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When two shy men meet, it can take a while for at least one of them to make a move. In this story, I’m not sure who is the more hesitant in matters of the heart, but it was a close call. Jonas, the evidence clerk, and Dan, who works in Vice, have been eyeing each other for months before Dan finally makes a move and invites Jonas over to his apartment. I guess there is no need for a date at that point since they got all the talking they require out of the way during their almost nightly encounters. And once they hit the bedroom? Hold on to your hats, these two are hot together.

If you like your romances with a touch of shyness, if you want to see two men who aren’t good with words find alternative ways of communicating, and if you’re looking for a read that is as short as it is hot, then you might like this short story.


NOTE: The anthology this story was published in has been provided by Tiorquere Press for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews. ( )

Even if it’s not an ‘80s setting, from the first sentences Night Shift reminded me a bit of the police detective television fiction of that period; Ryder, the Homicide detective that is more interesting in helping the lost boys in the street than in making a career in the Police Department, is a bit like Hunter, even if not so big; and Trevor, the handsome Afro American Vice detective, has a bit of Miami Vice in him, with his tailored suit and expensive town house. There is nothing that join them together if not being both gay; but even in that they are different: Ryder doesn’t give much importance to the thing, if you ask he tells, and indeed, he is not searching at all to climb the ladders of the hierarchy, and instead Trevor, even if not denying it, prefer to downplay a bit, to not ruin his chances at a career.

So the only solution is that, while they are pairing in an investigation on a serial killer who is murdering only drug dealers, during the night shift they behave like stranger and during the day they have monkey sex in each of the possible variety.

The story is basically an erotic romp, but I like the subtle “light” tone; you can find it in small sentences scattered in between the lines, like when Ryder wants to prove to Trevor that he is a very “busy” man, but he has nothing better to do if not shifting paper on his desk. In a way, even the “so no perfect” detectives have their merit in making the story light: Ryder after all, it’s not exactly a cold blooded detective, he seems more interested in find and help the kids on the street, then in find and arrest the killer, he should be a social assistant more than a cop; on the other hand Trevor seems to me more interested in playing the hot shot detective than in really doing his job, so much that he jumps to the first available conclusion to have a chance to appear on the night news.

In a way they are more interesting like that, otherwise the story would have been like many other, playing along the line of the perfect dream cop; it’s no accident that, at the beginning, I said that they reminded me Hunter or Miami Vice… in both shows, the cops were less than perfect.

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