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    Tangents: Volume 2: Hazardverse: Sidetracks, #3
    Tangents: Volume 2: Hazardverse: Sidetracks, #3
    Tangents: Volume 2: Hazardverse: Sidetracks, #3
    Ebook59 pages55 minutesHazardverse: Sidetracks

    Tangents: Volume 2: Hazardverse: Sidetracks, #3

    By Gregory Ashe

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    Distractions are a dime a dozen.

    Tangents (Volume 2) is a collection of flash fiction stories set in the Hazardverse. It includes the following:

     

    "Team-Building"

    North joins a softball team. Unfortunately, so does Jadon.

     

    "Date Night"

    Emery and John-Henry stumble across a familiar face in a new restaurant.

     

    "The First Annual Leon Family Reunion"

    Tean and Jem take their foster daughters to a family reunion.

     

    "Pride"

    Colt and Ash's Pride celebration is a disaster. Then North and Shaw show up.

     

    "Haunted House Hazards"

    Emery goes to a haunted house with Colt.

     

    "New Roommate"

    Dash tries to make Bobby feel welcome in his new home.

     

    "Big Brother"

    Colt meets Ash's older brother, Levi.

     

    "A Favor"

    Emery asks a favor.

     

    Please note that these stories were previously distributed in various formats.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHodgkin and Blount
    Release dateSep 2, 2024
    ISBN9781636211015
    Tangents: Volume 2: Hazardverse: Sidetracks, #3
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      Tangents - Gregory Ashe

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      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Tangents Volume 2

      Copyright © 2024 Gregory Ashe

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise—without prior written permission of the publisher, except as provided by United States of America copyright law. For permission requests and all other inquiries, contact: contact@hodgkinandblount.com

      Published by Hodgkin & Blount

      https://www.hodgkinandblount.com/

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      Published 2024

      Printed in the United States of America

      Version 1.02

      Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-63621-102-2

      eBook ISBN: 978-1-63621-101-5

      Team-Building

      Ahead of them, the low evening light painted the softball field gold.

      North tried not to look excited.

      Plus you’ll get so much good exercise, Shaw said. Tonight, he’d gone with a crochet shirt, spandex shorts, and rainbow-striped platform shoes that he’d told North (without North asking) would let him run, quote, as fast as a rainbow. Which is great, because I’ve noticed that sometimes when we’re, um, spanking soldiers, you start breathing really hard, like, super hard, and I don’t want to be one of those widows who have their husband die on top of them, you know, in the middle of it, and then they’re screaming and screaming because they’re stuck under the body— He cut off with a squeal.

      North released his grip on the spandex and kept walking. My breathing is fine, jackhole. And I’m not doing this for the exercise. I’m doing this because you won’t shut up about me not having any friends.

      Hobbling after him—North knew that Shaw was probably thinking of it as soothing his nethers—Shaw said, I know, and I think it’s cute that you want to try, but in case, you know, it doesn’t go as planned, I want you to consider all the other benefits—

      When North spun around, Shaw squeaked and tried to cover the shorts.

      It’s going to go exactly as planned, North said. It’s going to go perfectly. It’s a fucking rec league, Shaw. And I played softball in college.

      Intramural. We both did, actually.

      North ignored that. So, I’m going to go out there, and I’m going to show those asswipes who’s boss. End of story.

      That doesn’t exactly sound like making friends—

      North lunged, and Shaw tripped over himself trying to escape.

      When North reached the field, a group of men were milling around the chain-link backstop. They ranged in age from their twenties to their fifties, but he pegged the majority of the men as solidly in their dad phase—expensive athletic apparel that didn’t hide beer guts, high-end running shoes that probably hadn’t clocked anything longer than the walk to the garage, and mile after fucking mile of male-pattern baldness. North studied the group, trying to pick out the competition. Maybe a couple of the younger guys who still had that cut look like Auggie. He rolled his shoulders to loosen them up. He pulled one arm across his chest. Then the other.

      You’ve been doing a lot of stretching, Shaw said. And I want you to know that I appreciate how butch and manly it makes you look—

      Shaw cut off.

      Then North saw it too.

      He said, Fuck me.

      And Shaw shrieked, Oh my God! Jadon! Nico! Over here!

      Jadon wore a gray athletic tee and mesh shorts, and he looked like six feet and change of lean muscle and great hair. Nico had gone with a tank that said KWEEN in giant sequined letters, and he was about four inches of pink nylon shorts away from doing full-frontal. North’s interactions with

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