily for Bryce and the reader, Skye caught him catching. Cocky Skye confronts Bryce about sizing him up, and their, er, dynamic begins.
On the Thursday of Mateo’s week out of town, Bryce gets a room in a not-very-nice motel and texts the not-very-nice singer. Little affection flows in either direction with these two, but that’s not what Bryce is after and it won’t be what you’re after, either. Skye is plenty hot, even if we’re almost wishing better for our main man. This speaks volumes about Beaudoin’s skill. Bryce is an imperfect guy, but we really like him. We want him to have magic, but sex does not need to be magic to be hot. This story is proof.
The deed is earth-bound and sleazy. Tinged with melancholy, even. Bryce knows it. He wants a taste of that. He gets that taste. And it’s so good.
In the fourth installment of Travis Beaudoin’s excellent Bryce Can Play erotica series, our hero continues to step out, with permission, on his husband. While the mysterious Mateo is away on business, Bryce is free to do what lonely boys will do.
In “Throw Hips,” his target is the lead singer of a lousy local band. Skye is the long and lean, tattooed, shaggy, weed-enthusiast type. In flashback, we learn he caught Bryce’s eye playing shows in a dive bar, not long before he met Mateo. Luckily for Bryce and the reader, Skye caught him catching. Cocky Skye confronts Bryce about sizing him up, and their, er, dynamic begins.
On the Thursday of Mateo’s week out of town, Bryce gets a room in a not-very-nice motel and texts the not-very-nice singer. Little affection flows in either direction with these two, but that’s not what Bryce is after and it won’t be what you’re after, either. Skye is plenty hot, even if we’re almost wishing better for our main man. This speaks volumes about Beaudoin’s skill. Bryce is an imperfect guy, but we really like him. We want him to have magic, but sex does not need to be magic to be hot. This story is proof.
The deed is earth-bound and sleazy. Tinged with melancholy, even. Bryce knows it. He wants a taste of that. He gets that taste. And it’s so good.
June 17, 2020
THROW HIPS
On the fourth day of Mat’s absence, Bryce is feeling edgy and anxious, in that he really wants to up the ante and be his sluttiest self ever - Mat expects this of him, and Bryce loves to please his husband. And, off course, the sluttier he is, the more he’ll be punished by Mat, to which he is looking forward.
Then, who better to make him feel dirty and depraved, but his long-standing hookup, Skye, mediocre, tattooed musician, selfish, lazy, emotionless and bad boy extraordinaire.
To set the scene every time Bryce feels and craves even more sluttiness, he books a room in the same shitty hotel, making sure his car and wallet are nowhere in the near vicinity, before he texts Skye, who may or may not answer.
Bryce does not even like Skye, but he is obsessed with, and craves the sordid encounters that only Skye can give him - and, besides, he has missed bottoming!
Travis treats us to a satisfying backstory of how these two met and how their dynamics have played out over the years. It follows the same routine, once or twice a year, involves the same hotel room, plenty of beer, Skye getting high on weed, and he never says Bryce’s name.
It’s a game they both play, with Skye holding back and Bryce manipulating him into getting what he wants. Bryce has perfected his role so that Skye thinks he always has the upper hand.
When Bryce hands over two 20’s to Skye: ‘Get a pizza or something if you’re hungry’, I feel the sordidness of the encounter even more, and feel desperately sad for Skye, because, it seems to me that Bryce is in charge, after all: he can walk out back to his real life, the fallen angel who knows he will be soundly chastised by Mat, but will be let back into heaven, unlike Skye who seems to be still living in the pit.
Travis is a master wordsmith, an expression I have used about him before. In 7000 words he manages to give us a complete and satisfying story, with well rounded characters, complete with back stories and nuances. We also get to see another side to Bryce. So far he has been a kind, giving, gentle participator and lover in his encounters, but this particular story shows him in a different light: he is not above playing the power and manipulation game to get what he wants. We really get into his mind, as he prepares Skye like a difficult but well- rested recipe that needs the right kind of ingredients and a practised hand, in order to get the method right for a satisfactory end result.
Part 4, and these stories get better and better and, therefore, I have no hesitation in giving it five stars: it is quite rare to read erotica, something that is hot and dirty, yet so well written at the same time.
I was lucky enough to be given an ARC, and this is an honest review.
On the fourth day of Mat’s absence, Bryce is feeling edgy and anxious, in that he really wants to up the ante and be his sluttiest self ever - Mat expects this of him, and Bryce loves to please his husband. And, off course, the sluttier he is, the more he’ll be punished by Mat, to which he is looking forward.
Then, who better to make him feel dirty and depraved, but his long-standing hookup, Skye, mediocre, tattooed musician, selfish, lazy, emotionless and bad boy extraordinaire.
To set the scene every time Bryce feels and craves even more sluttiness, he books a room in the same shitty hotel, making sure his car and wallet are nowhere in the near vicinity, before he texts Skye, who may or may not answer.
Bryce does not even like Skye, but he is obsessed with, and craves the sordid encounters that only Skye can give him - and, besides, he has missed bottoming!
Travis treats us to a satisfying backstory of how these two met and how their dynamics have played out over the years. It follows the same routine, once or twice a year, involves the same hotel room, plenty of beer, Skye getting high on weed, and he never says Bryce’s name.
It’s a game they both play, with Skye holding back and Bryce manipulating him into getting what he wants. Bryce has perfected his role so that Skye thinks he always has the upper hand.
When Bryce hands over two 20’s to Skye: ‘Get a pizza or something if you’re hungry’, I feel the sordidness of the encounter even more, and feel desperately sad for Skye, because, it seems to me that Bryce is in charge, after all: he can walk out back to his real life, the fallen angel who knows he will be soundly chastised by Mat, but will be let back into heaven, unlike Skye who seems to be still living in the pit.
Travis is a master wordsmith, an expression I have used about him before. In 7000 words he manages to give us a complete and satisfying story, with well rounded characters, complete with back stories and nuances. We also get to see another side to Bryce. So far he has been a kind, giving, gentle participator and lover in his encounters, but this particular story shows him in a different light: he is not above playing the power and manipulation game to get what he wants. We really get into his mind, as he prepares Skye like a difficult but well- rested recipe that needs the right kind of ingredients and a practised hand, in order to get the method right for a satisfactory end result.
Part 4, and these stories get better and better and, therefore, I have no hesitation in giving it five stars: it is quite rare to read erotica, something that is hot and dirty, yet so well written at the same time.
I was lucky enough to be given an ARC, and this is an honest review.
August 8, 2020
I am continuing my reviews of the Bryce Can Play series and this one is definitely darker than a lot of the others.
It's not so much darker in the sexual content, the actual acts are fairly vanilla (I did appreciate that there was less mention of fluids, although the piercings offered a very strange mental image). The darker acts is more in how Bryce feels around Skye and the way he craves to be humiliated by someone that doesn't really care about him.
As a super soft cinnamon roll, I have to admit I couldn't get into the steamy moments as much in this one. It was actually more interesting as a character study. There are even a few moments near the end where Bryce genuinely feels bad about his desire to be around someone that uses him in such a dirty way. I'm not sure if that's leading to more character development further on, but I'm intrigued to find out.
Despite my hesitation, this one would still be a good steamy pick for those with the right kinks.
It's not so much darker in the sexual content, the actual acts are fairly vanilla (I did appreciate that there was less mention of fluids, although the piercings offered a very strange mental image). The darker acts is more in how Bryce feels around Skye and the way he craves to be humiliated by someone that doesn't really care about him.
As a super soft cinnamon roll, I have to admit I couldn't get into the steamy moments as much in this one. It was actually more interesting as a character study. There are even a few moments near the end where Bryce genuinely feels bad about his desire to be around someone that uses him in such a dirty way. I'm not sure if that's leading to more character development further on, but I'm intrigued to find out.
Despite my hesitation, this one would still be a good steamy pick for those with the right kinks.
August 2, 2024
He was exactly the sort of guy I shouldn’t be around, but the ride was addicting.
It’s the Thursday after Mat’s departure.
Bryce is at the Mountain View Motor Lodge, waiting for Skye.
Bryce has a thing for cheap motels. Kinda dangerous, kinda trashy, kinda slutty…
Skye is the lead singer of local band Imperial Squalor. And Skye is a bad boy. The guys have been hooking up on and off for years.
Travis’s writing really shines as he recounts the backstory of Skye and Bryce. How they first met, and how they began hooking up…
The band played at a dive bar that Travis—I mean Bryce—frequented in his early days as a professor…
Excellent anatomy. Verbiage and physiology are strengths as well. Appropriate—and explained—condom usage.
Strong writing. Unusual story that completely works.
It’s nice when Bryce gets emotional towards the end.
I loved this feeling of crossing a line and falling from grace, and I loved knowing I had someone who would let me fall and still cherish me.
It’s the Thursday after Mat’s departure.
Bryce is at the Mountain View Motor Lodge, waiting for Skye.
Bryce has a thing for cheap motels. Kinda dangerous, kinda trashy, kinda slutty…
Skye is the lead singer of local band Imperial Squalor. And Skye is a bad boy. The guys have been hooking up on and off for years.
Travis’s writing really shines as he recounts the backstory of Skye and Bryce. How they first met, and how they began hooking up…
The band played at a dive bar that Travis—I mean Bryce—frequented in his early days as a professor…
Excellent anatomy. Verbiage and physiology are strengths as well. Appropriate—and explained—condom usage.
Strong writing. Unusual story that completely works.
It’s nice when Bryce gets emotional towards the end.
I loved this feeling of crossing a line and falling from grace, and I loved knowing I had someone who would let me fall and still cherish me.
April 22, 2022
In the previous story, we see Bryce assert his occasionally dominant side, but here we get deeper into his psyche with his compulsion for the grungy and distinctly dodgy Skye, a long-term crush. It's fascinating how the author describes Bryce's almost humiliating need for sex with Skye, a man he neither trusts nor likes, and how mind games can make a sexual encounter even hotter. Very well written, as always.
July 7, 2020
Another great short in this series. Well written, with plenty of detail. Nothing feels rushed with these stories and the characters all feel real. This is book 4 and there’s no sign the quality is flagging or ideas are being repeated. Looking forward to book 5 now.
December 14, 2020
A dirty motel room and a tattooed Skye, it was my least favorite, I just couldn't get into this mindset. It was't hot for me and couldn' see Bryce enjoying it either. But it was another load and another men in his week, so yeah.
October 7, 2024
I’m all for quick and cheap, but lazy isn’t something that turns my crank. Far too much work for the reward in my opinion. I did like that the other guy was in a dive bar band though. Definitely one way to get something completely different.
February 6, 2022
I love the way the trust between them is strong and he gets his rewards at the end
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June 25, 2022
So far my least fav but Im still very much onto this series! <3, also, I love how Bryce is just like "I want to be a slut" and goes for it, jajaj!
January 18, 2023
While a decent enough tale of a man getting a little bit of strange, this doesn't quite live up to the earlier stories in this cycle.
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