“Yes, yes, I heard you the first three times,” Rodney said. He was adjusting one of the ropes on John’s ankles, and John couldn’t see him. “Are you done fighting yet? This is 550 cord, Colonel, you certainly aren’t going to break it.”

Summary

: John wasn’t very good at following the text.

Once, there was a boy.

John leans in the doorway, all loose limbed with one hip thrust out a little. He plays with his dog tags and looks at Rodney through his eyelashes. “C’mon, Rodney.”

When Rodney figures out the multiple orgasm, all of Atlantis knows about it.

“In our culture,” John told her with an aggressive absence of inflection, “changing someone’s gender without asking permission is consideredimpolite.”

“I only flashed them once.” Rodney slowed his chewing and tipped his temporarily feminine head. “Okay, twice. Kavanaugh literally fled before me, averting his eyes.”

I mean, as they say, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, just like sometimes a fear of horses is nothing but a fear of horses. An entirely rational fear, by the way. Why does it have to mean anything else? And don’t get me started on the anal-retentive t

Citywide genderfuck, hijinks and awesomeness ensue.

The men spend the entire meeting trying not to stare at each other’s tits and failing miserably.

Atlantis welcomes John with open arms, but she’s not what he needs.

Rodney stirred beside him and then moved into a full-body stretch, arching his back before sinking back down on the bed with a blissful sigh.

My real feeling is that traditional publishing has an audience and exists because change doesn’t happen overnight. However, it does happen and has been happening around us for quite some time.

But - listen. You’re the one who chose to let a story out into the wide world, who didn’t want to keep that potential locked up inside you forever. And stories are like love: the more you share them, the more and better they grow.

“Oh, c’mon E. You can’t leave it there. Have I ever what? Fucked a dog? Tried escargot? Respected you in any way whatsoever?”