I was inspired by the opening premise of Oliver Twist’s excellent “My double life as a whore,” where a surprise meeting in a hotel bar leads to many other things, to recount my own true story of my recent hotel bar adventure.
When I woke up and eventually dragged myself out of bed on this New Year 's Day, I hadn't planned on writing a short story. But that's what happened, and here we are. A young man in his early twenty's, desperate for companionship, unexpectedly finds some company when he goes swimming. The meeting leads to the young man finding out more about himself and his desires.
Fourteen-year-old Kenny's father is off on military duty and his mother has had to cut back her work hours to take on more family duties. Kenny goes on a work-study program as school starts in the fall to help out and gets a job on Jake's horse farm. Jake wants to break in Kenny but all he knows is horses, so he calls in a horse handler to help him with Kenny's initiation.
Yolanda works a boring office job, but due to budget cuts, her supervisor fires her. She's a gorgeous girl who takes his suggestion of creating an online porn site. She becomes Ari and finds great success by journaling the 30 days of April for her viewers. Things get tricky when her activities as Ari interrupt her budding romance with Felipe and later her property manager's son Noel.