This category sneaked up on me - I didn’t expect to begin turning out quite so many short stories and novelettes! Here’s a dedicated page to help you find the brief love stories available as single titles.
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EMBER CAST - M/M novelette released as part of the JMS Books Advent Calendar for 2025. A midlife story featuring an architect and a writer, inspired by the January 2025 firestorm in Los Angeles. Click the title for the book page at Queeromance Ink or get the book at my publisher, JMS Books
Excerpt from review at Queeromance Ink:
This was quite a short read, but it does have some heavy themes. Journeys of grief and healing are different for each person, and everyone deals with it differently. For Emrys, it’s all about throwing himself into whatever needs to be done, so he doesn’t have the space to think of his grief. For all that, the snippets of thoughts he has about his father, the little signs his father was looking forward to him moving in, are all profoundly impactful.
I loved Felix and how his character is handled. He is respectful of Emrys’ grief, helpful, and dependable. He doesn’t push, but lets Emrys take his time with everything he’s dealing with.
It also helps that both of them are older characters – the romance has a maturity to it that I really liked.
You will love this book.
THE GETAWAY - M/M short story, revised and released as single title after appearance in the JMS Books ACLU benefit anthology Love is Free. Set 2013-2018 in California, this is the story of a might-have-been that springs to new life. JMS Books
MILLENIUM - M/M short story companion to my lifetime-love novella Eternal Summer. This can be read as a standalone. Set in 1999 in June Lake, California. JMS Books
IT’S IN THE HEEL - M/NB novelette, a midlife (both main characters are over 40) meet-cute romance featuring a private-school teacher and a costume designer. Set in Los Angeles, set mostly in 2022. JMS Books
WE SHALL BE CHANGED - M/M novelette featuring drag queens, a twenty-year age gap, and my first intersex character. Set in Las Vegas in 2021. Related to: FISHNETS & TINSEL, TRIPLE X, and COME TO ME. JMS Books
VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE - M/M short story featuring older (50+) characters, both ex-Navy, who meet by chance the week before Christmas in San Francisco. Set in 2019. Books2Read
EMPTY SHELVES, FULL HEARTS - M/M short story featuring older (50+) characters and a soon-to-close bookstore. Set in 2022. JMS Books
REINVENTED - M/M novelette featuring older (50+) single dads, co-workers to lovers. Set in 2018. JMS Books
THIS TIME - F/M novelette featuring onetime live-in lovers taking a second chance on lasting romance. Main character Amber Barnett also appears in my novella SUGAR DADDY. Prologue set in 2011, continues in 2011. Books2Read
IN TUNE - M/M novelette featuring onetime classmates meeting on a job and discovering they could be much more to each other now. Main character Paxton Barrilla also appears in my novella TAKE A NOTE. Set in Las Vegas in 2017. JMS Books
STAR OF WONDER - F/M trans/bi novelette featuring a chance meeting in Las Vegas between trans actor Patrice Diaz (also appears in my novel INTO YOU) and bi lighting engineer Noel Arkady. Set in 2017. Books2Read
FISHNETS & TINSEL - M/M novelette featuring two drag queens in Las Vegas who go from hookups to lovers after coming clean about their issues. Set in 2020. Related to: WE SHALL BE CHANGED, TRIPLE X, and COME TO ME. JMS Books
Enjoy!