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Gay stories
Gay stories, in the sense most readers here mean, are romance and erotic fiction between men. The ones people come back to are domestic and close to home: a roommate, a best friend, one bed in a cabin, or a first time with a man after years of wondering.
The top results for this search are a magazine section, Facebook, podcasts and video. Good written fiction is mostly on old archives. Readers want men who talk like men they know, friends who cross a line and deal with it the next day, and a story that has an ending. Here’s what works, three openings to read, and how to get one written for you.
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Chapter 1 is public. You choose how chapter 2 goes.
- metime · house storyProofNo. 427Tease and denialProofA sourdough loaf takes three days from starter to oven. His husband has decided that's exactly how long he's going to wait too.Tease and denial · Gay romance · 8 min
- metime · house storyLoad OutNo. 447Gay romanceLoad OutA lighting designer and a head rigger, eight months on the same tour, and one last night striking the set in an empty theater.Gay romance · Slow burn · 5 min
- metime · house storyRope RescueNo. 347BondageRope RescueThree years on the same volunteer rescue team. A training weekend, an empty cabin, and a knot Cole wants to show him again, not on the dummy.Bondage · Gay romance · 7 min
- metime · house storySunday RulesNo. 361BdsmSunday RulesJulian schedules four hundred people a week. On Sundays the phone goes in the drawer and Hank decides everything. This Sunday, Julian breaks the rule.Bdsm · Gay romance · 5 min
- metime · house storyQuiet HoursNo. 397Gay romanceQuiet HoursA translator who needs silence. A wedding DJ who brings the noise home. The notes they leave on each other's doors.Gay romance · Grumpy sunshine · 10 min
What makes a gay story work
- Proximity. Readers’ favorites happen at home: a shared apartment, a guest room, a cabin with one bed. Exotic locations aren’t what wins.
- Friends crossing a line. Years of being casual, then one night when neither of them is being casual. The next morning matters as much as the night.
- A first time with a man, told honestly. He can be hesitant and then very much not hesitant, and that’s the appeal, as long as it’s his own decision.
- Nobody gets hurt offstage. Readers object to stories that depend on a girlfriend being lied to. Single men are easier to root for.
- The narrator is generous. A funny, decent man telling you what happened to him reads better than a boast.
Three openings
Three openings written for this page. They stop before anything explicit. Open one to read how it starts.
Lease Renewal
Four years sharing an apartment. The lease is up, and my roommate has just told me he’s moving out.
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Jonah told me on a Tuesday, while I was making eggs. He’d found a one-bedroom across the river. He was thirty-four, he said. It was time.
“Great,” I said. “That’s great, man.” I burned the eggs.
We had lived together for four years. I knew how he took his coffee and which stair he skipped. I knew the sound of him not sleeping on the other side of the wall. I’d never said one word about any of it, because there’d been nothing to say, because he was my roommate.
“You okay?” he said. “You’re doing a thing with your face.”
I turned off the stove. My heart was going stupidly hard.
“Why does it have to be across the river?” I said.
What happens next?
- He asks what I mean, and I tell him
- He doesn’t say anything, and he walks over
- Skip to moving day, and the last box
Two Beds, Technically
Marcus’s divorce has been final for a month, and Ray is driving him to the coast to get his head straight.
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The listing had said “sleeps two.” What it meant was one bed, and a couch about the length of a golden retriever.
“I’ll take the couch,” Ray said, looking at it.
“You’re six-two. You’ll die.” Marcus dropped his bag and sat down on the edge of the bed. He looked better than he had in the spring. He’d started shaving again. “We’ve shared worse. Remember Tucson?”
Ray remembered Tucson. He’d spent most of a night in Tucson eleven years ago, at a sales conference, lying very still and thinking about baseball statistics, and he had not mentioned this to anyone, ever.
“Yeah,” he said. “Tucson. Sure.” He picked up his toothbrush, and took his time finding the bathroom.
What happens next?
- Lights out, and Marcus asks what really happened in Tucson
- Ray tells him on the beach the next morning
- Skip to the last night of the trip
The New Guy at the Shop
Dom has fixed motorcycles alone for fifteen years. Then his sister’s friend starts doing the books and won’t stop talking to him.
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“You’ve been charging 1998 prices for valve jobs,” Theo said from the desk, delighted. “This is the best thing I’ve ever seen. Did you know you’re basically a charity?”
Dom kept his head under the Triumph. In three weeks Theo had reorganized the invoices, labeled the shelves and brought in a small plant. He wore bright socks. He’d asked Dom eleven questions before nine o’clock.
“Do you ever eat lunch?” That made twelve.
“No.”
A paper bag landed on the workbench by his elbow. It smelled like the good place on Ninth, the one he’d mentioned one time, weeks ago, to nobody in particular. He slid out from under the bike and looked at it. Theo was already back at the desk, humming, not looking at him at all.
What happens next?
- Dom brings lunch the next day, and says nothing about it
- He asks Theo how he knew about the place on Ninth
- Skip to the night the two of them close up late
Setups readers ask for
- Roommates, friends to lovers and only one bed, which are readers’ most-requested setups by some distance.
- A first time with a man, after a divorce or just later in life.
- Rivals, on a team or at work, who are equals with no say over each other’s jobs. See the list of romance tropes.
- A settled couple trying something new, including power play and the dom and sub roles that come with it.
- Slow, tender and funny, or fast and blunt. You choose the pace.
Get one written your way
Ask however you’d put it: two firefighters in their forties, best friends for twenty years, and one of them has finally figured it out
. metime writes chapter one while you read, in first person if you like, then you pick what happens next or write it yourself. Explicit chapters sit behind sign-up and an age check. For stories between women, see sapphic stories.
Questions
What kind of gay stories are on metime?
Romance and erotic fiction between adult men, written by AI for you as you read. You choose the setup and the pace. Public pages like this one stop before anything explicit; explicit chapters are behind sign-up.
Is gay erotica different from MM romance?
They overlap. MM romance puts the relationship first and normally ends happily. Gay erotica puts the sex first, with no rule about the ending. On metime you can steer a story toward either.
Can it write in first person?
Yes. Choose the point of view when you start. Readers of gay stories often prefer first person, as if a friend were telling you what happened.
Is it free to read?
The openings here are free. On metime, the first three chapters of your first two stories are free, with no card. After that there are three plans, from $6.99 to $14.99 every 30 days. Paid plans open soon; until then, nothing is charged.
Updated November 1, 2026. Written with AI at metime. Examples on this page were written for it; every character in them is an adult.