Simon Sheppard - In Deep

I looked down at his legs, fuzzy with brown hair, then back up at his face. It would be so easy. "You'd be welcome to spend the night," I repeated.

I caught a trace of motion from the corner of my eye; the Scandinavian girl with big tits was standing there, staring straight at me.

"Hey," the boy said, "that'd be great." So easy.

"This way," I said, and we headed up the stairs.

Simon Sheppardis the author of Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories, and is the coeditor, with M. Christian, of Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power, and the forthcoming Rough Stuff 2. His work has appeared in more than fifty anthologies, including two previous Best American Erotica volumes and nearly every edition of Best Gay Erotica. Currently he's hard at work on a nonfiction book, Kinkorama. He lives in San Francisco and is PADI certified.

"In Deep," by Simon Sheppard, © 2000 by Simon Sheppard, first appeared in Aqua Erotica: 18 Stories for a Steamy Bath, edited by Mary Anne Mohan-raj (Three Rivers Press/Melcher Media Inc., 2000). Reprinted by permission of the author and Melcher Media.