David spends his life seeking truth and beauty by pursuing hot sex, studying quantum physics, and drinking gin. He wakes one morning to find that the anonymous, but hunky stranger from the previous night has left behind a hole in space and time in his bedroom. Emboldened by hearty doses of gin, he experiments with the mysterious window to elsewhere, and elsewhen. Once he passes through the portal, the three pillars of his life unite on the other side as the mysteries of the Universe conspire with fate to reveal and then steal away his perfect lover.
Max writes horror and science fiction stories, often with a dark twist. John Gardner's The Art of Fiction is the single most important influence on his thinking about the craft of writing. Authors as diverse as John Updike, Dean Koontz, Richard Matheson, and Lawrence Block inspire and inform his literary style.
Max Griffin is the pen name of a mathematician and academic. Under his professional name, he is the author of a graduate textbook in real analysis and numerous research articles in nonlinear functional analysis. He is currently retired from positions at a major comprehensive university in the southwest. He is the proud parent of a daughter who is a librarian, and the grandparent to two beautiful little boys. He is blessed to be in a long-term relationship with his life partner, Mr. Gene, who is an expert knitter.
The two humans in Max's household are the pets of two Russian Blue cats, Boris and Natasha. .
A quick read that is instantly interesting and eerily absorbing; I personally loved this story - different than much of the current gay-themed writing out there (except pershaps by Rick R Reed); reminded me of stories I read in the '70s by Ray Bradbury.
Short, intense speculative fiction with some hot m/m action and a few excellent twists. Beautifully written - there's some great turns of phrase in this one. I very much enjoyed this tale.