My new bearotica story,
Realm of the Grizzly Bear, will be available from JMS Books, October 29! This is a follow-up to my story featured in JMS Books' Stocking Stuffers:
Realm of the Polar Bear.
Blurb:
Ever since Jarrod spent a night of passion with Caleb, his
body is transforming into a bear. After
months of searching, he finds Caleb who explains he must be seeded by the other
bears in the forest to complete the transformation. It sounds easy but Logan, the large brown
bear, is not cooperative. Jarrod is
determined to go through with it but it might cost him his life.
Excerpt:
The white bear hadn’t changed at all
since their brief meeting so many months ago.
If anything he looked larger. His
bare torso maintained its muscularity and thin covering of hair, which had
turned mostly white. The pajama bottoms
he wore low on his hips seemed to be held up only by the curve of his ass and
did little to cover the bulge in the front.
“Eyes up here,” Caleb said making
Jarrod realize he had been staring. He
held out his hand and Jarrod took it, rising to his feet.
Jarrod fell into his arms, kissing and
stroking his body, not wanting to ever let go.
He vowed never to fall asleep in Caleb’s presence again, lest he find
himself waking from a dream and alone.
“Why don’t you two take that indoors?”
Jarrod gasped, spinning around. He forgot they weren’t by themselves. A large black man with a shaved head and full
beard stood with a beefy arm draped over the shoulder of an equally muscular
white man with red hair. The black man
wore only jeans. The ginger-haired man
wore a sleeveless plaid shirt, hanging open to reveal chest and abs covered in
red hair.
“Jarrod, this is Tyrone…”
The black man nodded without smiling.
“…and Gareth.”
The ginger bear inclined his head with
a pleasant grin. “Nice to meet you.”
Jarrod suddenly felt vulnerable and
embarrassed, standing naked in front of strangers.
Of
course, nothing could be worse than the compromising position in which they
first saw me, he thought. “Do you
think I could have some clothes, please?”
Gareth and Tyrone laughed while Caleb
slipped off his pajama pants. He draped
the legs over Jarrod’s shoulders and tied them in a loose knot as if they were
a scarf.
“Is that better?” Caleb stood back,
hands on hips in his naked glory.
Jarrod could not help but laugh
himself.
“We’ll catch up with you later,”
Tyrone said as he and Gareth turned and walked into the woods.
Jarrod watched them disappear. He was alone with Caleb, what he had yearned
for but so much had happened in the span of an hour or so, he didn’t know what
to think. Questions raced through his
mind, trying to piece everything together but nothing made sense. Even his first meeting with Caleb wreaked of
fantasy.
“You’re awfully quiet,” Caleb
said. He hooked an arm around Jarrod’s
neck and kissed him on the head.
Jarrod mashed his face against the
hairy chest. Now all of it felt so
natural to him. Standing naked in the
middle of the forest in the rain with his lover. Nothing else seemed to matter.
“You still have a lot of questions,
don’t you?” Caleb’s chest vibrated as he
spoke and Jarrod nodded.
“The best way to describe this is
we’re the guardians of the forest,” Caleb began, leading him into the woods
following a narrow trail.
“Guardians against what?” Jarrod
asked. It sounded even more incredible
and he tried to wrap his mind around the concept.
Caleb shrugged. “Nothing fantastical. Just trespassers, urban encroachment,
anything that can harm the forest.”
“This is a huge forest,” Jarrod
blurted out. “Hundreds of square
miles. Maybe thousands. And just the four of you can protect it?”
“I know it sounds incredible but when
you have the powers of a bear, it’s not such a daunting task as it would seem.”
“Wait a minute.” Jarrod stopped in his
tracks. “The powers of a bear?”
Caleb smiled at him. “Does that sound so crazy?”
“It sounds impossible!”
