The Bully

by Dan Kirk

Free Online Fiction

Everyone in town knows him as the Bully. In his senior year, change comes to town for the Bully of Silver Valley, but who will really change?

Genres: M M Romance, Young Adult

132 pages, Online Fiction

First published December 1, 2012

About the author

NOTE: Some of this author's stories have been restored to gayauthors.org: The Beard, The Bully, Dreams of Humanity, Goon, and Rich Boy Awakening. Others are not yet available there, but may appear in the future.
(NOTE: The original files may be found via the wayback machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/2010100711... The author has indicated in the past that he is OK with people accessing the stories this way.)

Reviews

[Luta Wolf]

It's not bad but it's not really good either. It had the potential but the author didn't quit hit the marks as far as keeping to the plot while holding onto the connection.

When writing a romance, your usually playing out a dance that involves two partners. One has to be the core partner and keep the structure while the other draws the eye but together they both hold you captive. This just wasn't a balanced dance. I liked the concept but the concept became too much of a plot instead of a romance and istead of easily being guided into a way of thinking it felt more pushed and shoved, I liked the details, and I really enjoyed the characters but it didn't pull me in, I could see the connection but once the story got lost into the concept plot I lost the ability to FEEL the connection. Still, It's a good read.

[Ami]

Let me start with what bothers me a bit (then I will get to the good ones ^_^). I'm not very comfortable with the preach/religious aspect of the story. The theme of "hate the sin but not the sinners" doesn't sit well with me, EVEN if the preacher doesn't treat the gay couples differently. Second, I'm a bit baffled with the fact that these teens are only 15/16 years old and they already think about getting married and have kids. BUT, the latter problem might come because I never think of getting married young or get around the idea of that. I DO KNOW people who do get married after high school, so yeah, this is MY OWN problem. Maybe I'm just a bit tad cynical of young love. Need to work on that *grin*

Despite of that, I think the story is pretty sweet. How Eddie, who used to be a school bully, slightly changes into a more positive person because of Danny, the preacher's son -- who sees through him bullsh*t. It's kind of cute that their relationship starts from a "joke", but turns out for real. It is also romantic and has that positive outward looking on love, that sometimes you can change your dream by involving someone you love so much in it. I enjoy this -- just the right theme for I'm on the mood for teen/YA story at the moment.

[Kenny Deheart]

Very enjoyable "teen bully is gay" story. Very well written. This story brought Dan Kirks writings to my attention and is one of my favorite.

PS, Although This story is not yet back up other stories of DAN Kirk are listed at http://www.gayauthors.org/author/dkst...

The current url listed is outdated

[Dena]

3.75*

[Supercandy]

It feels like everything got resolved really fast and suddenly it was all peaches and cream. Oh well...

[Semra]

Too much religious nonsense for me to enjoy the story....