All Comments on 'Homeless Haven'

Oof. I don't know if I 'liked' this, but it made me think and you get five stars for that. The age gap stuff is creepy as hell, and Wyatt is clearly a predator, but it's a function of the broader story you were telling and I appreciate that. Would I give up my agency for stability? I have a job and a mortgage, so in a way I already have. For the right guy, entering my life at the right moment, there's a chance I'd choose to absolve myself of my choices — that's a sobering thought to contend with, but also a valuable insight I wasn't expecting at 1am. Thank you.

Thanks to the first commenter for seeing what I think are realistic dimensions of this age difference aspect of gay male relationships. I tried to be real and to show a couple of varying responses to a RL "take care of you if you take care of me" offer while showing all characters as human--both good and bad.

Re bienclar's comment, perhaps creepy too, exactly this age and power difference is a positive trope in romantic stories for women, think doctor-nurse, pilot-stewardess, secretary-boss. And then the girls/women just disaqppear in the 'living happily ever after', probably producing children, while here the boy gets a chance to an education and a life at least.

There's much more to say about double standards, but I'm not going to do that here.

I don't agree with the former statements. Wyatt maybe older, I think you said 36, but there are a lot of men out there that want 18-19 year Olds. I don't look at him as a predator. To me a predator is someone looking for underage kids, and a 18-19 yr old might be a older teen, they are still considered a adult.

In this story, for instance, Wyatt didn't follow Slick aka Steve into the bedroom. He came into Wyatts bedroom, thereby, making the choice to lay with him.