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BOOK BLURB:
Watercooler gossip reveals that everyone in Colin's office gets lucky before they embark on yet another day of files, faxes, and covert games of solitaire. Everyone but Colin, that is.

Colin's live-in boyfriend Rand is creative, gorgeous, and entirely too self-sufficient. Colin can hardly remember the last time they did anything fun together, let alone got down and dirty before his daily commute.

Colin is sure he's about to face another morning brag session when he gets to the office, but instead he finds the building eerily deserted. The radio has been taken over by the Emergency Broadcast System, and Colin must rush back to make sure nothing's happened to Rand.

Luckily, Rand is okay. Even better than okay. And he's been dying for Colin to get home.

BOOK REVIEW:
Conversations around the water cooler at work prompt Colin to try to seduce his lover before work one morning. When Rand claims exhaustion, Colin is left driving to work wildly frustrated by the refusal. It's that frustration that distracts him from all the strange goings-on in the city until he arrives at the office and is sent back home.

The writing in this story is so strong that just a few details are enough to set the mood, to let the reader know that something is very wrong. The characters are strong enough that even in sixteen pages, the reader can connect to them, can understand their conflicts and see when something is not quite right.

To say more would give too much away, but this story is an excellent example of gay horror. I highly recommend "Verdant" to anyone who enjoys a story in which the ending comes with no easy answers.

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