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Jeff Dawkins’s last partner left him with a mortgage he can’t afford and nonrefundable tickets for a month’s vacation in Europe.

Travis Miller has a machining job, a cat named Elwood and a pathetic love life. The one bright spot in his existence is the handsome guitar player he sometimes passes on his way home from work.

This winter, Jude Bloch can't decide what bothers him more—the crowds of people or the holiday revelry.

When Nicky Hauser walks in on his restaurant-owner boyfriend having sex with a waiter, Nicky loses his lover, his job and his home all in one night.

Injured in a war that has stretched on for years, Sergeant John Peterson guards a lonely border.

When a certain kind of man is needed, why not make him to order? Such things can be done, but take care: much can go wrong—but then, sometimes it can go wonderfully right. Imagine...

William Lyon's past forced him to become someone he isn't. Conflicted and unable to maintain the charade, he separates from his wife and takes a job as caretaker at a former mental hospital.