Gifts

[Trigger warning – drug-facilitated, forcible, and violent rape.] The night of the blood-red moon, four men were living at the quadruplex-a diverse little sample: TERRY – a happily married grandfather on the cusp of retirement, Terry’s one regret in life was not pursuing his dream of rock stardom. Now Terry is Angelica-beautiful, talented and in easy reach of Terry’s dream, but how does a twenty-year-old chanteuse relate to a sixty-year-old wife? DANNY – everyone knew that Daniel was a thirty-something, out gay man, madly in love with his hunky boyfriend, Jason. But everyone was wrong. Now, the curse that afflicts the other three men is the lovely new Danielle’s fondest desire realized. JASON – Jason was about as comfortably gay as a man could be. He loved men, loved being a man, loved sculpting himself to be the biggest, strongest, manliest man he could be. Jason didn’t dislike women, but they did make him uncomfortable. So, now, as Athena, why does she no longer find handsome men exciting? WAYNE – a user of men, an abuser of women, a rapist-one of Wayne’s victims yielded her very life to put Wayne in her shoes, to make him know her pain, to teach him a lesson. Now, as the alluring Georgia, the only lesson she’s learned is how easy it is to get away with murder.