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    Blue Sky
    Blue Sky
    Blue Sky
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    Blue Sky

    By Emery C. Walters

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    It's Sky Morgan's 22nd birthday. He's unemployed and just had an awkward dinner with his dad. There wasn't even any cake, and Sky loves cake. Angry and morose, he decides to go out for a drink and randomly chooses the Grotto, a nearby gay bar.

    The Grotto's clientele is different from the rest of society in more ways than one. However, they are very kind to Sky. He has a most comforting chat with Everest, an old drag queen, who is the first person ever to understand how awkward family can be. And then she introduces Sky to Slade, a mysterious and attractive young man. The chemistry between them is instant.

    But is Slade a young man? He's more different than just being gay. Just how different, Sky finds out during daylight hours far below ground. As Sky's feelings towards his new friend mount, he learns they have more in common than he could possibly imagine.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJMS Books LLC
    Release dateNov 22, 2015
    ISBN9781611528398
    Blue Sky
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    Emery C. Walters

    Emery C. Walters was born Carol Forde, a name he soon knew didn’t fit the boy he was inside. Transition was unknown back then, so he married and then bore and raised four children. When his youngest child, his gay son, left home, Emery told Carol that she had to step aside, and he fully transitioned from female to male in 2001.

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      Blue Sky - Emery C. Walters

      Blue Sky

      By Emery C. Walters

      Published by JMS Books LLC

      Visit jms-books.com for more information.

      Copyright 2015 Emery C. Walters

      ISBN 9781611528398

      Cover Design: Written Ink Designs | written-ink.com

      Image(s) used under a Standard Royalty-Free License.

      All rights reserved.

      WARNING: This book is not transferable. It is for your own personal use. If it is sold, shared, or given away, it is an infringement of the copyright of this work and violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

      No portion of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts used for the purposes of review.

      This book is for ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY. It may contain sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which might be considered offensive by some readers. Please store your files where they cannot be accessed by minors.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are solely the product of the author’s imagination and/or are used fictitiously, though reference may be made to actual historical events or existing locations. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Published in the United States of America.

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      Blue Sky

      By Emery C. Walters

      Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, Arizona. August. Twenty-two years before, his mother had given birth right there, in the lobby; the plane she was on having had to make an emergency landing. He was delivered ten minutes after she had been rolled off the airplane. Considering she’d had three drinks in the last hour alone, she was feeling no pain when she was handed the baby and named him Sky.

      She’d been hoping for a girl.

      And then, to make matters worse, his father had insisted his middle name be Aberthol, which unknown to his mother, meant sacrifice in Welsh. And sacrifice it was, for his father had been intending to leave his wife, but because of the baby, he decided to stay. In the long run, he ended up raising Sky by himself, as his mother drank herself into an early death. Sky had no memory of her at all. His father was one of those parents who, like everyone else, did the best he could.

      Anyhow, it was his birthday, he was job hunting with no luck, fresh out of college, and had just had dinner with his dad and his dad’s latest girlfriend who was an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, and now he had heartburn. As he climbed into his car, his beat up old car that had been old when he’d gotten it five years before, he asked his phone to find him a gay bar. There are at least twenty, it answered. What kind do you want?

      It’s my birthday, and I’m talking to my phone. One with men. And booze. Nearby. Go!

      You sound angry. Are you angry at me? his phone asked. Because I’m not programmed to respond to anger.

      Fuck you, Sky shouted, realizing too late that his windows

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