Mirror, Mirror

It isn’t going to happen to Dave Fleming. No way. He isn’t going to end up growing old. He has this aging thing beat. He works out, eats healthy, takes all the right supplements. As a result, he’s a handsome man, with a killer body, and it’s going to stay that way. But it doesn’t work. Though he’s done his best to swim upstream, Dave is swept steadily along to senior citizenship along with everyone else. In the process, he passed up chances for love. Now here he is, in his twilight years and alone, sharing his life with his faithful Labrador. One night as Dave stands before his bathroom mirror getting ready for bed, he bemoans the fact that he was so absorbed in the physical that he’d let love pass him by. He stares at his reflection in the mirror and wishes he could go back, be young again, and experience it all once more, even for just a short time. Maybe he’d even find love. If Dave gets his chance, will he take advantage of it and make his wish come true?

Terry O'Reilly · LGBT+

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15 Chs

Chapter 6

“I know what you mean.” Dave suddenly felt a kinship with the man.

Dave knew that before the evening was over, some of these young men would be hooking up with these old geezers here in the upstairs bedrooms. Nick would have them carefully prepared and well supplied with wine, condoms, and lube. But Dave wouldn’t be taking advantage of it. He couldn’t bring himself to lay with the virile young Adonises, even if they came on to him. How could he put his wrinkled old body against their firm, young flesh?

Vanity, he knew was the culprit. However, he just couldn’t do it. Somewhere deep inside he knew he wanted to. But it would be just too humiliating. The only way he’d ever do those things again was if he, by some miracle, could match their perfection with his own—something now beyond reality. Yes, his role now was to sit on the sidelines and watch, reduced to being a voyeur. Evidently the man with no name felt the same as Dave. Somehow that made Dave feel better.

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