First Dates After Forty are feel-good, hopeful contemporary short stories about queer folks in their forties and early fifties finding romance. It’s never too late!
(Jump to content warnings for all stories, if you need them.)
THE KISS THAT TOTALLY ROCKED
High school friends reunited. A kisses-only sapphic first date short story with middle-aged main characters, a retro rock show with a twist, and an HEA for a slightly clueless bi gal and the lesbian cosmetologist of her dreams.
How to read it: BUY DIRECT • RETAILERS, KOBO PLUS, EVERAND • HOOPLA • LIBBY
THE ONE HE BROUGHT HOME
A meet-cute at the animal shelter. A kisses-only first date short story with middle-aged main characters, grilled cheese sandwiches, and a Happy for Now ending for a tattooed panromantic asexual guy and an allosexual gay man with pink hair.
How to pre-order it: BUY DIRECT • RETAILERS, KOBO PLUS, EVERAND • LIBBY • COMING SOON: HOOPLA
THE SPEED DATING ESCAPE
Three people flee a painfully straight event. A kisses-only Bi4Bi4Pan FFM first date short story with middle-aged main characters, a silly storytelling game where everybody wins, and a polyamorous Happy for Now ending with big crush energy.
How to pre-order it: BUY DIRECT • RETAILERS • COMING SOON: KOBO PLUS, EVERAND, HOOPLA, LIBBY
THE HOLIDAY PARTY PRETENSE
An impulsive fake date. A kisses-only Bi4Bi queer M/F first date short story with middle-aged main characters doing something they both know is probably ridiculous, and discovering a bit of holiday magic.
How to pre-order it: BUY DIRECT • RETAILERS • COMING SOON: KOBO PLUS, EVERAND, HOOPLA, LIBBY
Content Warnings
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The Kiss That Totally Rocked
The following off-page past events are briefly touched on:
- parent’s death
- high school social drinking
- vomiting due to aforementioned drinking
- high school girl having sex because it’s expected
- mid-twenties man going on dates with a female high school student
The One He Brought Home
The following themes and topics are discussed:
- difficulties of navigating romance as an asexual person in an alloseexual-dominated world
- distance from biological family due to queerphobia
- hostility towards trans people, particularly trans women, from TERFs and also from cis queer people
The Speed Dating Escape
The following happens briefly on page:
- social drinking
The Holiday Party Pretense
The following are briefly touched on:
- past death of a loved one due to cancer
- social drinking & implied off-page vomiting by college students due to same