Mantown
Jesse King is forty-two, rebuilt, and still invisible in his own house. A year of the gym has given him the body back. It has not given him his wife, his sons, or a version of manhood that doesn’t feel like begging.
On date night he finally says the quiet part: men and women are stuck in a war neither of them is winning. Lyssa doesn’t flinch. She names the exit. If men could just take care of that themselves, the war would be over. She calls his bluff.
Jesse, for the first time in twenty years, decides to see if she’s right.
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Length: Novelette ~14,000 words
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Tropes: Midlife crisis, wife’s dare, first time with a man, married / bi-curious
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Vibe: Raw, restless, horny, occassionally tender
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Content: Explicit sexual content, technically allowed adultery, frank discussion of marital sex as a resource