Alyx J. Shaw - "Road Trip"

Pencil on 80g paper

"They ate their dinner. It was a good meal, simple and filling, and Jack had three pieces of apple pie afterwards. How he could eat like that and stay as rangy as he was, Daniel had no idea. If he ate the way Jack did, he would be a thousand pounds inside of a year. But Jack always ate when he was confused.

Jack ate a lot."

Jack is a farmer who has lost his wife and son; Daniel helps him with the farm and falls in love with the old grump. When he finally confronts Jack with his feelings, it first doesn't look like it's going to work between the two...

This sweet and touching (and very realistic) story was my first contribution to Forbidden Fruit, an online magazine for gay erotica. How I discovered it, I don't remember. But the people working on it do an awesome job of putting together a selection of hot, delicious and very tasteful stories. Every four months, a new dozen of truly amazing tales go up, and I have the honour of illustrating one or two of them.

This story was written by a dear friend, and I felt more comfortable doing an illustration for someone I knew I could talk to if I had questions for the drawing. Read the story here at her site now! :)