Red Letter Day

One rainy day, Chris takes a spur of the moment trip to the city zoo, because even walking around in the rain looking at damp animals is better than going back to the office. The animals are cute, especially Lucky, the red panda. But Lucky’s keeper Joel is even cuter and accepts Chris’s invitation to go for a drink that evening. This impulsive trip to the zoo was a good idea, but Chris still has to go back to work tomorrow.

One date leads to more. On their dates, Chris loves to hear Joel’s stories of crazy zookeeping and animal misadventures, and can’t help contrasting Joel’s job with his own. The one that’s slowly driving him around the bend with the mundane pettiness of it all. When Joel has an opportunity that will take him to the other side of the world, can Chris find the courage to leave his BS job behind and take a new path?

M/M short (14,000 words) , out now from JMS Books

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